Children and Young People's Response to Parental Illness: A Handbook of Assessment and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138461475 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

David Morley

Opis

This book provides an up-to-date guide, for a variety of professionals, on how a range of conditions might impact upon children and young people. It focuses on children's and young people's response to their parent's condition and the challenges in parenting.

Spis treści

1. Children’s and young people’s response to parental illness: Introduction and overview 2. Parental multiple sclerosis 3. Parental Parkinson’s disease 4. Parental acquired brain injury 5. Parental depression 6. Parental alcoholism 7. Parental cancer 8. Parental HIV/AIDS: From psychopathology to resilience 9. Underinvestigated parental conditions: An overview 10. Disclosure of parental illness to children: Examples from HIV/AIDS 11. A family- centred approach to parental illness 12. Measuring the impact of parental illness

O autorze

David Morley, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist in the Health Services Research Unit which is housed within the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the impact of parental illness, with a particular focus on the offspring of people with Parkinson’s disease. Dr Morley also has significant interests in outcomes measurement and has contributed to the development of a number of instruments.