Depression in Cancer Patients (PDQ) (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course looks at depression in cancer patients and focuses on issues of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment. The course explores depressive symptoms, risk factors, diagnostic challenges, screening and assessment, treatment options, and pharmacologic interventions. Additional consideration is given to suicide risk and depression in pediatric patients.
This course is recommended for social workers, counselors, and therapists and appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Publisher: The National Cancer Institute
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to the diagnosis and treatment of depression in cancer patients.
Learning Objectives: Identify markers of successful adaptation to a diagnosis of cancer. Describe risk factors and symptoms for depression in cancer patients. Describe challenges for diagnosing depression in cancer patients. Identify pharmacologic interventions for depression in cancer patients. Identify goals for therapy and treatment.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She currently practices in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.