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Symptom Management
Brief Interventions for Anxiety
Presenter(s)
Dr. Benjamin Brewer, Psy.D & Dr. Jaroslava (Yara) Salman, M.D., F.A.C.L.P.
Time Frame
2 hours
Credits
2 units
Intended Audience
physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare professionals
Course Description
Anxiety is a common symptom for patients diagnosed with cancer and going through cancer treatment. Being able to effectively target anxiety reduces the distress of patients and their families and improves medical care. Interventions for anxiety are easily shared and practiced with patients and highly effective. The purpose of this training will be to have participants quickly learn the skills to be practiced with patients and then garner valuable experience actually implementing these using role play and clinical case examples
Skills and Learning Objectives
- Assess anxiety in a bedside context and understand different manifestations of anxiety
- Understand how to distinguish anxiety, panic and trauma
- Learn brief interventions for anxiety including:
- Diaphragmatic Breathing
- Muscle Relaxation
- Guided Imagery
- Cognitive Approaches
- Recognize the indications, use and possible side effects of psychotropic treatment for anxiety
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Bedside Interventions for Anxiety
Presenter
Dr. Benjamin Brewer, Psy.D
Time Frame
2.0 hours
Credits
2.0 units
Intended Audience
physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare professionals
Course Description
Specific CBT techniques in the treatment of anxiety at the bedside include diaphragmatic breathing, progressive and passive muscle relaxation, worry time, and brief behavioral strategies to treat phobias and panic disorder. In addition, motivational strategies to promote patient practice of effective approaches at the bedside will be addressed. These methods will be presented during the course, as well demonstrated and practiced, along with tips for intervention selection based on clinical manifestations of anxiety.
Skills and Learning Objectives
- Understand who’s at risk for anxiety, the problem of avoidance in anxiety treatment, and different presentations of anxiety
- Provide an understanding of the treatment approaches for common types of anxiety problems in a cancer context and why they work
- Identify when to use the cognitive components of CBT and exposure-based therapies and when not to use them
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Bedside Interventions for Insomnia
Presenter
Dr. Benjamin Brewer, Psy.D
Time Frame
2.0 hours
Credits
2.0 units
Intended Audience
physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare professionals
Course Description
Specific CBT techniques in the treatment of sleep problems at the bedside include: Stimulus control and sleep restriction/compression. CBT-I methods will be presented and will also be taught, demonstrated and practiced during the course. In addition, tips to promote behavior change in cancer patients with sleep problems will be shared.
Skills and Learning Objectives
- Learn the biologic processes that control our sleep and circadian alignment
- Understand the incidence of insomnia in cancer patients and sleep’s impact on many connected processes (transdiagnostic intervention)
- Understand the basics of CBT-I and it’s utility in the cancer population
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Bedside Interventions for Pain
Presenter
Matthew J. Loscalzo, L.C.S.W., APOS Fellow
Time Frame
1.75 hours
Credits
1.75 units
Intended Audience
physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare professionals
Course Description
Specific CBT intervention for pain at the bedside include: repositioning, distraction, relaxation techniques, guided imagery and cognitive restructuring. These methods will be presented during the course, as well demonstrated, and practiced
Skills and Learning Objectives
- Understand common barriers to cancer pain management
- Be able to identify high-risk populations
- Understand and begin to address the acute shortage of pain experts, especially from biobehavioral perspective
- Appreciate the negative impact of not managing pain
- Understand opportunities to apply transdiagnostic interventions to symptom clusters
- Know evidence-based interventions for pain
Models of Palliative Care
Presenter(s)
Deane L. Wolcott, M.D., FAPOS, FACLP, LFAPA & Denice Economou, Ph.D., CNS, CHPN
Time Frame
1 hour
Credits
1 unit
Intended Audience
physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare professionals
Course Description
Models of palliative care are primarily generalist care and specialist care. The skill sets required for these models describes the basic management of common palliative care symptoms for all physicians at baseline. Specialty palliative care requires more intense training and management skills for refractory and complex symptom management. Communication is especially important between the health care team, family, and physician-to-physician
Skills and Learning Objectives
- Describe the role of the treating physician in providing primary/generalist and specialist/tertiary palliative care as appropriate
- Identify the common symptoms experienced in Palliative Care and appropriate management
- Illustrate the principles of effective palliative care communication
- Explore various palliative care environments
Overview & Significance of Palliative Care
Presenter(s)
Deane L. Wolcott, M.D., FAPOS, FACLP, LFAPA & Denice Economou, Ph.D., CNS, CHPN
Time Frame
1 hour
Credits
1 unit
Intended Audience
physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare professionals
Course Description
Understanding the basics of palliative care will help clinicians meet the needs of patients and families. Palliative care includes all people with serious illness, regardless of setting, diagnosis, prognosis, or age. It is well known that providing crisis-care alone to individuals with serious illness results in poorly managed care and increased health care spending
Skills and Learning Objectives
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Provide an overview of palliative care and hospice care in the US
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Discuss the role of palliative care in the medical care delivery system
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Introduce the Clinical Practice Guidelines for quality palliative care
Targeted Interventions for Depression
Presenter
Benjamin Brewer, Psy.D. & Dr. Jaroslava (Yara) Salman, M.D., F.A.C.L.P.
Time Frame
2 hours
Credits
2 units
Intended Audience
physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare professionals
Course Description
This recorded webinar is designed for all clinical-facing personnel wanting to expand their knowledge regarding interventions for depression. Depression is a common experience of cancer patients and presents challenges that must be overcome during treatment. Frequently, these challenges of patients and difficulty believing that treatment will work. This training will provide targeted brief interventions for depression in the context of cancer treatment and, most importantly, practice at actually implementing these with patients in a clinical setting.
Skills and Learning Objectives
- Assess depression in the context of cancer treatment and distinguish it from demoralization, sadness, and grief
- Understand behavioral activation and gain experience establishing a treatment plan with a patient
- Understand cognitive reframing, and its use as a broadly applicable treatment modality
- Recognize the indications, use, and possible side effects of psychotropic treatment for depression
Treating Cancer Related Insomnia: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia
Presenter
Benjamin Brewer, Psy.D.
Time Frame
2 hours
Credits
2 units
Intended Audience
physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare professionals
Course Description
Insomnia is the second most commonly reported symptom complaint of those in cancer treatment (behind fatigue). Behavioral treatments are the clear leader in treatment of this disease and effective intervention is essential to improve patient’s well-being, health and outcomes.
Skills and Learning Objectives
- Learn how to assess sleep and diagnose insomnia in a cancer population
- Understand the root causes of insomnia and the behavioral rationale behind CBT‑I
- Garner practice doing CBT‑I in a clinically relevant brief setting including implementation of:
- Stimulus Control
- Sleep Compression and Restriction
- Cognitive approaches and dysfunctional beliefs about sleep
- Discussions around medications related to sleep
Advanced Care Planning/End of Life Skills
End of Life Care
Presenter
Dr. Heather Bitar, DO.
Time Frame
1 hour
Credits
1 unit
Intended Audience
physicians, nurses, social workers, healthcare professionals
Course Description
Understanding the basics to end of life care will help clinicians meet the needs of the dying patient and their family. Whether a patient is on Palliative care, Hospice care, or neither, every clinician will encounter expected and unexpected death and dying of patients throughout their career. This course will cover End of life care fundamentals that can apply to all providers. This includes:
- How to provide proper communication and emotional support to dying patients and their families
- Learn and utilize the CARES tool used by nurses and other healthcare professionals to identify the common needs of the dying patient and how to address them
- Manage non-pain end of life symptoms
- Learn the basics of prognosticating and pronouncing death
Skills and Learning Objectives
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- Utilize the CARES Tool
- Assess and manage symptoms of the dying patient including non-pain symptoms
- Delirium
- Depression
- Dyspnea
- Nausea/Vomiting
- Constipation
- Enhance your communication and recognize common needs of a dying patient
- Identify the signs of an imminently dying patient
- Perform the tasks of a physician when a patient dies:
- Pronouncement
- Family notification and support