Coping with Chronic Illness and Disability: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Aspects - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0387486682 ISBN 13 : 9780387486680

Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2007

Synopsis

The first section of this book provides readers with the major theories and conceptual perspectives on coping, with special emphasis on social aspects and models of coping with different types of CID. In Part Two, an array of specific medical conditions is covered. Each chapter supplies a clinical description, current empirical findings on coping, effective medical, physical, and psychological interventions, employment issues, and social concerns. This book includes: Up-to-date information on coping with high-profile conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, spinal cord injuries, and traumatic brain injury, in-depth coverage of HIV/AIDS, chronic pain, and severe mental illness, coverage of therapeutic modalities adopted for treatment of people with CID, review of the current state of coping theory and research, appendix of instruments frequently used in assessment of coping.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Erin Martz, Ph.D., CRC, is an assistant professor and coordinator of the Rehabilitation Counseling program at the University of Memphis. She has been a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Fellow (Russia) and a Switzer Merit Fellow (National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research). Her research interests include psychosocial adaptation to and coping with chronic illness and disability, posttraumatic stress reactions following disability, disability-related employment issues, attitudes toward disability, and international rehabilitation.

Hanoch Livneh, Ph.D., CRC, is a professor and coordinator of the Rehabilitation Counseling program at Portland State University. He is an APA Fellow in the division of Rehabilitation Psychology. His research interests include coping with and adaptation to chronic illness and disability, attitudes toward people with disability, and the measurement of outcomes in rehabilitation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0387486682
• ISBN 13: 9780387486680
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 456
• Éditeur: Martz Erin, Livneh Hanoch
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