Diabetic Adolescents and Their Families - Stress, Coping, and Adaptation

Klappentext This text presents an innovative approach to the study of coping with chronic illness in adolescence. Zusammenfassung Diabetic Adolescents and their Families presents an innovative approach to the study of coping with chronic illness by focusing on the developmental context in its description of a longitudinal study of families with a diabetic or a healthy adolescent. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Foreword Stuart T. Hauser; 1. Epidemiology of chronic illnesses in adolescence; 2. Coping with illness in adolescence: an overview of research from the past 25 years; 3. Coping with diabetes: a longitudinal study; 4. Knowledge of the illness, compliance, and patient-physician relationships; 5. Self-concept, body image, and perceived health; 6. Adolescent, parental, and family coping with stressors; 7. Chronic illness and the family: the perspective of mothers, fathers, and siblings; 8. Friendships, romantic relationships, school, and career; 9. Successful adaptation or the development of psychopathology?; 10. Pathways for resolving the dilemma between developmental progression and adaptation to the illness; 11. Some implications for prevention and intervention.

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• Authors: Inge Seiffge-Krenke, Inge (Johannes Gutenberg Universit Seiffge-Krenke, Seiffge-Krenke Inge
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521310000
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31000-0
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Cambridge Studies on Child and; Cambridge Studies on Child and Adolescent Health
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Health systems and services