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Treating Vulnerable Populations of Cancer Survivors: A Biopsychosocial Approach

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Editors:
  1. Tanya R. Fitzpatrick

    1. Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

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  • Offers interventions for enhancing the QOL of vulnerable survivor populations

  • Teaches cultural competence in addressing racial, ethnic, and age disparities

  • Written from a social work and nursing perspective

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Theoretical and Conceptual Models of Age and Ethnicity

    • Tanya R. Fitzpatrick
    Pages 1-5

  3. Providing Psychosocial Distress Screening, Coping Resources, and Self-care to Newly Diagnosed Cancer Survivors in a Canadian Small Town Setting

    • Linda J. Edgar
    Pages 7-22

  4. Latino Cancer Survivors: The Old and the Young

    • Tanya R. Fitzpatrick
    Pages 23-35

  5. An Exploration of Latvian Immigrants’ Cancer Experience and Implications for Supportive Interventions

    • Mara L. Leimanis
    Pages 37-54

  6. Survivorship Issues Among Muslim Women with Cancer

    • Suzanne Y. Bushfield
    Pages 55-65

  7. Exploring the Artist’s Book: How Art Therapy Can Benefit the Quality of Life of Young Adult Breast Cancer Survivors

    • Katherine Laux
    Pages 67-92

  8. Physical Activity, Locus of Control, and Fear of Recurrence Among Cancer Survivors from a Community-Based Cancer Support Program

    • Roxana Mititelu, Achuthan Aruljothy, Tanya R. Fitzpatrick
    Pages 93-110

  9. Oral Health Issues and Quality of Life Among Pediatric Cancer Survivors

    • Crystal Noronha, Mary Ellen Macdonald
    Pages 111-125

  10. Quality of Life Among Esophageal Cancer Survivors: Medical and Psychosocial Support

    • Adriano Petrangelo, Mara L. Leimanis, Lorenzo Ferri, Tanya R. Fitzpatrick
    Pages 127-142

  11. The Family Caregiver as Cancer Survivor: Supporting and Promoting Positive Bereavement Outcomes

    • Lorraine Holtslander
    Pages 143-154

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 155-160
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About this book

This competence-building resource synthesizes a rich trove of conceptual and practical information on treating cancer survivors at risk of being underserved. Spotlighting a diverse group of ethnic and other demographic populations surviving diverse forms of cancer, the book models the assessing of needs and the developing of strategies to meet them. The multiple burden of cancer—medical and psychosocial problems, discrimination and stigma, quality of life issues—is described in depth as it affects different cultural and age populations. Contributors also present interventions that effectively and meaningfully address these complex intersections of physical, emotional, interpersonal, and layered social concerns.

Included among the topics:

  • Providing psychosocial distress screening, coping resources and self-care to newly diagnosed cancer survivors.
  • Latino cancer survivors: the old and the young.
  • An exploration of Latvian immigrants' cancer experience and implications for supportive interventions.
  • Survivorship issues among Muslim women with cancer.
  • How art therapy can benefit the quality of life of young breast cancer survivors.
  • The family caregiver as cancer survivor: supporting and promoting positive bereavement outcomes.

Unique among the survivor literature, Treating Vulnerable Populations of Cancer Survivors ably assists health psychologists, social workers, and nurses in providing services to patients facing special challenges during recovery.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Oncology, McGill University, MontrĂ©al, Canada

    Tanya R. Fitzpatrick

About the editor

Tanya Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., MSW, RN received her doctoral degree in social work from Boston College in 1992 and completed post-doctoral studies through Boston University focusing on issues relating to health and social outcomes among older adults. She was recently appointed the director of research at Hope & Cope (H&C), the Jewish General Hospital (JGH), with an appointment at McGill University since her employment in 2009 through January 2014. Prior to her employment at McGill, she was an associate professor from 2000 until 2008, and is professor emeritus from Arizona State University, Department of Social Work, with a background in nursing, social work, and gerontology. She is a member of the Gerontological Society of America, Society for Social Work Research, National Association of Social Workers, Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology, and American Society on Aging.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Treating Vulnerable Populations of Cancer Survivors: A Biopsychosocial Approach

  • Editors: Tanya R. Fitzpatrick

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32364-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32362-6Published: 06 June 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81267-0Published: 30 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32364-0Published: 26 May 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 160

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Health Psychology, Social Work, Oncology, Psychotherapy and Counseling

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