Ranjan Roy

Social Support, Health, and Illness

A Complicated Relationship

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Synthesizing insights from the latest research findings, Social Support, Health, and Illness offers a comprehensive look at the modifying and mitigating factors of intimacy on the outcomes of disease.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781442640351
• ISBN-10: 1442640359
• Artikelnr.: 28195408

Autorenporträt

Ranjan Roy is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work and the Department of Clinical Health Psychology at the University of Manitoba.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Social Support and Health: An Overview
2 Chronic Childhood Physical Illnesses: Special Challenges
3 Spousal and Long-term Partnership Support: How Critical Is It?
4 Chronic Pain and Social Support
5 Depression in Perspective
6 Dementia and Social Support: Who Cares for the Caregivers?
7 Breast Cancer and Social Support: Special Challenges
8 HIV/AIDS and Social Support: A Troubled Zone
9 Social Support and Network Interventions
10 Afterthoughts
Index