**Registration Deadline EXTENDED:
Register by September 15!**
About the 2017 Conference
Chaplains in all professional settings encounter moral distress at one time or another.
This conference will explore the meaning of moral distress to better understand it and clarify how it differs from ethical dilemmas. Further it will address:
This conference will explore the meaning of moral distress to better understand it and clarify how it differs from ethical dilemmas. Further it will address:
- Research—scope of problem, effects on people and institutions, ethical principles involved
- Professional practice- chaplain’s role in addressing moral distress with staff
- Program development- ideas for developing a moral distress consult service
- Moral distress in other settings—personal experience of a prison chaplain…a companion to the end on death row…
- Moral distress in military personnel—a case discussion
- Coping strategies—self-care in dealing with powerlessness