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Two resources have been developed for
Cross Training
Education Programs of Hospice/Palliative Care
Providers and Mental Health Providers:
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On this page:
NOTE: The downloads provided on this page are Large Files. Please allow sufficient time for downloads.
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Curriculum for Mental Health Providers
The Curriculum for Mental Health Providers emphasizes the development of the end-of-life care
movement, its foundation in advance care planning,
appreciation of capacities and preferences of people with
serious mental illness to participate in advance care
planning, and local end-of-life care (hospice/palliative
care) resources available to provide care
to terminally ill mentally ill clients.
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Curriculum for Mental Health Providers
(Slide presentation with notes. PowerPoint and Adobe PDF downloads available.)
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Educational Toolkit for Hospice and Palliative Care
Providers
The Educational Toolkit for Hospice and Palliative Care
Providers emphasizes signs and symptoms of various
psychiatric illnesses, methods of communication with
psychiatric patients, how to describe bad news to a
psychiatrically ill person, information about psychiatric
emergencies in the terminally ill, and how to access local
mental health resources to assist in the provision of care.
The Educational Toolkit includes:
- The Hospice and Palliative Care Guide to Psychiatric
Issues in End-of-Life Care
- A document that lists topics, tools, references and
comments based on evaluations and needs assessments of 350
providers
- Breaking Bad News
- A PowerPoint presentation for social workers,
nurses, and other related disciplines
- References
- For the Breaking Bad News PowerPoint presentation
- Psychiatric Emergencies in the Terminally Ill
- A PowerPoint presentation
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Educational Toolkit for Hospice and Palliative Care Providers
(PowerPoint and Adobe PDF downloads available)
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The Hospice and Palliative Care Guide to Psychiatric Issues in End-of-Life Care
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Breaking Bad News
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References for the Breaking Bad News PowerPoint
presentation
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Psychiatric Emergencies in the Terminally Ill
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For more information about the entire
curriculum contact:
Sally Neylan Okun
sallyokun@comcast.net
Or
Mary Ellen Foti, M.D.
Principal Investigator
maryellen.foti@dmh.state.ma.us
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Curriculum for Mental Health Providers
Educational Toolkit for Hospice and Palliative Care Providers
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This information is provided by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. End-of-Life Care for Persons with Serious Mental Illness is a multi-faceted project supported by a grant from Promoting Excellence In End-of-Life Care, A National Program Office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Visit the main Web site at www.promotingexcellence.org/mentalillness/
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