Millions of Americans suffer chronic and serious medical illnesses that impact their self-esteem, daily functioning, and most cherished relationships.
In this 90-minute teleconference, therapists will learn how to prevent illness from consuming clients' lives, preserve and deepen family bonds through medical adversity, and serve as a guide to our complex and at times perplexing health care system.
In this teleconference, case transcripts will be used to illustrate a systemic and collaborative approach that draws on clients' spiritual, religious, and cultural values. Special attention will be paid to building a psychotherapy practice by partnering with physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals.
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In short, participants will join the teleconference by calling into the teleconference center and entering an access code. The teleconference will include lecture, interaction, and question and answer periods.
1.5 CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.
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Barry J. Jacobs, PsyD is a clinical psychologist, family therapist, and the author of the book, The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers-Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent (Guilford, 2006). As a clinician, he specializes in helping families cope with serious and chronic medical illnesses. As an educator, he works as the Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program in Springfield, PA and has held adjunct faculty positions with the Temple University School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and the Institute for Clinical Psychology of Widener University. He is the national spokesperson on family caregiving for the American Heart Association. A former journalist, he writes an advice column for the newsletter of the National Family Caregivers Association, "Take Care!" and co-writes a caregiving column for healthcentral.com. He is also the editor of the "In Sickness & Health" column for the APA Journal of Families, Systems and Health. Dr. Jacobs lives with his wife and two children in Swarthmore, PA.