Pt. I. Families, Health, and Illness: Background and Rationale. 1. The Family: A Dynamic Influence on Health and Illness. 2. Families Coping with Illness: The Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation / Marilyn A. McCubbin and Hamilton I. McCubbin. 3. Illness and Health Maintenance as Potential Family Stressors -- Pt. II. Family Coping in Health and Illness. 4. Dimensions of Illness That Affect the Family. 5. Family Coping with Health and Illness: A Critical Link -- Pt. III. Family Interventions for Health-Care Delivery. 6. Creation of a Health-Care System with a Family Perspective. 7. Therapeutic Family Interventions. 8. Social Support and Mutual Support Groups. 9. The Family as a Resource for Wellness Promotion. 10. Formal Services Supportive of Family Caregivers -- Pt. IV. Families and Specific Illnesses. 11. Long-term Catastrophic Illness: Spinal Cord Injury. 12. Short-term Illness: Cholelithiasis. 13. Life-threatening Illness: Cancer. 14. Acute, Recurrent, and Resolvable Mental Illness: Depression
