2011, Number 4
Familiar perception of the chronic illness
Pérez SL Mercado RMX, Espinosa PIM
Language: Spanish
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Page: 268-294
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ABSTRACT
The research work presented below attempts in the first instance to analyze the influence of disease diagnosis, family dynamics through the recognition of the significance of the diagnosis of chronic illness in the family life of sick so you can evaluate the resources family, community or social support available to the family, to assess the relationship between family and health professionals, identifying specific needs for intervention in the family, as well as identify potential areas of prevention of chronic degenerative subsequent generations of the family and the couple achieve healthy Identify styles within it. The following research work emanating from the field of health psychology which is interested generally in the system of healthcare: prevention, promotion and treatment, as well as in formulating policy on health care. The health psychology is now a branch of psychology of greater vitality. Appeared in the late 70s, in a few years it has gradually become the developed countries in a field of central intervention for the psychologist. But even in the area of health are still gives the sense of treatment when the disease is already present, seen it in terms of the physiological aspect, leaving aside the issue that often surrounds the experience of illness, or rather the condition of both the patient himself and the family to which it belongs. It is therefore important investigations in this tenor, they would give us a broader picture and the phenomenon called systemic disease as well as to visualize the behavior that causes us to get sick and thus perpetuated in the family.