Heeyeon Son, RN, MSN, is a PhD candidate and a fellow of American Cancer Society Doctoral Degree in Cancer Nursing at the Duke University School of Nursing (USA). She is also a member of the IFNA Student Engagement Group.
Her research interest focuses on helping families of children and adolescents with cancer cope with the child’s cancer diagnosis. She is particularly interested in improving parent-child communication in the childhood cancer context to foster their coping and resilience. Her current dissertation focuses on (1) exploring parent-child communication experiences of Korean adolescents with cancer and their parents, and (2) examining the potential relationship between engaging in effective parent-child communication and better coping and adjustment of adolescents with cancer.
Heeyeon’s long-term research goal is to study “family environment,” including family communication to encourage children and adolescents with cancer and their families’ coping and better adjustment across the illness trajectory. She believes that family is one of the most potent sources of support for children and adolescents with cancer. Therefore, she is dedicated to fostering recovery of broken families of children with cancer and helping them have positive power to help children and adolescents with cancer.
For more information, contact IFNA member Heeyeon Son.
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