Cancer and the family
By: edited by Lea Baider, Cary L. Cooper, Atara Kaplan De-Nour.
Contributors: Baider, Lea.; Cooper, Cary L.; Kaplan De-Nour, A., 1932-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chichester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 546
ISBN-13: 9780471803003
Subjects: Cancer -- Social aspects.; Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships.; Neoplasms -- psychology.; Adaptation, Psychological.; Family -- psychology.; Professional-Family Relations.; Stress, Psychological.; Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Family processes and chronic illness; title: Ch. 2. Family reorganization in response to cancer: a developmental perspective; title: Ch. 3. Cancer and couples-its impact on the healthy partner: methodological considerations; title: Ch. 4. The role of family support in cancer control; title: Ch. 5. A cross-cultural comparison of social support among Asian-American and Euro-American women following breast cancer; title: Ch. 6. Culture, cancer, and the family; title: Ch. 7. The role of Japanese families in cancer care; title: Ch. 8. Beliefs about cancer causation and their influence on family function; title: Ch. 9. Preventing affective disorders in partners of cancer patients-an intervention study; title: Ch. 10. Psychosocial adaptation following treatment: a family systems perspective on childhood cancer survivorship; title: Ch. 11. A model of family-centered intervention during palliative care and bereavement: focused family grief therapy (FFGT); title: Ch. 12. Blowing away the myths about the child's experience with the mother's breast cancer; title: Ch. 13. Correlates of self-esteem among children facing the loss of a parent to cancer.; title: Ch. 14. A different normal: reactions of children and adolescents to the diagnosis of cancer in a parent; title: Ch. 15. Factors contributing to the psychological adjustment of parents of pediatric cancer parents; title: Ch. 16. 'My family and I are in this together': children with cancer speck out; title: Ch. 17. Maternal problem-solving training in childhood cancer; title: Ch. 18. Sexual self-concept for the woman with cancer; title: Ch. 19. Deciding to have children after cancer; title: Ch. 20. Communication of individualized cancer risk information within the family context; title: Ch. 21. Genetic counseling for cancer: a family issue; title: Ch. 22. Familial cancer and genetics: psychosocial and ethical aspects; title: Ch. 23. Women at increased risk for breast cancer: family issues, clinical treatment, and research findings; title: Ch. 24. The family in terminal illness; title: Ch. 25. Religion, cancer, and the family; title: Ch. 26. Coping with cancer: religion as a resource for families; title: Ch. 27. Patient-family communication with physicians; title: Ch. 28. Cancer, medical ethics, and the family; title: Ch. 29. The role of the family in the ethical dilemmas of oncology.