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Caregivers and Their Parents: It’s Different When It’s Your Family

The Third Annual Steve Jeffers Lecture on Spirituality in Health

Rabbi Richard F. Address defines the new life-cycle stage emerging in today’s society: the caregiver. For many, this entails a balancing act between duties, obligations, guilt, fears, hopes and dreams. Clinicians and clergy face unique challenges juggling professional and family roles. Rabbi Address will discuss psychological and spiritual issues professional caregivers

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The Role of Margin in Health and Sustainability: Practical Prescriptions; Featuring Richard A. Swenson, MD

The Second Annual Steve Jeffers Lecture on Spirituality in Health

Margin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits. It’s something held in reserve for contingencies or unanticipated situations. It is this space that enhances vitality and resilience. It guarantees sustainability. It is where healing occurs. It is where our batteries are recharged. It is where relationships are nourished. It is where wisdom is found. Join Richard A. Swenson, MD, as he examines the syndrome that is taking our margin away. Where does overload syndrome come from? What does it look like? What will it lead to? Most importantly, what can we do about it?

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Compassion Fatigue: Too Much Caring, Not Enough Me

First Annual Steve Jeffers Lecture on Spirituality in Health

Compassion Fatigue: Too Much Caring, Not Enough MeFirst Annual Steve Jeffers Lecture on Spirituality in Health Compassion fatigue, also known as secondary traumatic stress disorder, is a state of physical, emotional and spiritual exhaustion in a caregiver who becomes traumatized by the suffering of others and from the stress of caring for them. Those in the helping professions, including health care, are at risk. Symptoms may appear rather suddenly, and recovery can be rapid. Harold Ivan Smith explores how caregivers can develop strategies and techniques to better care for themselves while also dealing with the stressors of practicing medicine.

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