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Chronic Medical Illness

Chronic Medical Illness

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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
  • Effective strategies from CBT, ACT, and MI 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!

 

Here's What You'll Learn


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
  • Cognitive and behavioral interventions for sleep problems
  • Management of 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

Everything You're Getting


  • Full Day of live video content
  • Up to 6.25 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion

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Meet Your Experts


Jessica Vanderlan, PhD

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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. She is a board member and director of professional 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 voluntary 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, Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University, and Ponce Health Sciences University. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties 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. She is a reviewer with Society for Health Psychology APA Division 38 and is an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Psychological Medicine, and Supportive Care in Cancer.

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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.

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Media Type:
Live Webinar
Also Available:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
LWC150130
Brochure Code:
PWZ96423
Duration:
Full Day

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