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This interdisciplinary volume offers theoretical, empirical,and practical insights into the strengths of families beset by chronic healthissues. Featuring topics that run the lifespan from infancy to late adulthood,its coverage reflects both the diversity of family challenges in long-termillness and the wealth of effective approaches to intervention. The component skillsof resilience in life-changing circumstances, from coping and meaning making tobalancing care and self-care, are on rich display in a framework for theirenhancement in therapy. The book's expert contributors include tools to aidreaders in the learning and teaching of concepts as they model respectful,meaningful research methods and ethical, non-judgmental practice.
Among the topics covered:
- Helping families survive and thrive through the premature birth of an infant.
Enhancing coping and resiliency among families of individuals with sickle cell disease. - A family science approach to pediatric obesity treatment.
- Risk and resilience of children and families involved with the foster care system.
- Strengthening families facing breast cancer: emerging trends and clinical recommendations.
- The unfolding of unique problems in later life families.
With its mix of practical and empirical expertise,
Family Resilience and Chronic Illness: Interdisciplinary and Translational Perspectives has much tooffer both researchers in the family resilience field and mental healthpractitioners working with clients with chronic illness.
List of contents
Using a Life-World Approach to Understand Family Resilience.- Helping Families Survive and Thrive through the Premature Birth of an Infant.- Enhancing Coping and Resiliency among Families of Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease.- Translational Research and Clinical Applicationsin the Management of Cystic Fibrosis.- Improving Physician Self-efficacy and ReducingProvider Bias: A Family Science Approach to Pediatric Obesity Treatment.- Facing Changes Together: Teamwork and FamilyResilience During Transition of Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Patients toAdult Care.- Fighting for the Forgotten: Risk and Resilienceof Children and Families Involved with the Foster Care System.- Strengthening Families Facing Breast Cancer: EmergingTrends and Clinical Recommendations.- Fostering Resilience among Older Adults Livingwith Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis.- The Unfolding of Unique Problems in Later LifeFamilies.
About the author
Ginger
Welch received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University.
She is currently a Clinical Associate Professor and Internship Coordinator for
the Human Development and Family Science Department at OSU. Her research
interests include both child clinical issues such as child maltreatment
fatalities, child neglect, and infant assessment, as well as pediatric
psychology issues including prematurity and Sickle Cell disease.
Amanda
Harrist received her Ph.D. in Child Development at the University of Tennessee.
She is currently Associate Director for Education and Translation at the Center
for Family Resilience at Oklahoma State University, where she is also a
Professor of Human Development and Family Science. Her research is focused on
understanding psychosocial risk and protective processes in children’s social
contexts, particularly the parent-child relationship and peer relations at
school.
Summary
This interdisciplinary volume offers theoretical, empirical,
and practical insights into the strengths of families beset by chronic health
issues. Featuring topics that run the lifespan from infancy to late adulthood,
its coverage reflects both the diversity of family challenges in long-term
illness and the wealth of effective approaches to intervention. The component skills
of resilience in life-changing circumstances, from coping and meaning making to
balancing care and self-care, are on rich display in a framework for their
enhancement in therapy. The book’s expert contributors include tools to aid
readers in the learning and teaching of concepts as they model respectful,
meaningful research methods and ethical, non-judgmental practice.
Among the topics covered:
Helping
families survive and thrive through the premature birth of an infant.
Enhancing
coping and resiliency among families of individuals with sickle cell disease.
A
family science approach to pediatric obesity treatment.
Risk
and resilience of children and families involved with the foster care system.
Strengthening
families facing breast cancer: emerging trends and clinical recommendations.
The unfolding
of unique problems in later life families.
With its mix of practical and empirical expertise, Family Resilience and Chronic Illness: Interdisciplinary and Translational Perspectives has much to
offer both researchers in the family resilience field and mental health
practitioners working with clients with chronic illness.
