Cancer and Self-Help: Bridging the Troubled Waters of Childhood Illness

ISBN-13: 9780299148201 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 464 str.

Mark A. Chesler; Barbara K. Chesney

Opis

Written for and about the special population of parents of children with cancer, this book explores the remarkable effectiveness of self-help groups and profiles their rapid rise as a resource complementing traditional health care. Mark A. Chesler and Barbara K. Chesney draw on their own experience as members of such groups and on a combined 30 years of research on self-help. They provide essential information for families of children with cancer (and other chronic life-threatening illnesses), for health-care professionals working with them, and for scholars of self-help and psychosocial processes in health care - including explanations of how self-help groups function, why they are effective, and how they can be created and maintained.