Helping Couples Cope with Women's Cancers An Evidence-Based Approach for Practitioners

Close relationships can be vital to a woman's recovery from breast or gynecological cancer and the myriad stressors that accompany diagnosis and treatment. Helping Couples Cope with Women's Cancer shows readers not only how to enlist the patient's closest support person in coping with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kayser, Karen (-)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Scott, Jennifer L.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer US 2008.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b43711339*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Assessment: Toward an Understanding of How Couples Cope with Cancer
  • The Nature of Cancer and Its Psychosocial Challenges
  • Why Work with Couples?
  • Assessing the Couple's Adjustment to Cancer
  • Intervention: Helping Couples Cope with Women's Cancers
  • Integrating Tasks of Illness into the Couple's Daily Routine
  • Building Cognitive Coping Skills
  • Communicating Support
  • Expanding the Couple's Coping Skills
  • Enhancing Sexuality and Body Image
  • Helping Children to Cope when a Mother Has Cancer
  • Living with Cancer After Treatment Ends.