Living with Cancer

Living with Cancer
Author: Vicki A. Jackson,David P. Ryan,Michelle D. Seaton
Publsiher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2017-05-16
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781421422336

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Patients at every stage will find Living with Cancer a comprehensive, thoughtful, and accessible guide for navigating the illness and its treatment.

Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully

Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully
Author: Gary Rodin,Sarah Hales
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2021-04-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780190236441

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Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully provides valuable insight into the experience of patients and families living with advanced cancer and describes a novel psychotherapeutic approach to help them live meaningfully, while also facing the threat of mortality. Managing Cancer and Living Meaningfully, also known by the acronym CALM, is a brief supportive-expressive intervention that can be delivered by a wide range of trained healthcare providers as part of cancer care or early palliative care. The authors provide an overview of the clinical experience and research that led to the development of CALM, a clear description of the intervention, and a manualized guide to aid in its delivery. Situated in the context of early palliative care, this text is destined to be become essential reading for healthcare professionals engaged in providing psychological support to patients and their families who face the practical and profound problems of advanced disease.

Coping with Cancer

Coping with Cancer
Author: Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz,Marsha M. Linehan
Publsiher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2021-02-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781462542024

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This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time. *How can you face the fear, sadness, and anger without being paralyzed by them? *Is it possible to hold on to hope without being in denial? *How can you nurture supportive relationships when you have barely enough energy to take care of yourself? Learn powerful DBT skills that can help you make difficult treatment decisions, manage overwhelming emotions, speak up for your needs, and tolerate distress. The stories and collective wisdom of other cancer patients and survivors illustrate the coping skills and show how you can live meaningfully, even during the darkest days.

Help Me Live

Help Me Live
Author: Lori Hope
Publsiher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2005
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781587612121

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When we hear that someone close to us has been diagnosed with cancer, we want nothing more than to comfort them with words of hope, support, and love. But sometimes we don't know what to say or do and don't feel comfortable asking. With sensitive insights and thoughtful anecdotes, Help Me Live provides a personal yet thoroughly researched account of words and actions that are most helpful.

In Between Days

In Between Days
Author: Teva Harrison
Publsiher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2016-04-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781487001100

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2016 Governor General's Literary Award Finalist 2017 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Winner 2017 Joe Shuster Award Nominee Teva Harrison was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 37. In this brilliant and inspiring graphic memoir, she documents through comic illustration and short personal essays what it means to live with the disease. She confronts with heartbreaking honesty the crises of identity that cancer brings: a lifelong vegetarian, Teva agrees to use experimental drugs that have been tested on animals. She struggles to reconcile her long-term goals with an uncertain future, balancing the innate sadness of cancer with everyday acts of hope and wonder. She also examines those quiet moments of helplessness and loving with her husband, her family, and her friends, while they all adjust to the new normal. Ultimately, In-Between Days is redemptive and uplifting, reminding each one of us of how beautiful life is, and what a gift.

Living Your Life with Cancer through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Living Your Life with Cancer through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Author: Anne Johnson,Claire Delduca,Reg Morris
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2021-06-21
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9781000401738

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This valuable self-help book for people affected by cancer, their loved ones and friends focuses on self-care when life hurts. It explores the impact of cancer and explains why the usual ways of coping may leave people stuck. The first book of its kind to focus on the scientifically based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) approach, it helps people to find ways to cope with painful thoughts and feelings, and to rebuild a meaningful life despite the cancer. With an emphasis on value-based living the book illustrates skills such as mindfulness and the development of acceptance to help people affected by cancer to participate in a fuller life and gain a greater sense of well-being. It combines evidence-based practice with the experiences of people who are living with cancer in the form of numerous quotations throughout, as well as paper and pencil ‘thought’ exercises. Living Your Life with Cancer through Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people affected by cancer to feel more able to sit with the uncertainty of their future, show themselves kindness and compassion and to learn to be true to themselves, no matter what the cancer throws at them. It is also important reading for psychological therapists working in oncology.

Cancer Care for the Whole Patient

Cancer Care for the Whole Patient
Author: Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients/Families in a Community Setting
Publsiher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2008-03-19
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780309134163

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Cancer care today often provides state-of-the-science biomedical treatment, but fails to address the psychological and social (psychosocial) problems associated with the illness. This failure can compromise the effectiveness of health care and thereby adversely affect the health of cancer patients. Psychological and social problems created or exacerbated by cancer--including depression and other emotional problems; lack of information or skills needed to manage the illness; lack of transportation or other resources; and disruptions in work, school, and family life--cause additional suffering, weaken adherence to prescribed treatments, and threaten patients' return to health. Today, it is not possible to deliver high-quality cancer care without using existing approaches, tools, and resources to address patients' psychosocial health needs. All patients with cancer and their families should expect and receive cancer care that ensures the provision of appropriate psychosocial health services. Cancer Care for the Whole Patient recommends actions that oncology providers, health policy makers, educators, health insurers, health planners, researchers and research sponsors, and consumer advocates should undertake to ensure that this standard is met.

I m a Kid Living with Cancer

I m a Kid Living with Cancer
Author: Jenevieve Fisher
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Cancer
ISBN: 0984419292

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This book shows a young boy facing cancer with logic and determination. He explains how an out of control cell forms a tumor, how a blood test is done, what X-rays, CT Scans, and MRI's are for, how chemotherapy is administered through a Hickman Line, and how radiation works to destroy cancer cells.