Family Routines and Rituals When a Parent Has Cancer
Family Routines and Rituals When a Parent Has Cancer
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DOI：
10.1037/a0017005
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发表时间：
2009-09-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
McCue, Kathleen
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作者：
Buchbinder, Mara;Longhofer, Jeffrey;McCue, Kathleen
越来越多的文献引起了人们对癌症对有年幼子女的家庭的心理社会影响的关注。然而，为了帮助家庭发展对慢性病的适应性反应，最近的学术研究开始倡导从赤字视角转向优势视角。在这篇文章中，作者通过报告对有年幼子女(2-9岁)的家庭处理父母癌症的定性研究结果，研究了癌症诊断后家庭生活的重组。作者特别关注父母的自我报告，即当父母中的一人接受癌症治疗时，他们的家庭如何发展和经历新的例行公事和仪式。尽管家庭生活发生了重大变化，但这项研究中的家庭找到了稳定日常生活并保持正常感的方法。虽然癌症迫使打破现有的常规和仪式，但家庭在将癌症护理纳入新的家庭传统、习惯和做法的形成中表现出创造性的韧性。通过考虑家庭如何共同努力管理癌症，作者希望阐明癌症如何既能让家庭团结在一起，也能让他们分崩离析。
A growing literature has drawn attention to the psychosocial impact of cancer on families with young children. However, to help families develop adaptive responses to chronic illness, recent scholarship has begun to advocate a shift in orientation from a deficit to a strengths perspective. In this article, the authors examine the reorganization of family life after cancer diagnosis by reporting findings from a qualitative study of families with young children (ages 2-9) dealing with a parent's cancer. The authors focus specifically on parents' self-reports of how their families developed and experienced new routines and rituals while one parent underwent cancer treatment. Despite significant upheaval in family life, the families in this study found ways to stabilize routines and maintain a sense of normalcy. Although cancer compels disruptions to existing routines and rituals, families demonstrated creative resilience in their capacity to incorporate cancer care into the formation of new family traditions, habits, and practices. By considering how families manage cancer as a joint endeavor, the authors hope to illuminate the ways in which cancer can bring families together as well as pull them apart.