Title | Coping with Physical Illness [electronic resource] / edited by Rudolf H. Moos |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1977 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2256-6 |
Descript | XII, 440 p. online resource |
I. Overview and Perspective -- 1. The Crisis of Physical Illness: An Overview -- II. The Crisis of Illness: Stillbirth and Birth Defects -- 2. Chronic Grief -- 3. Maternal Reaction to the Loss of Multiple Births -- 4. Counseling Parents after the Birth of an Infant with Downโs Syndrome -- III. The Crisis of Illness: Cancer -- 5. Bearing Cancer -- 6. A Brave Family Faces Up to Breast Cancer -- 7. Family Mediation of Stress -- IV. The Crisis of Illness: Cardiovascular Disease -- 8. Psychological Hazards of Convalescence Following Myocardial Infarction -- 9. Psychological Responses to the Experience of Open-Heart Surgery -- 10. Rehabilitating the Stroke Patient through Patient-Family Groups -- V. The Crisis of Illness: Severe Burns -- 11. Long-Term Adjustment and Adaptation Mechanisms in Severely Burned Adults -- 12. Adjustment Problems of the Family of the Burn Patient -- VI The Crisis of Illness: Chronic Conditions -- 13. Long-Term Physical Illness in Childhood: A Challenge to Psychosocial Adaptation -- 14. Psychological Aspects of the Care of Children with Cystic Fibrosis -- 15. Coping with a Chronic Disability: Psychosocial Observations of Girls with Scoliosis -- VII. The Crisis of Treatment: Unusual Hospital Environments -- 16. The Hospital Environment: Its Impact on the Patient -- 17. Cancer, Emotions, and Nurses -- 18. Coping with Waiting: Psychiatric Intervention and Study in the Waiting Room of a Pediatric Oncology Clinic -- VIII The Crisis of Treatment: Survival by Machine -- 19. The CCU Nurse Has a Pacemaker -- 20. Survival by Machine: The Psychological Stress of Chronic Hemodialysis -- 21. Problems in Adaptation to Maintenance Hemodialysis -- IX. The Crisis of Treatment: Organ Transplants -- 22. The Vicissitudes and Vivification of Viki Vaughn -- 23. Kidney Transplantation and Coping Mechanisms -- 24. Selection of Cardiac Transplant Recipients and Their Subsequent Psychosocial Adjustment -- X. The Crisis of Treatment: Stresses on Staff -- 25. Identity Problems and the Adaptation of Nurses to Severely Burned Children -- 26. The Psychological Stresses of Intensive Care Unit Nursing -- XI The Final Crisis: Death and the Fear of Dying -- 27. I Donโt Intend To Die This Year -- 28. Humane Treatment of the Terminally Ill -- 29. Family Tasks and Reactions in the Crisis of Death -- Author Index