Body Image & Oncology: Best Practices for Psychosocial Care

Oncology VA-ECHO Webinar:

Specialty Care Veterans Administration Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (VA-ECHO) is a national continuing education program providing live accredited webinars, that are interactive, and specialist-led, which integrate didactic presentations with case-base learning, bringing together members of the healthcare team from a wide range of objectives.

This talk has the following objectives:

• Delineate a framework for approaching conversations about body image
• Identify major content areas for brief body image assessment
• Identify at least 3 specific treatment strategies that can be used to address body image distress of patients

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