Sun.Aug 13, 2023

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When Cure Is No Longer an Option: Rethinking Hopelessness and the Role of Spiritual Care

Hospice Chaplaincy

Carol Taylor, PhD, RN Abstract Increasingly in the U.S., health care clinicians fail to recognize and accept when curative goals are no longer realistic. At this point, futile efforts at cure can fuel false hopes in patients and their loved ones.

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When the journalism of child welfare fails, part four: A Washington State news site discovers the trauma and tragedy of false allegations of child abuse – well, sort of.

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

Wow. Things sure got tough for Silvia Zarate after she was falsely accused of child abuse. She had to fight her way through a long, cumbersome appeals process before she could get overturned a determination by a caseworker for the Washington State family police agency (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agency) that the allegation against her was “founded.