Adjustment to Cancer: Anxiety and Distress (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores the psychosocial adjustment to cancer along a continuum of normal adjustment, psychosocial distress, adjustment disorders, and anxiety disorders. The course examines distress and coping at each critical stage of the illness. A discussion of screening, assessment, treatment, and pharmacotherapy is included.
This course is recommended for social workers and counselors and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice.
Publisher: National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to adjustment to cancer.
Learning Objectives: Describe the continuum of distress. Identify common periods of crisis and challenge during the the cancer illness. Describe treatment interventions for adjustment disorders and anxiety disorders.
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 clinical 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.