Description:
This course provides a strong foundation for your clinical work with cancer patients. It offers refreshing perspectives on understanding the patient's experience, and may challenge deeply held views on working with individuals with life-altering illness. Completing this course will assist in the integration of deepened understanding with skillful action, as well as create a foundation for ongoing learning in working with cancer patients and their families. The course materials focus on understanding the patient's experience, treatment realities, therapeutic stance, countertransference, bias, life after cancer, death and spiritual questions.
Course Syllabus
Objectives:
- Understand the patient's experience of cancer diagnosis and be able to identify common emotional states.
- Assess the scope of loss associated with a life-threatening illness and be able to recognize different stages of coping.
- Appreciate the diversity of cancer treatment strategies and be able to describe Western, complementary and integrative treatments.
- Question your assumptions in working with cancer patients and be able to identify countertransference issues.
- Recognize central issues for patients following cancer treatment and identify many expected responses of cancer survivors.
- Explore a therapeutic stance that includes complexity and uncertainty and describe a strategic balance between neutrality and engagement.
- Begin to explore personal and professional views related to death and dying and be able to identify shifts in your perspective.
Instructor: Pamela Meyer
Author: Pamela Meyer, MFT
Bio:
Pamela Meyer is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Marin County, California. She has been in practice for over 20 years, and has worked in depth with individuals and couples facing life-threatening illness.
Format: Web-based with online testing
CE hours: 7
Price: $84.00 |
