Addressing Body Image Struggles as Part of Comprehensive Care: Best Practices

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Psychiatry Educational Lecture Series

This one-hour webinar is designed for a multidisciplinary audience of healthcare professionals to learn basics of body image care for cancer survivors. The audience includes physicians, nurses, counselors, psychologists, social workers, students and trainees.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify best practices for approaching conversations about body image
• Identify major content areas for brief clinical assessment of body image concerns
• Delineate practical strategies for treatment of body image concerns

Facilitator: Michelle Fingeret, Ph.D., FAPOS

• Licensed psychologist, specializing in body image and cancer
• Owner, Fingeret Psychology Services
• Creator, Body Image Research and Therapy Program, MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Author, Body Image Care for Cancer Patients: Principles & Practices