The different psychosocial interventions all have some overlapping paradigms; for example, psychoeducation is part of CBT.47 It may also reflect a similar approach to delivery, in that material is presented in a sequential and structured manner, with an emphasis on patients gaining personalised skills in the management of their illness.34 Finally, the different psychological approaches each have their own emphasis, but share the strategies shown in Box 2 — that is, key content related to the therapeutic alliance, education, enhancement of adherence, early identification of prodromes, awareness of illness triggers, the importance of supportive relationships, and development of strategies such as relapse prevention plans and constructive coping skills.
However, recent studies indicate that
different psychosocial interventions produce different results in cancer patients3 and that emotional reactions to cancer differ depending on the site of the tumour.4 We recommend that health professionals attend to these factors when making use of the clinically important findings reported by Barsevick et al..
Not exact matches
For example, a tobacco - focused review which included any
intervention type, classified
interventions with a component of resilience content into
different subgroups such as social competence or social influence
interventions, finding evidence for both broad
intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal
interventions were included with such
interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta - analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some
psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effective.
Barsevick et al include in their review a heterogeneous mix of
psychosocial interventions, and they pool together research studies of people with
different types of cancers.