1b: February 7, 2025: Ethics and Suicide Prevention at the End of Life: Medical Aid-in-Dying between Freedom and Discrimination

Friday, February 7, 2025
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Pre-register by January 31, 2025

This is a virtual course, and will take place over Zoom.

A link to this virual course will be sent one week prior to the event.

3 CEHs

$45.00 SLU Alumni and pre-registered SLU practicum instructors

$65.00 All others

Course Description
Presenter: Harold Braswell, PhD, MSW 

Title:Ethics and Suicide Prevention at the End of Life: Medical Aid-in-Dying between Freedom and Discrimination
*Meets Suicide and Ethics Requirements (1.5 CEH each)

Learning Objectives:
  • Explore how disability rights advocates have discussed the possibility of legalized “medical aid-in-dying” vs. ethical issues related to suicide prevention 
  • Consider strategies to identify and to treat suicidal ideation in terminally ill and/or chronically sick or disabled individuals
  • Assess how the social work profession via the NASW Code of Ethics in the United States has positioned itself on this topic, and how it might do so going forward

Course Description: This CE course will explore the topic of “medical aid-in-dying” (MAID) from the perspective of suicide prevention. This topic is fraught with ethical complexity because there is vast disagreement about whether this should be considered “suicide,” as well as the circumstances under which it should or should not be prevented. We will consider these questions from three related perspectives: those of disability rights advocates, clinical psychotherapists, and the social work profession via the NASW Code of Ethics more broadly.  Attendees will apply these perspectives to ethical and clinical dilemmas that social workers and other clinical professionals face in working with clients at the end of life.

Bio: Harold Braswell, MSW, PhD is an Associate Professor of Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University, and a social worker and psychotherapist at the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He has been writing about MAID and disability rights for over ten years.

Price:

$65.00