1st Edition

How Do Families Cope With Chronic Illness?

Edited By Robert E. Cole, David Reiss Copyright 1993
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

Because chronic disorder is becoming an ordinary feature of family life and development, understanding its impact has become critical. This volume, and the conference proceedings it reports, represents a major effort to examine the family's response to chronic physical or psychopathological illness in one or more of its members. Recent data are revising our notions of chronic illness. Evidence is... Read more
Contents: R.E. Cole, D. Reiss, Introduction. E.A. Blechman, A.M. Delamater, Family Communication and Type 1 Diabetes: A Window on the Social Environment of Chronically Ill Children. S.T. Hauser, J. DiPlacido, A.M. Jacobson, E. Paul, R. Bliss, J. Milley, P. Lavori, M.A. Vieyra, J.I. Wolfsdorf, R.D. Herskowitz, J.B. Willett, C. Cole, D. Wertlieb, The Family and the Onset of Its Youngster's Insulin-Dependent Diabetes: Ways of Coping. N. Breslau, Psychiatric Sequelae of Brain Dysfunction in Children: The Role of Family Environment. C.F. Halverson, Jr., K.S. Wampler, The Mutual Influence of Child Externalizing Behavior and Family Functioning: The Impact of a Mild Congenital Risk Factor. I.E. Sigel, E.T. Stinson, J. Flaugher, Family Process and School Achievement: A Comparison of Children With and Without Communication Handicaps. J.L. Pearson, E.T. Stinson, I.E. Sigel, Parent Child-Rearing Values, Parent Behaviors, and Child Achievement Among Communication Handicapped and Noncommunication Handicapped Children. R.E. Cole, C.F. Kane, T. Zastowny, W. Grolnick, A. Lehman, Expressed Emotion, Communication, and Problem Solving in the Families of Chronic Schizophrenic Young Adults. D. Reiss, P. Steinglass, G. Howe, The Family's Organization Around the Illness.

Biography

Cole, Robert E.; Reiss, David

"...a unique combination of studies that vary greatly in terms of conceptual framework, subject characteristics, and methodology."
Contemporary Psychology