End-of-Life Issues in the US after Terri Schiavo: Implications for Social Work Practice (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course examines the Terri Schiavo case and the complexity of end-of-life decision-making and euthanasia. The course offers an analysis of changing American perceptions of physician-assisted suicide and includes four approaches to policy practice. Ethical issues of end-of-life, self-determination, advocacy, and patient rights are explored.
This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice. This course does not meet the ethics requirement for National Certified Counselors.
Course Reading: End-of-Life Issues in the United States after Terri Schiavo: Implications for Social Work Practice
Author: Darrel M. Montero
Publisher: Advances in Social Work
Find the reading at: https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/viewFile/1841/1875
Course Objectives: Describe trends in American attitudes toward PAS. Describe how support for PAS is affected by demographic factors. Identify three end-of-life resources for social workers. Describe Figueira-McDonough’s four approaches to policy practice.
Learning Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to euthanasia and end-of-life decisions in the United States.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Further reading:
NASW Code of Ethics http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp
NASW Standards for Palliative and End of Life Care https://www.socialworkers.org/practice/bereavement/standards/standards0504New.pdf
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization http://www.nhpco.org/publications-press-room/nhpco-position-statements
Ethics in Medicine University of Washington School of Medicine https://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/eol.html