Coping with Chronic Illness: Theories, Issues and Lived Experiences - Softcover

Bonino, Silvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367421526 ISBN 13: 9780367421526

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This valuable book combines psychological theories of health with the lived experience of coping with chronic health conditions, focusing on the "ill person" as an actor of their own development. It draws on perspectives from developmental and health psychology alongside the author’s personal experience of chronic illness.

Bonino considers all aspects of living with illness, from issues that impact on everyday functioning such as pain and fatigue, to the rebuilding of identity through meaningful new goals and effective actions, and the development of therapeutic relationships. Psychological theories are interweaved with descriptions of lived encounters to center the experience of the person living alongside illness and provide insightful points of reference that everyone could try to use when facing the challenges of chronic disease in the course of their daily lives.

Coping with Chronic Illness is important reading for those living with chronic health conditions, as well as for healthcare professionals looking to gain awareness of the psychological issues caused by living with illness. It is also of interest for postgraduate students of health psychology.

About this title

About the Author

Silvia Bonino is Professor Emeritus of Developmental Psychology in the Department of Psychology of the University of Turin (Italy), where she founded the Laboratory of Developmental Psychology. She is the author of Nature and Culture in Intimate Partner Violence: Sex, Love and Equality, (Routledge, 2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0367421526
• ISBN 13: 9780367421526
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196