| |
Psychotherapy for
Life-Threatening Illnesses
Dr. Catherine Classen
Unlike other traumatic events, a
life-threatening illness is ongoing, and it powerfully evokes death anxiety in
our patients and ourselves. So, how do we face death with our patients squarely
and honestly ?
This course will instruct you about the psychosocial consequences of being
diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, and teach group and individual
strategies using videos of actual psychotherapy sessions.
 |
Course Objectives
 | Know the psychosocial consequences of being diagnosed with a
life-threatening illness. |
| Identify appropriate treatment goals for persons with a life-threatening
illness. |
| Learn specific treatment strategies for working effectively with persons
who have a life-threatening illness. |
| Recognize when a patient is expressing an existential concern and how to
facilitate the patient�s examination of these concerns. |
|
| Course Description
| A diagnosis of a life-threatening illness is a traumatic
event for most people. Like any traumatic event, it can radically alter
the person�s experience of self and the world and can have serious
psychological consequences. Unlike many traumatic events, the trauma is
ongoing. |
| The aim of this seminar is to provide a framework for
therapists working with individuals who have been diagnosed with a
life-threatening illness. Participants will learn the psychosocial
consequences of having a life-threatening illness, appropriate goals of
treatment, specific treatment strategies, and how to work with such
existential concerns as facing death, revising one�s identity, making
meaning out of the experience, and developing a life project. |
|
| Instructor
| Catherine Classen, Ph.D., is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Senior
Research Scholar in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford School of
Medicine. She has over 30 scientific publications in the areas of
psychosocial aspects of cancer, trauma, acute stress disorder, and
psychotherapy outcome. |
| She and David Spiegel, M.D., have co-authored the book, Group Therapy
for Cancer Patients: A Research-based Handbook of Psychosocial Care,
published by Basic Books in 2000. |
| Dr. Classen is an expert in group therapy for the medically ill.She has
conducted many workshops locally, nationally and internationally on
supportive-expressive group therapy for cancer patients. |
|
| Credits
| Through seminars, this course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of
MCEP credits for psychologists (course # 970060-17) and CE credits for
MFCCs and LCSWs (provider #PCE-477). |
| No self-study is available for this course. |
|
[ Course 1 ] [ Course 2 ] [ Course 3 ] [ Course 4 ] [ Course 5 ] [ Course 6 ] [ Course 7 ] [ Where and When ] [ Self Study ] [ Registration ]
|
