Chronic Illness: Ethical Narrative and Cognitive Approaches
Learn how chronic illnesses impact patients' psychosocial and ethical narratives. This course equips health professionals with tools to provide empathetic, holistic care while acknowledging the diverse ways patients interpret their experiences.
About this course
This course explores “meaning-making” in chronic illness through cognitive and narrative perspectives. The cognitive approach examines the foundational concepts, forms of meaning-making in coping with chronic illness, sociodemographic and medical influences, and empirical findings on its link to disease adaptation. The narrative approach addresses the temporal aspects of illness, identity disruption and reconstruction, moral dimensions, and the impact of social context on patients' stories. Finally, the course considers how each approach—or their combination—can be ethically applied in clinical settings to enhance culturally sensitive patient care.
Course Accreditation
This course is approved for the following professions. You can get more details on each profession by clicking on it.
Instructors
Visiting researcher with Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA. Interests: Psychological adjustment to health stressors; psychological correlates of illness; clinical management of health-related anxiety and depression.
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I am always interested in continuing education in the areas of health, wellness, nutrition and mental health. Your course was well written, well organized and helpful in meeting state licensure requirements.
Very well written, easy to digest, time efficient, and straight to the point. Thank you!
I appreciate the convenience of the course being online and accessible through my phone and that it directly reports to CEBroker to support mandated education requirements.
I really loved this information. I was hospitalized last year for almost a month and I noticed multiple medical errors (not being hooked up to my IV multiple times, given wrong medication which caused my sodium to be very low, etc.) which lengthened my stay. I can now define those exact errors and better understand what happened to me. I hate that these medical errors are so common and I appreciate how well laid out your breakdown and categorization of them was.
I am always looking for concise ,thorough, and up to date continuing education, and this course provided exactly what I was looking for. Thank you
Enjoyed this course! It squarely met my license renewal requirement as a physician. It was well-written, and an altogether enjoyable read.
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