Introduction and purpose -- Diagnosis and the family live cycle: the existential crisis -- Treatment and the family life cycle: the long haul -- Rehabilitation and the family life cycle: living in limbo -- Survival and the family life cycle: living under the sword of Damocles -- Recurrence/Advanced disease and the family life cycle? life in the balance -- Terminal illness and the family life cycle: In a strange land
Summary
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
