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This book discusses how human beings cope with serious physical ill ness and injury. A conceptual model for understanding the process of coping with the crisis of illness is provided, and basic adaptive tasks and types of coping skills are identified. The major portion of the book is organized around various types of physical illness. These physical illnesses, which almost all people face either in themselves or their family members, raise common relevant coping issues. The last few sections cover "the crisis of treatment," emphasizing the importance of unusual hospital environments and radical new medical treatments, of stresses on professional staff, and of issues related to death and the fear of dying. The material highlights the fact that people can successfully cope with life crises such as major ill ness and injury, rather than the fact that severe symptoms and/or breakdowns sometimes occur. The importance of support from professional care-givers, such as physicians, nurses, and social workers, and from family, friends, and other sources of help in the community, is emphasized. Many of the selections include case examples which serve to illustrate the material. Coping with Physical Illness has been broadly conceived to meet the needs of a diverse audience. There is substantial information about how human beings cope with illness and physical disability, but this material has never been collected in one place.… (more)
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I. Overview and Perspective
1. The Crisis of Physical Illness: An Overview
II. The Crisis of Illness: Stillbirth and Birth Defects
2. Chronic Grief
3. Maternal Reaction to the Loss of Multiple Births
4. Counseling Parents after the Birth of an Infant with Down' s Syndrome
III. The Crisis of Illness: Cancer
5. Bearing Cancer
6. A Brave Family Faces Up to Breast Cancer
7. Family Mediation of Stress
IV. The Crisis of Illness: Cardiovascular Disease
8. Psychological Hazards of Convalescence Following Myocardial Infarction
9. Psychological Responses to the Experience of Open-Heart Surgery
10. Rehabilitating the Stroke Patient through Patient-Family Groups
V. The Crisis of Illness: Severe Burns
11. Long-Term Adjustment and Adaptation Mechanisms in Severely Burned Adults
12. Adjustment Problems of the Family of the Burn Patient
VI The Crisis of Illness: Chronic Conditions
13. Long-Term Physical Illness in Childhood: A Challenge to Psychosocial Adaptation
14. Psychological Aspects of the Care of Children with Cystic Fibrosis
15. Coping with a Chronic Disability: Psychosocial Observations of Girls with Scoliosis
VII. The Crisis of Treatment: Unusual Hospital Environments
16. The Hospital Environment: Its Impact on the Patient
17. Cancer, Emotions, and Nurses
18. Coping with Waiting: Psychiatric Intervention and Study in the Waiting Room of a Pediatric
Oncology Clinic
VIII The Crisis of Treatment: Survival by Machine
19. The CCU Nurse Has a Pacemaker
20. Survival by Machine: The Psychological Stress of Chronic Hemodialysis
21. Problems in Adaptation to Maintenance Hemodialysis
IX. The Crisis of Treatment: Organ Transplants
22. The Vicissitudes and Vivification of Viki Vaughn
23. Kidney Transplantation and Coping Mechanisms
24. Selection of Cardiac Transplant Recipients and Their Subsequent Psychosocial Adjustment
X. The Crisis of Treatment: Stresses on Staff
25. Identity Problems and the Adaptation of Nurses to Severely Burned Children
26. The Psychological Stresses of Intensive Care Unit Nursing
XI The Final Crisis: Death and the Fear of Dying
27. I Don't Intend To Die This Year
28. Humane Treatment of the Terminally Ill
29. Family Tasks and Reactions in the Crisis of Death
Author Index.