Beginner (casual familiarity with topic area e.g., treated one case)

Intermediate

To up skill clinicians in working outside of a Palliative Care setting to manage patients who are facing the end of their lives. The workshop will allow people to navigate through the common challenges of presentations for people with life limiting illnesses, and the management of anxiety and depression within same, including using both ACT and CBT approaches. This workshop will also touch on strategies to help manage family members or other people who are impacted on and develop skills in their roles as carers. There will also be a focus on how working with people at the end of their lives impacts on the psychologist delivering treatment.

This workshop would most benefit to clinicians who are working with/ or have interest in working with people with end of life concerns. These clinicians could be based in a hospital or other clinical setting. This may include those who are working with children and young people who have chronic or life limiting illnesses (such as Cystic Fibrosis or Neurodegenerative conditions). Participants should have a reasonable understanding of the theory and practice of ACT and CBT in a clinical setting to gain maximum benefit.

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants should be able to:
• Identify the most common presenting psychological concerns in people faced with death and dying, as well as the impact on their careers.
• Identify common and evidence based practice for the management of these concerns including ACT, CBT and existential frameworks.
• Identify appropriate and clinical distress within a health setting with evidence based interventions.
• To engage in strategies from ACT and CBT based frameworks in this population.
• Identify and engage in self-care strategies to manage own grief around the death of clients.