Preceded by: Quick reference for pediatric oncology clinicians / senior editors, Lori S. Wiener, Maryland Pao. c2009.
The book also addresses the burgeoning fields of social media, complementary therapies, palliative care, and survivorship. Among the variety of useful resources supplied are assessment tools, websites, and additional reading materials.
Psychosocial interventions with pediatric cancer patients and their families are guided by an increasingly sophisticated body of research findings that enhance their quality of life.
Treating a child with cancer becomes a family and a community affair. This book is a comprehensive text on the all-important psychosocial aspects of cancer in children.
This is the second edition of a well-received compendium of information and guidance on the diagnosis and management of the various oncological diseases that are encountered in children and adolescents.
This book features contributions from experts designed to help clinicians review, anticipate and respond to emotional issues that often arise in the context of treating older cancer patients.
depression, dysthymia and adjustment disorders with depressive mood, and that 1–38% have major depression.17 Recent meta-analytical pooled prevalence of DSM-defined major depression was 16.5% (95% CI, 13.1–20.3) in palliative care ...
"Psycho-oncology, 4th Edition is solemnly dedicated to Professor Jimmie C. Holland, M.D., internationally recognized as the founder of the field of Psycho-oncology.
Childhood cancer is an area of oncology that has seen both remarkable progress as well as substantial continuing challenges.
The book has not only an interdisciplinary but also an international perspective; it will appeal globally to all clinicians caring for children with cancer, including physicians, nurses, psychosocial clinicians, and chaplains, among others.
In When Your Child is Sick, psychosocial counselor Joanna Breyer distills decades of experience working with sick children and their families into a comprehensive guide for navigating the uncharted and frightening terrain.