Infants in Crisis: How Parents Cope With Newborn Intensive Care and Its Aftermath - Rilegato

Rowe, Jonelle C.; Tennen, Howard

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ISBN 10: 0387973923 ISBN 13: 9780387973920

Casa editrice: Springer Verlag, 1990

Riassunto

The emotional impact of having a newborn hospitalized in an intensive care unit is immense. The parents' perceptions of the child's fragility and of their role in the vulnerable child's life represent important facts of the crisis in which the infant and the parents are involved. Such early stress marks the child's later development which may include chronic ailments and learning disabilities. This book explores a whole spectrum of psychological questions raised by the birth of medically fragile infants, from the parents' ability to restore a sense of meaning and mastery in the face of the profound challenges confronting them, to the importance of social support and coping strategies, and finally, to the crisis of newborn intensive care in the context of the marital relationship.

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Contenuti

1 Introduction.- The Psychological Challenges of Newborn Intensive Care.- Plan of the Book.- 2 Background and Description of the Study.- The Medical Setting of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit.- The Health and Development of Newborn Intensive Care Unit Graduates.- Methods and Procedures.- 3 The Search for Meaning.- Order and Purpose.- Benefits and Gains.- Downward Comparison.- 4 The Search for Mastery.- The Benefits of Personal Control.- Retrospective Control Appraisals.- Expectancies of Control Over Childrens’ Outcome.- Expectancies of Control Over Future Pregnancies.- Comforting Alternatives to the Perception of Personal Control.- 5 The Search for Causes.- Causal Searching.- A Taxonomy of Causal Beliefs.- Two Types of Self-Blame for Aversive Events.- Consequences of Self-Attributions.- Behavioral Self-Blame and Guilt.- The Emotional Costs of Blaming Others.- 6 Coping Strategies in the Hospital.- A Definition of Coping.- Coping and Adjustment to Stressful Events.- Descriptive Findings.- Correlates of Coping Strategies.- Coping Predictors of Mother and Child Outcomes.- 7 The Search for Social Support.- The Benefits of Social Support.- Appraisals of Support During the Hospitalization.- The Need for Support.- Appraisals of Support After Discharge.- Social Network Correlates of Adaptation at 6 Months.- Social Network Predictors of 18-Month Outcomes.- Coping Strategies and Support.- 8 Mothers’ Remembrances of Newborn Intensive Care.- Memories of the Hospitalization.- Are Memories Perceived as Helpful or Harmful?.- The Emotional Significance of Involuntary Memories.- Predicting Mothers’ Emotional Response to Reminders.- Intrusive Thoughts and Avoidance of Reminders.- 9 Mothers, Fathers, and Couples.- Distress and Well-Being.- Appraisals of Control, Outcome, and Meaning.- Coping Strategies.- Appraisals of Coping Differences.- Appraisals of Social Support.- Perceived Impact on the Marital Relationship.- 10 Summary and Discussion.- Integrative Analyses.- Review and Discussion.- Meeting Parents’ Need for Support.- Implications for Helping.- References.

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• Editore: Springer Verlag
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0387973923
• ISBN 13: 9780387973920
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 166