Integrating Spirituality in Health Care
A Transpersonal Approach

PROGRAM

In honor of national Social Workers Month, the staff and faculty at Compassionate Care Hospice and Temple University Harrisburg School of Social Administration invite you to join us for a workshop and luncheon. We are pleased to present this workshop intended to help professionals and para professionals understand the importance of exploring spirituality; especially, for those people with critical illnesses and who are dying.

Discussion around the role of the non-clergy helper inassisting this population and their families with the decisions which have a spiritual component will be addressed. Participants will explore ethical parameters of the non-clergy helper discussing spirituality.

In a world where the term spirituality is so misunderstood and inmany ways ignored, it is vitally important for social workers and other helping professionals to have the knowledge and skills to effectively deal with this often sensitive issue.

OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to:

• Define terms: faith, spirituality, religion, transpersonal,mindfulness, and ethics
• Develop an increased understanding of the holisticnature of adding spirituality in the treatmentprocess cognitive, behavioral, physiological, culturaland spiritual.
• Comprehend the internal spiritual process oftenoccurring in individuals and their families experiencingdeath and life decisions and dying itself.
• Learn transpersonal tools to help the social workeralleviate a patient´s terminal illness, death anxiety,fear and angst.
• Avoid traps often associated with workers whaddress a spiritual component to their treatment.
• Knowing where the social worker ends and amember of the clergy should be brought in.

LOCATION

This program will be held at the Camp Hill Borough Hallat 2145 Walnut Street Camp Hill, PA. (717-737-3456)

PRESENTER

Deborah Hill is a 1994 University of Maryland School of Social Work graduate with a foundation in Clinical Social Work, concentration Families and Children. For nearly twenty years she has worked to provideinformation and healing to the trauma community. She has co-written comprehensive programs for Understanding Trauma in Foster Care and for In Home workers.

Deborah Hill has given multimedia presentations on trauma topics to community, private and governmental organizations. Currently she has completed a manuscript entitled, Dead Woman Pleading (not currently in release), about her spiritual healing experiences as a trauma therapist and survivor. She is both Nationally Board Certified as a therapist and licensed by the state of PA.