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Joan Hanania, PhD,
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Joan Hanania, PhD,
Dr. Joan Hanania is an attending child and pediatric psychologist at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hanania completed her pre-doctoral internship at Boston Children’s Hospital, and her post-doctoral fellowship at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, specializing in psychosocial support to pediatric oncology patients and families.
Dr. Hanania specializes in promoting coping with medical illnesses with a particular focus on psychosocial oncology. Her clinical approach utilizes evidence-based interventions to partner with patients and their families through medical experiences and to promote adaptation and well-being. Dr. Hanania also participates in teaching, training, and research in this area. Her research focuses on psychosocial correlates of medical illnesses, adaptation in life-threatening illness and end of life care, reciprocal influences between child’s illness and familial context, pediatric cancer survivorship, and psychosocial outcomes in cancer genetics.
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- Clinical Psychology
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- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Psychology Fellowship in Pediatric Neuro-Oncology
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- Boston Children's Hospital
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
450 Brookline Ave Boston, MA 02215Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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