Homestudy Program: Lessons from Long COVID: The Pivotal Role the Clinical Psychologist Plays in Supporting People with Invisible Illnesses (Brown) orig. 11.7.2025
12/5/2025 - 12/31/2050
Location: Virtual Event
Event Description
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Originally offered as:
IPA 2025 Fall Conference #8
1.5 Hours of Category I CE credit Thursday, November 7th, 2025 11:30 am - 1:00 pm ET
Program Description: Lessons from Long COVID: The Pivotal Role the Clinical Psychologist Plays in Supporting People with Invisible Illnesses
The COVID pandemic has brought to Indiana thousands of cases of adults with Long COVID who are chronically ill, disabled, and in need of treatment. Medical and mental health providers were thrown into the unnerving position of caring for patients with a severe illness for which there were no treatment studies or clinical experience. Many lessons have been learned in the five years of COVID that have enhanced available treatments and understanding of the important role clinical psychologists can play in supporting people with a range of "invisible illnesses" such as Long COVID, ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. These conditions often overlap as comorbidities and all are commonly multisystemic, involve disabling autonomic dysfunction, and are notoriously difficult to diagnose. This presentation will highlight common medical and psychosocial challenges unique to the invisible illness population and the pivotal role that clinical psychologists have in supporting recovery. Fennel's Four-Stage Model of Chronic Illness will provide the framework to explore appropriate treatments, which are necessarily drawn from research on other disorders or from clinical experience, due to the dearth of intervention outcome research for Long COVID and other invisible illnesses.
Learning Objectives:
By completing this program, participants will be able to:
​describe "invisible illness" and recognize identify the psychosocial needs that commonly arise in this population.
discuss the challenges of treating Long COVID and the impact it has had on the availability and delivery of treatments for a range of invisible illnesses.
identify the four phases of adjustment to chronic illness from Fennell's model.
discuss the ways clinical psychologists are uniquely qualified to fill gaps in services for those with Long COVID and similar illnesses.
Presenter bio: Linda Brown, PhD, HSPP
Dr. Brown is a clinical health psychologist in private practice in Bloomington since 2012. She specializes in supporting adults in their adjustment to cancer or chronic illness with a particular focus on autoimmune and post-infectious diseases. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from IUPUI in 2011 and is certified as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor through the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society, University of Massachusetts. She has taught mindfulness courses in the community and online since 2012. She is also a member of a research team at IU School of Medicine that is testing mindfulness interventions for quality of life in cancer survivors.
Dr. Linda Brown
Special Note to Conference Attendees
The Indiana Psychological Association (IPA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Indiana Psychological Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Indiana State Psychology Board and Indiana Behavioral Health Board:
IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for psychologists.
IPA is an approved provider of Category I continuing education for LSW, LCSW, LMFT, LMHC, LMFTA, LCAC and LAC.
Licensees must judge the program’s relevance to their professional practice. Non-Indiana licensees are also advised to check with their state's licensing board to assure their state accepts continuing education programs approved by entities approved by the APA.
We ask that all participants watch the entire recorded presentation, and complete the post-program evaluation form and homestudy test at the conclusion of the program. Dr. Brown and IPA have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.
CE certificates will be distributed via email within two weeks after a passing test (75+%) is submitted.
