Wool, Margaret

Margaret S Wool

Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine

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Margaret S. Wool, Ph.D., BCD

Margaret S. Wool obtained her MSW in 1980 and Ph.D in 1986, both from Smith College School for Social Work. Since 1980, her career has included clinical practice, teaching, and research revolving around the interface of mental health and medical illness. Dr. Wool provides clinical consultation at NorthMain Radiation Oncology, facilitating the adjustment of patients and families, and providing educational support to staff. She is a facilitator for the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare at The Miriam Hospital, and maintains a part-time private clinical practice focused on helping people adjust to the impact of significant illness, and serves on the Ethics Committee of Hope Health, a provider of hospice care in RI.

She has served as adjunct faculty at Smith College School for Social Work, Simmons College School of Social Work, and is Clinical Faculty at Brown University's Warren Alpert School of Medicine with affiliations in Family Medicine, and the School of Public Health Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

Courses:

"Doctoring III and IV," instruction and assessment in both clinical skills and professional development for second-year medical students.
"Bearing Witness to Cancer," a multidisciplinary course integrating sciences and humanities, to undergraduates (previous course),
"Cancer Action and Reflection Elective" (C.A.R.E.) to first and second year medical students at Brown.

Dr. Wool has participated in research grants funded by the National Cancer Institute. She has published in the area of psychosocial oncology, and has served as a consulting editor to Health and Social Work and a reviewer for Cancer Practice - a Multidisciplinary Journal of Cancer Care, and Journal of Cancer Education. She is a member of the Advisory Board of The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults based in Maryland. Dr. Wool was a Director of the Board of the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work from 1999 to 2006 and served as president from 2003-2005. ABE is a national standard setting organization for clinical social work.

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For this chapter, Wool, M. S. "Schwartz Rounds: Process, Outcomes, and Opportunities,” , SECTION XVI. INTER-PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE." HANDBOOK OF ONCOLOGY SOCIAL WORK, edited by Christ, G; Messner, C; Behar, L., New York, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 793-799.

Wool, M. S.; Mor, V. "A multi-dimensional model for understanding Cancer Pain." Cancer investigation, vol. 23, no. 8, 2005, pp. 727-734.

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Suzanne Kurtz, Jonathan Silverman and Juliet Draper. "Book review: Teaching and Learning Communication Skills in Medicine (2e)." Health Expectations, vol. 8, 2005, pp. 363-365.

Wool, M. S. "Multidisciplinary Rounds" case response: "Hereditary Breast Cancer Risk." Cancer Practice, A Multidisciplinary Journal of Cancer Care, vol. 7, no. 6, 1999, pp. 283-284.

Wool, M. S. "Multidisciplinary Rounds" case response: The Impact of Patient Anger and Resentment on Treatment Decisions." Cancer Practice, A Multidisciplinary Journal of Cancer Care, vol. 5, no. 5, 1997, pp. 276-277.

Mor, V.; Wool, M. S.; Guadagnoli, E.; Allen, S. "The impact of short term case management on cancer patients' concrete needs and quality of life." Advances in Medical Sociology, vol. 6, 1995, pp. 269-294.

Mor, V.; Wool, M.S.; Guadagnoli, E.; Allen, S. "The impact of short-term case management on cancer patients' concrete needs and quality of life." Advances in Medical Sociology, Quality of Life in Health Care, edited by Albrecht, G. L.& Fitzpatrick, R., Greenwich, CT, JAI Press, 1995, pp. 269-294.

Mor V, Masterson-Allen S, Goldberg R, Guadagnoli E, Wool MS. "Pre-diagnostic symptom recognition and help seeking among cancer patients." Journal of Community Health, vol. 15, no. 4, 1990, pp. 253-66.

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Wool, M. S. "Understanding Depression in Medical Patients, Part I: Diagnostic Considerations." Social Work in Health Care, vol. 14, no. 4, 1990, pp. 25-38.

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Wool, M. S. "Understanding Depression in Medical Patients, Part II: Clinical Intervention." Social Work in Health Care, vol. 14, no. 4, 1990, pp. 39-52.

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Wool MS, Guadagnoli E, Thomas M, Mor V. "Negotiating concrete needs: short-term training for high-risk cancer patients." Health & social work, vol. 14, no. 3, 1989, pp. 184-195.

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Mor, V.; Guadagnoli, E.; Wool, M.S. "The Role of Concrete Services in Cancer Care." Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine: Psychiatric Aspects of Cancer, edited by Goldberg, R. J. (Guest Editor), Switzerland, Karger Publishers, 1988.

Wool, M. S. "Understanding Denial in Cancer Patients." Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine: Psychiatric Aspects of Cancer, edited by Goldberg, R. J. (Guest Editor), Switzerland, Karger Publishers, 1988.

Mor, V.; Guadagnoli, E.; Wool, M. S. "An Examination of the Concrete Service Needs of Advanced Cancer Patients." Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, vol. 5, no. 1, 1987, pp. 1-15.

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Wool, M. S.; Goldberg, R. J. "Assessment of Denial in Cancer Patients: Implications for Intervention." Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, vol. 4, no. 3, 1986, pp. 1-14.

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Wool, M. S. "Extreme Denial in Breast Cancer Patients and Capacity for Object Relations." Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, vol. 46, 1986, pp. 196-204.

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Mor, V.; Wool, M. S. "Age and Acknowledgement of Disease Among Hospice Cancer Patients." The Gerontologist, vol. November, 1985.

Goldberg, R. J.; Wool, M. S. "Psychotherapy for the Spouses of Lung Cancer Patients: Assessment of an Intervention." Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, vol. 43, 1985, pp. 41-50.

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Wool, M. S. "Assessment of Object Relations in Selection for Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Validation Study." The Broad Scope of Ego Function Assessment, edited by L. Bellak and L. Goldsmith, New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1984.

Goldberg, R. J., Tull, R. M., Wallace, S. R.; Sullivan, N.; Wool, M. S. "Defining Discipline Roles in Consultation Psychiatry: A Multidisciplinary Team Approach to Psychosocial Oncology." General Hospital Psychiatry, vol. 6, 1984, pp. 17-23.

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Goldberg, R. J.; Wool, M. S.; Glicksman, A. S.; Tull, R. M. "Relationship of Social Environment and Patients' Physical Status to Depression in Lung Cancer Patients and Spouses." Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, vol. 2, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter), 1984.

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Goldberg, R. J.; Wool, M. S.; Tull, R. M.; Boor, M. "Teaching Brief Psychotherapy for Spouses of Cancer Patients: Use of a Codable Supervision Format." Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, vol. 21, 1984, pp. 12-19.

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Goldberg, R. J.; Tull, R. M.; Glicksman, A. S.; Wool, M. S. "Teaching the Psychosocial Dimensions of Cancer Using Semistructured Interviewing." Medical and Pediatric Oncology, vol. 10, no. 6, 1982.

Wool, Margaret S. "Validation Study of Selection Criteria for Short-Term Anxiety-Provoking Psychotherapy." Smith College Studies in Social Work, vol. L1, no. 1, 1980, pp. 57-58.

Background

Education and Training

Year	Degree	Institution
1986	PhD	Smith College
1980	MSW	Smith College
1976	BA	Beloit College

Honors and Awards

1994 Social Worker of the Year - Health/Mental Health, NASW-RI Chapter.
1997 Distinguished Service Award, NASW- RI Chapter.
2007 Recipient: Hope Award, Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults 10th Anniversary Columbia, MD October 26, 2007
2010 Elected to National Academies of Practice, a nonprofit professional organization composed of elected, distinguished representatives from ten different health professions.

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Collaborators

Name	Title
Allen, Susan	Professor Emerita of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Borkan, Jeffrey	Assistant Dean for Primary Care-Population Health, Professor of Family Medicine, Professor of Medical Science
Clark, Melissa	Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Joyce, Donald	Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology
Mor, Vincent	Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Oldenburg, Nicklas	Clinical Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Schiffman, Fred	Sigal Family Professor of Humanistic Medicine, Professor of Medicine

Affiliations

Consultant: NorthMain Radiation Oncology, 1997 - present

Psychosocial Oncology and med/psych interface, Private Practice, 1982 - present

Facilitator: Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare 2007 - present at The Miriam Hospital

Consultant: Hope Health (formerly Home & Hospice Care of RI), 2009 - 2014

Member, Ethics Committee: Hope Health, RI (formerly Home and Hospice Care if RI), 2010 - present

Preceptor: Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, 2009 - 2014

National Association of Social Workers: 1979 -
Association of Oncology Social Workers: 1985 -
American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work,
Board Certified Diplomate:1989 -
National Academies of Practice: 2010 -

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Margaret S Wool

Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine

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