The Psychosocial Oncology (PSO) lab, housed within the Department of Psychology at York University and cross-affiliated with the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, 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.
Keele, Glendon and Markham Campus
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