Dignity Therapy: Honoring a Patient’s Life Story and Legacy

$49.50 – $275.00

While hospice and palliative care is multidimensional, its overall goals are relief of human suffering and improvement of quality of life. One aspect of this care is providing dignity seriously ill persons, recognizing them as unique human beings. Join renowned clinicians Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov and Dr. Susan Bluck to discuss work and research focusing on how using Dignity Therapy (DT) to help patients examine how they narrate their life and legacy can provide communion with others, the opportunity to make meaning of challenging events, and a sense of purpose.

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Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

Illustrate how considerations of dignity inform person centered care.
Define the theoretical and empirical basis of Dignity Therapy
Identify and describe the elements of Intensive Caring.

Expert Panelists

Susan Bluck, PhD

Susan Bluck is Director of the Life Story Lab and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America. Bluck is a lifespan developmental psychologist with an emphasis on adult development, aging, and the end of life. Her research examines the ways that individuals use memories of life’s experiences (i.e., autobiographical remembering, life stories) to serve...

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Harvey Max Chochinov, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Harvey Max Chochinov is a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and a Senior Scientist at CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute. His research in palliative care has resulted in more than 350 career publications, broaching diverse topics such as depression, quality-of-life, suicide, vulnerability, spirituality, and existential distress. He has also led a large...

Meet Harvey Max

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Dignity Therapy: Honoring a Patient’s Life Story and Legacy

Learning Objectives

Expert Panelists

Susan Bluck, PhD

Harvey Max Chochinov, MD, PhD, FRCPC

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