McCormick and Blair present academics, researchers, and students with a collection of essays and scholarly articles from a variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives on the impact of health issues on individual family members and their family relationships. The eleven contributions that make up the text focus on a wide range of health-related subjects, such as illness in both adults and children, mental health issues in family members, and the impact of long term illness on families. McCormick is a faculty member of Trocaire College, New York. Blair is a faculty member of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Around the globe, families are often faced with a variety of health issues, often as a result of social, political, religious, and economic forces. This multidisciplinary volume addresses the impact these issues have on the family as a unit; how they impact family relationships as well as how the family as a whole responds.
Around the globe, families are often faced with a variety of health issues, often as a result of social, political, religious, and economic forces. Health issues affect not only individual family members, but also impact family relationships and structures. Illnesses, injuries, and health problems can strike at any time, and can have long-lasting consequences for families. When a family member's health is in jeopardy, it can bring about a wide variety of dilemmas. This multidisciplinary volume addresses the impact these issues have on the family as a unit; how they impact family relationships as well as how the family as a whole responds. The chapters cover a wide range of health related topics including illness in adults and children, sexual relationships, mental health, and disability. Through the use of a wide variety of methodological and theoretical perspectives, the family scholars in this volume provide considerable insight into the ways in which families are affected by health, as well as how they adapt to and cope with health-related dilemmas.
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