The University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW) and Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers (RMCC) have created a dynamic series of webinars that truly reflects our united commitment to provide social workers, psychologists, physicians, spiritual care counselors, nurses, mid-level providers, and navigators access to new and emerging evidenced-based practice interventions and program development strategies.
Please join us from 11:00 a.m.-Noon (Mountain Time) every month starting September 18, 2012.
These offerings are free of charge but participants must register to take part.
2012-2013 Rounds Calendar: Click here to register
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Memory Adaptation and Attention Training for Chemo-Brain
Presenter: Robert J. Ferguson, Ph. D. Clinical Health Psychologist, Adjunct Assistant
Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School; Clinical Associate, University
of Maine Dept. of Psychology; Eastern Maine Medical Center, Maine Rehabilitation Outpatient
center, Bangor, ME.
Dr. Ferguson will be sharing information on program he has developed, which is also
manualized.
A recording of this webinar can be found here.
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Cancer Connection: Risks and burdens to the LGBT Community
Presenter: Thomas Pier, LCSW, Simms Mann Center, UCLA.
A growing body of evidence suggests that LGBT people have a substantially increased
risk of developing cancer than the general population. This, coupled with decreased
cancer screening rates and less access to care, results in cancers being detected
at a later stage when they are more difficult to treat and have poorer prognoses.
A recording of this webinar can be found here.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Changing Strategies for Changing Times: Incorporating Strategic Thinking and Process
Improvement into Your Practice
Presenters: Alanna Terrell, MSW, LCSW, Project consultant, Clinical Support Services,
MD Anderson; Gayle Harper, LCSW, MD Anderson
From Social Work Leadership in Health Care Conference 2011
A recording of this webinar can be found here.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Therapeutic Scrapbooking: A Technique to Promote Positive Coping and Emotional Strength
in Parents of Pediatric Oncology Patients
Presenter: Paula G. McCarthy, MSW, ACSW, LCSW, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Therapeutic scrapbooking is an intervention being used with parents and caregivers
of children with cancer. Facilitators, licensed in medical social work, provide a
safe environment for participants to verbalize their stories and share their distress.
Scrapbooking is a “normal” activity without the negative stigma that s “support group”
may carry. Outcome measurements indicate this therapeutic intervention achieves positive
results.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Wounded Healers
Presenters: Richard Dickens, LCSW-R, Clinical Supervisor, Mind/Body Project Coordinator,
CANCERCARE; Willis Parting ton, LCSW, VNS Hospice.
Discussion to focus upon wounded aspects of clinicians and potential impact upon ability
to establish therapeutic alliance with patients , caregivers, and/or family members.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Advanced Care Planning: Research Results
Presenter: Stacy Fischer, Ph. D, University of Colorado, Denver.
Discussion will focus upon research results/lessons learned for ACP.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A Holistic Program for Cancer Pain Management in Minority Populations
Presenter: Diane Kreslins, NACC Certified Chaplain, Spiritual Care Coordinator, Lacks
Cancer Center @ Saint Mary’s.
Diane will be sharing program developed and implemented within the lacks Cancer Center:
discussion will also include participant feedback and date collected.
