Interventions for Clients Coping with Cancer(CANAbb1)

Course overview

Topics included in this course are: Factors Influencing Client Coping; Dealing with Discovery; Awfulizing; How to Beat Cancer; Taking Charge; Reforming Negative Emotions; Hope vs. Hopelessness; Making Plans for the Future; Breaking the News; Hospital Strategies; If the Illness is Not Progressing As Planned; Rebounding & Rebuilding; Cancer & the Mind; Defining Beliefs and Meaning in the Cancer Experience; Breast Reconstruction; Breast Reconstruction, Part II: Decision-Making & Psychotherapy; Supportive-Expressive Group Therapy & Life Extension of Breast Cancer Patients; Group Psychotherapy for People with Cancer; Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Clients with Cancer; Terminal Illness & Coping with Loneliness; The Interface of Positive Psychology with a Psychology of Loss; Group Psychotherapy for Cancer Patients; 'Fighting Spirit' and Breast Cancer; Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy Pilot Group for Cancer Patients. This course is also offered in an abbreviated 7 hour format (CANAbb1)