This content is a podcast interview rather than a structured lecture, but its underlying theory is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) as applied to psycho-oncology: the principle that a patient's cognitions about diagnosis, prognosis, and self-efficacy shape emotional response and coping behavior, and that identifying and correcting maladaptive cognitive distortions (e.g., catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking, denial) improves adjustment. It also covers the classification of cancer-related mood disturbance along a distress continuum (normal adjustment, adjustment disorder with depressed mood, major depressive disorder, cancer- or substance-induced mood disorder) and structured screening approaches for detecting clinically significant depression in oncology populations. The domain is psycho-oncology and consultation-liaison psychiatry within the broader discipline of clinical psychology/oncology.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a psychotherapeutic model holding that cognition (how a person interprets events) drives emotion, which in turn drives behavior; intervention targets maladaptive…