Healthcare Training Institute - Quality Education since 1979
CE for Psychologist, Social Worker, Counselor, & MFT!!

Course Learning Objectives/Outcomes

By the end of the course, the Counselor, Marriage and Family Therapist, Social Worker or Psychologist will be able to:
-Discuss three fundamentals regarding cancer parent's support for children.
-Explain three goals regarding parental cancer awareness.
-Discuss a technique regarding parental cancer adjustment.
-Explain four methods regarding children coping with parental cancer.
-Explain two adapting therapy for children.
-Discuss three cancer-related stress in children.
-Discuss three factors regarding understanding psychological dimensions of cancer during the active treatment period.
-Explain why is having a mother with breast cancer especially hard on teens.
-Name the advantages of group support for siblings of children with cancer.
-Name four techniques to help the spouse of a breast cancer patient share his feelings with his children. 
-Explain how did young school-age children adapt to parental cancer.
-Explain what relationships were found to be at significant risk in families with cancer.
-Explain what can seriously compromise the acceptance of death and greatly intensify or impair the bereavement process for surviving family members.
-Explain what often causes conflicts and divisions within the family after the death of a family member.
-Name three assumptions are the grief-oriented, music-directed model based on.
-Name six strategies can counselors utilize with music therapy, in order to promote healing.
-Explain what type of coping is related to greater avoidance and to higher symptoms of anxiety/depression in the adolescent.


"The instructional level of this course is introductory, intermediate, or advanced depending on the learners clinical area of expertise."