Psychosocial Aspects of Pediatric Oncology

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 Legion 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. Myriam Weyl Ben Arush is the editor of Psychosocial Aspects of Pediatric Oncology, published by Wiley.

List of Contributors. Foreword (Jimmie Holland, MD, Head of Psychiatric Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering NY, USA). PART ONE: MEDICAL ASPRCTS. 1.Cancer in Children - An Introduction (Shai Izraeli and Gideon Rechavi). 2. Neuropsychological Aspects of Medical Treatments in Children with Cancer (Raymond Mulhern, et al.). 3. Palliative Care for Children with Advanced Cancer (Joanne Wolfe, et al.). 4. Pain in Children with Cancer (Richard D. W. Hain). 5. Care of a Child Dying of Cancer (Sergey Postovsky and Myriam Weyl Ben Arush). PART TWO: PSYCHOSOCIAL ASPECTS. 6. The Child's Subjective Experience of Cancer and the Relationship with Parents and Caregivers (Daniel Oppenheim). 7. Quality of Life in Children with Cancer: Definition, Assessment and Results (Shulamith Kreitler and M ichal M. Kreitler). 8. Psychiatric Impact of Childhood Cancer (Margaret L. Stuber and Debra Seacord). 9. The Family of the Child with Cancer (Dafna Meitar). 10. Psychosocial Effects of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Children (Ronit Elhasid, et al.). 11. The Survivors of Childhood Cancer (Amita Mahajan and Meriel E. M. Jenney). PART THREE: PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS. 12. Speaking to Children about Serious Matters (Jane E. Skeen and M. Louise Webster). 13. Psychosocial Interventions: the Cognitive-Behavioral Approach (Bob F. Last and Martha A. Grootenhuis). 14. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Children with Cancer (Cynthia D. Myers, et al.). 15. Fantasy, Art Therapies, Humor and Pets as Psychosocial Means of Intervention (Shulamith Kreitler, et al.). 16. Psychological Intervention with the Dying Child (Shulamith Kreitler & Elena Krivoi). 17. Education of the Sick Child: Learning and Reintegration into the School (Ciporah S. Tadmor and Myriam Weyl Ben Arush). Index.