The Psychosocial Oncology (PSO) Lab specializes in the study of the psychosocial and existential impacts of cancer across the lifecycle. We employ qualitative and mixed-methods approaches to acquire in-depth understanding of the lived experience of cancer from individual and interpersonal perspectives. These findings in turn inform the development and testing of interventions to support coping and adjustment processes in relation to cancer (i.e., individual, couple, group and/or online).
Our work addresses all types of cancer with an emphasis on: patient-caregiver relationships; body image and sexuality; couple resiliency and dyadic adjustment processes; young women’s issues; and illness-related loss and grief. Our research undertakings benefit from a long history of interprofessional collaboration with nurses, physicians and other health care practitioners based at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
Research in the PSO lab is undertaken with an appreciation for sociocultural, contextual, and structural factors contributing to coping and adjustment to cancer.
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