Psychoanalysis in Action presents: Helping Patients Cope With Cancer and Other Challenges in Working With Uncertainty

Presenter: Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, LCSW
Facilitated by: Joan Milano, LCSW, Margaret Postlewaite, PhD, Rhonda Reitz, PhD
2 CE Hours available for NY LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs
*Enrollment will be limited to 60 people per event*

A WCSPP COMMUNITY FORUM

Course Description

How can patients and their loved ones deal with being thrown off balance by cancer and other challenges of living with uncertainty?  This presentation explores how DBT and principles of psychodynamic psychotherapy can help patients develop ways to manage the powerful emotions that can get in the way of effective decisions, constructive relationships, and living in a hopeful, meaningful way.  Focus will also be on the challenges this presents for therapists.

This WCSPP sponsored course is based on Elizabeth Stuntz’s book, Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage your Emotions and Balance Uncertainty with Hope. The book, co-authored with Marsha Linehan, the developer of DBT, has been described as…

“…manageable, step-wise approach to coping with an individual and interpersonal disaster.  Draw(ing) on knowledge from both DBT and psychoanalysis to produce a welcome, creative synthesis.”

—Nancy McWilliams, PHD, ABPPG

The learning objectives – Participants will be able to:

1. Describe treatment approaches that support patients facing cancer and other life challenges.
2. Identify the components of the stress response.
3. Articulate three interventions to address emotional disregulation.
4. Identify common countertransferential responses in therapists working with patients facing cancer and trauma.