IHSE MEETING
AGENDA
(9:00 - 10:00)
Monica Molinaro, Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University
Title: Moral distress and morally complex health care: What, who, and what to do?Ìý
Dr. Molinaro will also discuss the implications of her work on healthcare delivery, policy, practice, and medical educationÌý
Monica Molinaro, PhD is currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University, where she is also a MERIT (McMaster Faculty of Health Sciences program for Education, Research, Innovation, and Theory) Scholar, and instructor in the Bachelor of Health Sciences Undergraduate program. Dr. Molinaro completed her PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Western Ontario, where she conducted a critical narrative analysis on pediatric oncology nurses’ stories of moral distress and worked as a research associate at the Centre for Education Research and Innovation (CERI). Dr. Molinaro uses a variety of qualitative critical and interpretive methodologies to study health care provider experiences of difficult aspects of professional practice. Funded by the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship and a CIHR operating grant, Dr. Molinaro is currently leading projects which aim to better prepare primary care providers to care for patients whose medical and social needs are entwined, and to help alleviate the moral distress experienced by clinicians engaged in morally and ethically complex aspects of healthcare.
(10:00 - 11:00)
Josianne Lamothe, Canadian Consortium on Child and Youth Trauma
Title: Safe spaces to reflect, learn and improve clinical judgement when dealing with trauma
Professor Lamothe is a clinical social worker and professor of social work. She has lectured at University of Montreal and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ. Her discussion will focus on mental health education including trauma-informed care in social and healthcare services. She will look at the quality of services offered and what organizational solutions can be used to protect employees.
Josianne Lamothe, MSW, RSW, Ph.D., is a clinical social worker and a professor of social work at a different university. Her research interests center around mental health education and especially trauma-informed care in social and healthcare services. She is particularly interested in how workplace well-being and trauma impact the quality of services offered to vulnerable clients and what organizational solutions can be used to protect employees. For example, her doctoral thesis focused on the experiences of child protection workers exposed to client violence, and how these traumatic experiences can influence their therapeutic relationship with clients. She found that emotional regulation, supervision, social support, and ongoing education on de-escalation techniques and trauma, all played a role in either promoting or hindering resilience. Dr. Lamothe is proficient in both qualitative and quantitative methods. She has written or co-written over 20 articles on the impact of verbal de-escalation training, trauma-informed care, psychological first aid, and other types of workplace interventions aimed at protecting employees.
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