Handbook of families & health : interdisciplinary perspectives /
A broad ranging collection, as the title might suggest, the essays consider the subject from the perspectives of family studies, marriage & family therapy, nursing & family medicine gerontology, health psychology & behavioural medicine, social work & social policy.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications,
©2006.
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| Series: | Counseling and psychotherapy transcripts, client narratives, and reference works.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Family and health issues. Family development in the face of cancer / Karen Weihs and Mary Politi
- Hostility, marriage and the heart : The social psychophysiology of cardiovascular risk in close relationships / Timothy W. Smith and Kelly M. Glazer
- Health issues in Latino families and households / Barbara A. Zsembik
- Identifying patterns of managing chronic conditions : Family management styles / Janet A. Deatrick [and others]
- Chronic disease and African American families / Sharon Wallace Williams and Peggye Dilworth-Anderson
- The pain and the promise of unfilled dreams : Infertile couples / Lynn Clark Callister
- Eating disorders and the family : A biopsychosocial perspective / Margo D. Maine
- Families and major mental illness / Kim T. Mueser
- Families, coping styles and health / Arlene L. Vetere and Lynn B. Myers
- Families, poverty, and children's health / Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel
- Parental HIV/AIDS : An empirical model of the impact on children in the United States / Debra A. Murphy [and others]
- Families, health, and genomics / Marcia Van Riper and Agatha M. Gallo
- pt. 2. Issues of aging and caregiving. Treatment decisions when death is near : The family's role / Tom Finucane
- Assessing eldercare needs : An application of marketing orientation within the nonprofit sector / Robert J. Parsons
- Death, grief, and bereavement in families / Beth Vaughn Cole
- pt. 3. Issues for policy and research. Family centered health policy analysis / Sven E. Wilson
- Using agent-based modeling to simulate the influence of family level of stress on disease progression / William A. Griffin
- Research on the historical demography of families and health / Geraldine Mineau and Ken R. Smith and Lee L. Bean
- Study of family health and the NIH : The search for research support / V. Jeffery Evans
- Developing partnerships in commissioned research : A perspective from England / John S.W. Carpenter
- Swirling waters : History and current choices for families to navigate health care financing / Harvey Hillin
- pt. 4. Interventions to improve family health. Improving health through family interventions / Thomas L. Campbell
- Does DNA determine destiny? A role for medical family therapy with genetic screening
- testing for breast cancer and other genetic illnesses / Susan H. McDaniel
- Interventions with family caregivers / Jonathan G. Sandberg
- Facing what can and cannot be said : Working with families, parents and couples when a parent has a serious illness / Barbara J. Dale and Jenny Altschuler
- Maximizing patients? Health through engagement with families / William J. Sieber [and others]
- Interventions with families of an acutely or critically ill child / Marion E. Broome and Wilma Powell Stuart.