Coping with Physical Illness - 2: New Perspectives (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)

This book provides new ideas about how patients and their fami lies cope with serious health crises. Biomedical knowledge has expanded abruptly in the past decade during which time diag nostic and treatment procedures have become unusually specific and effective. Similarly, important advances have taken place in our understanding of the central role of psychosocial factors in health and illness. Recent trends have sparked the formulation of useful concepts of coping skills and social resources and have empha sized the value of an active assertive role for patients in the pro cess of obtaining health care. The emergence of subspecialties such as behavioral medicine and health psychology has stimulated renewed interest in these areas. Moreover, the growth of holistic medicine and a biopsychosocial orientation highlights the contri bution of a psychosocial perspective in an integrated framework for providing health care. To cover these diverse trends, I offer a unified conceptual approach for understanding the process of coping with the crisis of physical illness and identifying the underlying adaptive tasks and domains of coping skills involved in this process. The first half of the book covers coping with selected health crises, such as birth defects and perinatal death, childhood and adult cancer, and chronic physical disabilities."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2012
First published:	1984
Editors:	Rudolf Moos
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	434
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
ISBN-13:	978-1-4684-4774-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Promotions
LSN:	1-4684-4774-2
Barcode:	9781468447743

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