Externship Workshop Advanced Family Systems Care

Lorraine M. Wright and Janice M. Bell will present their Advanced Practice Models when Caring for Families and demonstrate clinical practice skills with a live family interview.

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Qualification:

Course certificate Externship Workshop Advanced Family Systems Care

Start:

08.09.2025

Duration:

3 days, 7 lessons per day

Costs:

CHF 1'450.00

Comment on costs:

The course material is included in the course fee. Further optional specialists literature are at the participants own expense. Prices are subject to change.

Location:

ZHAW, Campus Stadt-Mitte, Building MG, Katharina-Sulzer-Platz 9, 8401 Winterthur (Show on Google Maps)

Language of instruction:

English

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Target audience

This workshop is designed for practicing healthcare professionals such as nurses, midwives, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, physicians, social workers, psychologists, and educators and researchers who are committed to caring for families with compassion, competence, and confidence.

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Graduates

have enhanced competencies to support professional colleagues in their work with families,
become specialists in counseling families in complex situations.

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How to Soften Suffering and Promote Health and Healing? Our health care system needs Advanced Family Systems Care in order to meet the current challenges such as increasing chronic illnesses, a growing population of elderly, and new healing and treatment practices that soften suffering and promotes hope and healing. As a specialist in Advanced Family Systems Care you are able to assist families experiencing chronic or life-threatening illnesses; bereavement and loss; or important life events such as pregnancy, birth, postpartum, end-of life and death and are able to provide clinical leadership for your health care team.

This 3 day workshop provides the extraordinary possibility to have Lorraine Wright, RN, PhD and Janice M Bell, RN, PhD in Switzerland. The presenters will offer specific knowledge and clinical skills that will enhance your important work in caring for families through direct clinical practice, education, and/or research.

Illness Beliefs Model: Advanced Practice Clinical Model
Trinity Model: Advanced Practice Clinical Model
How to offer and conduct useful and healing therapeutic conversations
How to soften illness suffering and promote hope and healing
What are the family interventions that matter and are most effective?
What is the connection between suffering and spirituality?
Does love affect healing?
Application of two advanced family nursing clinical models in practice, research, and education with families
Observation/Participation in a live family interview