Helping couples cope with women's cancers: an evidence-based approach for practitioners

In 2004, there were approximately 216,000 new cases of invasive breast cancerdiagnosed in the United States. It is the most frequently diagnosed non-skin cancer in women and the incidence rates have continued to increase since 1980.Coping with the stress of the diagnosis is highly stressful for most women, in addition to the emotional, physical, social and existential stresses that accompany the cancer to begin with. There is extensive evidence that emotional and social support positively influences women’s abilities to cope to breast cancer. The first person that a woman with breast cancer turns to for support isher husband or intimate partner. However, as partners of breast cancer patients are struggling with their emotional distress, helplessness, and anxiety with the diagnosis, they often feel inadequate about their ability to help their wives and partners cope. It is important for practitioners to understand this concept of twofold stress. Provides an empirically-based theoretical frameworkand practical interventions for practitioners to use when counseling breast cancer patients and their partners Grew out of treatment protocol developed forthe clinical research study Interventions are very clearly described with step-by-step procedures INDICE: Introduction.- Understanding How Couples Cope with Stress.- Assessing the Couple’s Adjustment to Cancer.- Integrating Tasks of Illness into the Couple’s Daily Routine.- Caring for Children when a Mother has Cancer.- Enhancing Coping Abilities.- Supportive Communication for Couples.- Enhancing Intimacy and Sexual Functioning.- Living with Cancer.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-74802-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 255
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés