Psychological Needs of the Transplant Recipient

  

Title:  
 
Assessing, Determining, and Meeting the Psychological Needs of the Transplant Recipient
 
When:

Tuesday, June 28, 2016
3:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern Time   

               
Moderator/Speaker: 

Debbie Mast, Financial and Data Manager - Moderator
Stanford Health Care
 
Evonne David, MSW, LCSW  - Speaker
Stanford University Medical Center

Purpose/Goal:
 
Psychological wellness of the transplant recipient can be overlooked by busy transplant programs.  Some transplant professionals have the attitude that the recipient should be feeling “great” without psychological distress, simply because the patient has received the “gift of life.”  In fact, recipients can be at risk for developing depressive and anxiety disorders from the transplant event.  This webinar seeks to educate and inform participants about the psychological needs of the transplant recipient – how to assess, determine and engage the patient throughout all phases of the transplant process and work towards meeting the mental health needs unique to the transplant recipient. 
 
Target Audience:  
 
Members of the donation and transplantation community serving transplant candidates and recipients to include coordinators, physicians, nurses, anesthesiologists, surgeons, intensive care specialists and other allied donation and transplantation center professionals and their colleagues with an interest in organ allocation, procurement, and transplantation.
 
Learning Objectives:
 
At the end of the webinar, participants should be able to:
  • Describe evidence–based psychosocial risk factors that can assist in the more rigorous assessment and formulation of a treatment plan for the psychological needs of the recipient.
  • Identify barriers (system, patient, care giver, provider) in accessing and receiving mental health services with potential solutions to ameliorate these barriers.
  • Describe how psychosocial risk and unmet psychological health needs potentially place the patient at risk for poor outcomes.