The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After Review by Amy Colver When I read the title of this book, I started thinking about the word “miracle” and ways that it has been a part of my life. I realized that I have heard the word primarily from …
The Experience of Living Between Two Kingdoms; Suleika Jaouad’s Memoir of a Life Interrupted ISBN 9780399588600 Review by Amy Colver, LCSW If you are looking for a book that beautifully describes and reflects the experience of living in the “in between” places in life, you will not want to miss Suleika Jaouad’s memoir Between Two …
Your Journey beyond Breast Cancer: Tools for the Road Author: Louise B. Lubin, PhD Reviewer: KrisAnn Talarico, LCSW, OSW-C Your Journey beyond Breast Cancer: Tools for the Road is the culmination of Dr. Louise Lubin’s 40-year career as a clinical psychologist working with women and families affected by breast cancer. She very powerfully introduces these …
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In Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions – and Balance Uncertainty with Hope, Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz and Dr. Marsha Linehan outline how Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills can be used to cope with cancer regardless of the stage or phase of one’s disease. Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, a social worker and psychoanalyst who …
Nancy Keene manages to compress the whole possible experience of childhood leukemia into this 400+ page book. She talks about every aspect of a child’s illness and potential outcomes.
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness is a very powerful book written about a boy‘s journey through his mother’s terminal diagnosis of cancer. The story is a definite tearjerker from start to finish. One of the highlights is how terminal cancer transforms family members in caring for a child, but the majority of the book revolves …
In 2017, the American Cancer Society estimated there were more than 250,000 new cases of female breast cancer and almost 108,000 new cases of gynecologic cancers (i.e., cervical, uterine/endometrial, ovarian, vulvar and vaginal) in the United States. The 5-year survival rate across all stages of breast cancer was 90 percent. In comparison, overall 5-year survival …
When Breath Becomes Air is the poignant and true story of Dr. Paul Kalanithi who died of lung cancer in 2015 at the age of 36. A gifted neurosurgeon in his residency at Stanford University Hospital, in one moment he was saving the lives of others and the next struggling to save his own. In this …
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler taught: You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the …
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The environment we oncology social workers work in has become increasingly stressful, much of the infrastructure to nourish our professional selves has faded, and we are asked to be ever more innovative, doing more with less. We have played a major role in defining standards for measuring the levels of distress in our patients. What …