When a family member is diagnosed with cancer or faces challenges from living with a disability, the impact reverberates throughout the family, leaving no one untouched. How should a clinician help the parents of a child who is critically ill? How can a marital relationship be skewed and a child’s well-being compromised when a parent becomes permanently disabled—and how can a clinician best intervene in such cases? In presenting his clinically powerful Family Systems Illness Model, John Rolland addresses these and other vital questions of importance to families in which there is a member with a major illness or disability.Rolland’s integrative treatment model is based on his experience with more than five hundred families, first as Founding Director of the Center for Illness in Families while at Yale University and currently at the University of Chicago. He applies it to a broad range of disorders that affect adults and children over the entire course of the life cycle. Richly illustrated with varied case examples, Families, Illness, and Disability is unique in describing this comprehensive model and in providing a highly practical guide to effective intervention.Through a normative, preventive lens, the book’s useful framework shows how the biopsychosocial demands of different illness and disabilities create particular strains on the family, how the stages of an illness affect the family, how family legacies of loss and illness shape their coping responses, and how family belief systems play a crucial role in the ability to manage health and illness. Practitioners will learn how to help families live well despite physical limitations and the uncertainties of threatened loss, how to encourage empowering rather than shame-based illness narratives, how to rewrite rigid caregiving scripts, how to encourage intimacy and maximize autonomy for all family members. With its superb integration of individual and family modalities, this outstanding book is ideal for all health and mental health professionals and students who work with illness, disability, and loss in a wide variety of clinical settings.
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John S. Rolland, M.D., is clinical associate professor of psychiatry and founding codirector of the Center for Family Health at the University of Chicago and its affiliate postgraduate and couples therapy training institute, the Chicago Center for Family Health. He is also a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine.
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John Rolland's book taps into the intersectional and ever changing relationship of illness, family, and time. Rolland presents a thorough and well-organized theory and framework for clinicians to use for assesssment and treatment. Rolland reaches his purpose in the provision of a highly developed and sensitive model that surpasses other models that are stagnant and unidimensional. Rolland "educates" the reader through use of charts, visual illustrations, case examples, and sample questions. This enhances the learning experience of the reader. Rolland fortifies social work by presentation of a model that accentuates the nature of social service; looking at the broad implications of change over time and the adaptability or "stuck" that a family may experience in relation to disability or illness. he recognizes the difference in "family" and the stigma of illness or disability. His weakness comes out of the very nature of the family life cycle as a traditional role in the dominant society. Rolland finishes his masterful book with a piece de resistance; the guided experience of exploration of personal values and healthcare experiences and the impact upon professional practice. Overall, Rolland's book delivers what the author and reader expect and more.
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FROM A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE, any effective clinical model describing the interaction of chronic disorders and the family must redefine illness and disability in systems terms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chosocial demands, anticipatory loss, psychosocial typology, initial crisis phase, multigenerational assessment, families facing illness, illness life cycle, psychosocial type, interminable grief, normal family processes, multigenerational patterns, psychosocial terms, ill member, multigenerational legacies, ill partner, lower cohesion, framework for family therapy, disengaged family, caregiving needs, caregiving system, multifamily groups, family adaptability, family belief systems, family genogram Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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chosocial demands, anticipatory loss, psychosocial typology, initial crisis phase, multigenerational assessment, families facing illness, illness life cycle, psychosocial type, interminable grief, normal family processes, multigenerational patterns, psychosocial terms, ill member, multigenerational legacies, ill partner, lower cohesion, framework for family therapy, disengaged family, caregiving needs, caregiving system, multifamily groups, family adaptability, family belief systems, family genogram Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Family Life Cycle by Elizabeth A Carter on page 158, and page 184
- Changing Family Life Cycle: Framework for Family Therapy by Elizabeth A. Carter on page 158
- The Stress of Life by Hans Selye in Front Matter
- Family Health Psychology (Applied Psychology: Social Issues and Questions) by T. John Akamatsu in Front Matter
- Anatomy of an Illness by Norman Cousins in Front Matter
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- Gendering Disability by Bonnie G. Smith on page 37, and page 43
- Brief Mental Health Interventions for the Family Physician by Michael V. Bloom on page 247, and page 259
- Working with the Dying and Bereaved: Systemic Approaches to Therapeutic Work by Pauline Sutcliffe on page 26
- Another Morning: Voices of Truth and Hope from Mothers with Cancer by Linda Blachman in Back Matter
- Bridges for Healing : Intregrating Family Therapy and Psychopharmacology by Roy Resnikoff in Back Matter
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