Communication skills – internal & external – in the context of palliative care

Date

16.10.2026 14:00 - 20:00 Freudplatz 3, 1020 Wien

17.10.2026 09:00 - 16:30 Freudplatz 3, 1020 Wien

Course type

Seminar

Scope

15 Lessons, 15 DFP Points

Cost

€ 450,-

Completion

Teilnahmebestätigung

Language

German

Registration

Zur Anmeldung

Registration Deadline

15.10.2026 10:00

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Inhalt

Introduction

Despite serious and incurable illnesses, people want to experience a dignified end of life.
 
Palliative care offers special approaches to working with seriously ill and dying people in order to make life worth living until the very end. This requires not only dealing with the topics of death and dying, but also with the holistic treatment of pain and the alleviation of emotional, social, and spiritual problems.
 
Seminar Description
 
Palliative care thrives on interdisciplinary exchange and positive team dynamics, and it's all about a flat hierarchy. Patients who need palliative care benefit from good teamwork and the multi-professional therapy approach of palliative care teams.
 
In this context, it is essential to deal intensively with the patient's wishes. Authenticity in communication is an important factor that can promote trust. People can be expected to handle the truth.
 
An important concept in occupational psychology practice is that of working generations, as this generational concept is associated with certain mindsets, values, experiential realities, and communication strategies.

Main Topics

  • Team dynamics
  • Multidisciplinary exchange
  • Working generations and their communication styles
  • Conversation techniques with patients and their families

Targets

  • Participants understand the basics of multi-professional teams and can recognize and implement multi-professional action.
  • They can adapt their communication style to professionals of different generations and are aware of the importance of different leadership styles.
  • They learn about the working generations concept and can derive appropriate communication styles and options for action.
  • They will examine their own ideas about the end of life. 

Methodology

Lecture, case studies, role-playing, self-reflection, team-based learning

Target Group

This seminar is aimed at people from different professional groups who are involved in the treatment and support of people with serious illnesses:
 

  • Doctors
  • Nursing scientists
  • Psychologists/psychotherapists
  • Therapists (speech therapists, physiotherapists, etc.)
  • Social workers, social scientists
  • Pastoral care workers / theologians
  • Lecturers in education, training and further education institutions

Speaker

Mag.a Dr.in Elisabeth Ponocny-Seliger

  • Klinische- und Gesundheitspsychologin, Arbeits- und Notfallpsychologin
  • Freie Wissenschaftlerin im Bereich Gender & Diversity sowie Lektorin an div. Universitäten

Mag. Felicitas-Maria Jakobsen

  • Klinische – und Gesundheitspsychologin
  • Klinische Gerontopsychologin
  • Klinische Neuropsychologin
Mag.a Felicitas-Maria Jakobsen ist Klinische, Gesundheits-, Neuro- und Gerontopsychologin. Sie ist an der Neurologie des KH der Elisabethinen Graz sowie seit 2016 in freier Praxis tätig. Zudem ist Vortragende und Lehrende u.a. für ÖAP und SFU Wien sowie Mitglied im Leitungsteam der Fachsektion Gerontopsychologie des BÖP. Ihre Schwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen Neurologie, Gerontopsychiatrie, Palliative Care und professionelle Kommunikation. In ihren Seminaren legt sie besonderen Wert auf Praxisnähe und konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen für den Berufsalltag.

Priv. Doz. Dr. Gudrun Kreye

  • Oberärztin
  • Organisatorische Leiterin Palliativmedizin
  • Klinische Abteilung für Innere Medizin 2, Palliativmedizin
  • Universitätsklinikum Krems

Manuela DGKP Wasl , MSc

  • Palliativteam Universitätsklinikum Krems

Course Management

Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. univ. Rudolf Likar, MSc

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