title: Personal story offers insight into living with facial disfigurement.
abstract: This paper looks at the long-term effects of living with facial disfigurement caused by a burns injury. It applies a psychosocial model to understand how someone with such an injury confronts and adapts to living with a changed self-image.
authors.affiliation: Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust, London, UK. Fiona.Coull@royalfree.nhs.uk
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Coull
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002056:Burns / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012649:Self Concept; D006113:United Kingdom