Cancer is often synonymous with fear, uncertainty, and death. A diagnosis of cancer begins a long journey that affects physical health, mental well-being, and relationships with loved ones. Although cancer care today often provides advanced medical treatment, psychosocial issues may not be adequately addressed (Artherholt & Fann, 2012). This failure may compromise the effectiveness of overall cancer management.
Oncology social workers play an integral role in cancer care in multiple settings. It is common for oncology social workers to engage in individual, family, and group intervention. In addition to providing direct patient care, oncology social workers provide valuable public health interventions, such as health education programs and policymaking.
To prepare for this Discussion:
Review this week’s resources. Select one of the many different types of cancer and think about the overall impact of the disease. Consider the psychosocial effects of cancer. How might cancer affect the health and well-being of an individual and caregivers?
Post an explanation of how this type of cancer might affect the health and well-being of the patient and caregivers. Explain the psychosocial effects of cancer on the patient and caregivers. Explain how psychosocial factors might impact a treatment care plan and the management of the disease. Finally, explain how you might address the psychosocial needs of a cancer patient and caregiver.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the resources and the current literature using appropriate APA format and style.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings.
- Expand on your post regarding the psychosocial effects of cancer on patients and caregivers by providing a different perspective.
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N A S W S t a n d a r d s f o r
Social Work
Practice
i n H e a l t h C a r e S e t t i n g s
N A T I O N A L A S S O C I A T I O N O F S O C I A L W O R K E R S
N A S W S t a n d a r d s f o r
Social Work
Practice
i n H e a l t h C a r e S e t t i n g s
National Association of Social Workers
Darrell P. Wheeler, PhD, ACSW, MPH
President
Angelo McClain, PhD, LICSW
Chief Executive Officer
Health Care Standards Expert Panel
Lisa E. Cox, PhD, LCSW, MSW
Terrie Fritz, LCSW
Virna Little, PsyD, LCSW-R
Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, ACSW, LCSW
Anthony Yamamoto, LCSW
NASW Staff
Stacy Collins, MSW
©2016 National Association of Social Workers.
All Rights Reserved.
Contents
5 Introduction
9 Goals
10 Definitions
14 Guiding Principles
16 Standard 1. Ethics and Values
17 Standard 2. Qualifications
18 Standard 3. Knowledge
22 Standard 4. Cultural and Linguistic Competence
24 Standard 5. Screening and Assessment
27 Standard 6. Care Planning and Intervention
29 Standard 7. Advocacy
31 Standard 8. Interdisciplinary and Interorganizational
Collaboration
33 Standard 9. Practice Evaluation and Quality
Improvement
34 Standard 10. Record Keeping and Confidentiality
37 Standard 11. Workload Sustainability
39 Standard 12. Professional Development
40 Standard 13. Supervision and Leadership
42 References
45 Acknowledgments
5
Introduction
Since the early 20th century, social work has
been an integral component of the U.S. health
care system, and the profession continues to
play a leadership role in the psychosocial
aspects of health care. Today, social workers
are present in settings across the health care
continuum, including prevention and public
health, primary and acute care, specialty care,
rehabilitation, home health, long-term care,
and hospice. Professional social workers
provide services to individuals and families
throughout the life span, addressing the full
range of biopsychosocial–spiritual and
environmental issues that affect well-being.
Social work’s strengths-based, person-in-
environment perspective provides the
contextual focus necessary for client- and
family-centered care and is unique among
the health professions.
A hallmark of social work’s commitment to
health and well-being is the profession’s
continued focus on the issue of health care
inequality in the United States. People living
in poverty and communities of color continue
to
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An Uninvited Guest: Addressing Students’ Death
Anxiety in Oncology Social Work Field
Placements
Meuche, Glenn . Field Educator ; Boston Vol. 7, Iss. 1, (Spring 2017).
ProQuest document link
ABSTRACT (ENGLISH)
Field placements present a wide breadth of challenges that afford students fertile ground to refine their clinical
skills of active listening, engagement, and relationship. The inclusion of a curriculum that encourages self-
reflection and centers on students’ attitudes and beliefs surrounding end-of-life care has a positive influence and
direct correlation to their comfort level and openness to speaking with their clients about death and dying. The
supervisory relationship has been heralded as the cornerstone in the development of effective clinicians and as
the quintessential learning experience for the clinician, the foundation of students’ educational growth and
development, and the therapeutic alliance in which supervisees develop their own style. (Sormanti, 1994, p. 75)
Death anxiety and unfamiliarity with regard to skills that are solicited in oncology social work and end-of-life care
may account for students’ difficulty in recognizing the clinical dimension of these field placements. The clinical
skills employed in oncology social work placements are unique and often different from interventions used for
instance, in mental health venues. Students discover themselves struggling with the clinical skills of the capacity
to sit with the silence and offer the gift of presence in end-of-life care. “Curricula that include discussions about
the psychology of illness, including defenses and their usefulness in helping people adapt to the many anxieties
raised by severe and life-threatening illnesses, would prepare students better for oncology placements” (Sormanti,
1994, p. 84). Bridging the academic component with the affective dimension of social work practice is integral to
the development of clinical acuity…
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Social work student internships are an indispensable ingredient in the formation of students’ professional identity.
Field placements present a wide breadth of challenges that afford students fertile ground to refine their clinical
skills of active listening, engagement, and relationship. The issues that are addressed by students specializing in
psychosocial oncology and end-of-life care are unique. Students in these field placements are not only confronted
by their clients’ dying and death, but forced simultaneously to reconcile themselves to their own mortality as well.
Why, you may ask, take on this unpleasant, frightening subject? Why stare into the sun? Why grapple with the most
terrible, the darkest and most unchangeable aspect of life? […] Death […] is always with
A National Action Plan for Cancer Survivorship:
Advancing Public Health Strategies
April 2004
This National Action Plan was developed to inform the general
public, policy makers, survivors, providers, and others about cancer
survivorship and public health. The National Action Plan was
written to be read by audiences with varying levels of knowledge and
awareness of cancer and/or survivorship issues. Each section has been
written as a stand-alone component allowing the reader to focus on
content specific to their interest. Therefore, some text is repeated to
accommodate those who read selected sections at a time.
This publication was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U57/CCU 623066-01
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the
responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services, or the
U.S. government.
ii
CONTENTS
Special Acknowledgments iv
Index of Acronyms v
Executive Summary ES -1
I. Background 1
A. The Cancer Burden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
B. Redefining Cancer Survivorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
C. Issues for Cancer Survivors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
D. Public Health and Cancer Survivorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
E. Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
II. Strategic Framework 13
A. Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
B. Overarching Goals and Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
C. Guidelines for the National Action Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
III. Cross-Cutting Needs and Strategies 19
IV. Surveillance and Applied Research 27
A. Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
B. Prioritized Needs and Suggested Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . 28
V. Communication, Education, and Training 35
A. Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
B. Prioritized Needs and Suggested Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . 36
VI. Programs, Policies, and Infrastructure 43
A. Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
B. Prioritized Needs and Suggested Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . 44
VII. Access to Quality Care and Services 51
A. Goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
B. Prioritized Needs and Suggested Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . 52
VIII. Implementatio
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Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting
Psychosocial Health Needs
Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer
Patients/Families in a Community Setting, Nancy E.
Adler and Ann E. K. Page, Editors
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