Family Communication, Connections, and Health Transitions
Going Through This Together
©2011
Textbook
X,
447 Pages
Series:
Health Communication, Volume 1
Summary
When family members experience a diagnosis of a chronic disease (e.g., cancer) or a health crisis (e.g., postpartum depression), not only the diagnosed individuals but entire families experience immediate and long-term stress as a consequence. Families with members dealing with serious health conditions may be confronted with significant challenges posed by treatment regimes, impacts on day-to-day activities, disruption of family roles, the threat of possible death, and a host of psychosocial challenges. This book is about families facing these challenges, uncertain about what to do, how to help, or how the condition will affect their daily life. Providing a coherent discussion of original research that examines communication patterns and processes involved in the day-to-day management of health conditions, this book lays bare the raw emotional experiences of families communicating with one another amid uncertainty and, for some, in the face of death.
Details
- Pages
- X, 447
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781453901199
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433110696
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433110689
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-1-4539-0119-9
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2010 (November)
- Keywords
- end-of-life family communication illness cancer self-disclosure privacy social support stress coping adaptation family relationships counseling stigma conflict invisible illness health communication medical disclosures caregiving
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011. X, 447 pp.
