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 to provide 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. This book offers numerous practical strategies for assessing and managing common concerns and 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 and contains photocopiable Resource sheets that support the practical application of the content.
Psychosocial care of cancer patients : a health professional's guide to what to say and do
by Hodgkinson, Katharine (ed.)|Gilchrist, Jemma (ed.)
Ausmed Publications, Melbourne, Vic, 2008
- Item Type: Book
- 207 pages
- ISBN: 9780980000000
- Copies: 1
Categories: Cancer, Psychosocial aspects
Subjects: Cancer, Doctor patient relationship, Patients, Psychosocial aspects
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