Handbook of Families and Health

Dr. Crane is a Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. He has written one sole author text, Fundamentals of Marital Therapy (1996) published by Taylor Francis (Brunner/Mazel), co-edited another Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Sage, 2006), and over fifty referred journal articles and book chapters. His work has as appeared in leading scholarly journals including Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, Family Relations, American Journal of Family Therapy, Family Process, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Families, Systems and Health, Contemporary Family Therapy and Family Therapy. He has recently completed a six year term (2000-2006) as the Director of the Families Studies Center and Associate Director for Research in the School of Family life at Brigham Young University. In addition, he has completed a six year term (2000-2006; 2006 as Chair) as a member of the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Elaine S. Marshall, R.N., Ph.D., is Professor and Dean of the College of Nursing at Brigham Young University. Her research is on families and health, with particular recent focus on families with children with disabilities. She is author of the book Children's Stress and Coping: A Family Perspective (1993), for which she was awarded the New Professional Book Award by the National Council on Family Relations. She has been designated a Distinguished Writer by Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society for Nursing and has received several awards for writing. She is the author of dozens of refereed journal articles and book chapters. She and her husband John are the parents of nine children.

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. FAMILY AND HEALTH ISSUES 1. Family Development in the Face of Cancer - Karen Weihs & Mary Politi 2. Hostility, Marriage and the Heart: The Social Psychophysiology of Cardiovascular Risk in Close Relationships - Timothy W. Smith & Kelly M. Glazer 3. Health Issues in Latino Families and Households - Barbara A. Zsembik 4. Identifying Patterns of Managing Chronic Conditions: Family Management Styles - Janet A. Deatrick, Melissa A. Alderfer, George Knafl, & Kathleen Knafl 5. Chronic Disease and African American Families - Sharon Wallace Williams & Peggye Dilworth-Anderson 6. The Pain and the Promise of Unfilled Dreams: Infertile Couples - Lynn Clark Callister 7. Eating Disorders and the Family: A Biopsychosocial Perspective - Margo D. Maine 8. Families and Major Mental Illness - Kim T. Mueser 9. Families, Coping Styles and Health - Arlene L. Vetere & Lynn B Myers 10. Families, Poverty, and Children's Health - Ronald J. Angel & Jacqueline L. Angel 11 Parental HIV/AIDS: An Empirical Model of the Impact on Children in the United States - Debra A. Murphy, William D. Marelich, Dannie Hoffman & Mark A. Schuster 12. Families, Health, and Genomics - Marcia Van Riper & Agatha M. Gallo PART II. ISSUES OF AGING AND CAREGIVING 13. Treatment Decisions when Death is Near: The Family's Role - Tom Finucane 14. Assessing Eldercare Needs: An Application of Marketing Orientation within the Nonprofit Sector - Robert J. Parsons 15. Death, Grief, and Bereavement in Families - Beth Vaughn Cole PART III. ISSUES FOR POLICY AND RESEARCH 16. Family Centered Health Policy Analysis - Sven E. Wilson 17. Using agent-based modeling to simulate the influence of family level of stress on disease progression - William A. Griffin 18. Historical Demography of Families and Health: Case Examples - Geraldine Mineau, Ken R. Smith & Lee L. Bean 19. Study of Family Health and the NIH: The Search for Research Support - V. Jeffery Evans 20. Developing Partnerships in Commissioned Research: A Perspective from England - John S.W. Carpenter 21. Swirling Waters: History and Current Choices for Families to Navigate Health Care Financing - Harvey Hillin PART IV. INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE FAMILY HEALTH 22. Improving Health Through Family Interventions - Thomas L. Campbell 23. Does DNA Determine Destiny? A Role for Medical Family Therapy with Genetic Screening/Testing for Breast Cancer and other Genetic Illnesses - Susan H. McDaniel 24. Interventions with Family Caregivers - Jonathan G. Sandberg 25. Facing what Can and Cannot be Said: Working with Families, Parents and Couples when a Parent has a Serious Illness - Barbara J. Dale & Jenny Altschuler 26. Maximizing Patients' Health Through Engagement with Families - William J. Sieber, Todd M. Edwards, Gene A. Kallenberg & JoEllen Patterson 27. Interventions with Families of an Acutely or Critically Ill Child - Marion E. Broome & Wilma Powell Stuart End Note: Interdisciplinary Perspectives of Families and Health Author Index Subject Index About the Editors About the Contributors

"...Though primarily intended as a source and a review of the literature for scholars and investigators...it has much to offer clinicians. It should be of particular value to those who work in the areas of chronic medical illness and mental disorders, death and dying, and health care of minority groups and underserved populations... In summary, this is one of the better works in a long line of scholarly compendiums of research and reviews on the relationship among families, health, and health care. The book moves the field along for investigators and policymakers and is of reasonable interest to clinicians." -- Thomas L. Schwenk, M.D. * NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE * "Crane and Marshall have edited a rich text of chapters. Geared toward students, researchers, and practitioners from different health-related disciplines, the text brings attention to an understudied and at times undervalued component of healthcare-the family. Major strengths of this book include the range of issues covered, a highly readable writing style (which is often hard to achieve in an edited text), wide representation of different disciplines, and a strong focus on the family as the unit of care. The editing is so skillful that readers will value it as a resource and may find themselves asking at the end, "When it the next edition coming out and how can I get my work included?" -- Jennifer Hodgson