Understanding Women's Recovery From Illness and Trauma

The author of this volume draws on real life experiences to present a practical guide to the `why' and `how' of human responses to illness. Margaret Kearney provides practical help to counsellors who may not have been exposed to many aspects of women's experiences of illness; draws extensively from the research literature and her own nursing experience to identify the common ground of women who have moved through the difficulties of illness to satisfactory outcomes.

List of contents

Why Listen to Women
The Social and Political Context of Women¿s Health and Illness
Reckoning and Reconciling
A Map of Women¿s Illness and Recovery
Cancer and Heart Disease
Responding to a Tragic Diagnosis
Learning to Live with It
Integrating Self and Chronic Illness
Pain, Immobility and Stigma
Illness Burdens
Family Violence
Recovering from Trauma Past and Present
Eating Disorders and Addiction
Changing Deeply Rooted Patterns
Supporting Women Toward Health
Future Directions

Summary

Providing practical help to counsellors who may not have been exposed to many aspects of women's experiences of illness, this book draws extensively from the research literature and the author's own nursing experience to identify the common ground of women who have moved through the difficulties of illness to satisfactory outcomes.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Kearney, Margaret H. Kearney
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.1999
• EAN: 9780761905585
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-0558-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 448 g
• Series: Women's Mental Health Develope; Women's Mental Health and Development; Women's Mental Health and Deve; Women's Mental Health and Development; Women′s Mental Health an
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Nursing; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories