This book is a comprehensive text on the all-important psychosocial aspects of cancer in children. Edited by an experienced psycho-oncologist and an equally experienced pediatric oncologist, the book brings together an international group of contributors composed of pediatric oncologists and psychologists/psycho-oncologists. This unique balance of contributors gives the book a focus on the real-life practical aspects of children undergoing treatment for cancer. The book helps health care professionals, who look after children and adolescents with cancer, in dealing with the difficult and complex problems that face the child, his siblings and his parents. It deals with critical issues such as the neuropsychological impact of treatment, (including bone marrow transplantation), pain, quality of life in survivors, palliative care, talking to children and their families about death, and providing support to the dying.

An important part of the book provides tools for evaluation and methods of psychological intervention. It is thus a very practical work for psycho-oncologists, pediatric oncologists, pediatricians, psychologists, nurses, social workers and art therapists dealing with the problems that children with cancer have to confront.

• A comprehensive book on the clinical approach to psychosocial problems of children with cancer
• Includes evaluation tools and psychological intervention techniques
• Contributions from both pediatric oncologists and psycho-oncologists highlight the team approach to the treatment of childhood cancers

Shulamith Kreitler studied psychology, philosophy and psychopathology in Israel, Switzerland and the USA. She studied for her PhD at the University of Bern, Switzerland and is a certified clinical and health psychologist. She has been Professor of Psychology at the Universities of Harvard, Princeton and Yale in the USA, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Vienna, Austria. Since 1986 she has been Professor of Psychology at Tel-Aviv University and currently also teaches at the University of Haifa. She is Head of the Psychooncology Research Center at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. She has published about 200 papers and 10 books on motivation, cognition, psychopathology and health psychology, and is known especially for her work in health psychology, particularly psychooncology, the theory of meaning, and the cognitive orientation theory for the prediction and change of behavior. Dr Myriam Ben-Arush is Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the Technion Faculty of Medicine, Director of the Pediatric Hematology Oncology Department, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Deputy Director of the Meyer Children's Hospital, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. She is past Chair of the Israel Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, and received a bursary from the Israel Society of Oncology for the creation of the Pediatric Oncology Unit in Northern Israel. The World Medical Association recognised her as 'Caring Physician of the World', and she is 'Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur'. Dr Ben-Aurush is Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, a member of the National Council of Oncology and Pediatric Health and of the Israel Cancer Association. She sits on the Research Committee of the Israeli Ministry of Health and the advisory committee for treatment outside Israel. She is also a Principal investigator in Israel of the European Soft Tissue Sarcoma Protocol.

Myriam Weyl Ben Arush is the editor of Psychosocial Aspects of Pediatric Oncology, published by Wiley.