Family Communication during Cancer (Videos – Griffith University)

Friday 15 March 2024

In this video Dr Elisabeth Coyne and Ms Julia Robertson (person with a brain cancer) talk about the importance of family communication during times of stress to maintain family functioning. Ms Robertson talks about her experience of talking with family members during her cancer diagnosis and Dr Coyne highlights some of her research findings to facilitate family communication. A second video shows a family who explains how they communicated about cancer in the family.

Find the video link here.

Family experience video.

There are more videos on other topics produced by the same team accessible through their YouTube channel ‘Looking Forward After Cancer’.

This is the description from their YouTube site: This YouTube channel provides a range of videos developed with persons with cancer and health professionals to provide information tailored to your supportive care needs. The team of researchers who have developed this channel are Dr Coyne: Griffith University, Prof Dieperink: University of Southern Denmark, Dr Winter: Deakin University, Dr Carlini: Griffith University Prof Halkett Cutin University and Ms Robertson; Griffith University.

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