Teaching families to cope with childhood asthma.

Tal, Dina; Gil-Spielberg, Rivka; Antonovsky, Helen; Tal, Asher; Moaz, Benyamin

doi:10.1037/h0089053

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“…The program also seemed to corroborate findings of other preventive, structured group approaches (2–4, 11, 14) in which the highly structured nature of the group was found to be beneficial. The provision of information actually resulted in less intellectualization.…”

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confidence: 67%

Creating a network of volunteer resources in a psychoeducational family asthma program.

Meyerstein¹

1992

Family Systems Medicine

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This article describes a short-term, preventive intervention with families of children with asthma. The goals of the program include providing information and education, supporting family coping strengths, and networking with helping resources in the community. The described program can serve preventive as well as remedial functions. Such a program could be quite timely in an age of shrinking social service resources since it is based on the creative networking with existing helping resources and volunteers, rather than on the search to find and fund new ones. It is suggested that such a model may be applicable to other illnesses in which family stress factors come into play.

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Creating a network of volunteer resources in a psychoeducational family asthma program.

Meyerstein¹

1992

Family Systems Medicine

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“…Many chronic conditions require ongoing daily management, A central issue for families is who is responsible for this management, and especially at what ages a child should take responsibility for which tasks associated with hidher health. In the evaluation of a six-session family asthma program teaching child and family coping skills for disease management, children in the treatment group showed significant improvement in responsibility for their daily health care and scored higher on a measure of independence (Tal, Gil-Spielberg, Antonovsky, Tal, & Moaz, 1990). Given the importance of co-regulation of behavior for preadolescents and their parents, especially when the tasks of a chronic illness are added to normal developmental tasks, these findings are encouraging and clearly call for long-term follow-up (with a larger sample) to understand more fully the adolescent transition, which is often problematic for children with chronic illnesses.…”

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The Effectiveness of Family Interventions in the Treatment of Physical Illness

Campbell

Patterson

1995

J Marital Family Therapy

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Although a large body of research demonstrates that the family has a powerful influence on physical health, the evidence for the effectiveness of family interventions in physical illness is less conclusive. Family therapy and other family interventions appear to be most effective in chronic childhood illnesses such as asthma and diabetes. Family interventions have also been shown to be effective in the management of some cardiovascular and neurologic disorders and for the treatment of obesity. Family therapy appears to be more effective than individual therapy for some groups of patients with anorexia nervosa. This research supports the increasingly important role of medical family therapy in the new health cure system. Recommendations for future research are discussed.

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“…(1) SCD is a "disease with family connections that spans countless generations" (Nevergold, 1987); p. 67); (2) children with SCD are embedded in a family context; (3) the physical aspects of the disease, as well as its psychosocial sequelae, impact family functioning; (4) children's healthcare utilization and disease management are largely attributable to the role of their caregivers; and (5) family therapy and other family interventions are effective in the treatment of chronic childhood illnesses, such as asthma (Tal, Gil-Spielberg, Antonovsky, Tal, & Moaz, 1990) and diabetes (Galatzer, Amir, Gil, Karp, & Laron, 1982;Guthrie, Sargent, Speelman, & Parks, 1990;Satin, LaGreca, Zigo, & Skyler, 1989).…”

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