Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:


1|Identify the conditions for a good death described by Zaman et al. (2021), such as symptom relief, autonomy in treatment decisions, and not prolonging life unnecessarily. Participants should also be able to judge which of these were met for a patient with serious mental illness under guardianship.
2|Describe what palliative care can do in psychiatry, including Trachsel et al.'s definition of palliative psychiatry. A palliative approach can run alongside disease-modifying treatment like ECT and is not a replacement for active care.
3|Recognize what keeps psychiatric patients from getting palliative care in a consistent way. Reasons include no agreed definition of futility, care models that weren't built with SMI in mind, little training for either psychiatrists or palliative care teams, and legal hurdles around decisions made by guardians.

Presenter(s):

Jamison Bradshaw, DO
Medical Director, Adult Psychiatric Treatment Unit (APTU)
Associate Program Director, Psychiatric Residency Program
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UMMS-Baystate

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  Jamison Bradshaw, DO     Speaker/Author    No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose    No  Visual design of slides
Session date: 
10/19/2026 - 8:00am to 9:00am EDT
Location: 
Webinar
United States
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  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 APA American Psychological Association
    Baystate Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 1.00 IPCE Credit Hour(s)
  • 1.00 NBCC

    Baystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely responsible for all aspects of the program. (ACEP #5684)

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