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Psychosocial Assessment and Treatment for Patients with Cancer Pain

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This chapter advocates for a person-centered care approach for cancer patients with pain and psychological distress. In this care approach, information from the psychosocial assessment is used to coordinate care with members of the pain team, and in doing so, the sensory-physical, affective, behavioral, and cognitive aspects of cancer pain are addressed. Depending on individual patient needs, goals, and resources, interventions should be tailored accordingly and include components of well-researched psychological interventions. Psychological interventions fit into two broad categories: education and skills training. Together with advances in the field of pain medicine, psychosocial interventions for patients with cancer pain offer a comprehensive approach that takes into account the multifactorial nature of pain and cancer disease process.

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  1. Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Laura M. van Veldhoven

  2. Department of Pain Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Diane M. Novy

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Amitabh Gulati

  2. Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Vinay Puttanniah

  3. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Brian M. Bruel

  4. Midwest Neuroscience Institute, Center for the Relief of Pain, Kansas City, MO, USA

    William S. Rosenberg

  5. Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

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van Veldhoven, L.M., Novy, D.M. (2019). Psychosocial Assessment and Treatment for Patients with Cancer Pain. In: Gulati, A., Puttanniah, V., Bruel, B., Rosenberg, W., Hung, J. (eds) Essentials of Interventional Cancer Pain Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99684-4_49

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