Restoring Body Image after Cancer: A Group Intervention to Address Cancer-Related Body Image Concerns

This one-day workshop will introduce a well-developed psychosocial group intervention – Restoring body Image after Breast Cancer (ReBIC) - which incorporates guided imagery exercises and psychotherapeutic techniques to help cancer patients confront and work through the issues with their body image related distress.

Learning Objectives:

• To present literature and conceptual model on body image.
• To introduce evidence-based multi-modal group intervention (ReBIC) and its intervention manual.
• To provide participants with interventiontechniques, including the guided imageryexercises and psychoeducation materials.
• To discuss the clinical application of the intervention using case studies, video tapes of segments from groups.

Teaching Faculty:

• Dr. Mary Jane Esplen, Professor, Clinician & Scientist Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Executive Director, de Souza Institute
• Dr. Lianne Trachtenberg, Psychologist (Supervised Practice), Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto,and de Souza Institute

The cost of this workshop is $299.00