Coping-Together is a self-management resource for patients with cancer and their caregivers. It includes a series of six booklets that aim to provide practical coping strategies for the day-to-day management of common challenges associated with cancer. Download a PDF of each booklet by clicking the links below.
A guide to using the other booklet that addresses: what the Coping-Together program is, how to use the Coping-Together booklets, how to choose a booklet to read, and making a SMARTTER coping plan.
Offers information about: knowing what to expect after a cancer diagnosis or treatment, asking questions to the health care team, knowing who to ask in the health care team, having our main concerns addressed during appointments, understanding what the health care professionals are telling us, and telling the health care professionals what is going on.
Offers information about: feeling stress, anger, or tension, feeling worried or uncertain, feeling sad, lonely, or depressed, feeling unmotivated or low energy, and feeling overwhelmed.
Offers information about: fatigue (tiredness), Pain, Loss of appetite, diarrhea, incontinence (lack of bladder or bowel control), erectile dysfunction, the impact on everyday life, and the impact on your thoughts, feelings, and mood.
Offers information about: making decisions about treatment, feeling that you don’t have enough options, understanding the diagnosis and treatment to make a decision, telling the health care team what decisions you want, feeling pressured to make decisions, and managing stress due to treatment-related delays.
Offers information about: helping each other feel better, setting the scene for good communication between each other, talking about the “hard stuff,” staying connected to each other, solving problems together, dealing with stress from changes in your roles and responsibilities, and dealing with conflict.
Offers information about: knowing where to go for more support, getting more information about cancer and treatment, asking for help from the right health care professionals, needing more help at home, getting emotional support, and finding legal and/or financial help.