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How Do Families Cope With Chronic Illness? (Paperback)
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How Do Families Cope With Chronic Illness? (Paperback)
Series: Advances in Family Research Series
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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
mounting that chronic psychiatric disorders reflect, in part,
abnormalities of brain structure and function. In this sense, they
are, in part, medical disorders. On the other hand, a number of
traditionally labeled medical disorders produce a broad range of
psychological symptoms and are exquisitely sensitive to
psychosocial influences. Families undergo a complex process of
adaptation during which their response to stress and their
fundamental beliefs about learning and parenting change. These
beliefs endure and are difficult to alter. By examining the
processes in a wide range of chronic conditions, this volume helps
to identify the common, underlying processes of adaptation. The
first three chapters concern the families' responses to disorders
that are distinctly medical; the next three focus on families'
responses to "grey zone" disorders or anomalies that appear early
in life, minor physical anomalies, and communication handicaps; and
one chapter focuses exclusively on schizophrenia. The last chapter
reflects an effort to develop a model based on the experience of
researchers with both psychiatric and medical illness.
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