 | Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities Subjects: Health and Social Care; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Social Sciences; Health & Society; Social Work; Nursing; Social Work and Social Policy; Sociology & Social Policy; Pediatric Nursing; Child and Family Social Work; End of Life and Long Term Care; Mental Health/ Clinical Social Work; Social Work and Disability; Sociology of the Family; Social Policy; Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Recognition is growing that family caregiving deserves and may require societal support, and evidence-based practices have been established for reducing stress associated with caregiving. Despite the substantial research literature on family support that has developed, researchers, advocates and professionals have often worked in separate categorical domains such as family support for caregiving for the frail elderly, for individuals with mental illness, or for people with development disabilities. Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities addresses this significant limitation through cross-categorical and lifespan analyses of family support and family caregiving from the perspectives of theory and conceptual frameworks, empirical research, and frameworks and recommendations for improvements in public policy. The book also examines children with disabilities, children with autism, adults with schizophrenia, and individuals with cancer across the life cycle. This book was published as a two-part special issue in the Journal of Family Social Work. George H.S. Singer is based at thenbsp;University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. David E. Biegel is based atnbsp;Case Western Reserve University, USA. Patricia Conway is based atnbsp;Mayville State University, USA. |
