Families Coping with Mental Illness Stories from the US and Japan By: Yuko Kawanishi Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415861199, 0415861195 eText ISBN: 9781136770678, 1136770674 Edition: 1st Pages: 224 Copyright year: 2006 Format: EPUB Available from $ 21.18 USD SKU 9781136770678R90 When someone develops a mental illness, the impact on the family is often profound. The most common treatment processes, however, focus on the patient while the loved ones are relegated to subordinate roles and sometimes even viewed as barriers to effective recovery. Families Coping with Mental Illness approaches these issues from the family's perspective, studying how they react to initial diagnosis, adjust to new circumstances, and cope with the situation. Through her own original research in the United States and Japan, Kawanishi presents a cross-cultural experience of mental illness that examine both psychological and soci Download ebook: https://ouo.io/u4dbFF
