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Understanding The Psychological Aspects Of Heart Disease
When someone close to you suffers from heart disease, the impact can be devastating for the patient, family and friends. Once the medical emergency has passed, a wide spectrum of emotional problems may begin. Today's heart disease patient needs to address these issues. If ignored, the patient and other family members alike can become hostage not only to the physical limitations of heart disease, but the emotional limitations as well.
Full cardiac recovery requires both a healthy body and a healthy emotional state, beginning the process of regaining a sense of control over life.
Table of Contents
Forward
Introduction
Chapter One: Scared and Confused
Chapter Two: Sound Mind, Healthy Body
Chapter Three: The Cardiac Spouse
Chapter Four: Family Dynamics
Chapter Five: Doctors and Nurses
Chapter Six: Of A Medical Nature
Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Cardiac Recovery Process
"Very compelling … meets a critical need in the literature available to spouses and patients [with] coronary artery disease."
Kathleen Dracup, RN, DNSc
Heart & Lung, The Journal of Critical Care
"...Dr. Budnick addresses very common concerns... and does a great deal to help the patient and his loved ones feel normal for all their concerns throughout their crises...He has written a book that should probably be given to every patient upon discharge from the hospital after a cardiac event."
Bettie S. Jackson, Director
Professional Nursing Services
Editor of Heart & Lung Journal
Montefiore Medical Center, NY
"...it provides direct, easily understood material for all concerned … Especially helpful are the role-playing dialogues to facilitate communications between caregiver and patient and the emphasis upon maintaining the emotional well-being of healthcare providers … illuminating reading for any health professional … "
Sally Bennett Rosenthal
Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital
Occupational Therapy Week
" … Practical, perceptive and begets common sense. It is recommended to patients and families, and to all caregivers. It will be most valuable to personnel in intensive care units and rehabilitation centres, and hospital clergy."
Robert E. Beamish, MD
St. Boniface Research Centre
Cardiovascular Sciences
Canadian Journal of Cardiology
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