Presentations
Wednesday, June 10th
- Opening Keynote: Rooted, Not Hardened: How Struggle Shapes Us
- Addressing Financial Toxicity Beyond Financial Assistance: Practical Strategies for Oncology Social Workers
- Among the Trees: Integrating Therapeutic Nature-Based Interventions in Cancer Care
- At the Heart of Care Alignment: Oncology Social Work as Listener, Guide, and Advocate
- Confronting Racism in Healthcare: Building an Anti-Racist Clinical Practice Through Self-Reflection, Education, and Healing
- Expanding Supportive Care for Family Caregivers: Adapting the Healthy Communication Practice to Target Caregivers’ Distinct Needs and Reduce Distress
- Facing the In-Between: A Survivor-Social Worker Conversation on Grief and Healing
- Fostering Resilience in Cancer with DBT-Based Skills
- From Concept to Practice: Cultivating Vicarious Resilience and Professional Sustainment Through Mentorship and Supervision in Oncology and PELC
- From Then to Now: Social Work’s Enduring Legacy in Times of Upheaval
- Healing Through Compassion: The Journey of Building a Self-Compassion Program for the Cancer Experience
- Lowering the Threshold, Raising the Reach: Virtual Strategies to Strengthen Behavioral Health in Oncology Settings
- Strengthening Psychosocial Care Pathways in Oncology: Collaborative Models for Comprehensive Patient Support
- Supporting Mental Health in Young Adults with Cancer: Strategies for Oncology Social Workers
- The Paradox of Being “Cured”: Disenfranchised Anticipatory Grief and Mortality Contemplation in Curable Cancer Care
- Yes You Can! Addressing Sexual Wellness in Short-Tern Oncology Counseling/Support
Thursday, June 11th
- Aligning Prognostic Understanding: A Couple’s Based Approach for Oncology Social Work
- An Existential Toolkit: What Cancer Care Teaches Clinicians About Living
- Awestruck: The Transformative Power of Wonder in Psychosocial Oncology
- Bridging Cultures: Empowering oncological care
- Creating Engaging and Psychologically Safe Virtual Experiences for the Person Behind the Pixel
- Creating Psychosocial Support for Spouses and Partners of Young Adult Cancer Patients
- Cultivating Resilience and Connection in Remote Oncology Social Work Teams
- Emerging Adults and Advance Care Planning: How social workers can support what matters most
- Increasing Palliative Care Referrals Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Machine Learning: Findings from a Three-Month Pilot
- Making Space in the Bedroom: Inclusive Analytic Processing Groups for Sexual Recovery Among LGBTQ+ and Relationally Diverse Survivors
- Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness in Oncology Social Work: Preparation & Integration for Life-Changing Diagnoses
- Nourishing Body & Mind—Integrating Self-Compassion, Nutrition, and Psychosocial Support in a Virtual Group Setting
- One Less Lonely Group: Improving Program Attendance through Innovative Delivery Methods, Changing Group Structure, and Thinking Outside the Box
- Optimizing Sexual Recovery of Prostate Cancer Patients and their Partners: Implementing the International Guidelines for Sexual Health Care after Prostate Cancer Treatment in Oncology Social Work Practice
- Positioning Social Work at the Core of Supportive Oncology Collaborative Care
- Principal Illness Navigation in Action: Strengthening Social Work’s Role in Oncology
- Restoring Purpose: Overview of Meaning Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) with Adaptations for Advanced Cancer Patients, Service Delivery for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Patients, and Use of Telehealth
- The Goals-of-Care Loop: Why Teams Get Stuck and How Oncology Social Workers Restore Alignment
- Trauma, the Body, and Healing in Cancer Care
- Walking Together: How Relationship and Mutual Learning Guided Psychosocial Program Adaptation with Navajo Communities at the House of Hope
- Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story? Documentation As a Tool for Storytelling in The Age of A.I. and Open Notes
Friday, June 12th
- Addressing Systemic Barriers and Unmet Needs in Marginalized Cancer Patients
- Beyond the Clinic: An Innovative Partnership to expand access to oncology counseling services
- Body Image After Cancer: Body Positive Interventions for the Oncology Setting
- Building Psychological Resilience through stress management skills
- Goodbye Dr. Google, Hello AI: Oncology Social Workers as Leaders in Supporting Patients Navigating AI
- I Have a Secret: The role of social work in serious illness
- Leaving a lasting legacy: Connecting the past, present and future with social work interventions during end-of-life care
- Lights, Camera, Action! Implementing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Practices
- The Art of Close Listening: Honoring Stories of Illness Through the Practice of Narrative Medicine
- The CALMM Intersection: Weaving Resilient Systems and Breaking Barriers in Oncology Social Work
- The Journey of Care for Rural Esophageal Cancer Patients
- The Pay Isn’t Great, but the Existential Dread Is Free: Reflections on Trauma, Purpose, and Oncology Social Work
Posters
Wednesday, June 10th
- Affective Immortality, Circumventing Grief: Ethical Concerns Related to Technological Resurrections in Cancer Care
- After A Cancer Death: A Family-Centered Camp Model for Healing and Resilience
- Breaking through Barriers: How Resource Navigation and Direct Financial Assistance Mitigate Financial Toxicity and Improve Outcomes for Rural and Underserved Patients
- Building ConnectedNest: a digital social care referral platform for patients diagnosed with cancer
- Charting the Course: A Roadmap for Clinical Social Work Interventions in Radiation Therapy
- Converging Hematology and BMT-CI Social Work Teams into a Unified Service Model for Continuity of Care
- Creating a High-Quality Field Placement Experience in Psychosocial Oncology: Program Evolution and Lessons Learned
- Elevating Oncology Social Work Leadership Through Strategic Planning for Navigation: Insights from the ACS National Navigation Roundtable’s Three-Year Roadmap Planning Initiative
- Elevating Patient and Employee Voices in Oncology Social Work: The Impact of Advisory Councils in Community Oncology
- Exploring Restrictive Eating as a Psychosocial Response in Black Women Diagnosed with Cancer
- Foundational Skill Building for Beginners: Orientation Program for Oncology Social Work
- From Screening to Intervention: Developing a Multidisciplinary Workflow for Psychosocial Crisis Care in Oncology
- “If You Hear It, Assess It”: Building a Scalable Suicide Prevention Training Model in Oncology
- Impact of early psychosocial assessment on outpatient palliative care referrals
- Increasing Access to Support by Developing Peer Leaders
- It’s Not Just About the End: The Broader Story of Palliative Care for Nurturing Resilience
- Michigan Community Outreach and Strategies to Address Financial Toxicity (MI-COST): Engaging Community Members to Develop Resources to Address Financial Hardship for Cancer Survivors
- Strengthening Psychosocial Care in Cancer Settings Through Structured Skill Development
- Supporting the Supporters: Addressing the Needs of Cancer Caregivers
- The “Write” Stuff: Implementation and evaluation of a virtual therapeutic writing program for young adults with cancer
Thursday, June 11th
- Addressing the systemic barriers to community mental health services through supporting patients and clinicians across the cancer trajectory
- Breaking Barriers to AYA Mental Health Care: A Virtual Training and Supervision Program for Community Clinicians
- Breaking Barriers: Innovation, Creativity and Resilience in Oncology Social Work
- Bridging gaps in adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer care through multidisciplinary collaboration: A multistate education initiative
- Continuity of Care Pathway: Inpatient to Ambulatory Social Work
- From Barriers to Bridges: Improving Oncology Outcomes Through Cultural Awareness
- Growing Support: Expanding Oncology Support and Psychotherapeutic Group Offerings to Meet the Needs of Our Patients
- I’m not a B***h, I Am Assertive. Learn the Difference: What Every Social Worker Should Know
- Manifestations of Body Image Distress in AYA Cancer Survivors: A Qualitative Analysis of Participants in an Expressive Writing Intervention
- Navigating Difficult Conversations: Supporting Oncology Patient-Facing Team Members
- Pilot Evaluation of ESPEC-O: Advancing Social Work Competencies in Palliative and End-of-Life Oncology Care
- Pink is NOT me: Interventions to promote resilience and community
- Quick, call the social worker! A behind-the-scenes look at addressing patients’ mental health through a virtual program
- Quitting with support: A patient centered program using Motivational Interviewing for smoking cessation
- Reimagining Psychosocial Oncology: Multilevel Care Models to Strengthen Patient-Centered Support
- Si se puede!! Navigating Cancer for the Latino population
- The Colorectal Cancer Alliance’s National Digital Oncology Social Work Model: Harnessing Technology and AI to Advance Equitable Cancer Support and Psychosocial Care
- The Human Side of Cancer Care: Wisdom from Patients and Families
- Turning Pages Into Pathways: How HCPs and a Magazine Foster Connection for Young Adults with Cancer
- Unspoken Distress: Supporting Head and Neck Cancer Caregivers Through Early Psychosocial Intervention