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The author of this volume draws on real life experiences to present a practical guide to the `why' and `how' of human responses to illness. Margaret Kearney provides practical help to counsellors who may not have been exposed to many aspects of women's experiences of illness; draws extensively from the research literature and her own nursing experience to identify the common ground of women who have moved through the difficulties of illness to satisfactory outcomes.
Learning to Live with it: Integrating Self and Chronic Illness
Learning to Live with it: Integrating Self and Chronic Illness
Chronic illness is progressive, recurrent, and enduring (Gregg, Robertus, & Stone, 1989). Illnesses that come to stay, rather than being short-term visitors, require extensive restructuring of understandings of who we are, what our work and home lives will be like, how people will interact with us, how we will survive financially, and how we will manage daily life around the symptoms of illness and care for its demands. Common chronic illnesses include diabetes, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, kidney disease, high blood pressure, and HIV. Cancer and heart disease become chronic when the acute life threat is controlled but the adjustment to the disease is ongoing. There are ...
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