The Emotional Facts of Life with Cancer
In 2003,the publication, The Emotional Facts of Life with Cancer, a guide to counselling and support for patients, families and friends was printed. With the generous support of TransCanada, CAPO has printed and is distributing 150,000 copies of this guide across Canada, This practical guide has received countless accolades from patients, family members and the health care community at large.
The Emotional Facts of Life with Cancer: A Guide to Counselling and Support for Patients, Families and Friend
(download PDF English I français)
Clinical Practice Guidelines
The evidence-based clinical practice guideline (CPG) movement within oncology, as in other health fields, represents a trend in identifying best practices and standardizing treatments. Within psychosocial oncology, evidence-based CPGs, along with Standards of Care, can help increase awareness of the important and often unmet psychosocial needs of cancer patients. These guides to practice can be used by practitioners and organizations to identify and address the challenges and barriers in delivering high quality, accessible psychosocial care. CAPO, in collaboration with the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) and other key partners, is leading initiatives to develop and disseminate national psychosocial oncology clinical practice guidelines.
Pan Canadian Guideline: Assessment of Psychosocial Health Needs of the Adult Cancer Patient
Other useful standards, guidelines and tools:
Standards of Psychosocial Health Services for Persons with Cancer
and their Families
http://capo.ca/eng/CAPOstandards.pdf
Distress – the 6th Vital Sign
http://capo.ca/eng/distressvitalsign.asp
Accreditation Canada
http://www.accreditation.ca/en/default.aspx
Clinical practice guidelines for the psychosocial care of adults with cancer (National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia)
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/publications/synopses/cp90.pdf
Person-Centred Toolkit (Canadian Partnership Against Cancer, Canada)
http://www.partnershipagainstcancer.ca/cjag_toolkit
I am not Cancer Poster Campaign
This poster campaign was developed in 2003 to help humanize the cancer experience. Recognizing that the cancer experience can be all encompassing, it reminded all of us that there is a human side a cancer and help is available to address the emotional side of cancer.
This campaign was made possible by a generous donation from TransCanada
I am not Cancer Poster Campaign
(download PDF English I français)
The National Standards for Psychosocial Oncology
The National Standards for Psychosocial Oncology have been developed to assist cancer facilities, program leaders and practitioners in the delivery of psychosocial care in Canada by providing a basic framework for the practice of psychosocial oncology. This initiative came about from a recognition that psychosocial oncology standards are required to ensure that the basic principles and quality of care in the domain of psychosocial oncology are consistently applied and available to people living with cancer across Canada.
Psychosocial oncology services exist in a variety of settings, including hospitals, comprehensive cancer centres, satellite clinics and multipurpose public health clinics in urban and rural communities throughout Canada. The psychosocial oncology standards apply to this range of oncology health care services for patients, their families and care-givers. The Psychosocial Oncology standards are designed to guide administrators and professionals in the development of psychosocial oncology services.
These Standards were reviewed and updated in 2010.
National
Psychosocial Oncology Standards
The Interprofessional Psychosocial Oncology Distance Education (IPODE) Project à Distance en Oncologie Psychosociale
Through a generous donation from Health Canada, in 2007 & 2008 CAPO led the development of the first distance education interprofessional psychosocial oncology course in Canada for health care professionals. CAPO collaborated with 8 universities and 6 cancer agencies across 8 provinces to create this program. The course entitled “Interprofessional Psychosocial Oncology: Introduction to Theory and Practice is being offered to students across Canada.
Experts in psychosocial oncology clinical practice, research and education from across the country have contributed to the development of a rich array of learning resources for the students, including narratives, dramas, and learning modules.
http://www.ipode.ca
Online Community of Practice
In 2008 The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer generously provided funding to develop a new website which will provide an exchange between health care professionals, community based organizations and the public on psychosocial oncology. This project will create a community of practice (CoP) website to connect providers of supportive psychosocial cancer care with important stakeholders. This website, scheduled to be launched in 2009 will create an online “meeting space” linking stakeholders so that they are more easily able to create, access, share and use evidence-based cancer health-related information
The website will form part of a Canada wide, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer web portal.
