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The Family Experience of “Sudden Health”: The Case of Intractable Epilepsy
Author(s) -
SEABURN DAVID B.,
ERBA GIUSEPPE
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2003.00453.x
Subject(s) - exploratory research , epilepsy , intractable epilepsy , psychology , style (visual arts) , qualitative research , grounded theory , developmental psychology , medicine , psychiatry , sociology , history , social science , archaeology , anthropology
This article reports the experience of “sudden health” among six families who participated in an exploratory qualitative study of families with a member who elects to have corrective surgery for intractable epilepsy. Families were interviewed pre‐ and post surgery (6–8months) and the interviews were analyzed using a constant comparative methodology. Findings indicated that (1) families were organized in two primary ways (nesting and crisis) to deal with epilepsy and the aftermath of surgery and (2) “sudden health” had differing effects on these families depending on their organizational style, emotional communication process, and developmental dynamics.