Perspectives from a Psych-Oncology Team Working with Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer

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Exploring the work of a psych-oncology team in an inpatient and out-patient setting, this powerful, interesting and engaging book is about teenagers and young adults diagnosed with cancer. With a compassionate approach to understanding the challenges for patients, their families and clinicians alike, this is a book for nurses, doctors, occupational therapists and physiotherapists, for parents, carers and for young people who find themselves in this position and who can easily feel as though they are alone with overwhelming feelings.

Introduction

Jane Elfer

1 Overview: cancer in teenagers and young adults and psycho-oncology

Mike Groszmann

2 The cancer journey

Mike Groszmann

3 Adolescents with cancer: a journey interrupted

Jane Elfer

4 Keeping young adults with cancer connected: a psychologist’s reflections

Anna Galloway

5 Cancer in adolescence from a trauma perspective

Daniel Glazer

6 Reverberations through the mind: explorations of emotional complexities arising from childhood cancer and its "late effects"

Petra A. M. Mohr

7 Hope and despair in the face of life-threatening disease

Claudia Henry

8 Working with families where a young person is facing death

James McParland, Cristian Pena, & Sara Portnoy