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Slabinska Iia Eduardivna

Psychologist

President of the Ukrainian Psycho-Oncological Society (UPOS) 

Education 

  • Graduated from the International Staff Management Academy with a degree in “Practical psychology”
  • Specialized in integrative cognitive behavioral therapy (IVT) at the Institute of Psychosocial Research and Personality Development (Institut Psychosoziale Forschung und Personlichkeits Forderung), Germany


Specialization (field of interest, what do you specialize at, what do you work on)

Individual counselling and follow-up of oncological patients, members of their families, as well as the extended practice of group therapy.

Certification training, scientific and educational activity

Certification training:

    • Workshop «Demoralization in cancer care: diagnosis and treatment» – The 22 World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy (2021)
    • Workshop «Managing fear of cancer recurrence in cancer survivors with individual or group therapy» – The 22 World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy (2021)
    • Webinar «Can you really «Conquer» Fear of Cancer Recurrence? »), International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) (2018)
    • Webinar «Meaning Centered Psychotherapy in Cancer Patients», International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS) (2018)
    • Course «Understanding Cancer Metastasis», Johns Hopkins University (2016) 
    • Course «HPV-Associated Oral and Throat Cancer: What You Need to Know», Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2016)
    • Course «Thoracic Oncology», University of Michigan (2016)
  • Course «Introduction to Breast Cancer», Yale University (2016)
  • Course «Introduction to the Biology of Cancer (with Honors) », Johns Hopkins University (2016)
  • Course «Introduction to the science of cancer», Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State’s James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute (2015)
  • Course «The addictive brain», Emory University (2015)
  • Course «Neuroethics» of the Department of Neuroethics and Healthcare of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Director – Jonathan Moreno.
  • Course «Brain and medications» at the California University of Technology (2013)
  • Course «Critical thinking in the era of global changes», University of Edinburgh (2013)
  • Multilingual Core Curriculum in Psycho-Oncology – academic materials in psycho-oncological provided by IPOS (International Psycho-Oncological Society) (2013-2016)
  • Seminar «Work with perfectionism in the context of CBT», Ukrainian Academy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy УАКПТ, moderator — Richard Ohring (Israel) (2013)


Event participation:

  • Organizer of the First Scientific and Practical Conference “Psycho-Oncology. From theory to true help for cancer patients” (2017), the Second Scientific and Practical Conference “Psycho-Oncology 2018” and the International online forum “Psycho-Oncology 2020: from prevention to rehabilitation”.
  • Speaker at the First Scientific and Practical Conference “Psycho-Oncology. From theory to true help for cancer patients” (2017) with a presentation about “Dealing with the fear of cancer recurrence”.
  • Speaker at the Second Scientific and Practical Conference “Psycho-Oncology 2018” with a presentation “Problem-solving therapy to decrease the distress and increase the quality of life of cancer patients” 
  • Speaker at the Third International Scientific and Practical Conference “Psycho_Oncology-2019” engaging the Department of General and Medical Psychology of the Bogomolets National Medical University with a presentation “3’P’s – needs, problems, perspectives for oncological patients following treatment. A psychologists’ view”.
  • Speaker at the Fourth International Scientific and Practical Conference “Psycho_Oncology-2020” engaging the Department of General and Medical Psychology of the Bogomolets National Medical University with a presentation “Professional and ethic norms in the practice of an oncological psychologist. Consequences of their violation”.
  • Speaker at the first Cancer Patients’ Forum with a talk “How to overcome the fear of a relapse” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXmxGIGGvEg
  • A talk at the Picnic dedicated to Cancer Survivors Day 2019 with a master-class on “How to eat a strawberry correctly. Mindfulness as a lifestyle.”
  • Speaker at the International Forum: “Modern aspects of the treatment of prognostically unfavorable forms of breast cancer. Breast within a multidisciplinary aspect” with a presentation “Psychological aspects of counselling patients with suspected or primarily identified breast cancer” (2018) 
  • Speaker at the Scientific and Practical Conference with international participation “Relevant and perspective areas of clinical oncology” October 18th, 2019, Kharkiv, with a presentation “Psycho-Oncology in Ukraine. Problems. Perspectives”
  • A talk at the Medical Knowledge Hub “Molecular, morphological and psychological aspects of melanoma” with a presentation about the psychological features of melanoma patients counselling.
  • Speaker at the online conference of Ukrainian Association of Neuropsychology 2020 “A route to unity. Neuropsychology and psychotherapy” with a presentation “Principles of dealing with cancer phobia” 
  • Speaker at the 2nd Melanoma Patients’ School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afL3eAdvcLw
  • Speaker at the VII Annual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Conference “Modern challenges and hopes of the future (2020).” Masterclass “How to get a patient to learn their own anxiety formula”
  • Speaker at the International online forum “Psycho-Oncology 2020: from prevention to rehabilitation” with a presentation “Social and personal cancer phobia predictors” (2020)
  • Speaker at the VIII Annual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Conference “Modern challenges and hopes of the future (2021).” Master-class “Demoralizing syndrome as a result of unfavorable life events and/or severe diseases. Features of diagnostics, differentiation and interventions in the CBT-approach” 


Scientific and educational activity:

  • Organization of psycho-educational seminars, support groups and topical events for cancer patients and their relatives.
  • Educational work directed at overcoming cancer phobia in society, creating psycho-oncological materials, participation in radio and TV programs, lectures for broad audience, participation in social events organized by patient organizations. 
  • Educational seminars and lectures on psychological follow-up of cancer patients for doctors, psychologists, social workers, and volunteers.
  • “Peer-to-peer” training for groups of consultants in the field of oncology. 
  • Editing the translation of books on psycho-oncology for psychologists and patients from English.  
  • Editing the translation of the book “Cognitive Behavioral therapy for cancer patients” (authors S. Moorey, S. Greer.) from English
  • Editing the translation of the book “Strategies of coping with oncological diagnosis. How to manage your emotions and find the balance between the uncertainty and hope with a help of dialectic behavioral therapy skills” (authors E. Stuntz, M. Linehan) from English.
  • Translation of the manual for psychologists who work with children surviving the war «CHILDREN AND WAR» Teaching Recovery Techniques P. Smith, A. Dyregrov, W. Yule (Institute of Psychiatry, London, England, Center for Crisis Psychology, Bergen, Norway) from English to Ukrainian https://goo.gl/yPTmGP
  • Proofreader of the book “New ways out of trauma. First aid in severe psychological shocks” by J. Fisher (director of the German institute of psycho-traumatology)
  • Translation of the “Scale of psychological adaptation to oncological diagnosis” by S. Moorey, S. Greer from English to Ukrainian together with Matiash T. and Soloshenko Ya. This scale is one of the most used instruments to measure how a person is dealing with a cancer diagnosis. The Ukrainian version of the scale is available for purchase on the IPOS (International Psycho-Oncological Society) website 


Membership in professional organizations (abbreviation + what it stands for)

IPOS (International Psycho-Oncological Society)

UPOS (Ukrainian Psycho-Oncological Society. President of the Special International Group dedicated to the issue of Fear of Cancer Recurrence (IPOS FORwards)

List of publications

  • A project of a portal about health “Likar-info”. Commentary to the article “They are stronger than cancer” https://goo.gl/3rdrwf
  • An article on the “Amazons” portal – “Recommendations as to how to perceive information about cancer from the Internet” 
  • An article on the “Amazons” portal – «Fear of Cancer Recurrence» https://goo.gl/T40M49
  • An article on the “Amazons” portal – “What you should not say to a person who just shared their cancer diagnosis” https://goo.gl/bDTY9f
  • An article on the “Amazons” portal – “What is visualization and how can it be used by patients in the course of cancer treatment” https://goo.gl/3edQ6X
  • An article on the “Amazons” portal – «Cognitive disorders as a result of chemotherapy and radiation therapy”  https://goo.gl/yF8Duh
  • An article “A loved one has cancer and I am having trouble communicating with them. What should I do? Advice from oncological psychologists” https://bit.ua/2020/06/speak-about-cancer/
  • hromadske podcast “Me and it: how to survive cancer”. Topic: “Taboo words, or How to talk to cancer patients” / https://hromadske.ua/posts/slova-tabu-abo-yak-pravilno-govoriti-z-onkopaciyentami-podkast-hromadske-ya-i-ono-kak-perezhit-onko
  • Podcast «Cancer phobia in Ukraine: how to protect the patients from hate and encourage the heathy population to not be scared of medical examinations?”

 https://podcasts.nv.ua/ukr/episode/1647.html


A list of the types of interventions, methods of treatment that you know and use

Individual consulting with a cognitive behavioral approach and psycho-social follow-up of patients and their family:

  • Helping patients to adapt to their diagnosis. 
    • Working to decrease the emotional distress caused by the disease. 
    • Promoting personal control and active participation of the patient in the treatment of an oncological disease. 
    • Establishing effective communication between a patient and their surroundings. 
    • Developing effective strategies to solve problems related to the disease together with a patient. 
    • Helping patients to openly express negative emotions in a safe environment. 
    • Psychological preparation to examinations, procedures, operations etc. 
    • Helping patients to accept the body image changes that arose during the treatment. 
    • Helping patients with psycho-social rehabilitation and with adaptation to ordinary life after the treatment. 
    • Helping to resolve the fear of cancer recurrence.
    • Helping to overcome existential crisis, fears, depressive mood, anxious thoughts, directly related to the disease (at all stages). 
    • Teaching patients functional coping strategies and stress management. 

Group work with cancer patients: 

  • Support groups with cancer patients.
    • Psycho-educational groups (seminars) discussing the topics relevant to patients.
    • Thematic meetings with the patients. 

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