Family Resilience and Chronic Illness
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-26031-0 (ISBN)
This interdisciplinary volume offers theoretical, empirical,and practical insights into the strengths of families beset by chronic healthissues. Featuring topics that run the lifespan from infancy to late adulthood,its coverage reflects both the diversity of family challenges in long-termillness and the wealth of effective approaches to intervention. The component skillsof resilience in life-changing circumstances, from coping and meaning making tobalancing care and self-care, are on rich display in a framework for theirenhancement in therapy. The book's expert contributors include tools to aidreaders in the learning and teaching of concepts as they model respectful,meaningful research methods and ethical, non-judgmental practice.
Among the topics covered:
- Helping families survive and thrive through the premature birth of an infant. Enhancing coping and resiliency among families of individuals with sickle cell disease.
- A family science approach to pediatric obesity treatment.
- Risk and resilience of children and families involved with the foster care system.
- Strengthening families facing breast cancer: emerging trends and clinical recommendations.
- The unfolding of unique problems in later life families.
With its mix of practical and empirical expertise, Family Resilience and Chronic Illness: Interdisciplinary and Translational Perspectives has much tooffer both researchers in the family resilience field and mental healthpractitioners working with clients with chronic illness.
Ginger Welch received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University. She is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and Internship Coordinator for the Human Development and Family Science Department at OSU. Her research interests include both child clinical issues such as child maltreatment fatalities, child neglect, and infant assessment, as well as pediatric psychology issues including prematurity and Sickle Cell disease. Amanda Harrist received her Ph.D. in Child Development at the University of Tennessee. She is currently Associate Director for Education and Translation at the Center for Family Resilience at Oklahoma State University, where she is also a Professor of Human Development and Family Science. Her research is focused on understanding psychosocial risk and protective processes in children's social contexts, particularly the parent-child relationship and peer relations at school.
Using a Life-World Approach to Understand Family Resilience.- Helping Families Survive and Thrive through the Premature Birth of an Infant.- Enhancing Coping and Resiliency among Families of Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease.- Translational Research and Clinical Applicationsin the Management of Cystic Fibrosis.- Improving Physician Self-efficacy and ReducingProvider Bias: A Family Science Approach to Pediatric Obesity Treatment.- Facing Changes Together: Teamwork and FamilyResilience During Transition of Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Patients toAdult Care.- Fighting for the Forgotten: Risk and Resilienceof Children and Families Involved with the Foster Care System.- Strengthening Families Facing Breast Cancer: EmergingTrends and Clinical Recommendations.- Fostering Resilience among Older Adults Livingwith Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis.- The Unfolding of Unique Problems in Later LifeFamilies.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.10.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Emerging Issues in Family and Individual Resilience |
| Zusatzinfo | XVI, 227 p. 15 illus., 8 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Schlagworte | chronic illness • Chronic Illness and Early Childhood • Chronic lllness Challenges from Infancy to Adultho • Chronic lllness Challenges from Infancy to Adulthood • Chronic llness Across the Lifespan • dementia • Developmental Psychology • Family • Family and chronic illness • family resilience • Pediatric Obesity Treatment • Public Health • Risk and Resilience in the Foster Care System • Social Sciences • Translational Perspectives on Family Resilience |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-26031-6 / 3319260316 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-26031-0 / 9783319260310 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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