List of works by David W. Kissane

"I Don't Want to Be an Ostrich": Managing Mothers' Uncertainty during BRCA1/2 Genetic Counseling

scientific article published on 30 July 2016

'It's Not the Easy Part'

article by Carrie E. Lethborg et al published 19 June 2003 in Social Work in Health Care

A Review of the Construct of Demoralization: History, Definitions, and Future Directions for Palliative Care

scientific article

A comparison of two psychological interventions for newly-diagnosed gynecological cancer patients

scientific article published on 22 November 2016

A review of cognitive therapy in acute medical settings. Part I: therapy model and assessment

scientific article

A review of cognitive therapy in acute medical settings. Part II: strategies and complexities

scientific article published on June 2013

A systematic review and meta-analysis of prescribing practices of antidepressants in cancer patients

scientific article

A systematic review of the demoralization syndrome in individuals with progressive disease and cancer: a decade of research

scientific article

Assessing facilitator competence in a comprehensive communication skills training programme.

scientific article published in April 2009

Averting adverse events in communication skills training: a case series.

scientific article published on 13 January 2010

Beyond the psychotherapy and survival debate: the challenge of social disparity, depression and treatment adherence in psychosocial cancer care

scientific article published on January 2009

COMSKIL Communication Training in Oncology-Adaptation to German Cancer Care Settings

scientific article

Cancer surgeons' distress and well-being, I: the tension between a culture of productivity and the need for self-care

scientific article

Cancer surgeons' distress and well-being, II: modifiable factors and the potential for organizational interventions.

scientific article

Cancer-related communication during sessions of family therapy at the end of life

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Cancer-related communication, relationship intimacy, and psychological distress among couples coping with localized prostate cancer

scientific article

Cancer-related concerns among women with a new diagnosis of gynecological cancer: an exploration of age group differences

scientific article

Case Presentation

Challenges in providing family-centered support to families in palliative care

scientific article

Clozapine-induced neuroleptic malignant syndrome: review and report of new cases.

scientific article published on October 1995

Cognitive effects of MBSR/MBCT: A systematic review of neuropsychological outcomes

scientific article

Cognitive-existential group psychotherapy for women with primary breast cancer: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published in September 2003

Communicating with patients from minority backgrounds: Individual challenges experienced by oncology health professionals

scientific article published on 24 December 2016

Communication between oncologists and lymphoma survivors during follow-up consultations: A qualitative analysis

scientific article published on 30 March 2017

Communication skills in psychiatry training

scientific article published on 23 June 2015

Communication skills training for oncology professionals

scientific article published on 12 March 2012

Constructions of dignity in end-of-life care

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Coping patterns and psychosocial distress in female partners of prostate cancer patients.

scientific article published in July 2009

Correspondence of physical activity and fruit/vegetable consumption among prostate cancer survivors and their spouses

scientific article published on 26 March 2015

Couples coping with cancer: exploration of theoretical frameworks from dyadic studies

scientific article published on 08 June 2015

Death anxiety interventions in patients with advanced cancer: A systematic review

scientific article published on July 2017

Demoralisation - A Useful Conceptualisation of Existential Distress in the Elderly

Demoralisation, depression and desire for death: problems with the Dutch guidelines for euthanasia of the mentally ill.

scientific article

Demoralisation: its impact on informed consent and medical care.

scientific article published on November 2001

Demoralization in Patients With Substance Use and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorders

scientific article published on 27 January 2017

Demoralization: its phenomenology and importance

scientific article

Developing Patient-Centered Communication Skills Training for Oncologists: Describing the Content and Efficacy of Training

article by Richard F. Brown et al published July 2010 in Communication Education

Developing relationships: A strategy for compassionate nursing care of the dying in Japan

scientific article published on 4 November 2013

Diagnostic Efficiency of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in Women with Early Stage Breast Cancer

article by Anthony W Love et al published April 2002 in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Discussing prognosis in an oncology setting: initial evaluation of a communication skills training module

scientific article

Distress in palliative care patients: developing patient-centred approaches to clinical management

scientific article published on 24 March 2008

Do rates of mental disorders and existential distress among advanced stage cancer patients increase as death approaches?

scientific article

Dr Jimmie C. Holland, MD (1928-2017): A remarkable woman in medicine and cancer care.

scientific article

Effect of cognitive-existential group therapy on survival in early-stage breast cancer

scientific article published on 27 September 2004

Effects of supportive-expressive group therapy on survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer: A randomized prospective trial

Emotion episodes during psychotherapy sessions among women newly diagnosed with gynecological cancers

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Emotional processing during psychotherapy among women newly diagnosed with a gynecological cancer

scientific article published on 14 December 2016

End-of-life communication in the intensive care unit

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

Exploratory examination of the utility of demoralization as a diagnostic specifier for adjustment disorder and major depression

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Family Focused Grief Therapy: A Randomized, Controlled Trial in Palliative Care and Bereavement

article published in 2006

Family care before and after bereavement

scientific article published in January 2007

Family coping and bereavement outcome.

scientific article published in May 1997

Family focused grief therapy: a randomized, controlled trial in palliative care and bereavement

scientific article published in July 2006

Family focused grief therapy: a versatile intervention in palliative care and bereavement

Family grief.

scientific article published in June 1994

Family-based grief counselling.

scientific article published in April 1994

Fansidar for malaria prophylaxis.

scientific article

Fear of cancer recurrence in lymphoma survivors: A descriptive study

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Glaring need for new studies of antidepressants in cancer care

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

Grief, depression, and anxiety in bereaved caregivers of people with motor neurone disease: a population-based national study

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Group-based trajectory modeling of fear of disease recurrence among women recently diagnosed with gynecological cancers

scientific article published on 16 July 2016

High demoralization in a minority of oophorectomized BRCA1/2 mutation carriers influences quality of life.

scientific article published on 10 March 2017

Holding back sharing concerns, dispositional emotional expressivity, perceived unsupportive responses and distress among women newly diagnosed with gynecological cancers

scientific article published on 09 October 2013

Holding back, intimacy, and psychological and relationship outcomes among couples coping with prostate cancer

scientific article published on 20 July 2015

How do-not-resuscitate orders are utilized in cancer patients: timing relative to death and communication-training implications

scientific article

Identifying and Responding to Depression in Adult Cancer Patients

Identifying and addressing the support needs of family caregivers of people with motor neurone disease using the Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool

scientific article published on 13 May 2016

Individualised mindfulness-based stress reduction for head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy of curative intent: a descriptive pilot study.

scientific article published on 7 March 2016

Interpersonal processes and intimacy among men with localized prostate cancer and their partners

Intimacy-enhancing psychological intervention for men diagnosed with prostate cancer and their partners: a pilot study

scientific article

Issues in pediatric palliative care: understanding families.

scientific article

Latent class analysis differentiation of adjustment disorder and demoralization, more severe depressive and anxiety disorders, and somatic symptoms in patients with cancer.

scientific article

Latino values in the context of palliative care: illustrative cases from the Family Focused Grief Therapy trial.

scientific article

Letting go of the hope that psychotherapy prolongs cancer survival

scientific article

Loss of masculine identity, marital affection, and sexual bother in men with localized prostate cancer

scientific article published on 18 September 2012

Losses Experienced by Japanese Nurses and the Way They Grieve

Managing anger in palliative care.

scientific article published in July 1994

Marriage is as protective as chemotherapy in cancer care

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Meaning in adjustment to cancer: A model of care

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Mental Health Services for Parents Who Lost a Child to Cancer: If We Build Them, Will They Come?

scientific article published on June 2015

Mixed anxiety/depression symptoms in a large cancer cohort: prevalence by cancer type

scientific article published in July 2009

Nurses' resilience and nurturance of the self

scientific article published on October 2015

Obfuscating clinical and political views on demoralization

scientific article published in May 2005

Palliative care--new approaches to the problem of suffering.

scientific article

Perceived Family Functioning Predicts Baseline Psychosocial Characteristics in U.S. Participants of a Family Focused Grief Therapy Trial

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

Perspectives of oncology nurses and oncologists regarding barriers to working with patients from a minority background: Systemic issues and working with interpreters.

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Pilot Evaluation of a Communication Skills Training Program for Psychiatry Residents Using Standardized Patient Assessment

scientific article published on 2 May 2016

Preliminary evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Shame and Stigma Scale in head and neck cancer.

scientific article published on 24 February 2012

Prolonged grief disorder: Psychometric validation of criteria proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11

scientific article

Protocol for a cluster randomised trial of a communication skills intervention for physicians to facilitate survivorship transition in patients with lymphoma

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

Psychiatric disorder in women with early stage and advanced breast cancer: a comparative analysis

scientific article published in May 2004

Psychological adjustment of men with prostate cancer: a review of the literature

scientific article

Psychological morbidity and quality of life in Australian women with early-stage breast cancer: a cross-sectional survey.

scientific article published in August 1998

Psychological morbidity and quality of life in women with advanced breast cancer: a cross-sectional survey.

scientific article published in March 2006

Psychosocial Health Outcomes for Family Caregivers Following the First Year of Bereavement

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Psychosocial adjustment in newly diagnosed prostate cancer.

scientific article published in May 2008

Psychosocial adjustment of female partners of men with prostate cancer: a review of the literature

scientific article

Psychosocial interventions for cancer patients

scientific article published on July 2008

Psychosocial morbidity associated with patterns of family functioning in palliative care: baseline data from the Family Focused Grief Therapy controlled trial

scientific article

Psychospiritual and existential distress. The challenge for palliative care.

scientific article

Quality of life trajectories after diagnosis of gynecologic cancer: a theoretically based approach

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Randomized Controlled Trial of Family Therapy in Advanced Cancer Continued Into Bereavement

scientific article

Randomized trial of coordinated psychosocial interventions based on patient self-assessments versus standard care to improve the psychosocial functioning of patients with cancer.

scientific article

Refinement and revalidation of the demoralization scale: The DS-II-external validity

scientific article

Reply to K. Kusaka et al.

scientific article

Reply to M.g. Bare et al.

scientific article published on 2 June 2014

Resilience, Positive Coping, and Quality of Life Among Women Newly Diagnosed With Gynecological Cancers

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Responding to patient anger: development and evaluation of an oncology communication skills training module

scientific article published on December 2011

Schema modes and dissociation in borderline personality disorder/traits in adolescents or young adults

scientific article published on 14 December 2017

Screening for depression in women with metastatic breast cancer: a comparison of the Beck Depression Inventory Short Form and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.

scientific article published in July 2004

Seven deaths in Darwin: case studies under the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act, Northern Territory, Australia.

scientific article published in October 1998

Social-cognitive processes associated with fear of recurrence among women newly diagnosed with gynecological cancers

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Sources of uncertainty about daughters' breast cancer risk that emerge during genetic counseling consultations.

scientific article published on 11 August 2011

Supportive-expressive group therapy for women with metastatic breast cancer: survival and psychosocial outcome from a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published in April 2007

Supportive-expressive group therapy: the transformation of existential ambivalence into creative living while enhancing adherence to anti-cancer therapies

scientific article published in November 2004

Survivorship care planning after participation in communication skills training intervention for a consultation about lymphoma survivorship

scientific article

Talking about familial breast cancer risk: topics and strategies to enhance mother-daughter interactions.

scientific article

Techniques for framing questions in conducting family meetings in palliative care

The Bereavement Phenomenology Questionnaire: A Single Factor Only ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 1997

The Factors Associated With Anxiety Symptom Severity in Older Adults Living in Nursing Homes and Other Residential Aged Care Facilities.

scientific article published in April 2018

The Melbourne Family Grief Study, I: Perceptions of family functioning in bereavement.

scientific article published in May 1996

The Melbourne Family Grief Study, II: Psychosocial morbidity and grief in bereaved families.

scientific article published in May 1996

The Relationship Between Poor Quality of Life and Desire to Hasten Death: A Multiple Mediation Model Examining the Contributions of Depression, Demoralization, Loss of Control, and Low Self-worth

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

The advanced cancer patient experience of undertaking meaning and purpose (MaP) therapy

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

The assessment and management of family distress during palliative care

scientific article published on March 2009

The assessment of anxiety in aged care residents: a systematic review of the psychometric properties of commonly used measures

scientific article published on 10 December 2017

The association of demoralization with mental disorders and suicidal ideation in patients with cancer

scientific article published on 4 May 2017

The correlates of anxiety among older adults in nursing homes and other residential aged care facilities: a systematic review

scientific article

The development of novel interventions to assist the leaders of cancer support groups

scientific article published on 11 January 2011

The factor structure and use of the Demoralization Scale (DS-IT) in Italian cancer patients

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

The impact of Asian American value systems on palliative care: illustrative cases from the family-focused grief therapy trial

scientific article

The implementation and assessment of a comprehensive communication skills training curriculum for oncologists

scientific article

The management of family conflict in palliative care

scientific article published on February 2008

The prevalence of anxiety among older adults in nursing homes and other residential aged care facilities: a systematic review

scientific article

The prevalence, reporting, and treatment of anxiety among older adults in nursing homes and other residential aged care facilities

scientific article

The psychological aftermath of prostate cancer treatment choices: a comparison of depression, anxiety and quality of life outcomes over the 12 months following diagnosis.

scientific article published in April 2009

The psychometric properties, sensitivity and specificity of the geriatric anxiety inventory, hospital anxiety and depression scale, and rating anxiety in dementia scale in aged care residents.

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

The psychosocial impact of prostate cancer on patients and their partners.

scientific article published in October 2006

The relief of existential suffering

scientific article published on October 2012

The role of meaning in advanced cancer-integrating the constructs of assumptive world, sense of coherence and meaning-based coping

scientific article published in January 2006

Therapy processes, progress, and outcomes for 2 therapies for gynecological cancer patients

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

To what extent does meaning mediate adaptation to cancer? The relationship between physical suffering, meaning in life, and connection to others in adjustment to cancer.

scientific article

Toward a model of continuous care: A necessity for caregiving partners

scientific article published on 11 February 2015

Translation and cultural adaptation of the Shame and Stigma Scale (SSS) into Portuguese (Brazil) to evaluate patients with head and neck cancer.

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Typology of perceived family functioning in an American sample of patients with advanced cancer

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Under-resourced and under-developed family-centred care within palliative medicine.

scientific article published in March 2017

Unrecognised and untreated depression in cancer care

scientific article published on 28 August 2014

What type and dose of antidepressants are cancer and non-cancer inpatients being prescribed: a retrospective case-control study at an Australian tertiary hospital

scientific article

What women with breast cancer discuss with clinicians about risk for their adolescent daughters

scientific article

What works for therapists conducting family meetings: treatment integrity in family-focused grief therapy during palliative care and bereavement

scientific article published on June 2004

Who cares for the bereaved? A national survey of family caregivers of people with motor neurone disease

scientific article published on 10 September 2020

Why academic psychiatry is endangered

scientific article published in January 2015

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