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Klappentext This empirically based book focuses on typical stressors! individual and family coping strategies! and psychosocial consequences associated with diabetes. Numerous case studies illustrate the difficulty of balancing normative development and adherence to the therapeutic regimen. The combination of theory! research! and practice guarantee the appeal of this book to an international audience of advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and professionals in developmental and clinical psychology! pediatric medicine and other healthcare professionals concerned with the care of chronically ill adolescents. 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.
