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Chapter 3 - Parenting Culture and Family Dynamics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2022

Leonor Rodriguez
Leonor Rodriguez
Affiliation:
UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway
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The chapter describes the current knowledge available to understand the role of family in parental cancer. Cancer impacts on the family and plays an important role in determining the overall experience of parental cancer. Some families are resilient and able to cope, while others may experience conflict. This chapter proposes that it is important for healthcare practitioners to get to know individual families, their characteristics as well as their resources to be able to identify and respond to their needs. Family communication has been identified as crucial in the family experience of cancer. More research, however, is needed to understand the impact of cancer on the family by the gender of the ill parent as well as more longitudinal research of the impact of cancer on the family over time.

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Parenting through Cancer
An Evidence-Based Guide for Healthcare Professionals Supporting Families
 , pp. 33 - 46
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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