Children caring for parents with HIV and AIDS : Global issues and policy responses /

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The book makes a significant contribution to the growing research evidence on children and young people with caring responsibilities ('young carers') and the impacts of HIV/AIDS on families globally, focusing on the experiences and perspectives of children that are caring for a parent with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Evans, Ruth (Ruth Mary Clare)
Other Authors: Becker, Saul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Portland, OR : Policy Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Children of AIDS patients.
AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Care.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > AIDS & HIV.
MEDICAL > AIDS & HIV.
Health Services Needs and Demand.
Family Relations.
Child.
Caregivers > psychology.
Adolescent.
HIV Infections > psychology.
Child of Impaired Parents > psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Children's and young people's caring responsibilities within the family
  • 2. HIV and the family
  • 3. Reflexivity, methodology and ethics: the research process
  • 4. Living with HIV and the effects on family life: parents' narratives
  • 5. Children's and young people's care work in households affected by HIV and AIDS
  • 6. Resilience and impacts of care work for individual young people and their families
  • 7. Resilience and impacts of young people's care work within the school and wider community
  • 8. The role of formal safety nets in building children's and families' resilience
  • 9. Global and local processes influencing young people's caring roles in families affected by HIV and AIDS
  • 10. Responding to the support needs of children and young people caring for parents with HIV.

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