Coping Strategies for Burn Survivors and Their Families

by Norman R. Bernstein M.D. (Editor), Alan Jeffry Breslau M.S.Ch. (Editor), Jean Ann Graham Ph.D. (Editor)

Overview

Each year approximately two million people who are burbaned require medical treatment. Seventy thousand require hospitalization, and nine thousand die from their injuries. Coping Strategies provides the burban patient and his/her family a unique source of information and insight on the effects of disfigurement, sexuality, cosmetics, prosthetics, coping with stress, anxiety and guilt, and about employment strategies. These topics are addressed by professionals and survivors and parents of survivors—uniting all points of view and making this work important reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275924072
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/03/1988
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Norman R. Bernstein, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Alan Jeffry Breslau, MSChE, is founder and Executive Director of the Phoenix Society, Inc.

Jean Ann Graham, PhD, is a clinical associate in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Introduction by John R. Thompson
Part I: Disfigurement
Part II: Emotional Responses
Part III: Sexuality
Part IV: Cosmetology and Prostheses: Building Self-esteem
Part V: Parenting Burbaned Children

Editorial Reviews

These topics are addressed by professionals, survivors, and and parents of survivors—uniting all points of view and making this work important reading.” —The Bulletin of Burban Injuries

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