Illness, Isolation, Dog Poop, and…Joy?
May 27, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by Jody L. Jones, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist
May 27, 2021
2:00 pm ET, 1:00 pm CT, 12:00 pm MT, 11:00 am PT
During this webinar, you will learn:
- Human emotions are complex, allowing for the presence of grief and joy at the same time.
- Joy is however you define it; there are no rules for how big or small a thing must be to bring joy.
- We all can practice strategies that give us access to joy, no matter what our circumstances.
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Dr. Jody Jones is a clinical psychologist and clinical associate professor in the Dept. of Surgery at the University of Iowa. She received her PhD in 1997 from the University of Alabama and completed her residency at the University of North Carolina Medical School, where she first began working in transplant. She left UNC in 2005 for Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, where she helped establish a new liver transplant program. In 2009 she joined the University of Iowa, where she works with recipients of kidney, pancreas, liver, heart and lung transplants, as well as living kidney and liver donors. During the COVID pandemic, she has expanded her carpentry skills on projects in her home, watched many re-runs of Law & Order, and gotten to know her cats much, much better.