Family Resilience and Chronic Illness

Interdisciplinary and Translational Perspectives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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:Helpingfamilies survive and thrive through the premature birth of an infant.Enhancingcoping and resiliency among families of individuals with sickle cell disease. Afamily science approach to pediatric obesity treatment.Riskand resilience of children and families involved with the foster care system.Strengtheningfamilies facing breast cancer: emerging trends and clinical recommendations.The unfoldingof 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-08-09
Mått155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEmerging Issues in Family and Individual Resilience
Antal sidor227
Upplaga16001
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783319260310

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GingerWelch received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University.She is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and Internship Coordinator forthe Human Development and Family Science Department at OSU. Her researchinterests include both child clinical issues such as child maltreatmentfatalities, child neglect, and infant assessment, as well as pediatricpsychology issues including prematurity and Sickle Cell disease.AmandaHarrist received her Ph.D. in Child Development at the University of Tennessee.She is currently Associate Director for Education and Translation at the Centerfor Family Resilience at Oklahoma State University, where she is also aProfessor of Human Development and Family Science. Her research is focused onunderstanding psychosocial risk and protective processes in children’s socialcontexts, particularly the parent-child relationship and peer relations atschool.

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.