Each year approximately two million people who are burned require medical treatment. Seventy thousand require hospitalization, and nine thousand die from their injuries. "Coping StrategieS" provides the burn patient and his/her family a unique source of information and insight on the effects of disfigurement, sexuality, cosmetics, prosthetics, coping with stress, anxiety and guilt, and about employment strategies. These topics are addressed by professionals and survivors and parents of survivors--uniting all points of view and making this work important reading.

This book not only documents the authors' own studies of real life social situations, but also provides an extensive review of other literature in this field. Michael Argyle and his colleagues are particularly concerned with the practical applications of situational analysis - to social skills training, mental health and deviance, intergroup behaviour, personnel selection and consumer research. In addition, by concentrating on situational variables, the volume makes an important contribution to the study of personality, since personality-situational interaction is at least as important in determining behaviour as are general personality traits. During recent years there has been extensive criticism of the conduct of research in social psychology. Social Situations points the way forward to a resolution of the crisis in the discipline. It marks an important advance in our understanding of social behaviour which will interest social and clinical psychologists and sociologists.