Psychosocial adaptation following treatment: A family systems perspective on childhood cancer survivorship Book Section

  


Authors: Ostroff, J.; Steinglass, P.
Editors: Baider, L.; Cooper, C. L.; De-Nour, A. K.
Article/Chapter Title: Psychosocial adaptation following treatment: A family systems perspective on childhood cancer survivorship
Abstract: review the major issues faced by childhood cancer survivors and describe potential patient, family and medical team factors associated with differential adequacy of psychosocial adaptation to childhood cancer survivorship / describe a family-oriented intervention-a Multiple Family Discussion Group (MFDG)-designed to help facilitate a more successful transition of adolescent cancer patients and their families from the active treatment phase to the off-treatment phase / [describes] a direct clinical extension of the family systems concepts the Ackerman/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Multiple Family Discussion Group Program [rationale for the MFDG program, conceptual model underlying the MFDG, content and structure of the MFDG meetings, selection and training of discussion group leaders] (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: patient & family & medical team factors in psychosocial adaptation following treatment termination; adolescent cancer survivors & their families
Book Title: Cancer and the Family. 1st ed
ISBN: 0-471-95890-5
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons  
Publication Place: Chichester, UK
Date Published: 1996-01-01
Start Page: 129
End Page: 147
Language: English
ACCESSION: 1996-98700-007
PROVIDER: Ovid Technologies
PROVIDER: psycinfo
DOI/URL:

http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&CSC=Y&NEWS=N&PAGE=fulltext&D=psyc3&AN=1996-98700-007
Notes: Book chapter: 7 -- Source: PsycINFO