Research Catalog

Title

Family health psychology / edited by T. John Akamatsu [and others].

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Hemisphere Pub., 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Akamatsu, T. John.
• Kent Psychology Forum (1991 : Inn at Honey Run)

Description

xvii, 254 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Health psychology has become very individually based, yet psychologists and other health care professionals are often working with families. The family plays a major role in determining the maintenance of health and reaction to illness; thus, there is a strong need for a family approach to health psychology. This book investigates the ways families affect and are affected by health and illness." "This volume, a result of the 1991 Third Annual Kent Psychology Forum, is divided into three sections. The first discusses family perspectives on prevention of illness, family health beliefs, and family dynamics as they relate to the maintenance of health. The second section focuses on family reactions to illness and successful and unsuccessful patterns of response. Various perspectives on the involvement of families in the treatment of illness are presented. Lastly, the third section focuses on professional intervention in family grief. Authored by psychologists, physicians, family therapists, social workers, and nurses, this book will be of interest to academics and professionals in those fields, as well as researchers and clinicians. It is also suitable as a primary or companion textbook for graduate-level courses."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Series in applied psychology

Uniform Title

Series in applied psychology (New York, N.Y.)

Subject

• Clinical health psychology
• Family psychotherapy
• Clinical health psychology > Congresses
• Clinical psychology
• Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy
• Clinical psychology
• Clinical health psychology
• Family psychotherapy
• Familie
• Gesundheitsverhalten
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Chronische Krankheit
• Familienangehöriger
• Bewältigung
• Familientherapie
• Gesundheitspsychologie
• Family Therapy
• Psychology, Clinical

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.
• Congress

Note

• Based in large part on the 1991 Forum on Health Psychology which took place in April at the Inn at Honey Run in the Amish country of central Ohio.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Family Health Psychology: An Introduction and Overview / T. John Akamatsu and Kathleen A. Laing -- I. Families and Prevention. 2. Overview / Jennifer A. Druley and Kathleen A. Moore. 3. Health Cognition in Families / David S. Gochman. 4. The Role of Families in the Prevention of Physical and Mental Health Problems / Michael C. Roberts and Lisa H. McElreath. 5. Preventive Intervention and Family Coping with a Child's Life-Threatening or Terminal Illness / Gerald P. Koocher and Bonnie L. MacDonald -- II. Families and Illness. 6. Overview / Mary Jean Petron and Sarah L. Clark. 7. Family Systems, Social Ecology, and Chronic Pediatric Illness: Conceptual, Methodological, and Intervention Issues / Anne E. Kazak. 8. Understanding Family Factors That Shape the Impact of Chronic Illness / Jane Jacobs. 9. Couples Coping with Chronic and Catastrophic Illness / James C. Coyne and Veronica Fiske. 10. Physical and Psychological Illness as Correlates of Marital Disruption / Susan L. Jones.

ISBN

• 1560322470
• 9781560322474

LCCN

92006333

OCLC

• ocm25412478
• 25412478
• SCSB-9091716

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library