Alliance For Quality Psychosocial Cancer Care
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Objective: Ensuring that psychosocial care is integrated in the medical standard of care for people with cancer
The Alliance, formed in 2008, is a coalition of professional and advocacy organizations engaged in providing a range of services to cancer patients and survivors, including emotional and social support, and clinical care. The goal of the Alliance is to advance recommendations from the Institute of Medicine report, ”Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs.”
The Alliance has compiled hundreds of psychosocial resources available nationwide that address many types of support, types of cancer and other circumstances. It is our hope that these resources are more readily accessible to health care professionals, patients and caregivers, they are more likely to be utilized to address the unmet psychosocial needs that currently exist in cancer care. We also hope to expand this resource in the near future.
The Alliance and Cancer Support Community has compiled hundreds of psychosocial resources available nationwide.
Member Organizations
- Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
- American Cancer Society
- American Childhood Cancer Organization
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Psychosocial Oncology Society
- American Society for Radiation Oncology
- Association of Community Cancer Centers
- Association of Oncology Social Work
- Association of Pediatric Oncology Social Workers
- CancerCare
- Cancer Legal Resource Center
- Cancer Support Community
- Center for Advancing Health
- Center for Communication in Medicine
- City of Hope National Medical Center
- Dana Farber Cancer Institute
- Free To Breathe
- Kidney Cancer Association
- International Psycho-oncology Society
- Lung Cancer Alliance
- Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation
- National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
- National Association of Social Workers
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
- Society for Behavioral Medicine
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- University of California Irvine Chao Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center
- Yale Cancer Center
IOM Report
Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs
Authors:
Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients/Families in a Community Setting, Nancy E. Adler and Ann E. K. Page, Editors
Disclaimer
The resources provided on this website are based in part on a list generated by the Institute of Medicine and published in “Cancer Care for the Whole Patient.” The Alliance provides this information with the understanding that the organizations and/or services listed are provided solely for information and convenience.
Please contact us for more information about the Alliance.