Cancer and the Family Life Cycle: A Practitioner’s Guide

It is estimated that three out of four families will deal with cancer during the course of a lifetime. In recent years, focus has shifted from quantity of life to quality of life. Families are in need of therapeutic assistance in dealing with treatment side effects, long term treatment, and cancer rehabilitation. This book uses current psychosocial literature in combination with empirical research and clinical accounts of family adaptation to cancer to help professionals and families cope. It is broad in scope and includes families in any life cycle (i.e. single adults, children, adolescents, and later life). This book, with its solid theoretical foundation, will be especially beneficial to any professional who is helping a family to adapt to cancer.