Full Description
This book uses current psychosocial literature in combination with empirical research and clinical accounts of family adaptation to help professionals and families cope with the impact of cancer. It is broad in scope and includes families in any life cycle (i.e. single adults, children, adolescents, and later life). This book, with its solid theoretical foundation, will be especially beneficial to any professional who is helping a family to adapt to cancer.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Diagnosis and the Family Life Cycle
3. Treatment and the Family Life Cycle
4. Rehabilitation and the Family Life Cycle: Living in Limbo
5. Survivorship and the Family Life Cycle: The Sword of Damocles
6. Recurrence/Advanced Disease and the Family Life Cycle: Life in the Balance
7. Terminal Illness and the Family Life Cycle: In a Strange Land
Index
