This is the first Nursing book on cancer care designed around a conceptual model of whole person care.  Key concepts are stress, healing, resilience and health. As a clinical model, nursing goals, desired outcomes, key concepts and proposed psychosocial interventions with patients and family caregivers,  advance the practice of clinical nursing toward a more comprehensive understanding  of the whole person with cancer and their loved ones. As a model for teaching nursing students about chronic illness, it provides a scientific basis for students to learn how to assess and care for the...