Distress Screening Resources

American Psychosocial Oncology Society
APOS provides information and links to multiple professional resources for distress screening and management, educational program, and annual conference with information and training.

Alliance for Quality Psychosocial Cancer Care Alliance resource guide for cancer programs compiling information about resources of its member organizations for meeting distress screening, navigation, and survivorship standards.

American Cancer Society
ACS produced a collaborative action plan guide summarizing its resources for distress screening, navigation, and survivorship.

Association of Oncology Social Work
AOSW provides standards of practice and scope of practice guidance for Oncology Social Work professionals.

Cancer Support Community
CSC offers a broad range of services, tools and resources for patients and professionals, including a fact sheet on the value proposition for psychosocial care, as well as Cancer Support Source, a comprehensive distress screening program developed for community-based hospitals, physician practices, and advocacy organizations to integrate screening, referral, and follow up care.

Commission on Cancer
The CoC provides the 2016 Cancer Program Standards: Ensuring Patient-Centered Care manual as well as a resources repository for member organizations to share info and practice information.

National Cancer Institute
NCI provides comprehensive, peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about normal adjustment issues, and the pathophysiology and treatment of psychosocial distress, including screening and assessment information summarizing model screening programs, distress thermometer, self-report screening, and psychosocial assessment.

City of Hope
City of Hope will offer an NCI-funded training workshop for licensed healthcare professionals on "Applying Cognitive Behavioral and Related Interventions in Cancer Supportive Care" for health professionals. Applications open June 1 for the October 2018 workshop (access City of Hope workshop flyer for details).

National Comprehensive Cancer Network
NCCN offers a section on Psychosocial Distress which includes the Distress Thermometer.

Courageous Parents Network
CPN offers an online video series interviewing parents of seriously ill children about their support needs that is helpful for professionals and families to understand importance of integrating pediatric palliative and psychosocial care.

American Childhood Cancer Organization
ACCO partnered with ACS to produce a guidebook for parents and professionals on enhancing quality of life (QOL) in children with cancer featuring information about integrating palliative and psychosocial care services.

Association of Community Cancer Centers
ACCC, with its project partner APOS, identified three ACCC member cancer programs that provide real-world examples of effective integration of distress screening into practice, as well as additional resources.

The Advisory Board
Distress screening toolkit and educational materials [must be an Advisory Board member to access].