Connie Holmes, Ed.D.

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Women’s Cancer Resource Center
5741 Telegraph Ave at 58th Street
Oakland, CA 94609. 
510.898.0548

PSY 18209

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Invited Presentations

The New Normal: Life after Treatment, Northern California Cancer Coalition, December, 2007

American Cancer Society, Oakland CA. December 2007 Training for Volunteers

DocTalk, Teleconference for American Cancer Society: Sharing the Fear, Feeling Joy-Life after Cancer Treatment. March 2007

Holmes. C.L., Moderator, March 2005. Multi-Cultural Dimensions of Psycho-oncology. California Psychological Association Convention, Pasadena, CA.

Holmes. C.L., October 2004. Clinical Challenges in Psycho-oncology – How the meaning of hope changes. California Psychological Association Convention, San Diego, CA.

Holmes. C.L., October 2003. Clinical Challenges in Psycho-oncology. Alameda Psychological Association. Berkeley, CA.

Holmes. C.L., November 1997. Confronting the Crisis in End of Life Care. Massachusetts Medical Society. Worcester, MA

Holmes, C.L., November 1996. Clinical Approaches at the End of Life. Fairlawn University Hospital. Cleveland, OH

Holmes, C.L., October 1995. Facilitating a Cancer Support Group. Psychoneuroimmunology Conference. Boston University School of Medicine. Boston, MA

Holmes, C.L., September 1995. Clinical Applications of Mind/Body Medicine in Working with Cancer Patients. Behavioral Medicine Symposium. Massachusetts General Hospital. Boston, MA

Holmes, C.L., and Stolbach, L.L. April 1995. Fallon Mind/Body Cancer Program. Profiles in Survival, WBZ-TV. Sponsored by the American Cancer Society.

Lorman, C.E., December 1994. Clinical Applications of Mind/Body Medicine in Working with Cancer Patients. Massachusetts General Hospital Behavioral Medicine Symposium. Boston, MA

Publications

Holmes, C.L, 2005. Book review: The Anatomy of Hope by Jerome Groopman, M.D. Appeared in the California Psychologist, Briefings and Viewpoint (The Psychotherapy Institute of Berkeley) in 2005.

Holmes, C.L., 1996. Observations: Learning to Distinguish Between the Sick and the Dying: One Hospital's Experience. Advances, The Journal of Mind-Body Health, Vol. 12, No. 3, Summer, 1996.

Holmes, C.L., & Stolbach, L.L. 1995 The Experience of Cancer and the Course of Cancer: A Conversation. Advances, Issue 11, pages 35-39.

Schnoll, R.A., MacKinnon, J.R., Stolbach, L.L. & Holmes, C.L., 1995. The Relationship between Emotional Adjustment and the Two Factor Structures of the Mental Adjustment to Cancer (MAC) Scale.
Psycho-Oncology, Issue 4, pages 265-272.

Stolbach, Leo L. and Lorman, C. E., Further Comments of Counseling People with Cancer: Pursuing the Perfect Paradigm, Advances, The Journal of Mind-Body Health, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer, 1994.

Organizations

Alameda County Psychological Association, President, 2005
American Psycho-social Oncology Society
California Psychological Association
American Psychological Association


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“Connie Holmes did an excellent job of bringing a great deal of information together while providing
support and hope for group members with cancer. She is a remarkably talented psychologist”.

Roberta M. Falke, M.D., Chief, Hematology/Oncology, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, MA