SCIENTIFIC REPORT 2010 - 2011 - IOV

Mission
The Psycho-oncology Service offers to patients and families
a welcoming setting to minimize the negative impact of cancer
diagnosis and therapy. The main concern is to support the
psychological needs of patients and family members in each
Clinical Activity
The service is addressed to patients in charge of the Operative
Units of the Veneto Oncological Institute, from first entry into
IOV up to the closure of follow-up, as well as to patients’ families.
It is also open to patients from different Hospitals.
The Psycho-oncological team supports patients according to
the integrated model typical of the psycho-oncological discipline,
which aims at the care of patients and families in collaboration
with the other professional figures involved (medical oncologists,
palliative care doctors, physicians, nursing and technical staff,
social workers etc.) and in collaboration with volunteers who are
active within the Operative Units of the Oncological Institute.
Main psycho-oncological assistance available for patients:
psycho-oncological entry structured interviews;
counselling;
psycho-educational interventions;
individual and group therapies;
Major Collaborations
Inside the IOV
Anesthesia
Clinical Oncology 1
Clinical Oncology 2
Oncological Surgery
Radiotherapy
Breast Unit
Melanoma and soft tissue sarcomas
Unit for hereditary cancers
Nursing Service
National Collaborations
Orthopedic Clinic, Azienda
Ospedaliera di Padova
Unit of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation
Ospedale Sant’Antonio, ULSS 16,
Padova
Social Psychology - University of Padua
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phase of the illness, during both Day Hospital and ordinary
hospitalisation, and during outpatient treatment, with individual
as well as group treatments.
mindfulness-based programs for stress reduction;
relaxation groups.
Assistance to family members. Psycho-oncological initial
interviews, counselling and psychotherapy interventions.
In addition the Unit guarantees:
The presence of the psychologist in the ward team and the
psycho-oncological interventions to accompany patients and
families in advanced-terminal stages of illness.
National point of reference for the promotion of “Medical
Humanities” interventions, such as for example MBSR protocol
(Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction), the only experience in
progress at present for oncological patients in Italy.
Continuing education and supervision of AVO and ANGOLO
volunteers active in Clinical Oncology.
International Collaborations
Fabio Giommi, Radboud University,
Nijmegen, (The Netherlands)
Fawzy I. Fawzy, UCLA School of
Medicine, Los Angeles, (California)
Camilla Zimmermann, FRCPC Head
Palliative Care program, University
Health Network