Living with Illness:: Psychosocial Challenges focuses on developing and strengthening understanding of the illness experience. It encourages students to critically appraise conventional approaches to understanding and caring for those who are ill, to empower readers to off true holistic care and to, where appropriate, change nursing practice in light of current research findings. Traditionally nurses have drawn on knowledge from sociology and psychology as two separate but related disciplines to nursing, leaving the beginning level nurse to relate, integrate and translate knowledge gained into nursing practice. Living with Illness combines, in a unique way, sociological and psychological perspectives to creatively represent psychosocial knowledge that is innovative and directly applicable to contemporary nursing practice.
1. Introduction - Cath Rogers-Clark, Kris Martin-McDonald & Alexandra McCarthy 2. Health, wellness, illness, healing and holism, and Nursing - Beverly Taylor, Southern Cross University 3. Multicultural perspectives on health and illness - Don Gorman & Odette Best, University of Southern Queensland 4. Class, poverty and illness: intersecting links - Jan Horsfall, Flinders University 5. Constructions of chronic illness - Sally Wellard, University of Ballarat & Lenore Bedoes, Deakin University 6. Gender and the experience of health and illness - Kathleen Fahy, University of Newcastle 7. Ageing: living through health and illness - Colleen Cartwright, University of Queensland 8. Living with illness in rural and remote communities - Desley Hegney, University of Southern Queensland 9. Journeys through illness: suffering and resilience - Kris Martin-McDonald & Cath Rogers-Clark 10. Living with illness: pain and fatigue - Alexandra McCarthy 11. Living with loss and grief - Cynthia Schulz, La Trobe University & Elizabeth Bruce, Counselling Psychologist, Melbourne 12. Supportive partnerships - Kate White, Edith Cowan University 13. To care for others means first caring for ones self - Cath Rogers-Clark 14. Conclusion - Cath Rogers-Clark, Kris Martin-McDonald & Alexandra McCarthy
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