Cancer and the Family Caregiver [electronic resource] : Distress and Coping

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbar, Ora.

Contributor:

Ben-Zur, Hasida.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Patients--Care.

Cancer--Psychological aspects.

Caregivers.

Stress (Psychology).

Local Subjects:

Cancer--Patients--Care.

Cancer--Psychological aspects.

Caregivers.

Stress (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Springfield : Charles C Thomas, 2002.

Summary:

This book is the product of the authors' research and clinical practice in the field of psycho-oncology, stress, and coping for a period of over twenty years. It fills a gap that exists in the discussion of caregiver distress felt by both cancer researchers and psycho-oncologists in the vital area of predicting, acknowledging, and alleviating the distress of caregivers of cancer patients, and it focuses on the caregivers of cancer patients in various phases of the illness. The discussion of cancer-patient caregivers is divided into three aspects: theoretical (Part 1), research (Part 2), and pr

Contents:

CANCER AND THE FAMILY CAREGIVER; CONTENTS; TABLES; Chapter 1 CAREGIVERS OF ILL PERSONS; Chapter 2 THE CAREGIVER OF THECANCER PATIENT; Chapter 3 MEASUREMENT ISSUES; Chapter 4 PRIMARY-CAREGIVER DISTRESS:THREE STUDIES; DISTRESS OF SPOUSES OF GYNECOLOGICAL CANCER PATIENTS; DISTRESS OF SPOUSES OF ELDERLY CANCER PATIENTS; Chapter 5 PRIMARY CAREGIVER COPING WITH BREAST CANCER; Chapter 6 SECONDARY CAREGIVER DISTRESS:PARENTS OF ADULT CANCER PATIENTS; Chapter 7 THE SPOUSE CAREGIVER AND THE BEREAVEMENT PROCESS; Chapter 8 PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION; Chapter 9 DOCTOR-CANCER PATIENT-FAMILY

Chapter 10 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONSNAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-398-08367-3

OCLC:

689997381