Coping with Physical Illness

1. The Crisis of Treatment

   1. Issues in the Psychological Care of Pediatric Oncology Patients

      • Donald Brunnquell, Marian D. Hall

      Pages 195-207

   2. Psychological Stress in Families of Children in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

      • Peter Rothstein

      Pages 209-219

   3. Coping with Poor Prognosis in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

      • David A. Waller, I. David Todres, Ned H. Cassem, Ande Anderten

      Pages 221-234

2. The Crisis of Treatment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-239

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   2. Stages of Bone Marrow Transplantation

      • Herbert N. Brown, Martin J. Kelly

      Pages 241-252

   3. Factors Affecting Coping of Adolescents and Infants on a Reverse Isolation Unit

      • Margarita Kutsanellou-Meyer, Grace Hyslop Christ

      Pages 253-265

3. The Crisis of Treatment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-271

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   2. Psychological Adaptation to Hemodialysis

      • Denton C. Buchanan, Harry S. Abram

      Pages 273-281

   3. Helping Families Respond Effectively to Chronic Illness

      • Sally E. Palmer, Lino Canzona, Lokky Wai

      Pages 283-294

   4. An Unsung Hero

      • Elaine M. Musial

      Pages 295-303

4. The Crisis of Treatment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-308

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   2. Permanent Total Parenteral Nutrition

      • Beth S. Price, Eleanor L. Levine

      Pages 309-320

   3. Psychological Aspects of Long-Term Home Hyperalimentation

      • Mark Perl, Richard C. W. Hall, Stanley J. Dudrick, DeAnn M. Englert, Sondra K. Stickney, Earl R. Gardner

      Pages 321-338

5. The Crisis of Treatment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 339-343

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   2. Understanding the Cancer Patient

      • Avery D. Weisman

      Pages 345-358

   3. Staff Groups in a Pediatric Hospital

      • William R. Beardslee, David Ray DeMaso

      Pages 359-369

   4. Changing Hospital Work Environments

      • Lorrin M. Koran, Rudolf H. Moos, Bernice Moos, Milford Zasslow

      Pages 371-383

6. The Final Crisis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 385-389

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   2. How the Terminal Patient Accepts Dying

      • Sylvia Poss

      Pages 391-403

   3. A Support Group for Dying Patients

      • David Spiegel, Irvin D. Yalom

      Pages 405-417

This book provides new ideas about how patients and their fami­ lies cope with serious health crises. Biomedical knowledge has expanded abruptly in the past decade during which time diag­ nostic and treatment procedures have become unusually specific and effective. Similarly, important advances have taken place in our understanding of the central role of psychosocial factors in health and illness. Recent trends have sparked the formulation of useful concepts of coping skills and social resources and have empha­ sized the value of an active assertive role for patients in the pro­ cess of obtaining health care. The emergence of subspecialties such as behavioral medicine and health psychology has stimulated renewed interest in these areas. Moreover, the growth of holistic medicine and a biopsychosocial orientation highlights the contri­ bution of a psychosocial perspective in an integrated framework for providing health care. To cover these diverse trends, I offer a unified conceptual approach for understanding the process of coping with the crisis of physical illness and identifying the underlying adaptive tasks and domains of coping skills involved in this process. The first half of the book covers coping with selected health crises, such as birth defects and perinatal death, childhood and adult cancer, and chronic physical disabilities.

• Syndrom
• care
• coping
• health
• hospital
• intensive care
• leukemia
• medicine
• nutrition
• oncology
• psychology
• psychosocial factors
• stress
• syndromes
• treatment

• Veterans Administration Medical Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA

  Rudolf H. Moos

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