This book uses current psychosocial literature in combination with empirical research and clinical accounts of family adaptation to help professionals and families cope with the impact of cancer. It is broad in scope and includes families in any life cycle (i.e. single adults, children, adolescents, and later life). This book, with its solid theoretical foundation, will be especially beneficial to any professional who is helping a family to adapt to cancer.
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""Cancer and the Family Life Cycle: A Practitioner's Guide is rich with resources and highly readable. The authors integrate two conceptually useful models--stages of dealing with cancer and stages of the family life cycle--in an exceptionally clear way... This book should be valuable both to experienced clinicians and to students in any discipline helping patients and their families cope with cancer."
-Jean L. Kisteller, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Indiana State University
"The book engages and teaches the clinician by tracing the adjustment of several families as they go through the family life cycle with the disease. This device brings the theoretical and technical points to life in a vibrant way. Drs. Veach, Nicholas and Barton have provided a brilliant addition to the libraries of psycho-oncologists which will be appreciated for years to come."
-Steven D. Passik, Ph.D., Director, Oncology Symptom Control and Research, Community Cancer Care Inc., and Professorof Psychology, Indiana University School of Medicine
"I highly recommend this book as a reference tool to the health professional who works with families in any phase of the clinical course of cancer."
-Robin Baldwin, RN, BSN, National Cancer Institute
-Jean L. Kisteller, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Indiana State University
"The book engages and teaches the clinician by tracing the adjustment of several families as they go through the family life cycle with the disease. This device brings the theoretical and technical points to life in a vibrant way. Drs. Veach, Nicholas and Barton have provided a brilliant addition to the libraries of psycho-oncologists which will be appreciated for years to come."
-Steven D. Passik, Ph.D., Director, Oncology Symptom Control and Research, Community Cancer Care Inc., and Professorof Psychology, Indiana University School of Medicine
"I highly recommend this book as a reference tool to the health professional who works with families in any phase of the clinical course of cancer."
-Robin Baldwin, RN, BSN, National Cancer Institute
About the Author
Theresa A. Veach, Ph.D., obtained her doctorate in counseling psychology from Ball State University. She currently works with individuals and families at St. Joesph Hospital and Health Center in Kokomo, Indiana. She is a consultant for the department of radiation oncology, the Higgins Center for Women's Wellness, the hospital's pain program, St. Joseph at Home Hospice, and the palliative care task force. Donald R. Nicholas, Ph.D., is Professor of Counseling Psychology at Ball State University and serves as Associate Director of Psycho-Oncology at Ball Cancer Center of Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Indiana. He has worked with cancer patients and their families for over 15 years, while also establishing an active research and training program through which over 35 doctoral-level counseling psychology students have received training in psycho-oncology. Marci A. Barton, Ph.D., received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Ball State University. She is currently the Director of the Cancer Patient Support Program at Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston, West Virginia. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, West Virginia University School Medicine, Charleston Division. Dr. Barton is actively involved in psycho-oncology research and presenting at national conferences.
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This book is very informative,
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This review is from: Cancer and the Family Life Cycle: A Practioner's Guide (Hardcover)
This book is great because it discusses the family roles at different points in time. It will go from diagnosis, to treatment, remission, and reoccurence and describe the changes of the roles depending on different family structures such as a single parent with an ill child, etc. This book has graphs and genograms that help to illustrate the changes that occur. I think this book is good for people who are giving therapy to a family with cancer involved and for people who are interested in different case studies and family dynamics.
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More than 8 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed worldwide during the course of one year (Parkin, Pisani, & Ferlay, 1999). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
terminal illness phase, cancer source book for nurses, newly forming couple, survivorship phase, newly forming system, developmental momentum, centripetal momentum, recurrence phase, centrifugal momentum, resource vacuum, initial diagnostic phase, psychosocial consultation, supportive oncology, bereavement phase, rehabilitation phase, marital subsystem, survival phase, changing family life cycle, launching children, single young adult, cancer rehabilitation, medical variables, terminally ill family member, psychosocial considerations, overall family functioning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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More than 8 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed worldwide during the course of one year (Parkin, Pisani, & Ferlay, 1999). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
terminal illness phase, cancer source book for nurses, newly forming couple, survivorship phase, newly forming system, developmental momentum, centripetal momentum, recurrence phase, centrifugal momentum, resource vacuum, initial diagnostic phase, psychosocial consultation, supportive oncology, bereavement phase, rehabilitation phase, marital subsystem, survival phase, changing family life cycle, launching children, single young adult, cancer rehabilitation, medical variables, terminally ill family member, psychosocial considerations, overall family functioning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, American Cancer Society, Oxford University Press, Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, Palamara Mesagno, Somerville House Books Limited, Stephens Mills, Assessing Psychosocial Considerations, Saunders Company, Basic Books, United States, African Americans, Gardner Press, Barton Burke, The Effects of Living, The Haworth Press, Cancer Practice, Needham Heights, Kaplan De-Nour, National Cancer Institute, Sommerville House Books Limited, Von Kerekjarto, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Bantam Books, External Systems Hospital New!
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- Family Life Cycle by Elizabeth A Carter on page 17, page 19, and page 29
- Breast Cancer: Daughters Tell Their Stories by Julianne S Oktay on page 52, and page 71
- Social Science S/G on page 117
- Changing Family Life Cycle: Framework for Family Therapy by Elizabeth A. Carter on page 19
- Cancer and the Family , 2nd Edition by Lea Baider on page 89
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