Abstract
As a health professional working with people and families at end of life, how is your death literacy?
How are you integrating this knowledge and experience in your practice?
Death literacy is the knowledge and skills that people need to make it possible to gain access to, understand, and make informed choices about end-of-life and death care options.
People and communities with high levels of death literacy have context-specific knowledge about the death system and the ability to put that knowledge into practice.
This 1-hour workshop provides an overview of four components of death literacy – skills, experience, action, and knowledge – and how you can use each of these factors in your clinical practice.
In particular, we will focus on developing your own death literacy and using a death literacy approach to advance care planning conversations.
It will invite you to consider the question of how you provide enabling and strength-based support to your clients, families, and communities.
Speaker bio
Dr Kerrie Noonan is a clinical psychologist and social researcher.
Over the past 25 years, Kerrie has been working to create a more death literate society – one where people and communities have the practical know-how needed to plan well and respond to dying, death and grief.
Kerrie has a long-standing interest in community capacity-building approaches to death, dying and bereavement, palliative care, and how people can build their death literacy. She was the founding executive director of The GroundSwell Project and national initiatives Dying to Know Day, FilmLife Project, and ComComHub. She is active in the Compassionate Communities movement internationally.
Kerrie is a member of the Caring at End of Life research team at Western Sydney University, and is an Investigator on the Death Literacy Index project.
Kerrie was awarded her PhD in 2018 by Western Sydney University for her study titled Renegade Stories: A study of deathworkers using social approaches to dying, death and loss in Australia. Kerrie has a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology, a BA (Psychology), and a Grad. Dip. in Systemic Therapy (Family Therapy) and a fellow of the Sydney School for Social Entrepreneurs. She is on the council of Public Health Palliative Care International.
While this event targets health professionals, anyone with an interest in end-of-life and palliative care is welcome to register to attend.
Click here to register via Zoom
This is one of more than 20 online sessions being held over four days – all with a focus on end-of-life and palliative care. Three evening events target health professionals.