Responding to Cancer-related Trauma
Susan Hedlund, MSW, LCSW, OSW & Sophia Smith, PhD, MSW
May 2, 2018
About this Webinar Recording
This webinar will give an overview of cancer-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology. Topics will include what is known about cancer-related PTSD, current intervention research studies, and specific evidence-based interventions that can be helpful to patients.Learning Objectives
At the end of the presentation, the participant will be able to:
- Discuss an overview of the clinical and research aspects related to PTSD and cancer.
- Describe evidence based treatment approaches for PTSD and cancer.
- Examine ways that social workers can implement treatment approaches into practice.
Presenters
Susan Hedlund, MSW, LCSW, OSW, has been a social worker in the health care field for thirty years and has extensive experience working with individuals and families facing life threatening illness and loss. She is currently the Manager of Patient and Family Support Services at the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Sciences University and is an associate professor at OHSU School of Medicine and PSU School of Social Work. She is a past president of the Association of Oncology Social Work, received AOSW’s Leadership Award in 1999 and the ACS Quality of Life Award in 2009, and the Sojourn’s Award for Palliative Care in 2013.
Sophia Smith, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor at the Duke School of Nursing and earned her PhD and MSW degrees at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research explores ways to improve the quality of cancer care with a primary focus on leveraging technology in delivering behavioral health interventions to the community. She is leading efforts nationally to integrate clinical cancer care and research through her leadership as AOSW Research Director and membership on the NCCN Survivorship Guidelines Panel and ASCO Survivorship Committee. Dr. Smith’s research has been funded by the NIH, NCCN, American Cancer Society, and Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change.Continuing Education Credits
This recording is no longer eligible for CE credit.
Level - Intermediate
Course Designation - Clinical
Outline
12:00 p.m. - 12:25 p.m.: Discuss an overview of the clinical and research aspects related to PTSD and cancer.
12:26 p.m. - 12:51 p.m.: Describe evidence based treatment approaches for PTSD and cancer.
12:52 p.m. - 1:17 p.m.: Discuss aspects of personal experience of dying that are not captured by the problem-based model of medicine.
1:18 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Question & Answer
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