Personal story offers insight into living with facial disfigurement

J Wound Care. 2003 Jul;12(7):254-8. doi: 10.12968/jowc.2003.12.7.26566.

Abstract

This paper looks at the long-term effects of living with facial disfigurement caused by a burns injury. It applies a psychosocial model to understand how someone with such an injury confronts and adapts to living with a changed self-image.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Psychological
  • Burns / psychology*
  • Burns / rehabilitation
  • Burns / surgery
  • Child, Preschool
  • Facial Injuries / psychology*
  • Facial Injuries / rehabilitation
  • Facial Injuries / surgery
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Self Concept
  • United Kingdom