Description
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 identity 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 this training, Teresa Deshields, PhD, ABPP, will use her 20+ years of experience treating clients with chronic illness to 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
PURCHASE TODAY to meet the growing demand for behavioural treatment interventions for clients coping with chronic medical illness!
CPD
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
CPD
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 6.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
Faculty
Teresa L. Deshields, PhD, ABPP, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a board-certified health psychologist. She is adjunct professor of medicine and psychiatry & behavioral sciences at Rush University School of Medicine in Chicago. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, as well as a Fellow of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and its past president. She has worked for over 20 years as a clinician in psycho-oncology, treating cancer patients and survivors and their family members, throughout the cancer continuum. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts, several invited papers, and a book on psychological treatment of cancer patients.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Teresa Deshields has an employment relationship with Rush University Medical Center and receives royalties as a published author. She is a consultant with AstraZeneca and R3 Continuum. Dr. Deshields receives a grant from the American Cancer Society. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Dr. Teresa Deshields is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Health Psychology, and the American Psychosocial Oncology Society.
Additional Info
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)
Access never expires for this product.
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Objectives
- 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 medically 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 associated 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 behaviours
- Activity scheduling and health-promoting behaviours
- 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
- Counsellors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Case Managers
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Occupational Therapists
- Other Helping Professionals
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As a clinician, there are times when getting clients feels like you're on a rollercoaster.
You have moments when you feel like you're in high demand, and you have lulls when you're looking around saying "Where has everyone gone?!"
But when you create your FREE directory listing with therapist.com, you don't have to experience any lulls ever again.
Why?
Because therapist.com is ready to connect you with clients who are looking for your help.
It's simple to get started...
You create your customizable profile...
We take care of your marketing...
You focus 100% of your efforts on helping clients find lasting relief from trauma, anxiety, depression, and more.
Want to see how it works right now? Click here to get started.
BONUS! Register today and also receive...
- Over $600 worth of FREE CE
- Free practical worksheets and tools that you can use in your very next session
- A data dashboard so you can see how potential new clients interact with your profile
- Members-only discounts on CE trainings from today's leading experts
Sign up for FREE today!
As a clinician, there are times when getting clients feels like you're on a rollercoaster.
You have moments when you feel like you're in high demand, and you have lulls when you're looking around saying "Where has everyone gone?!"
But when you create your FREE directory listing with therapist.com, you don't have to experience any lulls ever again.
Why?
Because therapist.com is ready to connect you with clients who are looking for your help.
It's simple to get started...
You create your customizable profile...
We take care of your marketing...
You focus 100% of your efforts on helping clients find lasting relief from trauma, anxiety, depression, and more.
Want to see how it works right now? Click here to get started.
BONUS! Register today and also receive...
- Over $600 worth of FREE CE
- Free practical worksheets and tools that you can use in your very next session
- A data dashboard so you can see how potential new clients interact with your profile
- Members-only discounts on CE trainings from today's leading experts
Sign up for FREE today!
