Helping Couples and Families Navigate Illness and Disability: An Integrated Approach 1st Edition PDF

Ebook details:

Author: John S. Rolland

Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Guilford Press; 1st edition (May 16, 2018)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1462534953

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1462534951

Couples and families face daunting challenges as they cope with serious illness and disability. This book gives clinicians a roadmap for helping affected individuals and their loved ones live well with various child, adult, and later-life conditions. John S. Rolland describes ways to intervene with emerging challenges throughout long-term or life-threatening disorders. Using vivid case examples, he illustrates how clinicians can help families harness their strengths for positive adaptation and relational growth. Rolland's integrated systemic approach is useful for preventive screening, consultations, brief counseling, more intensive therapy, and multifamily groups, across healthcare settings and disciplines. This book significantly advances the clinical utility of Rolland’s earlier landmark volume, Families, Illness, and Disability.

About the Author:

John S. Rolland, MD, MPH, is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is also Co-Founder and Executive Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Family Health and Director of its Families, Illness, and Collaborative Healthcare Program. Internationally recognized for his integrated conceptual model, clinical work, and research on couple and family psychosocial challenges with serious health conditions, Dr. Rolland is a coeditor of Individuals, Families, and the New Era of Genetics. He is a past president of the American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA); a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; a Senior Fellow of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Family Committee; past board member of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association; and former Fellow of the Yale University Institute for Social and Policy Studies. Dr. Rolland receives the Innovative Contributions to Family Therapy Award from AFTA and the Blanche F. Ittleson Award from the American Orthopsychiatric Association (now the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice). He is an active speaker and consultant on family-oriented systemic approaches to illness and disability challenges.