The CALM (Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully) course trains clinicians to support patients with life-threatening cancers in four key areas: symptom management and communication with healthcare providers, changes in self and relationships with close others, sense of meaning and purpose, and thinking about the future, hope, and mortality. The course covers the research foundations and therapeutic approach of CALM, providing clinicians with the knowledge and skills needed to address patients’ emotional, existential, and psychological challenges, including a trauma-informed focus for those with high levels of distress.
This course also features three EASE (Emotion and Symptom-Focused Engagement) units. EASE is a component of CALM, designed specifically to address traumatic stress symptoms in patients with cancer or their caregivers during acute phases of diagnosis, recurrence, or progression.
This course is available by invitation only.