Public Health Studies Professor Cynthia Fair’s chapter appears in the 4th Edition of Psycho-Oncology.
Cynthia Fair, Watts-Thompson Professor and department chair of Public Health Studies, has published a chapter titled, “Evidence-based psychosocial interventions in pediatric psycho-oncology” in Psycho-Oncology (4th Edition).
The chapter was co-authored by Lori Wiener (National Institutes of Health), Marie Barnett (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), Stacy Flowers (Wright State University), and Amanda Thompson (Inova Schar Cancer Institute). It examines the wide array of evidence-based interventions that can help pediatric cancer patients and their families cope with the emotional stresses of a cancer diagnosis. The authors shared interventions by phase of treatment from initial diagnosis to bereavement care, emphasizing the importance of utilizing those interventions with sufficient evidence to support the therapeutic effect of a particular modality.