When clients have chronic health problems, therapy becomes even more complicated.
Already struggling with their mental health symptoms, these clients are confused, frustrated, and demoralized by their medical illness. It interferes with their self-efficacy and functioning, and it creates profound shifts in their identify and relationships.
Of course, they need their medical providers to help manage their condition.
But they also need you.
Faced with complicated terminology, unappealing decisions regarding treatment options, and challenging lifestyle changes, you might feel as intimidated and hopeless as your clients.
Now you can become a source of help and hope for your clients with chronic medical illness. During a full day of comprehensive training, Jessica Vanderlan, PhD will walk you step by step through the latest evidence-based strategies to improve mood, pain, and functioning. You’ll gain the skills you need to confidently implement:
Key collaborative assessments tools for distress, quality of life, anxiety, and more
Cutting edge strategies from CBT, ACT, MI and more to reduce the burden of medical illness
Best practices for involving caregivers and families in treatment, collaborating with healthcare providers, and other ethical and professional issues
REGISTER TODAY to meet the growing demand for behavioral treatment interventions for clients coping with chronic medical illness!
Jessica Vanderlan, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and manager of the Siteman Psychology Service at the Siteman Cancer Center, where she provides therapy to patients with cancer and cancer caregivers and leads a psycho-oncology training program. She is a board member and director of education for the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and co-chair for the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s distress guidelines panel. Dr. Vanderlan’s research focuses on psycho-oncology, distress screening, psychological functioning in gynecologic oncology, program development, and integrated psychological care. She is on the psychiatry faculty at the Washington University School of Medicine where she assists in training medical students and residents.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jessica Vanderlan has employment relationships with Siteman Psychology Service and Washington University. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jessica Vanderlan serves on the board of American Psychosocial Oncology Society and the on the Distress Management Guidelines panel for NCCN.
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Program Information
Access Period for Live Webcast
For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
Utilize screening and assessment instruments to monitor depression and anxiety symptoms in clients coping with chronic medical illness to inform treatment planning.
Appraise the impact of at least three client losses related to chronic medical illness.
Conduct cognitive restructuring to reduce catastrophizing related to medical illness.
Utilize at least two interventions to decrease symptoms of pain, nausea, fatigue, and insomnia.
Demonstrate at least two strategies for supporting family caregivers.
Apply the SBAR method to communication with healthcare professionals.
Outline
Establishing Whole Person Care What it is and why it’s important
How to talk with clients about medical problems
Facilitating engagement with the client who considers their problem to be only medical
Social desirability and other challenges in identifying symptoms and stressors
Collaborative agenda-setting
Top quality of life domains to address
What Does Grief Have to Do With It? Psychological distress in the medially ill
Relationship between medical symptoms, pain, and distress
Expected manifestations of distress in the context of medical illness
Factors that increase risk of distress
Bi-directional relationship distress and illness
Top screening tools for distress
The 5 key losses associate with illness
Working with anticipatory grief
Depression and Anxiety Are they inevitable after diagnosis of an illness?
Diagnostic issues when symptoms of disease overlap with signs of depression
Forms of anxiety that are particularly prevalent in medical illness
Key assessment tools and techniques
Barriers to diagnosing depression and anxiety in medical patients
Medical consequences of untreated depression
What to do when anxiety interferes with compliance with medical treatments
Suicide risk and severe illness
CBT and Act Interventions for Clients with Medical Illness Top techniques for fears of death, fears of recurrence, and other distressing outcomes
Effective strategies for illness-related cognitive distortions
Cognitive restructuring to reframe, dial down, and challenge unhelpful thoughts
Mindfulness and acceptance strategies
Cognitive defusion to address negative and obsessive thinking
Stimulus control for triggers
Effective relaxation techniques and exercises
How to decrease time in bed and other maladaptive behaviors
Activity scheduling and health-promoting behaviors
Values clarification in the context of medical illness
SMART goals for committed action
Gratitude exercises to increase resilience
How Behavioral Health Providers Can Assist with Management of Physical Symptoms CBT, ACT, MI and other interventions to improve mood, pain, and functioning
Symptom burden: how to prioritize concerns
Motivational interviewing to harness clients’ reasons and resources
How to address catastrophizing with CBT for pain
How to help clients with pacing
Making room for pain with ACT
Mindfulness, yoga, and movement for management of fatigue
How to improve clients’ sleep with CBT – stimulus control, sleep restriction, and more
Relaxation, imagery, mindfulness, hypnosis, and more for nausea
Terminal Illness and End of Life Considerations Disentangling quality versus quantity of life
How to talk with clients about readiness to die and quality of dying
Four things that matter most for a good death
Top worries related to desire for hastened death
Differences between supportive, palliative, and hospice care
Ethics in medical decision-making
Managing family disagreements and dysfunction related to treatment options
Decisions to withhold or withdraw care
Clinical Considerations Ethics and professional issues in working with medically ill clients
Best practices for communication with healthcare professionals: the SBAR method
How to share information without breaking confidentiality
Understanding and working with caregivers who may be as distressed as the client
Foster resilience in family caregivers
Management of therapist reactions, disclosures, and burnout
Limitations of the research and potential risks
Target Audience
Social Workers
Psychologists
Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Case Managers
Physical Therapists
Physical Therapist Assistants
Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Occupational Therapists
Other Helping Professionals
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