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D P Weekes

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PubMed1992

What teachers want to know about students with cancer.

This article reports the results of a survey of classroom teachers in elementary and high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. The teachers were asked to respond to questions about their informational needs and concerns related to students in their classroom who were diagnosed with cancer or receiving cancer treatment. Findings indicated that classroom teachers perceive themselves to be ill prepared to address the needs of the student with cancer. Specific concerns clustered around information deficits regarding the students' physiological and physical vulnerability, physical limitations/alterations following treatment, psychological responses to cancer treatment, and peer interactions. Utilizing data from the survey, a conceptual approach and collaborative intervention scheme were developed.

Humans↗
PubMed1991

Application of the life-span developmental perspective to nursing research with adolescents.

Phenomena of interest to nurse researchers include the responses of persons across the life span to changes in their lives related to conditions of health and illness. The topic of this article is the life span stage known as adolescence, and the article is grounded in the premise that questions related to the effects of chronic illness at different points in the adolescent life course (i.e., early, middle, and late adolescence) are best studied from a life-span developmental perspective. First, the traditional developmental theories, the commonly held world views from which they emerged, and their relative contributions to research with adolescents are reviewed. The life-span developmental perspective is then discussed, with particular emphasis on its usefulness in guiding research aimed at answering questions that address change in the behavioral responses of adolescents to conditions of health and illness.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

Life-span development: a review of theory and practice for families with chronically ill members.

While the family's primacy in the patient's adaptation to chronic illness increasingly is being recognized by health professionals and social scientists, the reverse side of the coin, that is, the impact of chronicity on the family, has received little attention. A life-span development perspective is used to enrich the more traditional frameworks employed to study family development and also as a unifying framework from which to view the impact of illness on individual family members and the family as a unit. A review of selected literature reveals a profile of families most at risk for serious disruption in situations involving chronic illness. Propositions suggesting interventions directed at patients and families experiencing chronicity are derived.

Adaptation, Psychological↗