Handbook of Families and Health
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher SAGE Publications, Inc
- Date of Publication 25 August 2005
- ISBN 9780761930419
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages544 pages
- Size 254x177 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This unique Handbook presents a wide range of chapters representing state-of-the-art summaries of research related to couple, marital, and family influences on health. In addition, coverage includes issues related to public policy, healthcare financing, and the conduct of funded research related to families and health.
MoreLong description:
"The list of authors is impressive. Several are widely published and well known over time in the interdisciplinary field of family studies. They represent many of the disciplines whose work comes together in this field."
?Barbara B. Germino, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"First, there is a need for a book like this, one that pulls together recent work on families and health. Second, the chapters are written by some of the best people in the field. . . the coverage is comprehensive and should appeal to a number of different audiences. . . Russ Crane is experienced in this area and a reliable and established scholar. . . . In sum, it is a fine contribution."
?William Doherty, University of Minnesota, Past-President National Council on Family Relations
Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives presents state-of-the-art summaries of research related to couple, marital, and family influences on health. Editors D. Russell Crane and Elaine S. Marshall, along with a distinguished group of contributors across various disciplines, bring complementary perspectives to a wide range of families and health issues. A major goal of this Handbook is to highlight common issues, concerns, and goals across diverse fields and the benefits of bringing multiple perspectives to these issues. A significant portion of the book is devoted to interventions to improve family health.
Key Features:
- Includes contributions from authors that are respected experts from a broad range of disciplines including family studies, marriage and family therapy, nursing and family medicine, gerontology, health psychology and behavioral medicine, social work, and public policy to provide readers with multiple perspectives
- Covers a number of important health issues, including cancer, eating disorders, mental illness, the influence of close relationships on health, and how families cope with chronic illness, caregiving, and end-of-life care and bereavement to address the most significant health issues affecting families
- Devotes special attention to Latino and African American health, childhood poverty, genetically transmitted diseases, infertility, and parental HIV/AIDS to offer insight on how these issues are particularly vital in today's world
- Presents a discussion on "agent-based modeling" to provide readers with a dynamic methodology that will become a significant model in the study of families and close relationships
The Handbook is designed for scholars, graduate students, and practitioners in the field of families and health. It is a cross-disciplinary resource for a variety of programs and departments, including Family Studies, Nursing, Health Psychology, and Public Policy.
"...Though primarily intended as a source and a review of the literature for scholars and investigators...it has much to offer clinicians. It should be of particular value to those who work in the areas of chronic medical illness and mental disorders, death and dying, and health care of minority groups and underserved populations... In summary, this is one of the better works in a long line of scholarly compendiums of research and reviews on the relationship among families, health, and health care. The book moves the field along for investigators and policymakers and is of reasonable interest to clinicians."
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. FAMILY AND HEALTH ISSUES
1. Family Development in the Face of Cancer - Karen Weihs & Mary Politi
2. Hostility, Marriage and the Heart: The Social Psychophysiology of Cardiovascular Risk in Close Relationships - Timothy W. Smith & Kelly M. Glazer
3. Health Issues in Latino Families and Households - Barbara A. Zsembik
4. Identifying Patterns of Managing Chronic Conditions: Family Management Styles - Janet A. Deatrick, Melissa A. Alderfer, George Knafl, & Kathleen Knafl
5. Chronic Disease and African American Families - Sharon Wallace Williams & Peggye Dilworth-Anderson
6. The Pain and the Promise of Unfilled Dreams: Infertile Couples - Lynn Clark Callister
7. Eating Disorders and the Family: A Biopsychosocial Perspective - Margo D. Maine
8. Families and Major Mental Illness - Kim T. Mueser
9. Families, Coping Styles and Health - Arlene L. Vetere & Lynn B Myers
10. Families, Poverty, and Children?s Health - Ronald J. Angel & Jacqueline L. Angel
11 Parental HIV/AIDS: An Empirical Model of the Impact on Children in the United States - Debra A. Murphy, William D. Marelich, Dannie Hoffman & Mark A. Schuster
12. Families, Health, and Genomics - Marcia Van Riper & Agatha M. Gallo
PART II. ISSUES OF AGING AND CAREGIVING
13. Treatment Decisions when Death is Near: The Family?s Role - Tom Finucane
14. Assessing Eldercare Needs: An Application of Marketing Orientation within the Nonprofit Sector - Robert J. Parsons
15. Death, Grief, and Bereavement in Families - Beth Vaughn Cole
PART III. ISSUES FOR POLICY AND RESEARCH
16. Family Centered Health Policy Analysis - Sven E. Wilson
17. Using agent-based modeling to simulate the influence of family level ofstress on disease progression - William A. Griffin
18. Historical Demography of Families and Health: Case Examples - Geraldine Mineau, Ken R. Smith & Lee L. Bean
19. Study of Family Health and the NIH: The Search for Research Support - V. Jeffery Evans
20. Developing Partnerships in Commissioned Research: A Perspective from England - John S.W. Carpenter
21. Swirling Waters: History and Current Choices for Families to Navigate Health Care Financing - Harvey Hillin
PART IV. INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE FAMILY HEALTH
22. Improving Health Through Family Interventions - Thomas L. Campbell
23. Does DNA Determine Destiny? A Role for Medical Family Therapy with Genetic Screening/Testing for Breast Cancer and other Genetic Illnesses - Susan H. McDaniel
24. Interventions with Family Caregivers - Jonathan G. Sandberg
25. Facing what Can and Cannot be Said: Working with Families, Parents and Couples when a Parent has a Serious Illness - Barbara J. Dale & Jenny Altschuler
26. Maximizing Patients? Health Through Engagement with Families - William J. Sieber, Todd M. Edwards, Gene A. Kallenberg & JoEllen Patterson
27. Interventions with Families of an Acutely or Critically Ill Child - Marion E. Broome & Wilma Powell Stuart
End Note: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Families and Health
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
