FYI for sydney members. Pls feel free to pass on to any colleagues you think may be interested > > > The AACBT Sydney Committee would like to announce an upcoming workshop with Dr Tomer Levin, psychiatrist from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre . > > Acute Cancer Cognitive Therapy: Essential skills every therapist must know (1-day workshop). > > Presenter: Dr Tomer Levin > > When: Friday 18th July, 2014, 9-5pm > > Where: Health Psychology Unit, University of Technology Sydney. Ground floor, 174 Pacific Hwy, St. Leonards (adjacent to the Royal North Shore Hospital, close landmarks: Hotel Urban and 2UE Radio).If you take a left at Bellevue St you can park behind the building or in the back streets closeby. > > Cost: AACBT Members Earlybird Price (Before June 16th): $200.00 > > Members Normal price (After June 16th): $250.00 > (see website for non-members prices) > > Workshop Summary: > > The acute cancer setting presents a critical turning point in patients’ lives, requiring conscription of resources, urgent reorganization of priorities and often results in a coping crisis. Acute cancer-related cognitive therapy (CT) is designed to help patients negotiate the crisis of the acute cancer setting and we detail how this approach differs from conventional CT. The formulation is the cornerstone of all CT. The central role of empathy in reducing physiological bracing for the perceived threat and promoting trust sets the tone for acute cancer- related CT Cancer-related problem-solving, understanding prognosis, discussing dying, desire for hastened death and suicide, are other unique areas of focus that are examined empathically through the lens of “realistic optimism.” Although combined CT-psychopharmacology is a skill that is rarely taught, it is essential in this environment where chronicity of stressors, pain, and other biological variables worsen symptoms. Appreciating the “Clinicians’ Emotional Reaction” (countertransference) to working in acute cancer settings is also important. Because of the high incidence of cancer, most therapists will encounter oncology patients in their practices. Acute cancer-related CT is a skill set that should, therefore, be widely taught to cognitive therapists. > > Dr Tomer Levin, MBBS., is a psychiatrist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, a Comprehensive Cancer Center dedicated to excellence in care and research for over 100 years. He holds the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Weill Cornell College of Medicine and is Board Certified in adult psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine, having graduated as a physician from Monash University, Australia, completed residency at Eitanim Mental Health Center in Israel, and fellowship training at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Columbia University in New York. He completed his cognitive therapy training at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in Philadelphia. Over the past decade he has been developing acute cancer cognitive therapy as a conceptual and therapeutic framework to help cancer patients and their families through the cancer crisis. In addition to cognitive therapy, a related interest is communication training with a focus on prognosis, end-of-life and ethical conflict de-escalation. > > > > > You are subscribed as 'rachael.murrihy@uts.edu.au' > > Unsubscribe? If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please click here to unsubscribe. > PLEASE NOTE: Certain email systems often categorise emails from an unknown address as SPAM. To ensure you receive our emails, please add 'info@aacbt.org' to your address book. > > If you use a SPAM filter, please be sure to include 'info@aacbt.org' as a legitimate sender of email communication. > > Getting more than one copy of our emails? Tell us and we`ll fix it! > > > UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F > DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. > If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or > attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete > this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the > sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. > Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. > > Think. Green. Do. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email.