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Psychological, Social, and Quality of Life Considerations in Short Bowel Syndrome
Published in John K. DiBaise, Carol Rees Parrish, Jon S. Thompson, Short Bowel Syndrome Practical Approach to Management, 2017
James M. Badger, Marion F. Winkler
Individuals with chronic GI disorders use a variety of coping techniques to assuage the signs and symptoms of their disease, to increase daily functioning and to improve QOL [18]. Patients often become experts in coping with their condition and figuring out how to best manage their symptoms. They are generally very knowledgeable about their condition and should be included in any discussion regarding treatment changes. Most patients acquire knowledge and skills about medical management through living with their condition. Psychological adaptation generally occurs gradually.
Stress and recovery in extreme situations
Published in Michael Kellmann, Jürgen Beckmann, Sport, Recovery, and Performance, 2017
Michel Nicolas, Marvin Gaudino, Philippe Vacher
Our team investigates the affective, social, cognitive, and personality aspects of the psychological adaptation process in this extreme situation of polar wintering in Concordia. Among these psychological factors, stress and recovery states play a central role with other indicators of adaptation like perceived stress and control, and defence mechanisms. Few, if any research has addressed the time patterns and the relationships between perceived stress, recovery, control, attention lapses, and defence mechanisms during a 12-month wintering in Concordia polar station with an international crew of 14 volunteers. The main findings indicated that a wintering in Concordia induced some stress mainly in the social dimension and showed relationships between stress and recovery states and perceived stress and control (Nicolas et al., 2015). On the one hand, strong significant positive correlations were found between stress states and perceived stress. On the other hand, recovery states were strongly and positively associated with perceived control. These results highlight the role of stress and recovery in psychological adaptation and offer additional insights into the affective, social and cognitive processes involved in adaptation.
Coping with rheumatoid arthritis
Published in Stanton Newman, Ray Fitzpatrick, Tracey A. Revenson, Suzanne Skevington, Gareth Williams, Understanding Rheumatoid Arthritis, 2005
Stanton Newman, Ray Fitzpatrick, Tracey A. Revenson, Suzanne Skevington, Gareth Williams
The relationship between personality and coping preferences, however, has not been well researched in RA. Long and Sangster (1993) examined the relationship between optimism and pessimism among OA and RA patients. They found significant associations between optimism and problem-solving coping, and pessimism and wishful thinking. This study raises the question of whether these personality dispositions are predictive of psychological adaptation and whether coping behaviour is necessary to account for differences in adaptation. Optimism was predictive of better adjustment and pessimism of poorer adjustment among the RA patients. The use of problemsolving coping was not found to act as a mediator between optimism and adaptation, although wishful thinking mediated the relationship between pessimism and adaptation to some degree. One may speculate that these findings imply that many of the determinants of positive adaptation to RA may be accounted for by generalised personality dispositions and not specific coping strategies; however, the evidence is not strong. It is important to note that this study was cross-sectional in design, and as authors acknowledge, the mediating effect of wishful thinking may be accounted for by other factors.
Better-than-expected Outcomes through Sharing Experiences by Students Raised by alcohol-misusing Caregivers in Lesotho
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2022
Through sharing their experiences, participants provided each other with psychological security, by providing each other with emotional support and advice (Al Qudah et al., 2020). The psychological security reduced their physiological stress, thus improving their resilience. The process also promoted their psychological adaptation to emerging situations as well as their coping actions. The shared psychological security also enabled participants to cultivate the ability to develop emotional insight. Emotional insight, explained by Jackson, Firtko, and Edenborough (2007), is being able to acknowledge and understand one’s emotions. For instance, some participants had suicidal thoughts due to challenging encounters under the care of alcohol-misusing caregivers, however, after sharing with friends who had also survived those feelings, they were encouraged to hold on, work hard and accept their situation.
Mental health and psychological adaptation on parents of children with neuromuscular diseases
Published in Children's Health Care, 2022
Javiera Ortega, Natalia Vázquez, Camila Flores, Imanol Amayra
These findings demonstrated the association between psychological adaptation and mental health. This association highlights the need for preventive strategies for those families who do not manage to adapt psychologically to the NMD. Health care professionals should consider this association when encountering families with neuromuscular disorders. Psychological support should be available for the families at the time of diagnosis to manage its psychological impact on parental mental health. It should also accompany the progression of the disease, promoting family adaptation to this progression (Lorenza et al., 2017). Additional research is needed to identify psychological interventions that promote quality of life from a family-centered perspective in this population.
Perfectionism as a mediator of psychological distress: Implications for addressing underlying vulnerabilities to the mental health of medical students
Published in Medical Teacher, 2020
Diann S. Eley, Vikas Bansal, Janni Leung
In contrast, other personality traits such as Self-Directedness and Cooperativeness are critical to predicting psychological adaptation and are consistently associated with mental and physical well-being and high levels of resilience (Jylha and Isometsa 2005; Smith et al. 2005; Cloninger and Zohar 2011; Josefsson et al. 2011; Eley et al. 2013, 2016, 2017; Chae et al. 2019; Yeshua et al. 2019; Leung et al 2019). These traits are consistently shown to be protective and act as moderating factors against negative emotions and maladaptive perfectionistic tendencies.