Research Catalog

Title

Families coping with mental illness : stories from the US and Japan / Yuko Kawanishi.

Author

Kawanishi, Yuko, 1957-

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Description

xix, 230 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "When someone develops a mental illness, the impact on the family is often profound. The most common treatment processes, however, focus on the patient while the loved ones are relegated to subordinate roles and sometimes even viewed as barriers to effective recovery. Families Coping with Mental Illness approaches these issues from the family's perspective, studying how they react to initial diagnosis, adjust to new circumstances, and cope with the situation."
• "Through her own original research in the United States and Japan, Kawanishi presents a cross-cultural experience of mental illness that examines both psychological and sociological issues, making this book suitable to all international fields engaging with diversity and mental health. Including first-hand accounts along with analysis and discussion, Kawanishi gives voice to family members and adeptly identifies universal themes of resilience, adaptability, and strength of the family unit. This innovative text offers a unique viewpoint that will appeal to a wide audience of professionals and non-professionals from a variety of backgrounds."--Jacket.

Subject

• Mentally Ill Persons
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Mental Disorders
• Family Relations
• Mentally ill > United States > Family relationships > Case studies
• Mentally ill > Japan > Family relationships > Case studies
• Families of the mentally ill > United States > Case studies
• Families of the mentally ill > Japan > Case studies
• Mentally ill > Family relationships > United States > Case studies
• Mentally ill > Family relationships > Japan > Case studies
• Mental Disorders > United States
• Cross-Cultural Comparison > United States
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice > United States
• Mentally Ill Persons > United States
• United States
• Japan

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-221) and index.

Contents

Mental Illness in the Family: What Does It Mean? -- The First Signs of Mental Illness: How They Came and How They Stayed -- Early Impressions -- Family Responses and Family Feelings -- What Happens to the Family System? -- Intrafamily Interactions: The marital and Parent-Child Relationships -- Other Dimensions of Family Interactions -- Learning to Understand the New Reality of Illness -- Why did the Illness Strike?: Families Search for Meaning -- Better Understanding of Chronic Mental Illness:Accepting Reality -- Living with Mental Illness: Sources of Strength -- Becoming Active Agents -- Mental Coping -- How Can They Go on?

ISBN

0415952018 (hardbound)

LCCN

^^2005017053

OCLC

• 60669060
• SCSB-13732931

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library