The Ethics of Self-Disclosure
Member Exclusive | Hospice Foundation of America Webinar
Hospice Foundation of America webinar
Event Details
Overview:
Professional boundaries involving self-disclosure may blur when providing hospice and bereavement care, causing clinicians to struggle with whether to share their own experiences with patients, clients, and families. Using case examples, Dr. Clemons and Dr. Hoy will examine how the challenges of clinician self-disclosure can be properly navigated in everyday practice by using an ethical decision-making model and trauma-informed care principles.
Objectives:
- Understand the use of an ethical decision-making model and its applications in the context of clinician self-disclosure in end-of-life and bereavement care.
- Identify core principles of trauma-informed care in end-of-life and bereavement counseling, especially as it relates to clinician self-disclosure.
Target Audience: Hospice
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For the last 40 years, William Hoy has been walking alongside the dying, the bereaved, and the professionals who care for them. Following more than 17 years directing the bereavement program for a southern California community hospice program, Hoy became clinical professor of medical humanities at Baylor University where he served from 2012 to 2024. In his semi-retirement, he dedicates his time to clinical education for colleagues in health care. He is the author of more than 250 journal articles and book chapters as well as seven books including his most recent, Creating Meaning in Funerals: How Families and Communities Make Sense of Death.
MaryKatherine Clemons is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Houston, TX. She was previously employed at Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, Texas, where she worked with the departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Supportive & Palliative Care. During her time at BSWH, she was the Program Director of their Postdoctoral Fellowship in Health Service Psychology – Clinical. She completed her doctorate in Clinical Psychology with a Health Psychology Emphasis at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She completed her internship at the UT Health Science Center in Tyler, Texas and her fellowship in End of Life, Grief & Bereavement at Baylor Scott & White in Temple, Texas.