The Heroes' Journey: A Young Couple's Experience with Choriocarcinoma

Autor/inn/en	Marlowe, Dan; Hodgson, Jennifer; Lamson, Angela
Titel	The Heroes' Journey: A Young Couple's Experience with Choriocarcinoma
Quelle	In: Qualitative Report, 15 (2010) 6, S.1365-1386 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-0147
Schlagwörter	Grief; Cancer; Content Analysis; Learning Theories; Case Studies; Correlation; Coping; Divorce; Family Environment; Emotional Response; Child Rearing; Death; Parent Role; Fathers; Mothers; Pregnancy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Trauer; Carcinoma; Karzinom; Krebs (med); Krebserkrankung; Inhaltsanalyse; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Korrelation; Bewältigung; Ehescheidung; Familienmilieu; Emotionales Verhalten; Kindererziehung; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Parental role; Elternrolle; Mother; Mutter; Schwangerschaft
Abstract	A 20 year retrospective qualitative case study was conducted to investigate the relational impact of choriocarcinoma (a type of gestational cancer) on a couple of child-bearing age. A unique feature to the study was that the primary investigator was the couple's biological son, initiating the first known auto-case study design. Using holistic content analysis, investigators learned that anticipatory grief played a central part in the couple's ultimate detachment and divorce. While the wife began to refocus her emotional energies on her children, in psychological preparation for her possible death, the husband focused on ways to keep the family finances together in preparation for life after cancer. He perceived her emotional detachment from him as abandonment. In spite of taking separate paths, the two perceived one another as heroes. The conceptual and clinical implications for a young couple battling gestational cancer are discussed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10