Family Issues in Pediatric Psychology

by Roberts; Michael C.

• ISBN13: 9780805808544
• ISBN10: 080580854X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Over a relatively brief period of time pediatric psychology as an organized field has evolved and expanded as a science and in clinical practice. Reflecting a newer focus on family roles in health and illness, the present volume is relevant to a variety of fields because family issues and pediatric medicine inherently interact with numerous disciplines and approaches. This volume fills the need for a resource indicating research advancements that links pediatric psychology and pediatrics with family issues. The articles -- selected from special issues of Pediatric Psychology-- cover such topics as chronic illnesses and handicapping conditions, failure to thrive, spina bifida, recurrent abdominal pain, and health promotion. These pediatric conditions are considered in terms of concomitant psychosocial effects on parents and siblings, family resources and environment, adjustment and maladjustment, interventions and programming utilizing and assisting families.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Family Issues in Pediatric Psychology: An Overview	p. 1
References	p. 21
Individual Disorders	p. 25
Families of Young Adolescents Who Have Survived Cancer: Social-Emotional Adjustment, Adaptability, and Social Support1	p. 27
Relationships Among Life Stress, Perceived Family Environment, and the Psychological Distress of Spina Bifida Adolescents	p. 45
Children with Recurrent Abdominal Pain and Their Parents: More Somatic Complaints, Anxiety, and Depression Than Other Patient Families?1	p. 67
The Family Environment in Nonorganic Failure to Thrive: A Controlled Study	p. 81
Aids and Hemophilia: Implications for Interventions with Families	p. 95
Family Variables and Disease Management in Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis	p. 111
Noncategorical Disorders	p. 127
Family Resources as Resistance Factors for Psychological Maladjustment in Chronically III and Handicapped Children	p. 129
The Social Environment and the Adaptation of Mothers of Physically Handicapped Children	p. 147
Adjustment of Siblings of Handicapped Children: A Comparison1	p. 165
References	p. 177
The Role of Maternal Employment and Depression in the Psychological Adjustment of Chronically Ill, Mentally Retarded, and Well Children1	p. 181
Intervention Programs and Issues	p. 195
Diabetes in Adolescence: Effects of Multifamily Group Intervention and Parent Simulation of Diabetes1	p. 197
Familial Similarities of Changes in Cognitive, Behavioral, and Physiological Variables in a Cardiovascular Health Promotion Program	p. 215
Anxiety in Parents Seeking Pediatric Care1	p. 231
a Theorical Perspective	p. 237
Family Context in Pediatric Psychology: A Transactional Perspective	p. 239
Author Index	p. 261
Subject Index	p. 275
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