Allison J Applebaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 1562285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison J Applebaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison J |
| FAMILY NAME | Applebaum |
| SIGNATURE | APPLEBAUM A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2140-5635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Understanding the Role
Family caregivers play a crucial role in supporting individuals with chronic and life-limiting illnesses, disabilities, age-related conditions, and mental health challenges. Yet taking on this role is often made without deliberation or consent. With over 63 million family caregivers in the United States, there is little discussion of how to engage current and future caregivers in a structured, informed decision-making process about the role and r…
Turning points in prognostic uncertainty across the disease trajectory for emerging and young adult caregivers of a parent with advanced cancer
Emerging and young adult caregivers (EYACs, aged 18-35) of a parent with cancer are an understudied, under-resourced, and growing caregiving population. Little is known about their experiences coping with and managing distressing uncertainty about their parent’s prognosis, which is even more distressing when their parent is living with advanced cancer. It is critical to better understand what impacts EYACs’ prognosis uncertainty as their parent’s…
The potential of single session intervention approaches to enhance the mental health and resilience of older adults, care partners, and healthcare systems
Single-session interventions (SSIs) are mental health (MH) interventions that intentionally involve a single encounter. In this commentary, we outline issues with existing models of MH care for older adults & their care partners, how SSIs can address barriers, and considerations for research. We encourage the development of SSIs to increase accessibility, scalability, participation, and cost-effectiveness of mental health interventions
Parental cancer caregiving in emerging and young adulthood
While emerging and young adults are increasingly becoming caregivers to a parent diagnosed with cancer, little is known about how sibling relationships are impacted across the caregiving trajectory. To explore this, bereaved emerging and young adult caregivers (EYACs; aged 18-35) whose parent died of cancer within 1 year of diagnosis completed semi-structured interviews. Transcripts were thematically analyzed and EYACs described impacts on siblin…
Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers
Taking care of a family member or friend with cancer—or any other chronic or life-limiting illness—is profoundly challenging. Caregiving responsibilities can negatively impact every aspect of caregivers’ lives, including their emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial well-being. At the same time, caregiving may be a source of great meaning; a growing body of literature indicates that connecting to a sense of meaning and purpose in caregiving…
A little bit different now”
Serving as a family caregiver for, and ultimately losing, a parent with advanced cancer in emerging and young adulthood has substantial, life phase-specific implications for psychosocial development. This qualitative study characterizes domains of psychosocial development impacted by cancer caregiving and parental death in this life phase. As part of a larger study, 33 bereaved emerging/young adult caregivers of parents who died following advance…
A mixed‐methods evaluation of the experience of emerging young adult care partners
There is limited literature on emerging young adult (EYA) care partners, despite a recent rise in interest in this group. The purpose of this study is to compare EYA care partners and their non‐care partner peers in the domains of academic achievement and engagement, employment, health‐related behaviors and self‐care, and mental health and respite, as well as to assess EYA care partners’ burden and potential for positive psychosocial sequelae and…
A Mixed-Method Examination of Emerging and Young Adult Cancer Caregivers’ Experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Advanced cancer caregivers in emerging and young adulthood (EYACs; ages 18-35) are an understudied yet vulnerable caregiving population. The COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges for advanced cancer caregivers but also created unique contexts from which caregivers sometimes benefited. To understand how the pandemic may have positively and negatively impacted their caregiving and bereavement experiences, we examined EYACs' experiences of caring…
The Critical Need for a Meaning-Centered Team-Level Intervention to Address Healthcare Provider Distress Now
COVID-19 has unveiled and amplified the burnout, grief, and other forms of distress among healthcare providers (HCPs) that long preceded the pandemic. The suffering of the healthcare workforce cannot be simply and sufficiently addressed with a single psychotherapeutic intervention. Nevertheless, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Studies recommended prioritizing interventions that generate an increased sense of meaning …
Measuring positive psychosocial sequelae in patients with advanced cancer
These findings indicate that concurrent administration of the PTGI and BFS may be unnecessary given the high degree of overlap between these 2 measures and that a brief subset of items may adequately evaluate positive change among patients with advanced cancer while reducing participant burden. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Cancer Caregivers
Cancer caregivers are an essential extension of the healthcare team. Rapid advances in cancer care, including new drugs and immunotherapies and more sophisticated diagnostic tools, have improved our ability to extend lives and enhance survival. As patients are living longer and with today’s shorter hospital stays and shift towards increased outpatient care, however, the burden on caregivers and their needs have substantially increased. Cancer Car…
Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers
Existential distress among caregivers of patients with all sites and stages of cancer is common and may serve as a driving mechanism of caregiver burden. Concurrently, the caregiving experience is an opportunity for meaning-making and growth. To date, no empirically supported treatments specifically target meaning-making and existential distress among cancer caregivers. To address this critical gap in the literature, meaning-centered psychotherap…
Conceptualizing prognostic awareness in advanced cancer
This systematic review synthesizes the complex literature on prognostic awareness in cancer. A total of 37 studies examining cancer patients’ understanding of their prognosis were included. Prognostic awareness definitions and assessment methods were inconsistent across studies. A surprisingly high percentage of patients (up to 75%) were unaware of their poor prognosis, and in several studies, even their cancer diagnosis (up to 96%), particularly…
Gender and Other Psychosocial Factors as Predictors of Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (Haart) in Adults with Comorbid HIV/Aids, Psychiatric and Substance-related Disorder
A little bit different now”
Serving as a family caregiver for, and ultimately losing, a parent with advanced cancer in emerging and young adulthood has substantial, life phase-specific implications for psychosocial development. This qualitative study characterizes domains of psychosocial development impacted by cancer caregiving and parental death in this life phase. As part of a larger study, 33 bereaved emerging/young adult caregivers of parents who died following advance…
Gender and Other Psychosocial Factors as Predictors of Adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (Haart) in Adults with Comorbid HIV/Aids, Psychiatric and Substance-related Disorder
Conceptualizing prognostic awareness in advanced cancer
This systematic review synthesizes the complex literature on prognostic awareness in cancer. A total of 37 studies examining cancer patients’ understanding of their prognosis were included. Prognostic awareness definitions and assessment methods were inconsistent across studies. A surprisingly high percentage of patients (up to 75%) were unaware of their poor prognosis, and in several studies, even their cancer diagnosis (up to 96%), particularly…
Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers
Existential distress among caregivers of patients with all sites and stages of cancer is common and may serve as a driving mechanism of caregiver burden. Concurrently, the caregiving experience is an opportunity for meaning-making and growth. To date, no empirically supported treatments specifically target meaning-making and existential distress among cancer caregivers. To address this critical gap in the literature, meaning-centered psychotherap…
Cancer Caregivers
Cancer caregivers are an essential extension of the healthcare team. Rapid advances in cancer care, including new drugs and immunotherapies and more sophisticated diagnostic tools, have improved our ability to extend lives and enhance survival. As patients are living longer and with today’s shorter hospital stays and shift towards increased outpatient care, however, the burden on caregivers and their needs have substantially increased. Cancer Car…
Measuring positive psychosocial sequelae in patients with advanced cancer
These findings indicate that concurrent administration of the PTGI and BFS may be unnecessary given the high degree of overlap between these 2 measures and that a brief subset of items may adequately evaluate positive change among patients with advanced cancer while reducing participant burden. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
The Critical Need for a Meaning-Centered Team-Level Intervention to Address Healthcare Provider Distress Now
COVID-19 has unveiled and amplified the burnout, grief, and other forms of distress among healthcare providers (HCPs) that long preceded the pandemic. The suffering of the healthcare workforce cannot be simply and sufficiently addressed with a single psychotherapeutic intervention. Nevertheless, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Studies recommended prioritizing interventions that generate an increased sense of meaning …
A mixed‐methods evaluation of the experience of emerging young adult care partners
There is limited literature on emerging young adult (EYA) care partners, despite a recent rise in interest in this group. The purpose of this study is to compare EYA care partners and their non‐care partner peers in the domains of academic achievement and engagement, employment, health‐related behaviors and self‐care, and mental health and respite, as well as to assess EYA care partners’ burden and potential for positive psychosocial sequelae and…
A Mixed-Method Examination of Emerging and Young Adult Cancer Caregivers’ Experiences during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Advanced cancer caregivers in emerging and young adulthood (EYACs; ages 18-35) are an understudied yet vulnerable caregiving population. The COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges for advanced cancer caregivers but also created unique contexts from which caregivers sometimes benefited. To understand how the pandemic may have positively and negatively impacted their caregiving and bereavement experiences, we examined EYACs' experiences of caring…
Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers
Taking care of a family member or friend with cancer—or any other chronic or life-limiting illness—is profoundly challenging. Caregiving responsibilities can negatively impact every aspect of caregivers’ lives, including their emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial well-being. At the same time, caregiving may be a source of great meaning; a growing body of literature indicates that connecting to a sense of meaning and purpose in caregiving…
A little bit different now”
Serving as a family caregiver for, and ultimately losing, a parent with advanced cancer in emerging and young adulthood has substantial, life phase-specific implications for psychosocial development. This qualitative study characterizes domains of psychosocial development impacted by cancer caregiving and parental death in this life phase. As part of a larger study, 33 bereaved emerging/young adult caregivers of parents who died following advance…
The potential of single session intervention approaches to enhance the mental health and resilience of older adults, care partners, and healthcare systems
Single-session interventions (SSIs) are mental health (MH) interventions that intentionally involve a single encounter. In this commentary, we outline issues with existing models of MH care for older adults & their care partners, how SSIs can address barriers, and considerations for research. We encourage the development of SSIs to increase accessibility, scalability, participation, and cost-effectiveness of mental health interventions
Parental cancer caregiving in emerging and young adulthood
While emerging and young adults are increasingly becoming caregivers to a parent diagnosed with cancer, little is known about how sibling relationships are impacted across the caregiving trajectory. To explore this, bereaved emerging and young adult caregivers (EYACs; aged 18-35) whose parent died of cancer within 1 year of diagnosis completed semi-structured interviews. Transcripts were thematically analyzed and EYACs described impacts on siblin…
Understanding the Role
Family caregivers play a crucial role in supporting individuals with chronic and life-limiting illnesses, disabilities, age-related conditions, and mental health challenges. Yet taking on this role is often made without deliberation or consent. With over 63 million family caregivers in the United States, there is little discussion of how to engage current and future caregivers in a structured, informed decision-making process about the role and r…
Turning points in prognostic uncertainty across the disease trajectory for emerging and young adult caregivers of a parent with advanced cancer
Emerging and young adult caregivers (EYACs, aged 18-35) of a parent with cancer are an understudied, under-resourced, and growing caregiving population. Little is known about their experiences coping with and managing distressing uncertainty about their parent’s prognosis, which is even more distressing when their parent is living with advanced cancer. It is critical to better understand what impacts EYACs’ prognosis uncertainty as their parent’s…
Psychology (11 works) · Family Support in Illness (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Psychosocial (6 works) · Psychotherapist (6 works) · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Health care (5 works)