Pediatric Psycho-oncology

List of Contributors ix
 
Foreword xiii
Jimmie Holland
 
Introduction: Embedding Psychosocial Care in Medicine: Pediatric Psycho-oncology as a Model xv
Gary M. Kupfer
 
Preface xvii
 
Part A Active Treatment 1
 
Chapter 1 Cancer in Children: an Overview 3
Shai Izraeli, Gideon Rechavi
 
Chapter 2 Comprehensive and Family-Centered Psychosocial Care in Pediatric Oncology: Integration of Clinical Practice and Research 7
Lori Wiener, Maryland Pao
 
Chapter 3 Quality of Life in Children with Cancer 18
Shulamith Kreitler, Michal M. Kreitler
 
Chapter 4 Pain in Pediatric Oncology 32
Richard D. W. Hain
 
Chapter 5 Psychiatric Impact of Childhood Cancer 43
Margaret L. Stuber
 
Chapter 6 Psychosocial Effects of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Children 52
Ronit Elhasid, Michal M. Kreitler, Shulamith Kreitler, Myriam Weyl Ben-Arush
 
Chapter 7 Psychosocial Aspects of Radiotherapy in Pediatric Cancer Patients 62
Shulamith Kreitler, Elena Krivoy, Amos Toren
 
Chapter 8 Communicating with Children: their Understanding, Information Needs, and Processes 71
M. Louise Webster, Jane E. Skeen
 
Chapter 9 Psychosocial Interventions:a Cognitive Behavioral Approach 92
Bob F. Last, Martha A. Grootenhuis
 
Chapter 10 Education in Pediatric Oncology: Learning and Reintegration into School 104
Ciporah S. Tadmor, Rivka Rosenkranz, Myriam Weyl Ben-Arush
 
Chapter 11 Psychopharmacology in Pediatric Oncology 118
Elizabeth G. Pinsky, Annah N. Abrams
 
Chapter 12 Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Children with Cancer 135
Subhadra Evans, Laura Cousins, Lonnie Zeltzer
 
Chapter 13 Fantasy, Art Therapies, and Other Expressive and Creative Psychosocial Interventions 143
Shulamith Kreitler, Daniel Oppenheim, Elsa Segev-Shoham
 
Chapter 14 Palliative Care for Children with Advanced Cancer 160
Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, Lonnie Zeltzer
 
Part B

Dr Shulamith Kreitler studied psychology, philosophy and psychopathology in Israel, Switzerland and the USA. She studied for her PhD at the University of Bern, Switzerland and is a certified clinical and health psychologist. She has been Professor of Psychology at the Universities of Harvard, Princeton and Yale in the USA, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Vienna, Austria. Since 1986 she has been Professor of Psychology at Tel-Aviv University and currently also teaches at the University of Haifa. She is Head of the Psychooncology Research Center at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. She has published about 200 papers and 10 books on motivation, cognition, psychopathology and health psychology, and is known especially for her work in health psychology, particularly psychooncology, the theory of meaning, and the cognitive orientation theory for the prediction and change of behavior.
 
Dr Myriam Ben-Arush is Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the Technion Faculty of Medicine, Director of the Pediatric Hematology Oncology Department, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Deputy Director of the Meyer Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. She is past Chair of the Israel Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, and received a bursary from the Israel Society of Oncology for the creation of the Pediatric Oncology Unit in Northern Israel. The World Medical Association recognised her as 'Caring Physician of the World', and she is 'Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur'. Dr Ben-Aurush is Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, a member of the National Council of Oncology and Pediatric Health and of the Israel Cancer Association. She sits on the Research Committee of the Israeli Ministry of Health and the advisory committee for treatment outside Israel. She is also a Principal investigator in Israel of the European Soft Tissue Sarcoma Protocol.
 
Dr. Andres Martin is the Riva Ariella Ritvo Professor of Pediatric Oncology

"This is a highly practical resource book for health professionals dealing with children and adolescents with cancer ... There is also a new appendix providing a comprehensive overview and details of research tools in paediatric psycho-oncology." ( Journal of Analytical Psychology , 1 May 2013)

"This is a highly practical resource book for health professionals dealing with children and adolescents with cancer . . . There is also a new appendix providing a comprehensive overview and details of research tools in paediatric psycho-oncology." ( Journal of Analytical Psychology , 1 May 2013)