Reimagining End of Life Care: A Doula Approach
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Course completion requirementsIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in the relationship between counseling and spirituality. Spirituality is an important aspect in the lives of clients we serve; however, many counselors lack adequate training to effectively and ethically incorporate spirituality with psychotherapy. The two terms, spirituality/religion and psychotherapy have too often been polarized and/or set over against each other. Religious advocates argue against concepts of mental illness and psychotherapists often say spirituality/religion has no place in psychotherapy. Freud viewed religion as a collective neurosis (Rizzuto, 1996). Albert Ellis (1973) said that psychotherapy should have “no truck whatever with any kind of miraculous cause or cure . . . or any kind of sacredness.”
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Social Worker
Presenters
Eva Morse is a graduate of the University of Louisville, Kent School of Social Work, with an MSSW, focused in psychosocial oncology. In 2016 she completed iCOPE, Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Oncology Palliative Education Certification. Ms. Morse is an End of Life Doula, trained by the International End of Life Doula Association in February 2019. She is an accomplished public speaker with experience speaking at a wide range of venues, including the Association of Oncology Social Work National Conference 2018, the University of Louisville Kent School of Social Work 2019-2020, Gilda’s Club Kentuckiana 2019, Hosparus Health Louisville 2018-2020, and the Kentucky Association of Hospice and Palliative Care Conference 2019 and 2020. Currently, Ms. Morse has been employed with Hosparus Health Louisville as a pediatric palliative and hospice care social worker since 2018.