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Epilepsien im Jugendalter

Psychosoziale Anpassung und Krankheitsbewältigung

Published Online:July 05, 2007https://doi.org/10.1024/1661-4747.55.3.177

Abstract

Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag stellt die Bedeutung chronischer Erkrankungen des Jugendalters im Hinblick auf die Interaktion mit allgemeinen normativen Entwicklungsaufgaben der Adoleszenz dar und spezifiziert dann die besonderen psychosozialen Charakteristika der Epilepsie als häufigste neurologische Erkrankung des Jugendalters. Die besondere Bedeutung der Compliance und Aspekte der Krankheitsbewältigung für Jugendliche mit Epilepsie werden im Hinblick auf wichtige entwicklungspsychologische Themen des Jugendalters diskutiert. Bedeutung und Ziele von Patientenschulung als zentraler Behandlungsbaustein bei chronischen Erkrankungen werden erläutert.


Adolescents with Epilepsy: Psychosocial Adaptation and Coping

Abstract: Adolescents with chronic diseases are challenged not only with general issues of this developmental phase but face many additional problems. The present article reviews issues of coping with the chronic condition epilepsy, the most frequent neurological disorder in adolescence, accentuates the problems and needs of psychosocial adaptation and the interaction with regular normative tasks of this lifespan. Of particular importance for the therapy of adolescents with chronic diseases are psychoeducational programs (patient education).

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