Coping with Physical Illness

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Crisis of Physical Illness

      • Rudolf H. Moos, Jeanne A. Schaefer

      Pages 3-25

3. The Crisis of Illness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-31

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   2. Parents’ Reactions to the Birth of a Sick Infant

      • Edward Goldson

      Pages 33-42

   3. Mourning by the Family after a Stillbirth or Neonatal Death

      • Emanuel Lewis

      Pages 43-50

   4. Observations of Paternal Response to Sudden Unanticipated Infant Death

      • Frederick Mandell, Elizabeth McAnulty, Robert M. Reece

      Pages 51-60

4. The Crisis of Illness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-65

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   2. Psychological Stages in Childhood Cancer

      • Yehuda Nir, Bonnie Maslin

      Pages 67-77

   3. Coping by Children Undergoing Limb Amputation

      • Judith A. Ritchie

      Pages 79-92

   4. How Adolescents Live with Leukemia

      • Dianne Fochtman

      Pages 93-100

5. The Crisis of Illness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-105

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   2. A Model for Psychosocial Phasing in Cancer

      • Avery D. Weisman

      Pages 107-122

   3. Adaptive Coping Mechanisms in Adult Acute Leukemia Patients in Remission

      • Judith B. Sanders, Carl G. Kardinal

      Pages 123-130

   4. Of Dragons and Garden Peas

      • Alice Stewart Trillin

      Pages 131-138

6. The Crisis of Illness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-143

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   2. Reactions of Families to Children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

      • Denton C. Buchanan, Carolyn J. LaBarbera, Robert Roelofs, William Olson

      Pages 145-158

   3. Family Adaptation to Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

      • Martha Cleveland

      Pages 159-171

   4. Coping with Quadriplegia

      • Sharon Price Aadalen, Florence Stroebel-Kahn

      Pages 173-188

7. The Crisis of Treatment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-194

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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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