Handbook of Families and Health ：Interdisciplinary Perspectives ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Publication series ：1

Author： Crane   D. Russell;Marshall   Elaine Sorensen  

Publisher： Sage Publications Ltd‎

Publication year： 2005

E-ISBN: 9781452263229

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780761930419

Subject： R161 General Health

Keyword： 社会生活与社会问题,社会学

Language： ENG

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Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives presents state-of-the-art summaries of research related to couple, marital, and family influences on health. Editors D. Russell Crane and Elaine S. Marshall, along with a distinguished group of contributors across various disciplines, bring complementary perspectives to a wide range of families and health issues. A major goal of this Handbook is to highlight common issues, concerns, and goals across diverse fields and the benefits of bringing multiple perspectives to these issues. A significant portion of the book is devoted to interventions to improve family health.

Chapter

Cover

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 - Family Development in the Face of Cancer

2 - Hostility, Marriage, and the Heart

3 - Health Issues in Latino Families and Households

4 - Identifying Patterns of Managing Chronic Conditions

5 - Chronic Disease and African American Families

6 - The Pain and the Promise of Unfilled Dreams: Infertile Couples

7 - Eating Disorders and the Family

8 - Families and Major Mental Illness

9 - Families, Coping Styles, and Health

10 - Families, Poverty, and Children’s Health

11 - Parental HIV/AIDS

12 - Families, Health, and Genomics

13 - Treatment Decisions When Death Is Near

14 - Assessing Eldercare Needs

15 - Death, Grief, and Bereavement in Families

16 - Family-Centered Health Policy Analysis

17 - Using Agent-Based Modeling to Simulate the Influence of Family-Level Stress on Disease Progression

18 - Research on the Historical Demography of Families and Health

19 - Study of Family Health and the NIH: The Search for Research Support

20 - Developing Partnerships in Commissioned Research: A Perspective From England

21 - Swirling Waters: History and Current Choices for Families to Navigate Health Care Financing

Part IV: INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE FAMILY HEALTH

22 - Improving Health Through Family Interventions

23 - Does DNA Determine Destiny? A Role for Medical Family Therapy With Genetic Screening/Testing for Breast Cancer and Other Genetic Illnesses

24 - Interventions With Family Caregivers

25 - Facing What Can and Cannot Be Said: Working With Families, Parents, and Couples When a Parent Has a Serious Illness

26 - Maximizing Patients’ Health Through Engagement With Families

27 - Interventions With Families of an Acutely or Critically Ill Child

End Note: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Families and Health

Author Index

Subject Index

About the Editors

About the Contributors

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