Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

The Diabetes Educator

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Health Psychology
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Reichenberg, K.
Right arrow Articles by Hallberg, L. R.-M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Reichenberg, K.
Right arrow Articles by Hallberg, L. R.-M.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Allowing for the Opposite

The Parents of Asthmatic Children Cooperate by Making Use of Each Other's Differences

Kjell Reichenberg

Nordic School of Public Health and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Göteborg University, Göteberg, Sweden, Halmstad University, Sweden, Kjell{at}Reichenberg.se

Lillemor R.-M. Hallberg

Nordic School of Public Health and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Göteborg University, Göteberg, Sweden, Halmstad University, Sweden

This article focuses on one of the interactive processes that parents use to cope with their child's asthma. The concept allowing for the opposite was developed in the course of a clinical project designed to improve consultation methods in pediatric allergy care. We examined material from 67 conversations carried out with 22 heterosexual couples held with two family therapists: one male pediatrician and one female social worker. We found that parents made use of each other's differences in personality and parenting style, allowing each other to take opposing positions on how to cope with their child's asthma. Disagreement should be added to the list of coping mechanisms used by parents in their cooperative efforts to handle their child's asthma.

Key Words: asthma • child • family psychotherapy • parental coping

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 13, No. 5, 659-668 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1359105307082451
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?