Book Description
Psychosocial Care of Cancer Patients: A Health Professional's Guide for What to Say and Do developed out of a desire to support and guide health professionals in providing compassionate, high-level psychosocial care to all those affected by cancer. While this book focuses on the psychosocial care of adults, some content is appropriate to the care of parents, carers and loved ones of cancer patients and survivors.
Key Features
- Offers numerous practical strategies for assessing and managing common concerns
- Identifies and extends health professionals' existing skills
- Develops new skills
- Identifies key resources for health professionals for each topic
- Provides clinical case examples throughout that highlight learning objectives
- Contains photocopiable Resource sheets that support the practical application of the content
- Addresses frequently overlooked issues such as sexuality and body image
- Multi-author
About The Editors
Dr Katharine Hodgkinson
Dr Katharine Hodgkinson is a clinical psychologist and member of the College of Clinical Psychologists of the Australian Psychological Society, with both clinical and research expertise in psycho-oncology. Katharine worked for eight years in a tertiary oncology service providing psychosocial care to women with gynaecological cancer and their families, as well as education to other health professional. As an honorary associate of three Sydney universities, she provided clinical supervision to clinical psychology interns at master's level.
In 2006, she completed her doctorate, which examined predictors of psychosocial outcomes in cancer survivors and their partners, and resulted in the development of two psychometrically established measures of unmet supportive care needs for cancer survivors and their partners. Katharine has published numerous research papers in peer-reviewed journals, presented at conferences and co-authored a book chapter on the psychosocial and spiritual care of cancer patients.
Dr Jemma Gilchrist
Dr Jemma Gilchrist is a senior clinical psychologist with clinical experience in psycho-oncology. Since 1999 she has worked in two separate tertiary oncology services, providing psychosocial care to adults with a wide range of cancer diagnoses as well as their families and carers. Jemma has experience in educating other health professionals on the role of psychosocial support and interventions in the oncology setting.
In addition to this, she is an honorary associate of the University of Sydney and provides clinical supervision to clinical psychology interns at Master's level. She completed her doctorate in 1995 in the area of children's eyewitness memory, and has published, in the areas of interviewing children, about stressful events, the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and postnatal depression. She has a longstanding interest in the impact and treatment of anxiety in the medically unwell.
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1. Practicalities and challenges of providing psychosocial care
2. How to build relationships with good communication
3. Coping with common concerns
4. Addressing sexual and body image concerns
5. Depression
6. Grief, end of life and bereavement
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