Coping With Chronic Illness: Using the COPE Inventory to Identify Treatment Goals
This workshop offers 1.5 CE units.*
See “Continuing Education” below for purchase information and details.
Workshop Overview
Six in ten Americans now live with at least one chronic health condition, according to the CDC. Whether working with a chronic illness focus in your practice or not, this prevalent life challenge will likely impact your client work or personal life in some way.
Many clients come to therapy seeking concrete tools and approaches to support them in navigating these major life stressors. Research overwhelmingly states that people who choose active responses to stress will achieve stronger health outcomes and better adapt to health challenges.
This workshop will provide a guide for the use of the COPE inventory in supporting clients living with chronic illness.
As clinicians, we can best serve clients by helping them connect with their internal locus of control using strength-based, client-centered, active resourcing strategies.
In this research-supported and experiential workshop, I will share about the benefits and practical applications of the COPE inventory.
You will get a chance to use the COPE inventory for your own personal assessment as a way to understand the process as well as assess your own strengths and challenges in responding to chronic health stressors.
Next, we will explore how to use the COPE inventory with clients in order to get a sense of their strengths and challenges in response to life stressors. We will review how to use assessment results in a way that gives insight into whether or not client coping responses are helping or hurting them.
Using the assessment, you will learn how to use these results to create treatment goals that increase clients' overall adaptive coping strategies. This will allow you to better support clients in increasing their sense of self-efficacy and confidence in how to cope with stress.
This workshop will be recorded and available for 30 days following the event.
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
Identify 3 barriers to adaptive coping
Identify 3 common concerns of adults living with chronic illness
Explain the stress cycle and its relation to coping
Explain the difference between adaptive and maladaptive coping
Discuss the consequential and beneficial impacts of different coping responses
Use the COPE inventory to identify coping strengths and weaknesses in yourself and clients
Interpret COPE inventory results and identify treatment goals
PRESENTED BY
Amanda Pratt
LCSW
Amanda Pratt maintains a telehealth-based private practice in St. Petersburg, Florida and is also licensed in Alabama and Michigan. She is a licensed supervisor in the state of Florida and serves adults living with chronic health challenges.
She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work Master's program and has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Central Michigan University.
Amanda's philosophy and clinical practice is client-centered, strengths-based and focused on skill building to support the client's goals towards self management.
She was trained as a School Social Worker and spent 3 years working with students with emotional and behavioral disabilities, participating in several volunteer programs focusing on supporting high-risk youth nationally and internationally for an additional 4 years. While in graduate school, she became very rapidly ill, beginning her own chronic illness journey that not only changed her life, but changed her clinical perspective. She learned first-hand that there were few supports to help emotionally cope with this major life change. After years of struggling, she took wellness into her own hands to create a fulfilling life.
On this journey, she pursued a diverse range of training to support clients such as certification as a Tai Chi instructor and CMHIMP (Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider) and a CDSMP (Chronic Disease Self Management Program) facilitator. She's trained in CBT for chronic medical conditions, ACT, Polyvagal Theory, Compassion Based Therapy and is trauma informed.
She speaks locally and nationally at health conferences and support groups on topics such as stress management, pain management, coping skills, goal setting, grief and loss, and management strategies to support mental wellness. She has partnered with the Arthritis Foundation, Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America, Lupus Foundation of Florida and Dysautonomia International to advocate and provide educational support for members. She is also a contributing writer for The Mighty, a site where people share their experiences with disability, disease and mental illness.
Amanda is impacted by such health challenges as Chronic Lyme disease, Babesiosis, Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Endometriosis, Persistent Moderate Asthma, MCAS, and POTS/Dysautonomia.
Visit www.imaginelifetherapy.com to learn more.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
*The conference is co-sponsored with the Insight Center, who will be providing the Continuing Education credits. A CE certificate for this workshop is issued for a $10 charge. Instructions for purchasing CE certificates will be emailed after registration is completed and certificates are issued after the workshop is completed. Continuing Education Certificates must be purchased within thirty (30) days after the event.
Psychologists: The Insight Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Insight Center maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This workshop provides 1.5 CE units.
MFTs / LCSWs / LPCCs: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts APA CEs. This workshop provides 1.5 CE units.