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Andrea Farkas Patenaude
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 104
Citations - 3948
Andrea Farkas Patenaude is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genetic testing & Psychosocial. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 104 publications receiving 3579 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrea Farkas Patenaude include American Psychological Association & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Psychosocial Functioning in Pediatric Cancer
TL;DR: As the numbers of pediatric cancer survivors increase, psychosocial researchers will be better able to conduct longitudinal studies not only of adjustment and its predictors but also of the impact of the emerging medical treatments and interventions to ameliorate late effects of treatment.
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Standards for the Psychosocial Care of Children With Cancer and Their Families: An Introduction to the Special Issue
TL;DR: The methods used to develop the standards for pediatric psychosocial care were described and the 15 articles included in this special issue of Pediatr Blood Cancer are introduced.
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Sharing BRCA1/2 Test Results With First-Degree Relatives: Factors Predicting Who Women Tell
Andrea Farkas Patenaude,Michel Dorval,L. Digianni,Katherine A. Schneider,Anu Chittenden,Judy Garber +5 more
TL;DR: Factors predicting patterns of disclosure of BRCA1/2 test results to first-degree relatives among women tested in a clinical protocol are identified.
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Anticipated Versus Actual Emotional Reactions to Disclosure of Results of Genetic Tests for Cancer Susceptibility: Findings From p53 and BRCA1 Testing Programs
Michel Dorval,Andrea Farkas Patenaude,Katherine A. Schneider,Stephanie A. Kieffer,L. Digianni,Kathy J. Kalkbrenner,Jonas Bromberg,Laura A. Basili,Kathleen A. Calzone,Jill E. Stopfer,Barbara L. Weber,Judy Garber +11 more
TL;DR: Unaffected individuals in cancer-predisposition testing programs are generally accurate in anticipating emotional reactions to test results, however, cancer patients may underestimate their distress after disclosure of positive results and could benefit from intervention strategies.
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Single Parents of Children with Chronic Illness: An Understudied Phenomenon
Ronald T. Brown,Lori Wiener,Mary Jo Kupst,Tara Brennan,Richard E. Behrman,Bruce E. Compas,T. David Elkin,Diane L. Fairclough,Sarah Friebert,Ernest R. Katz,Anne E. Kazak,Avi Madan-Swain,Nancy Mansfield,Larry L. Mullins,Robert B. Noll,Andrea Farkas Patenaude,Sean Phipps,Olle Jane Z. Sahler,Barbara Sourkes,Lonnie K. Zeltzer +19 more
TL;DR: There is a dearth of studies examining the association between lone parenting and psychosocial functioning among children and adolescents with chronic illnesses.