Quality cancer care necessitates a multidisciplinary team approach. The author suggests that oncology social workers are in a unique position in this treatment team to play a fundamental role in assisting in the psychosocial care and advocacy for cancer survivors. The purpose of this book is to help social workers to understand the issues surrounding a diagnosis of breast and ovarian cancer in the context of providing services to these patients and their families. In addition to the physical suffering, there is considerable emotional suffering for these women and those close to them. Chapters include: oncology social work; oncology social workers as patient navigators; state of women's cancers; different faces of cancer; health care in the United States; financial burden of cancer; practical concerns; distress in cancer patients; spirituality; providing psychosocial care: evidence based interventions; impact on family and friends; advocacy and cancer; the changing world of technology; and challenges and future directions for oncology social work.
Quality cancer care necessitates a multidisciplinary team approach. The author suggests that oncology social workers are in a unique position in this treatment team to play a fundamental role in assisting in the psychosocial care and advocacy for cancer survivors. The purpose of this book is to help social workers to understand the issues surrounding a diagnosis of breast and ovarian cancer in the context of providing services to these patients and their families. In addition to the physical suffering, there is considerable emotional suffering for these women and those close to them. Chapters include: oncology social work; oncology social workers as patient navigators; state of women's cancers; different faces of cancer; health care in the United States; financial burden of cancer; practical concerns; distress in cancer patients; spirituality; providing psychosocial care: evidence based interventions; impact on family and friends; advocacy and cancer; the changing world of technology; and challenges and future directions for oncology social work.
Subject terms:
medical social work, medical social workers, personal finance, psychosocial approach, social care provision, spirituality, advocacy, anxiety, cancer, evidence-based practice;
British Journal of Social Work, 32(5), July 2002, pp.609-619.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
... that females had more somatic symptoms, anxiety and depression than males.
Explores the relationship of family, peer and school factors on the mental health of Chinese male and female at risk adolescents and secondary school students in Hong Kong. Compared to secondary school students, at risk adolescents had poorer relations with parents, more negative family and peer influences, a more negative school environment, and poorer social functioning. Findings also revealed that females had more somatic symptoms, anxiety and depression than males.
Subject terms:
peer groups, school children, social skills, vulnerable children, adolescence, anxiety, depression, families, family relations, environmental factors, gender;