When Professionals Weep

When Professionals Weep speaks to the humbling and often transformational moments that clinicians experience in their careers as caregivers and healers-moments when it is often hard to separate the influence of our own emotional responses and worldviews from the patient's or family's. When ProfessionalsWeep addresses these poignant moments-when the professional's personal experiences with trauma, illness, death, and loss can subtly, often stealthily, surface and affect the helping process. This edition, like the first, both validates clinicians' experiences and also helps them process and productively address compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. New material in the second edition includes increased emphasis on the burgeoning fields of hospice and palliative care, organizational countertransference, mindfulness, and compassionate practice. It includes thought-provoking cases, self-assessments, and exercises that can be used on an individual, dyadic, or group basis. This volume is an invaluable handbook for practitioners in the fields of medicine, mental health, social work, nursing, chaplaincy, the allied health sciences, psychology, and psychiatry.

Renee S. Katz, PhD, FT, is a licensed psychologist, board-certified diplomate in clinical social work, and fellow in thanatology. A clinician, author, and trainer, she has worked with the dying, the bereaved, and those living with serious illness for more than 30 years. Therese A. Johnson, LMHC, NCC, is a psychotherapist who has worked in the field of end-of-life care, grief counseling, and traumatic loss for 20 years. She currently serves on the End-of-Life Coalition Committee of the Washington State Medical Association.

Series Editor's Foreword Foreword Preface Part I: Introduction 1.When Our Personal Selves Influence Our Professional Work: An Introduction to Emotions and Countertransference in Palliative and End-of-Life Care Renee S. Katz, PhD Part II: Special Issues in Palliative and End-of-Life Care 2. Suffering and the Caring Professional Patrick Arbore, EdD, Renee S. Katz , PhD and Therese A. Johnson, MA 3. Risking Connection: Spirituality in Palliative and End-of-Life Care David Wendleton, M.Div, Ted Bowman, M.Div, Therese A. Johnson, MA, and Renee S. Katz, PhD 4. Client, Clinician and Supervisor: The Dance of Parallel Process Tessa ten Tusscher, Ph.D. 5. Compassionate Decision-Making Near the End of Life Sharmon Figenshaw BSN, MN, ARNP, ACHPN Part III: Specific Populations and Settings 6. The Influence of Culture and Ethnicity on Palliative and End-of-Life Care Sandra A. Lopez 7. Torture, Execution, and Abandonment: The Hospitalized Terminally Ill and Countertransference John W. Barnhill, M.D. 8.The Horror and Helplessness of Violent Death Edward K. Rynearson, M.D., Therese Johnson, M.A., & Fanny Correa, M.S.W. 9. Professionalism and our Humanity: Working with Children in Palliative and End- of- Life Care Jane Doe, RN, BSN and Renee S. Katz, PhD 10. Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Bereavement, Grief and the Therapist Bev Osband, Ph.D. Part IV: Social, Legal, Ethical and Organizational Influences 11. Prisms of the Heart: The Journey of Palliative Care Terry Altilio, MSW and Bridget Sumser, MSW 12. The Seduction of Autonomy: Countertransference and Physician Aid-in-Dying Brian Kelly, BMed, PhD, FRANZCP, FAChPM & Francis T. N. Varghese, MBBS, BMedSci, FRANZCP 13. The Desire to Die: Voices from the Trenches Renee S. Katz, PhD and Therese A. Johnson, MA 14. Futility and Beneficence: Where Ethics and Countertransference Intersect in Palliative and End-of-Life Care Therese A. Johnson, MA Part V: Implications for Practice: Models to Address Countertransference in Palliative and End-of-Life Care 15. The Respectful Death Model: Difficult Conversations in Palliative and End-of-Life Care Annalu Farber, MBA and Stu Farber, MD 16. Balint Groups to Address Countertransference and Burnout in Palliative and End-of-Life Care Katherine Knowlton, PhD and Renee S. Katz, PhD 17. Mindfulness in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Meeting the Moment Fully Renee S. Katz, Phd 18. A Group Intervention to Process and Examine Countertransference in Palliative and End Of Life Care Yael Danieli, Ph.D. Part VI:Conclusion 19. The Journey Inside: Examining Countertransference and Its Implications for Practice in Palliative and End-of-Life Care Renee S. Katz, PhD Part VII: Epilogue 20. Living Every Minute Stuart Farber, MD