Health and illness in close relationships / Ashley P. Duggan.

Health and Illness in Close Relationships provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories and relationship processes. It is the first volume to review and synthesize current empirical evidence and associated theoretical constructs from the liter...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Duggan, Ashley P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:Advances in personal relationships (Cambridge, England)
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Table of Contents:
  • The unique context of health and illness in close relationships
  • Defining health and illness
  • Close relationship processes
  • Attributes of the health and illness context for relationship processes
  • Health / Illness, the Body, and Relational Processes
  • Relationships as buffering or exacerbating health / Illness Outcomes
  • Reconsidering embodiment and language for illness
  • Relationship theories applied to illness transitions
  • Integrated theory of health / Illness Trajectories and Relational Processes
  • Theorizing close relationships and health / Illness Trajectories: Co-created, Co-Generative, and Systematic Processes
  • Integrated co-generative, systematic processes and considerations for interdisciplinary understanding.