Advancing the Family Management Style Framework: Incorporating Social Ecology

摘要

Deatrick and Knafl are to be commended for supporting refinement of the Family Management Style Framework through their own review of the literature and putting forward the manuscripts in this special issue. Through this special issue, Deatrick and Knafl encourage application of the Family Management Style Framework to new populations and situations, identifying areas for future study. The research represented within these manuscripts in this succeeds in testing the Family Management Style Framework, underscoring the Framework's adaptability across the lifespan and generalizability to new chronic health conditions (involving physical and cognitive areas of function) and situations in the course of treatment.