Anticipatory loss: a family systems developmental framework.
This article provides a family-systems developmental framework for anticipatory loss in situations of physical illness, disability, and long-term psychiatric disorders, and offers a conceptual base for theory building, clinical practice, and research. A family systems-illness model that integrates psychosocial types and phases of illness with family variables, in particular, developmental patterns and beliefs systems, provides a foundation to rethink and expand our approaches to threatened loss.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, IL.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006117:Grief; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012803:Sick Role; D013598:Systems Theory