New course, first in nation, blends social work, oncology

Courtesy UT - Office of Public Affairs  Thu, 12/17/2009 - 2:36pm

University of Texas at Austin students are learning how to help cancer patients and their families with issues of stress, coping, grief and survivorship through a new course bringing together the fields of social work and oncology, the first academic class of its kind in the nation.

The aim of the School of Social Work course, [...]



 

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