Dynamics of Intergenerational Caregiving : A Study of Attachment and Expressed Emotion among Children Caring for Parents with Dementia

ISBN-13: 9783639062250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 104 str.

Cory Chen

Opis

Providing care for individuals with dementia is amongthe most difficult challenges facing families caring for olderpartners and parents. Although some aspects of the caregivingexperience are consistent across families, there is significantvariability in the ways families experience, perceive, interact and cope withthe task of caring for their family member. Expressed emotion(EE), the degree of criticism or emotional over-involvement that acaregiver expresses towards their care-recipient, serves as auseful framework for characterizing the caregivingenvironment and is predictive of care-recipients outcomes across avariety of conditions. However, it remains unclear why somecaregivers respond to care-recipients with high EE and others donot. One construct that may play a role in patterns of EE isattachment. A significant body of literature has demonstrated thatattachment guides caregiving behavior across a variety ofrelationships. This book presents a study that examines the complexrelationships between attachment and EE.

O autorze

Cory K. Chen, PhD completed his doctorate in clinical psychology
at the University of
North Carolina - Chapel Hill and his internship at New York
University/Bellevue
Hospital Center. He is currently a Staff Psychologist at the VA
New York Harbor
Healthcare System, New York City.