Chronic Pain and Relationships Resources

 

Chronic Pain and relationships

If you are wanting to learn more about managing relationships, this section includes:

  • Chronic Pain and Families Resources
  • Chronic Pain and Singles Resources
  • Chronic Pain and Partners Resources
  • Chronic Pain and Children Resources

 

Chronic Pain and Families Resources

  • eBook:  Transition in chronic illness:  Relationships (link)
  • Article: Healthy Relationships Matter More Than We Think (link)
  • Article: The importance of relationships for our wellbeing (link)
  • Article: The health benefits of strong relationships (link)
  • Article: How relationships affect health and wellbeing (link)
  • Article: Why relationships and social connections matter for health and wellbeing (link)
  • Article: Strong relationships, strong health (link)
  • Article: Relationships and Wellbeing (link)
  • Article:  Steps to open communication (page 20, link)
  • Article: How chronic pain affects relationships (link)
  • eBook: Relationships (link)
  • eBook: Understanding transition (link)
  • eBook:  Coping with chronic pain.  A guide for patients, partners, family and carers (link)
  • eBook:  Grief and loss (link)
  • eBook:  Constant change.  The Shifting experience of chronic illness (link)
  • eBook: Pain (link)
  • Website: ACI: Pain and Family (link)
  • Article: How you can help your loved one with chronic pain (link)
  • Article: The impact of chronic pain on family (link)
  • Article: Family dynamics and chronic pain (link)
  • Article: Chronic Pain: A burden often shared (link)
  • Article: Chronic Pain.  Impact of chronic pain on the family (link)
  • Journal Article: The Family Impact of Pain Scale:  Preliminary Validation (link)
  • Journal Article: Well-being, Happiness and Why Relationships Matter: Evidence from Bangladesh (link)
  • Report: Relationships in the 21st century: the forgotten foundation of mental health and wellbeing (link)

 

Chronic Pain and Singles Resources

  • Article: Dating with a chronic illness:  When do I disclose?  What if it changes the way they see me?  (link)
  • Article: Everything you need to know about dating with a chronic illness (link)
  • Article: Chronic Pain and your relationships (link)
  • Article: The isolating loneliness of chronic pain and invisible illness (link)
  • Article: What it’s like being single with chronic illness (link)
  • Article: 12 Things only someone with chronic pain would understand (link)
  • Article: The challenge of chronic illness and singleness (link)
  • MeetUp: Group: Singles with Chronic Pain (link)
  • Journal Article: Self-compassion, stress, and coping in the context of chronic illness (link

 

Chronic Pain and Partners Resources

  • Website: Carers NSW Australia (link)
  • Website: Carers Gateway (link)
  • Website: Relationships Australia (link)
  • eBook:  Transition in chronic illness: sexuality (link)
  • Article: What happens when partners fight chronic pain together? (link)
  • Article: Love: a powerful solution to chronic pain (link)
  • Article: I love someone in pain (link)
  • Article: How my husband and I make our marriage work, even with chronic illness (link)
  • Article: When chronic pain gets between you and your intimate partner (link)
  • Article: The unseen burden of chronic pain on intimate relationships (link)
  • Journal Article: How significant is the significant other in patient coping in chronic pain? (link)
  • Journal Article: Solicitousness and chronic pain: a critical review (link)
  • Journal Article: Chronic Pain in a Couples Context: A Review and Integration of Theoretical Models and Empirical Evidence (link)
  • Journal Article: Impact of Pain Intensity on Relationship Quality Between Couples Where One Has Back Pain (link)
  • Journal Article: The role of spouse reinforcement, perceived pain and activity levels of chronic pain patients (link)
  • Journal Article: A Couple-Based Psychological Treatment for Chronic Pain and Relationship Distress (link)
  • Journal Article: Chronic Pain in a Couples Context: A Review and Integration of Theoretical Models and Empirical Evidence (link)
  • Journal Article: Psychosocial Subgroups, Coping, and Chronic Low-Back Pain (link)
  • Journal Article: Intimate Relationships and Chronic Illness: A literature review for counsellors and couple therapists (link)
  • Journal Article: Impact of Chronic Pain on the spouse:  Marital, Emotional and Physical Consequences (link)
  • Journal Article: What are the marital problems of patients with chronic pain (link)

 

Chronic Pain and Children Resources

  • Website: Kids Helpline (link)
  • Website: PainAustralia: Children and Young People (link)
  • Article: Parenting with a chronic illness (link)
  • Article: Parenting through chronic physical pain (link)
  • Article: The realities of parenting with chronic pain (link)
  • Article: 3 values my kids have learned from having a chronically ill mom (link)
  • Article: The link between parental chronic pain and their children’s pain (link)
  • Article: What it’s really like to be a parent with a chronic illness (link)
  • Article: Supporting parents with chronic illnesses (link)
  • Booklet: Chronically ill parents:  Helping Children Cope (link)
  • eBook: Seriously Ill parent (link)
  • Article: Parenting, children and grandchildren when you have chronic pain (link)
  • Journal Article: Offspring of parents with chronic pain:  a systematic review and meta-analysis of pain, health, psychological and family outcomes (link)
  • Journal Article: Parents with chronic pain: are children equally affected by fathers as mothers in pain? A pilot study (link)
  • Journal Article: Children as carers: the impact of parental illness and disability on children’s caring roles (link)