Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- 1 Presenting a problem
- 2 The form of dialogue
- 3 What has gone before: some background information
- 4 The primary structure to the child's world of illness
- 5 Germs and bugs: causal agents
- 6 Dirt and fresh air: the exogenous system
- 7 My castle and the good germs: the endogenous system and its boundary
- 8 ‘Pretend illness’: An analysis of how communication patterns can foster particular forms of complaints
- 9 The consultation: a form of dialogue
- 10 Health education and health promotion
- Appendixes
- 1 Themes for the family interviews
- 2 Open-ended questionnaire
- 3 Themes for the group discussions
- References
- Index
1 - Themes for the family interviews
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- 1 Presenting a problem
- 2 The form of dialogue
- 3 What has gone before: some background information
- 4 The primary structure to the child's world of illness
- 5 Germs and bugs: causal agents
- 6 Dirt and fresh air: the exogenous system
- 7 My castle and the good germs: the endogenous system and its boundary
- 8 ‘Pretend illness’: An analysis of how communication patterns can foster particular forms of complaints
- 9 The consultation: a form of dialogue
- 10 Health education and health promotion
- Appendixes
- 1 Themes for the family interviews
- 2 Open-ended questionnaire
- 3 Themes for the group discussions
- References
- Index
Summary
Experience of illness within the family
Words used to describe illness
Experience of accidents within the family
How it is suspected that the child is ill, together with how the child lets the parents know.
When decision-making is difficult, how the uncertainty is resolved
How the child's attendance at nursery/school is decided if the child is a little unwell
Allocation of the role of health expert between the parents
Who the best worrier is about illness in the family
The child's ‘attachment person’ when ill
The things done in the family to ‘make things better’
Experience of various kinds of health workers
Things the family does to keep as healthy as possible
The family's view on the causes of illness and the nature of germs
The place of cautionary tales
Tooth fairies
How illness in one family member affects how everyone else gets on together
Any other comments
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- The Child's World of IllnessThe Development of Health and Illness Behaviour, pp. 267Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1988