Helping Couples Cope with Women’s Cancers An Evidence-Based Approach for Practitioners /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Kayser, Karen (Συγγραφέας), Scott, Jennifer L. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Θέματα: Psychology.; Oncology.; Social work.; Clinical psychology.; Psychotherapy.; Counseling.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Popular Science in Psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.

Close relationships can be vital to a woman’s recovery from breast or gynecological cancer and the myriad stressors that accompany diagnosis and treatment. Helping Couples Cope with Women’s Cancer shows readers not only how to enlist the patient’s closest support person in coping with the disease, b...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Assessment: Toward an Understanding of How Couples Cope with Cancer
• The Nature of Cancer and Its Psychosocial Challenges
• Why Work with Couples?
• Assessing the Couple’s Adjustment to Cancer
• Intervention: Helping Couples Cope with Women’s Cancers
• Integrating Tasks of Illness into the Couple’s Daily Routine
• Building Cognitive Coping Skills
• Communicating Support
• Expanding the Couple’s Coping Skills
• Enhancing Sexuality and Body Image
• Helping Children to Cope when a Mother Has Cancer
• Living with Cancer After Treatment Ends.