About this journal

Here is your single source of integrated information on providing the best psychosocial care possible from the knowledge available from many disciplines emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach to care and research in oncology practice and research. The Journal of Psychosocial Oncology is an essential source for up-to-date clinical and research material geared toward health professionals who provide psychosocial services to cancer patients, their families, and their caregivers. The journal—the first interdisciplinary resource of its kind—is in its third decade of examining exploratory and hypothesis testing and presenting program evaluation research on critical areas, including: the stigma of cancer; employment and personal problems facing cancer patients; health equity and LGBTQI+ care and research; financial toxicity; innovative programming to enhance patient education and psychosocial support; family involvement in patient care; children with cancer; the psychosocial and spiritual needs of cancer patients; hospital and hospice staff; and volunteers. The journal seeks manuscripts that demonstrate interprofessional collaborations between psychosocial clinicians and researchers regarding the care of individuals undergoing treatment for cancer. 

The journal’s editorial board represents many different fields in psychosocial oncology, including oncology social work practice and research, education, epidemiology, health advocacy, integrative medicine, medical oncology, neurology, nursing, nutrition, spirituality, psychiatry, psychology, public health, oncology social work and sociology.

Regular features of the Journal of Psychosocial Oncology  include: discussions of current ethical, philosophical, and existential issues; columns on research issues, strategies, and methodologies; clinical case studies; innovative programmatic appraoches to psychosocial care; interprofessional collaboration; manuscripts that demonstrate collaborations between clinicians and researchers; social justice and health equity; sexual health and spiritual care. We also seek book reviews that highlight important, new book-length works. 

The journal seeks manuscripts that focus on the following topics within a psychosocial oncology practice, such as: clinical practice and program development, social justice, clinical issues for LGBTQAI+, systemic racism in oncology care, spiritual practices in psychosocial oncology and innovative approaches to clinical care through online and multimedia systems. These manuscripts can include clinical case studies as examples of best practices, program development and interprofessional collaborations. Manuscripts can focus on oncology staff support to develop resilience as well as approaches to leadership development and mentoring in oncology social work with an emphasis on interprofessional collaboration.

Peer Review Policy: All articles have undergone anonymous double anonymized review by at least two referees.

Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.

EDITOR IN CHIEF
Penelope Damaskos, PhD, MSW - USA

ASSOCIATE EDITOR IN CHIEF
Tara Schapmire, PhD, LCSW, OSW-C, FAOSW - University of Louisville, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Yvette Colón, PhD, BCD, LMSW - Eastern Michigan University, USA
Meredith Doherty, PhD, LCSW - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Carolyn Messner, DSW, ACSW, OSW-C - CancerCare, Hunter College, USA
Julianne Oktay, PhD, MSW - University of Maryland, USA
Anao Zhang, PhD, MSW - University of Michigan, USA

EDITORIAL BOARD
Chiara Acquati, PhD, LMSW - University of Houston, USA
Karlynn Brintzenhofeszoc, PhD, MSW, FAOSW - University of Louisville, USA
Tamara Cadet, PhD, MPH, MSW - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nancy Cincotta, MSW, MPhil - Columbia University; Zelda Foster Studies Program, NYU, USA
Maria Chi, DSW, MSSW - New York University Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, USA
Jen Currin-McCulloch, PhD, MSW- Colorado State University, USA
Barbara Early, PhD, MSW - The Catholic University of America (retired), USA
Iris Cohen Fineberg, PhD, MSW., OSW-C - Stony Brook University, USA
Amanda Ginter, PhD, MS - Towson University, USW
Barbara Gottlieb, MD - Harvard Medical School and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA
Ting Guan, PhD, MSW - Syracuse University, NY, USA
Nina Jackson Levin, MSW- University of Michigan, USA
Kellie Martens, PhD - Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA
Debra Mattison, MSW- University of Michigan, USA
Daniel McFarland, DO- University of Rochester, USA
Denalee O'Malley, PhD- Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
Shirley Otis-Green, MSW, MA- Collaborative Caring, USA
Farya Phillips, PhD - University of Texas, USA
Elizabeth Rohan, PhD, MSW - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Chris Segrin, PhD- University of Arizona, USA
Christina Signorelli, PhD- University of North South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Revathy Sudhakar, MPhil, MSc- Cancer Institute (WIA), India
Tess Thompson, PhD, MPH- Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
Bridget Thom, PhD, MSW- University of North Carolina School of Social Work, Chapel Hill Cancer Prevention and Control, USA
Sophia Tsemelis-Piccolino , DSW, LCSW, OSW-C- New York, NY, USA
Lara Traeger, PhD - Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA
Casey Walsh, PhD, MSW - University of Washington, USA
Kaipeng Wang, PhD- University of Denver, USA
Ariel Washington, PhD, MSW- Wayne State University, USA
Karla Washington, PhD, MSW - Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Hattie Wright, PhD AdvAPD, SFHEA - School of Health, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia 
James Zabora ScD, MSW - Johns Hopkins Medical Center, USA
Xingyu Zhang, PhD- University of Michigan, USA

Members of the following groups can receive an individual print and online subscription to Journal of Psychosocial Oncology at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details.

• American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS)
• International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS)