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Tuesday, November 6, 2012: 4:15 PM-5:15 PM
Primary Presenter:
Barb Kamlet, MA, NCC
Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the use of masks to identify and protect through a cultural perspective
2. Describe masks created by healthcare professionals and grieving family members and their external and internal meaning
3. Identify ways in which acknowledging our own grief masks can help us in our work with our patients and their families
As a death and grief denying society, we are often confronted with resistance in honoring grief and learning from grief as a source of wisdom and growth. As a result, those of us in hospice care as well as those we serve wear masks to hide those innermost feelings of grief. By the same token, if we are able to reflect upon and be honest about our own masks, we may be better able to help our patients, their families and our own staffs do the same. This session will take a look at how masks help and hinder us and what we can learn from our own masks to enhance the grief work of those we serve.
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