
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14 CE Credits for Psychologists
14 ASWB ACE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- End of Life Care and Refusal of Treatment
- Discuss ethically and legal appropriate end-of-life treatment choices with patients.
- Explain the lines the line draws between appropriate and inappropriate end-of-life treatment choices for patients.
- Dying and the Patient With Decisionmaking Capacity
- Differentiate between instructional and proxy advance directives.
- Explain the difference between advance directives and physicians orders regarding end-of-life treatment options.
- Discuss these differences with patients with decisionmaking capacity so that their wishes are memorialized in case of loss of that capacity.
- Identify the gaps that arise between advance directives and orders in patient charts.
- Assess the utility of POLST as a way to fill in those gaps.
- When the Patient Lacks Decisionmaking Capacity (With or Without An Advance Directive)
- Explain state laws that permit family members or others acting on behalf of patients lacking capacity to speak on their behalf.
- Analyze decisionmaking approaches under the three possibly applicable legal standards: substituted judgment, best interests, and the legally disfavored subjective test.
- Palliative Care and Hospice
- Explain the difference between palliative care and hospice.
- Explain Medicare requirements for the coverage of hospice care.
- Evaluate suggestions of hospice care made by other members of the care team or by hospice providers themselves
- Futility: When Family Members Want It All
- Explain legal recognition of death by neurological criteria and differentiate between issues involving patients satisfying that criteria and patients who do not, under the law.
- Explain the concept of medical futility.
- Distinguish between quantitative and qualitative futility.
- Compare state laws specifically describing procedures to be followed when clinicians view a patientÂs treatment as futile with state laws that are less procedurally specific.
- Beyond Withholding and Withdrawing
- Differentiate between aid in dying and euthanasia.
- Explain the statutory requirements in the states imposing strict procedures and reporting requirements regarding aid in dying.
- Evaluate the practice of aid in dying as it proceeds without strict requirements in some states.
- Assess the clinical practice guidelines for the practice.
- Case Discussions and Debriefing
- Apply what was learned about patient capacity, brain death, and withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.
- Relate principles to case scenarios.
- Evaluate the relevance of principles discussed to attendee's own practice.
- Special Topics in Women's Health: Mood Disorders in Reproductive Age Women
- Identify and treat psychological issues that arise in their patient's health profile that have to do with menstrual cycle hormonal fluctuations.
- Special Topics in Women's Health: Psychological issues in the Transition to Motherhood
- Identity and treat the psychological issues that arise in their patient's health profile that have to do with the transition to motherhood
- Special Topics in Women's Health: Biopsychosocial changes in the Postpartum
- Identify and treat psychological issues that arise in their patient's health profile that have to do with the postpartum period, particularly postpartum depression
- Special Topics in Women's Health: Domestic Violence and Relationship Abuse
- Understand the different responses to sexual trauma and how best to deal with that in their practice.
- Special Topics in Women's Health: Domestic Violence and Relationship Abuse
- Recognize the intersection of psychological and psychological factors effect responses to trauma and apply this information in response to suvivors.
- Special Topics in Women's Health: Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence
- Identify the issues that arise in patient's physical and mental health profiles that have their etiology in sexual assault violence.
- Special Topics in Women's Health: Understanding and Treating Psychological Trauma
- Learn evidence - based and trauma-informed intervention techniques that can be used in treating survivors of sexual trauma
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.