Chronic Medical Illness: ACT, CBT, and MI to Improve Anxiety, Grief, Pain, and Functioning, 4/17/2025 12:00:00 AM EDT, Digital Seminar More info »
Chronic Medical Illness
ACT, CBT, and MI to Improve Anxiety, Grief, Pain, and Functioning
- Speaker:
- Jessica Vanderlan, PhD
- Duration:
- Full Day
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Product Code:
- LWC150130
- Brochure Code:
- PWZ95427
- Media Type:
- Live Webinar - Also available: Digital Seminar
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 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!
Credit
Program Information
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Chronic Medical Illness (5.5 MB) | 149 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Jessica Vanderlan, PhD Related seminars and products
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.
Additional Info
Program Information
Access Period for Live WebcastFor 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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Objectives
- Utilize screening and assessment instruments to monitor depression and anxiety symptoms in clients coping with chronic medical illness to inform treatment planning.
- Assess the impact of three client losses related to chronic medical illness.
- Conduct cognitive restructuring to reduce catastrophizing related to medical illness.
- Utilize two interventions to decrease symptoms of pain, nausea, fatigue, and insomnia.
- Demonstrate two strategies for supporting family caregivers.
- Apply the SBAR method to communication with healthcare professionals.
Outline
Establishing Whole Person CareWhat 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
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
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
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
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
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
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Case Managers
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Occupational Therapists
- Other Helping Professionals
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