| Description |
xviii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Partial table of contents: FAMILIES: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES. -- Family Processes and Chronic Illness (P. Steinglass). -- Family Reorganization in Response to Cancer: A Developmental Perspective (K. Weihs D. Reiss). -- Social Support And Cultural Perspective. -- The Role of Family Support in Cancer Control (J. Bloom). -- A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Social Support Among Asian-American and Euro-American Women Following Breast Cancer (M. Kagawa-Singer T.-U. Nguyen). -- Culture, Cancer, and the Family (C. Gotay). -- Psychological Interventions Within The Family. -- Preventing Affective Disorders in Partners of Cancer Patients-- An Intervention Study (C. Pitceathly P. Maguire). -- The Child'S Perception Of A Parent'S Illness. -- Blowing Away the Myths About the Child's Experience with the Mother's Breast Cancer (F. Lewis, et al.). -- Correlates of Self-Esteem Among Children Facing the Loss of a Parent to Cancer (K. Siegel, et al.). -- Dynamic Changes In Families With A Child With Cancer. -- Factors Contributing to the Psychological Adjustment of Parents of Pediatric Cancer Parents (J. Hoekstra-Weebers, et al.). -- 'My Family and I are in This Together': Children with Cancer Speak Out (B. Sourkes R. Proulx). -- Sexuality: Perception Of Self. -- Sexual Self-Concept for the Woman with Cancer (B. Andersen D. Golden-Kreutz). -- Genetics: Familial Risk. -- Communication of Individualized Cancer Risk Information within the Family Context (J. Bottorff, et al.). -- Genetic Counseling for Cancer: A Family Issue (E. Bleiker N. Aaronson). -- Terminal Illness And Systems Of Belief. -- The Family in Terminal Illness (S. Wein). -- Religion, Cancer, and the Family (B. Spilka S. Hartman). -- Medical Ethics And Communication. -- Patient-Family Communication with Physicians (C. Blanchard, et al.). -- Cancer, Medical Ethics, and the Family (C. Hook). -- Index |
| Analysis |
Humans Cancer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships.
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Cancer -- Social aspects.
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Family -- psychology.
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Neoplasms -- psychology.
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Adaptation, Psychological.
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Professional-Family Relations.
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Stress, Psychological.
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| Author |
Baider, Lea.
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Cooper, Cary L.
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Kaplan De-Nour, A., 1932-
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| LC no. |
95030724 |
| ISBN |
0471958905 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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