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Positive psychology of stress
Published in Tony Cassidy, Stress, Cognition and Health, 2023
What is different about Antonovsky’s approach is that resources are seen as located at all levels, biological, psychological, sociocultural and macro-sociocultural (Taylor, 2011). Despite this however, much of the literature reverts to an individual-level analysis and fails to avail of the potential offered to understand how a sense of coherence may impact at the family or community level. Most of the research has utilised Antonovsky’s Orientation to Life Questionnaire and has focused on identifying the correlates of sense of coherence. These include self-esteem, optimism and quality of life (Antonovsky, 1998) and health promoting and family factors (Hansson & Cederblad, 2004). Other variations of the measure have more recently been developed to measure constructs, including family sense of coherence and children’s sense of coherence and more recently still, there has been a growth in the use of qualitative methods such as interviews and focus groups (Eriksson & Lindstrom, 2005). This move reflects Antonovsky’s own recommendations and aims to try and capture the collective sense of coherence experienced by families, groups and communities. The salutogenesis approach has been used effectively in health promotion, particularly in Scandinavian countries (Eriksson & Lindstrom, 2005).
Neurophysiological Perspectives
Published in Marlysa Sullivan, Laurie C. Hyland Robertson, Understanding Yoga Therapy, 2020
Marlysa Sullivan, Laurie C. Hyland Robertson
Salutogenesis offers an alternative and complementary perspective to pathogenesis. Rather than focusing on the pathological cause of disease, the salutogenic model explores the origins of optimal states of health or well-being. Solely removing disease is not seen as sufficient to promote optimal function and thriving. Salutogenesis posits that well-being is more than the absence of disease. Salutogenic interventions focus on inclusive support of the factors that promote health.
Decision-making around pain and its management during labour and birth
Published in Elaine Jefford, Julie Jomeen, Empowering Decision-Making in Midwifery, 2019
Sigfríður Inga Karlsdóttir, Elizabeth Newnham, Hildur Kristjánsdóttir, Ruth Sanders
Salutogenesis is a theory of health that focuses on maximising the strength and well-being of each individual rather than focusing on risk and disease. In the childbirth literature, salutogenesis has been in the spotlight in recent years, with various authors expressing how this approach can be used to improve healthcare systems including maternity care (Ferguson et al., 2015). Although the Ferguson et al. (2015) study was conducted within a high-income country, the impact of salutogenesis on healthcare systems can be applied to any maternity care location around the world. A salutogenic approach focuses on personal resources and the direction towards health, instead of looking at individuals as only either healthy or sick (Antonovsky, 1979). A key concept of the theory is a ‘sense of coherence’, which consists of three components: meaningfulness, manageability and comprehensibility. A person’s sense of coherence is a predictor of health and has been shown to influence the outcome of childbirth (Ferguson et al., 2015). However, the theory of salutogenesis entails more than a sense of coherence; it is a broad theory which focuses on resources, competencies, abilities and assets of the individual, the group and society.
“Seeing a Brighter Future” – Experiences of Adolescents with Common Mental Disorders Receiving the Problem-Solving Therapy “Youth Friendship Bench” in Zimbabwe
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2021
Sander Broström, Björn Axel Johansson, Ruth Verhey, Kajsa Landgren
The present findings could be put into context by applying them to the theory of salutogenesis presented by Aaron Antonovsky in the late 1970s. The theory contributes to an understanding of health endorsed by different Generalised Resistance Resources (GRR); properties in persons, groups, or environments that can defuse diverse stressors and thereby facilitate tension management. One GRR that Antonovsky highlights is cognitive and emotional resources, and another is interpersonal-relational resources comprising coping strategies and management of emotions. According to the theory, as individuals are exposed to daily stressors, activation of GRR will improve capacity for managing stressful situations, endorsing a Sense of Coherence (SOC); a life orientation helping people to perceive life as comprehensive, manageable and meaningful. A strong SOC improves resilience, the individual’s ability to adapt despite rough life circumstances (Mittelmark et al., 2017).
Development and Effect of a Salutogenic Program for Rural Elderly Women on Depression and Suicidal Ideation
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2021
Hyun-Joo Oh, Moonhee Gang, Myung-Sook Kim
The salutogenic orientation which focuses on the origins of health explains why people stay at the positive end of the health or disease continuum despite stressors ranging from the microbiological to the societal-cultural levels (Antonovsky, 1987). The main concept in salutogenesis, sense of coherence (SOC), is a global orientation to viewing life as comprehensive, manageable, and meaningful or coherent (Antonovsky, 1987). Person uses SOC in order to perceive challenges as predictable and within control, facilitating motivation to identify and use resources efficiently in order to preserve health (Tan et al., 2016). It consists of three sub-concepts; comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness (Antonovsky, 1987). Also, sufficient generalized resistance resources (GRRs) such as money, ego identity, knowledge, intelligence, coping strategy, social support, commitment, cultural stability, and religious beliefs help to resolve challenges and strengthen SOC, whereas inadequate or inappropriate GRRs cause challenges to remain unresolved or poorly resolved and weaken SOC (Maass et al., 2017).
Creativity and positive psychology in psychotherapy
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2020
Therapeutic success in dealing with these conditions goes hand in hand with an increase in cognitive-emotional connectivity on the patient’s part (Etkin et al., 2005). This is consistent with the results achieved by the very different psychological methods drawn upon by cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy (e.g. Beck, 1976; Ellis, 1980; Young et al., 2008) or psychodynamic psychotherapy (e.g. Gabbard, 2010, Holm-Hadulla, 2004). What these psychotherapeutic approaches have in common – among other things – is that they support cognitive and emotional coherence. Antonovsky (1987) shows that a sense of coherence is an essential precondition for mental health and a central salutogenetic factor in general. However, in neurobiological terms, it seems that a degree of incoherence actively favours cognitive and emotional activity. This would, in its turn, tie in with those psychological and phenomenological studies demonstrating that a certain degree of emotional destabilization, anxiety, and recurrent depression may actually further creative activity (Holm-Hadulla, 2019a).