Family Health Psychology

This volume is a result of the 1991 Third Annual Kent Psychology Forum and it investigates the ways families affect and are affected by health and illness.

Family health psychology - an introduction and overview. Part 1 Families and prevention: health cognitions in families; the role of families in the prevention of physical and mental health problems; preventive intervention and family coping with a child's life - threatening or terminal illness. Part 2 Family systems, social ecology and chronic pediatric illness - conceptual, methodological and intervention issues: couples coping with chronic and catastrophic illness; physical and psychological illness as correlates of marital disruption. Part 3 Families and intervention: integrating theroy and practice in psychological intervention with families of children with a chronic illness; family systems medicine - new opportunities for psychologists; family therapy in the context of AIDS.