Health and illness in close relationships / Ashley P. Duggan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duggan, Ashley P., author.

Series:

Advances in personal relationships (Cambridge, England)

Advances in personal relationships

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Care of the sick--Psychological aspects.

Care of the sick.

Sick--Psychology.

Sick.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Health and Illness in Close Relationships provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories and relationship processes. It is the first volume to review and synthesize current empirical evidence and associated theoretical constructs from the literature on health and illness in close relationships across the social and behavioral sciences. In doing so, it provides a unique cross-disciplinary understanding of how health and illness redefine relationships. The volume also maps out an explanatory framework of how the pathways and processes of close relationships pose considerations for resilience and flourishing or, on the contrary, for relational and health decline. It will appeal to researchers and students across psychology, communication, and relationship studies, as well as to health professionals who are interested in understanding how health conditions can shape or be shaped by patients' close relationships.

Contents:

The unique context of health and illness in close relationships

Defining health and illness

Close relationship processes

Attributes of the health and illness context for relationship processes

Health / Illness, the Body, and Relational Processes

Relationships as buffering or exacerbating health / Illness Outcomes

Reconsidering embodiment and language for illness

Relationship theories applied to illness transitions

Integrated theory of health / Illness Trajectories and Relational Processes

Theorizing close relationships and health / Illness Trajectories: Co-created, Co-Generative, and Systematic Processes

Integrated co-generative, systematic processes and considerations for interdisciplinary understanding.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Jan 2019).

ISBN:

1-108-32973-X

1-108-33117-3

1-108-32557-2