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Department of Patient Counseling and
Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

Dr. Cecil Drain, Dean of the School of Allied Health Professions, requested the Department of Patient Counseling take responsibility for the School of Allied Health Professions Interdisciplinary Seminar Series on Integrative Health Issues. The four-part series focused on integrative health issues that affect allied health professionals. The series began in October 2010 and will conclude with the fourth seminar on March 23, 2011.

The next seminar, which will be the fourth and final seminar, will focus on Spiritual Considerations. This seminar will be held on March 23, 2011 in the Kontos Medical Sciences Building auditorium at 12:00 noon. The speaker, Dr. Margaret E. Mohrmann, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Education and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She will speak on "Medicine, Ethics and Spirituality: Integrity and Integration."

The other three seminars, all related to integrative health were held in October and November 2010 and February 2011. The topics and speakers for those seminars were as follows:

October 13, 2010
Ethical Considerations ­ "Approaching the End of Life...Have We Made Any Progress?"
Ken Faulkner, M.Div., M.A.
Director of Pastoral Care for the VCU Health System and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Patient Counseling

November 10, 2010
Caregiver Considerations ­ "The Art of Comforting"
Val Walker, M.S.
Grief and bereavement consultant

February 9, 2011
Philosophical Considerations ­ "Toward a Model of Sustainable Health"
Mark D. Wood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the VCU School of World Studies

Other Upcoming Events for Patient Counseling and Pastoral Care

Virginia Subregional CPE Day, Thursday, July 14, 2011, University of Virginia

Partners in Healing, Friday, October 21, 2011, 5:30 ­ 8:30 p.m.
­MCV Alumni House

Good Grief Conference, Monday, October 24, 2011, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
­MCV Alumni House

Recent Publications

Charlescraft, A Tartaglia, A Dodd-McCue, D Barker, S When Caring Hurts: A Pilot Study Supporting Compassion Fatigued Pediatric Critical Care Nurses Chaplaincy Today v. 26, no. 2 Autumn/Winter, 2010.

Tartaglia, A Dodd-McCue, D Enhancing Objectivity in Pastoral Education: Use of Standardized Patients in Video Simulation Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling, v. 64, no. 2 Summer 2010

Dodd-McCue, D Tartaglia, A Bias and Self-Report Data: Implications for Research in Pastoral Care Chaplaincy Today, v. 26, no. 1 Spring/Summer, 2010.