Coping with Physical Illness

I. Overview and Perspective.- 1. The Crisis of Physical Illness: An Overview.- II. The Crisis of Illness: Stillbirth and Birth Defects.- 2. Chronic Grief.- 3. Maternal Reaction to the Loss of Multiple Births.- 4. Counseling Parents after the Birth of an Infant with Down's Syndrome.- III. The Crisis of Illness: Cancer.- 5. Bearing Cancer.- 6. A Brave Family Faces Up to Breast Cancer.- 7. Family Mediation of Stress.- IV. The Crisis of Illness: Cardiovascular Disease.- 8. Psychological Hazards of Convalescence Following Myocardial Infarction.- 9. Psychological Responses to the Experience of Open-Heart Surgery.- 10. Rehabilitating the Stroke Patient through Patient-Family Groups.- V. The Crisis of Illness: Severe Burns.- 11. Long-Term Adjustment and Adaptation Mechanisms in Severely Burned Adults.- 12. Adjustment Problems of the Family of the Burn Patient.- VI The Crisis of Illness: Chronic Conditions.- 13. Long-Term Physical Illness in Childhood: A Challenge to Psychosocial Adaptation.- 14. Psychological Aspects of the Care of Children with Cystic Fibrosis.- 15. Coping with a Chronic Disability: Psychosocial Observations of Girls with Scoliosis.- VII. The Crisis of Treatment: Unusual Hospital Environments.- 16. The Hospital Environment: Its Impact on the Patient.- 17. Cancer, Emotions, and Nurses.- 18. Coping with Waiting: Psychiatric Intervention and Study in the Waiting Room of a Pediatric Oncology Clinic.- VIII The Crisis of Treatment: Survival by Machine.- 19. The CCU Nurse Has a Pacemaker.- 20. Survival by Machine: The Psychological Stress of Chronic Hemodialysis.- 21. Problems in Adaptation to Maintenance Hemodialysis.- IX. The Crisis of Treatment: Organ Transplants.- 22. The Vicissitudes and Vivification of Viki Vaughn.- 23. Kidney Transplantation and Coping Mechanisms.- 24. Selection of Cardiac Transplant Recipients and Their Subsequent Psychosocial Adjustment.- X. The Crisis of Treatment: Stresses on Staff.- 25. Identity Problems and the Adaptation of Nurses to Severely Burned Children.- 26. The Psychological Stresses of Intensive Care Unit Nursing.- XI The Final Crisis: Death and the Fear of Dying.- 27. I Don't Intend To Die This Year.- 28. Humane Treatment of the Terminally Ill.- 29. Family Tasks and Reactions in the Crisis of Death.- Author Index.