Cover -- Half-tilte -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- References -- Preface -- 1 Epidemiology of Chronic Illnesses in Adolescence -- Changes in the Spectrum of Illnesses and Causes of Death -- Epidemiology of Chronic Illnesses in Adolescence -- Psychological Perspectives on Chronic Illness: From the Biomedical to the Categorical Approach -- 2 Coping with Illness in Adolescence: An Overview of Research from the Past 25 Years -- Current State of Research: Results of Two Meta-analyses -- Factors That Influence Coping Processes and Coping Resources -- Type of Illness -- Illness Severity -- Illness Duration -- Developmental Factors -- Gender -- Personality and Self-Concept -- Social Support -- Critical Life Events and Normative Stressors -- Universal and Illness-Specific Coping Strategies -- Psychopathology -- 3 Coping with Diabetes: A Longitudinal Study -- Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus -- Medical Characteristics -- Impact on the Afflicted Adolescents and Their Families -- A Preliminary Model -- A Longitudinal Approach to Studying Coping with Diabetes in Adolescence -- Sample Characteristics -- Procedure: Recruitment of the Sample, Annual Survey, Care and Maintenance of the Sample -- Cooperation with Physicians and Psychotherapists -- Methods: Interviews, Questionnaires, and Family Tasks -- A Developmentally Oriented Model of Coping with Diabetes in Adolescence -- 4 Knowledge of the Illness, Compliance, and Patient-Physician Relationships -- Medical Parameters -- Patient Age at Diagnosis, Seasonal Course of Diabetes -- Etiological Factors, Manifestation, and Course of the Illness -- Illness Duration and Quality of Metabolic Control -- Instability of Metabolic Control over Time -- Type of Insulin Therapy, Complications -- Use of Medical Facilities -- Adolescents' Acceptance of Medical Care.

Relationships Between Physicians and Diabetic Adolescents -- The Physician's Evaluation of Cooperation and Compliance -- The Influence of Knowledge of the Illness and Compliance on Metabolic Control -- Illness-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Compliance -- Factors That Influence Metabolic Control -- Changes in Illness Management, Attitude Towards the Illness, and Compliance over Time -- 5 Self-Concept, Body Image, and Perceived Health -- The Self-Concept of Ill Adolescents -- Evaluation of Health Status -- How Healthy Are "Healthy" Adolescents? -- Perceived Health in Diabetic Adolescents -- Differences in Body Image of Diabetic and Healthy Adolescents -- The Body Image of Healthy Adolescents -- The Body Image of Diabetic Adolescents -- Changes in the Body Image over the Course of Several Years -- "One Body for Two": Diabetic Adolescents and Their Mothers -- Tanya -- 6 Adolescent, Parental, and Family Coping with Stressors -- Parents' and Adolescents' Perceptions of Stress -- Types of Stressors, Timing, and Synchronism of Stressors -- Are Critical Life Events Responsible for the Onset of Diabetes? -- Martin -- Discrepancies Between Adolescents' and Parents' Perceptions of Stress -- High Levels of Illness-Specific Stressors -- Changes in Perceived Stress over Time -- Individual and Family Coping Processes -- Family Coping: A Forgotten Contribution to Adolescents' Coping with Illness? -- Adolescents' Coping with Everyday Stressors and Illness-Specific Stressors -- Parental Coping: Dealing with Family and Illness-Specific Problems -- Family Coping with the Illness -- Individual and Family Coping: An Integration -- The Influence of Gender, Illness Duration, and Metabolic Control -- Stress and Coping in Different Phases of the Illness -- The Initial Phase: Dealing with the Diagnosis -- Orsi -- Edina -- Tom.

Changes in the Years after First Manifestation of the Illness -- 7 Chronic Illness and the Family: The Perspectives of Mothers, Fathers, and Siblings -- Conceptual Approaches for Understanding Family Dynamics in Families Dealing with Chronic Illness -- Changes in Family Climate and Family Communication -- The Family's Organization Around the Illness -- Impact on Parental Roles and Family Climate -- Changes in Family Climate Over Time? -- The Highly Structured Family Climate: Functional or Dysfunctional for Metabolic Control? -- Communication in Families with Diabetic Adolescents -- Consequences of Continual Stress in Families with Diabetic Adolescents -- Fathers of Ill Adolescents: Their Roles in the Coping Process -- The Distinctive Roles of Fathers in Comparison with Mothers of Chronically Ill Adolescents -- Chronically Ill Adolescents and Their Fathers -- The Difficulty of Involving the Father -- When the Father is Too Involved -- Janina -- Does Illness Solidify an Existing Pattern in the Father-Adolescent Relationship? -- Sibling Relationships in Healthy and Chronically Ill Adolescents -- The Importance and Role of Siblings in the Family Unit -- Sibling Relationships in Adolescence -- Sibling Relationships of Chronically Ill Children and Adolescents -- Diabetic Adolescents' Stronger Bonds to Their Siblings -- Illness in a Sibling as a Family Risk Factor? -- Louis -- Thusitha -- 8 Friendships, Romantic Relationships, School, and Career -- The Friendships of Chronically Ill Adolescents -- Friendships in Adolescence: From Instrumentality to Intimacy -- Chronically Ill Adolescents' Relationships with Peers and Close Friends -- Network Size and Quality of Friendships -- Christoph -- Developing Romantic Relationships -- Sexual Experiences and Romantic Development in Adolescence -- Chronically Ill Adolescent's Romantic Relationships.

Continuity and Discontinuity in Relationships with Close Friends and Romantic Partners -- Chronically Ill Adolescents' School Experiences and Career Choices -- The Constant Demand for Higher Qualifications -- Illness-Specific Restrictions and Discrimination in Employment -- Carola -- Coping with Problems at School -- Career Wishes and Decisions -- Perspectives and Concerns about the Future -- 9 Successful Adaptation or the Development of Psychopathology? -- Does Chronic Illness Lead to Developmental Delays? -- Developmental Tasks in Adolescence -- Is Development Impaired by Chronic Illness in Adolescence? -- Deficits in Adolescent-Specific Developmental Tasks -- Do Diabetic Adolescents Catch Up to the Developmental Level of Healthy Adolescents over the Course of Several Years? -- Conditions That Contribute to or Maintain Developmental Delays -- Psychopathology in Chronically Ill Adolescents -- Prevalence of Psychological Symptoms and Disorders in Adolescence -- Psychopathology in Chronically Ill Adolescents -- Psychopathology in Diabetic Adolescents -- Changes in Symptomatology over Time -- The Problem of Denial in Chronically Ill Adolescents -- 10 Pathways for Resolving the Dilemma between Developmental Progression and Adaptation to the Illness -- Adolescents Who Cope by Postponing Developmental Tasks -- Veronika -- Moritz -- Monika -- Denial and Trivialization of the Illness: A Way Out? -- Matthias -- David -- Overemphasizing Adolescent Development at the Expense of Metabolic Control -- Milena -- Families That Broke Down -- Susanna -- Families That Adapted Well Overall -- Sophie -- Conny -- Different Pathways for Solving the Dilemma -- 11 Implications for Prevention and Intervention -- Do Chronic Illnesses Share Similar Characteristics? -- The Need for a Developmentally Oriented Model.

Deficits in Internal Resources but Also Improvements with Time -- Focusing on the Illness and Sequencing of Developmental Tasks -- Understanding the Parents' Perspectives -- Parents as Coping Models -- Strengthening the Resources of Adolescents and Their Families -- The Coping Potential Offered by the Broader Social Network -- Phases of the Illness and the Desire to Receive Professional Help -- Improving the Relationship between Adolescent Patients and Their Physicians -- Understanding Noncompliance and the Function of Cheating -- Education about Unstable Blood Glucose Levels in Puberty -- Are Adolescents Unmotivated Patients? -- What Sorts of Intervention are Available to Diabetic Adolescents and Their Families? -- Intervention for Few-Prevention for All? -- Revising the Treatments Offered -- References -- Index.