Coping with Physical Illness -

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Sommaire:
I. Overview.- 1. The Crisis of Physical Illness: An Overview and Conceptual Approach.- II. The Crisis of Illness: Birth Defects and Perinatal Death.- 2. Parents' Reactions to the Birth of a Sick Infant.- 3. Mourning by the Family after a Stillbirth or Neonatal Death.- 4. Observations of Paternal Response to Sudden Unanticipated Infant Death.- III. The Crisis of Illness: Childhood Cancer.- 5. Psychological Stages in Childhood Cancer.- 6. Coping by Children Undergoing Limb Amputation.- 7. How Adolescents Live with Leukemia.- IV. The Crisis of Illness: Cancer among Adults.- 8. A Model for Psychosocial Phasing in Cancer.- 9. Adaptive Coping Mechanisms in Adult Acute Leukemia Patients in Remission.- 10. Of Dragons and Garden Peas: A Cancer Patient Talks to Doctors.- V. The Crisis of Illness: Chronic Conditions.- 11. Reactions of Families to Children with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.- 12. Family Adaptation to Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Response to Crisis.- 13. Coping with Quadriplegia.- VI. The Crisis of Treatment: Hospital Environments.- 14. Issues in the Psychological Care of Pediatric Oncology Patients.- 15. Psychological Stress in Families of Children in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.- 16. Coping with Poor Prognosis in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: The Cassandra Prophecy.- VII. The Crisis of Treatment: Bone Marrow Transplantation.- 17. Stages of Bone Marrow Transplantation: A Psychiatric Perspective.- 18. Factors Affecting Coping of Adolescents and Infants on a Reverse Isolation Unit.- VIII. The Crisis of Treatment: Kidney Dialysis and Transplantation.- 19. Psychological Adaptation to Hemodialysis.- 20. Helping Families Respond Effectively to Chronic Illness: Home Dialysis as a Case Example.- 21. An Unsung Hero: The Living Related Kidney Donor.- IX. The Crisis of Treatment: Total Parenteral Nutrition.- 22. Permanent Total Parenteral Nutrition: Psychological and Social Responses of the Early Stages.- 23. Psychological Aspects of Long-Term Home Hyperalimentation.- X. The Crisis of Treatment: Stresses on Staff.- 24. Understanding the Cancer Patient: The Syndrome of Caregiver's Plight.- 25. Staff Groups in a Pediatric Hospital: Content and Coping.- 26. Changing Hospital Work Environments: An Example of a Burn Unit.- XI. The Final Crisis: Death and the Fear of Dying.- 27. How the Terminal Patient Accepts Dying.- 28. A Support Group for Dying Patients.- 29. A Special Christmas: An Account of the Last Christmas of Barbara Mackenzie Rogers Hepner.- Author Index.