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Helping Couples Cope with Women's Cancers

An Evidence-Based Approach for Practitioners

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Paperback, 229 blz. | Engels
Springer US | 0e druk, 2010
ISBN13: 9781441945143
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At last, here is a comprehensive guide for practitioners who work with breast cancer patients and their families. It includes a series of psychosocial interventions to be used with couples during early stage breast cancer. There is extensive evidence that emotional and social support positively influences women’s abilities to cope to breast cancer. The first person that a woman with breast cancer turns to for support is her husband or intimate partner. However, as partners of breast cancer patients are struggling with their emotional distress, they often feel inadequate about their ability to help their wives and partners cope. It is important for practitioners to understand this concept of twofold stress.

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ISBN13:9781441945143
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:229
Uitgever:Springer US
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Introduction.-I. Assessment.-Toward an Understanding of How Couples Cope with Cancer.-The Nature of Cancer and its Psychosocial Challenges.-WhyWork with Couples?-Assessing the Couple’s Adjustment to Cancer.-II.Intervention.-Helping Couples Cope with Cancer.-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

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