The initial episode in MCN’s new COVID podcast series goes live!

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How does COVID impact the experience of patients’
family members and family caregivers?

MCN’s initial episode of our mini podcast series has gone live!

Aiming to help primary care teams to close knowledge gaps for continually changing care practices for COVID, Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) is excited to announce a new 10-episode podcast miniseries within our ‘On the Move with MCN’ podcast: ‘COVID’s Lasting Impact: Caring for Immigrant, Migrant and Asylee Patients’.

Meeting the needs of clinical teams, including community health workers and primary care clinicians, the new series uses interviews and discussions with clinical experts, frontline providers, and social scientists to address clinical care for COVID in the outpatient setting.
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In today’s episode, ‘Understanding the Psychosocial Impact of COVID On Patients and Family Dynamics’, Kaethe Weingarten, PhD (she/her), Director of the Witness to Witness (W2W) program for MCN, discusses a model of witnessing that can account for a range of feelings family members of patients may experience, from helplessness and frustration to attunement and competence. The discussion includes ways in which COVID and long COVID can impact families through changes in mind and body functioning, and how witnessing this suffering can impact family members. Clinicians will learn how they can prepare themselves to work with families of patients and how to guide couples through relationship challenges.

Clinicians will learn how they can prepare themselves to work with families of patients and how to guide couples through relationship challenges.

This is the first of several episodes exploring the long-term impacts of COVID. Find this mini podcast series, a part of our podcast, ‘On the Move with MCN’, wherever you listen to podcasts, or click one of these. Be sure to subscribe to get notified of future episodes!

Today’s episode:
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Guest

Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D.
Director, Witness to Witness Program

Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D. (she/her) directs the Witness to Witness (W2W) Program for MCN. The goal of W2W is to help the helpers, primarily serving health care workers, attorneys and journalists working with vulnerable populations. She received her doctorate from Harvard University in 1974. She has taught at Wellesley College (1975-1979), Harvard Medical School (1981-2017), where she was an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston and then Cambridge Health Alliance, and at the Family Institute of Cambridge (1982-2009). She founded and directed the Program in Families, Trauma and Resilience at the Family Institute of Cambridge. Internationally, she has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe and New Zealand, where she was a Fullbright Specialist. She has given over 300 presentations and been a keynote speaker at numerous local, national and international conferences. She serves on the editorial boards of five journals. In
2002 she was awarded the highest honor of the American Family Therapy Academy, the award for Distinguished Contribution to Family Theory and Practice. She has written about her work in six books (which she has authored or edited) and over 100 articles, chapters and essays. Her most recent book, Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day- How We Are Harmed, How We Can Heal won the 2004 Nautilus Award for Social Change. Dr. Weingarten’s work focuses on the development and dissemination of a witnessing model. One prong of the work is about the effects of witnessing violence and trauma in the context of domestic, inter-ethnic, racial, political and other forms of conflict. The other prong of the witnessing work is in the context of healthcare, illness and disability. Her work on reasonable hope has been widely cited. In 2013, Dr. Weingarten and her husband moved to Berkeley, CA to be near their children and five grandchildren. There she resumed a dance and choreography practice she had let
lapse for forty-five years. Since moving to Berkeley, she and her dance collaborator have been awarded five grants for their choreography with elder dancers applying a witnessing model in public spaces. In 2018 they performed at the Oakland Museum of California. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, baking and crocheting Afghans.

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