Nursing and family caregiving : social support and nonsupport

Neufeld, Anne. (Author). Harrison, Margaret J. (Margaret Joan), 1941- (Added Author).

Summary: This book serves as an authoritative reference for health care practitioners and researchers concerned with mobilizing support for individuals caring for a disabled adult or child family member. The authors integrate numerous types of research to provide a comprehensive compendium of best practices for social support within vulnerable populations. This book provides a wealth of insight into the experience of family caregivers and describes the importance of support. Nurses, practitioners, researchers, and professionals will find this book useful, as they provide care to patients, plan programs, or develop policies intended to assist family caregivers. Armed with this essential knowledge of the best methodological approaches to family caregiving, readers will have both the insight and tools to optimize caregiving across the range of hospices, treatment facilities, and home care.

Record details

ISBN: 9780826111296 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0826111297 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 265 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	New May 2010. Supporting nursing program.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The experience of family caregiving: social support and nonsupport -- Caregiving and social support -- Guiding perspectives on family caregiving -- Family caregiving scenario -- Family caregiving, health, and social support -- The role of social networks and relationships in access to social support -- Our program of research -- Contribution of qualitative research to practice -- Supportive interactions, reciprocity, and obligation -- Supportive interactions -- Types of support -- Relationship dimensions of reciprocity and obligation -- Relationships with the care recipient -- Nonsupportive interactions in varied caregiving situations -- Expectations and perceptions of nonsupportive interactions -- Mobilizing support from family and friends -- Social exchange theory -- Mobilizing support from family and friends -- Mobilizing support from professional sources -- Men caregivers -- Women caregivers -- Social support and caregiving in the context of migration -- Family caregiving in the context of migration -- Background: caregiving, gender, social and cultural context -- The Canadian context -- Influences on caregiving -- Missing links and establishing connections with community resources -- Becoming an advocate in response to nonsupportive interactions -- The meaning of advocacy for women -- Strategies women used in advocacy -- Advocacy and personal change -- Men caregivers and advocacy -- A guide to support facilitation -- Caregivers' experience of the support process -- Implications of the support process for practice interventions -- Questions to consider about caregivers' experience of support -- Caregiving scenarios -- Methodological approaches: lessons learned -- Data generation: interactive use of genograms and ecomaps -- Background -- Utility of genograms and ecomaps in our current research -- Case illustration -- Reflections and implications for further research -- Using a card sort technique in data generation -- Research context: study of nonsupport and family caregiving -- Practical issues and strategies in using a card sort for data collection -- Reflections -- Facilitating participation of a vulnerable group: immigrant women -- Study of immigrant women caregivers -- Guiding principles.