Caring for a Harmful Parent Through Their Serious Illness or the End of Life

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize the motivations for an adult child survivor to participate in caregiving for a parent who was harmful.

2. Describe the experience of adult child survivors caring for a parent who was harmful, including re-traumatization activators and opportunities for post-traumatic growth.

3. Summarize the trauma informed approaches healthcare professionals can use in their work when there is a history of harm in the family.

Meet Our Presenter:

Jaime Goldberg, PhD, MSW, LCSW is a Clinical Assistant Professor focused on health and aging at the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also completed her PhD in May 2023. Jaime earned her MSW from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.

Jaime has dedicated her career to the fields of aging and palliative care. During her clinical career, Jaime was a social work specialist for the Cedars-Sinai Supportive Care Medicine team and palliative care social worker for the Veterans Administration Greater Los Angeles Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation service. She was a member of the core faculty for the Palliative Care Fellowship Program at both hospitals. 

Jaime previously taught in the University of Maryland-Baltimore Online Master of Science Program in Palliative Care at California State University-Long Beach School of Social Work. She has been invited to speak and teach locally, nationally, and internationally about aging, palliative care, and hospice topics, and has co-authored several articles and book chapters.