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Continuing Education Webinar-Gabrielle Blake

Ethical Issues in End-of-Life Care Webinar with Gabrielle Blake

This webinar will explore concepts and issues that relate to end-of-life care. Participants will be encouraged to explore and reflect upon ethical issues that may arise when assisting clients who are near death and how the pandemic has impacted that work. The guiding principles of a respect for rights and inherent dignity and worth of the client from the NASW Code of Ethics will be woven into the discussion about care options and advocating for vulnerable clients.

Date: June 23, 2022
Time: 3-5pm EST
Cost: $30
Participants can earn 2 Ethics CEUs

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* Zoom details will be emailed to registrants on the morning of the event.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to: 

  1. Explore the three approaches to care and the care continuum 
  2. Review ways social workers may educate clients and their support systems about end-of-life care options 
  3. Increase awareness of the social worker’s role as advocate and educator 
  4. Discuss the impact of the pandemic on grief, loss, and burnout 

Please email cswcep@utk.edu with any questions, including those related to accessibility. There is space in the registration form to indicate accommodations required.

To request a refund, please email cswcep@utk.edu. Full refunds will be granted for requests made by 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. In the event this program is cancelled, full refunds will be issued to all registrants.

For discount codes, please email cswcep@utk.edu. Limit one discount per purchase. UTCSW Field Instructor: 50% UTCSW Alumni: 25%

About the presenter 
Gabrielle Blake is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with Franklin & Kyle Elder Law where she has worked since 2010. In 1997, Blake began her career in geriatric care at Charter Lakeside Psychiatric Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. After earning her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Tennessee and her license as a clinical social worker, Blake was a group and individual therapist at the Peninsula Senior Day Hospital, a Covenant Health program. She continues to work with Peninsula Lighthouse as needed. Blake is a Certified Dementia Practitioner by the National Council for Certified Dementia Practitioners.