Coping Strategies for Burn Survivors and Their Families - by Norman R Bernstein M D & Alan Jeffry Breslau M S Ch & Jean Ann Graham Ph D (Hardcover)

About the Book

Each year approximately two million people who are burned require medical treatment. Seventy thousand require hospitalization, and nine thousand die from their injuries. Coping Strategies provides the burn patient and his/her family a unique source of information and insight on the effects of disfigurement, sexuality, cosmetics, prosthetics, coping with stress, anxiety and guilt, and about employment strategies. These topics are addressed by professionals and survivors and parents of survivors--uniting all points of view and making this work important reading.

Book Synopsis

Each year approximately two million people who are burned require medical treatment. Seventy thousand require hospitalization, and nine thousand die from their injuries. Coping Strategies provides the burn patient and his/her family a unique source of information and insight on the effects of disfigurement, sexuality, cosmetics, prosthetics, coping with stress, anxiety and guilt, and about employment strategies. These topics are addressed by professionals and survivors and parents of survivors--uniting all points of view and making this work important reading.

Review Quotes

"These topics are addressed by professionals, survivors, and and parents of survivors--uniting all points of view and making this work important reading." --The Bulletin of Burn Injuries

About the Author

Norman R. Bernstein, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Alan Jeffry Breslau, MSChE, is founder and Executive Director of the Phoenix Society, Inc.

Jean Ann Graham, PhD, is a clinical associate in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.