Full Product Details
Author: Yuko Kawanishi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.630kg
ISBN: 9780415952019
ISBN 10: 0415952018
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 14 December 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
<p>'Families Coping with Mental Illness provides an intimate, compassionate glimpse into the lives of families struggling and learning how to manage a mental illness in a family member' - Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D, Professor of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, USA<br><p>'This is an unusual, indeed unique, book. Families affected with schizophrenia or other severe mental illness will find this well-written and thoroughly engaging book extremely helpful in their own attempts to cope.' - E. Fuller Torrey, M.D, Associate Director for Laboratory Research, The Stanley Medical Institute, USA
'Families Coping with Mental Illness provides an intimate, compassionate glimpse into the lives of families struggling and learning how to manage a mental illness in a family member' - Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D, Professor of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, USA 'This is an unusual, indeed unique, book. Families affected with schizophrenia or other severe mental illness will find this well-written and thoroughly engaging book extremely helpful in their own attempts to cope.' - E. Fuller Torrey, M.D, Associate Director for Laboratory Research, The Stanley Medical Institute, USA 'Families Coping with Mental Illness provides an intimate, compassionate glimpse into the lives of families struggling and learning how to manage a mental illness in a family member' - Kim T. Mueser, Ph.D, Professor of Psychiatry and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, USA 'This is an unusual, indeed unique, book. Families affected with schizophrenia or other severe mental illness will find this well-written and thoroughly engaging book extremely helpful in their own attempts to cope.' - E. Fuller Torrey, M.D, Associate Director for Laboratory Research, The Stanley Medical Institute, USA
Author Information
Yuko Kawanishi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the International Student Exchange Center, Tokyo Gakugei University, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Temple University (Japan), and an Affiliated Scholar, East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California. After receiving her Ph.D. in sociology from UCLA in 1993, Dr. Kawanishi researched and traveled in the United States and Japan.
