Based on your experience with the survivor panel and the Soc…

Based on your experience with the survivor panel and the Social Work lecture, discuss the importance of psychosocial support for individuals with head and neck cancer.  What unique issues are patients and family members presented with?  How might individual differences play a role in determining adjustment to the “new normal”?  What resources–individual, family, community–can help? Most importantly, how will what you have learned inform your practice as a new clinician?