Yuko Kawanishi

Families Coping with Mental Illness (eBook, PDF)

Stories from the US and Japan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

When someone develops a mental illness, the impact on the family is often profound. The most common treatment processes, however, focus on the patient while the loved ones are relegated to subordinate roles and sometimes even viewed as barriers to effective recovery. This book approaches these issues from the family's perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136770609
• Artikelnr.: 49351429

Autorenporträt

Yuko Kawanishi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the International Student Exchange Center, Tokyo Gakugei University, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Temple University (Japan), and an Affiliated Scholar, East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California. After receiving her Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA in 1993, Dr. Kawanishi researched and traveled in the United States and Japan.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Overview. Mental Illness in the
Family: What Does it Mean. Part II: The First Signs of Mental Illness: How
the Symptoms Emerged and Became Permanent. Early Impressions. Family
Response and Family Feelings. Part III: What Happens to the Family System?
Intrafamily Interactions: The Marital and Parent-child Relationships. Other
Dimensions of Family Interactions. Part IV: Learning to Understand the New
Reality of Illness. Why Did the Illness Strike? Families Look for Meaning.
A Better Understanding of Chronic Mental Illness: Accepting Reality. Part
V: Living with Mental Illness: Sources of Strength. Becoming Active Agents:
Doing Something. Mental Coping. How Can They Go On?