Medical illness and positive life change : can crisis lead to personal transformation? /

"People often claim to experience improved relationships with family and friends, a clearer sense of their own strengths and resilience, changed priorities about what is important in life, and various other positive changes after struggling with stressful or traumatic events. What are we to mak...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Park, Crystal L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, ©2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Decade of behavior.
Temas:
Sick > Psychology.
Life change events.
Clinical health psychology.
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Adaptability (Psychology)
Personality development.
Adaptation, Psychological
Life Change Events
Sick Role
Personality Development
Malades > Psychologie.
Événements stressants de la vie.
Santé > Psychologie clinique.
Adaptation (Psychologie)
Personnalité > Développement.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
PSYCHOLOGY > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"People often claim to experience improved relationships with family and friends, a clearer sense of their own strengths and resilience, changed priorities about what is important in life, and various other positive changes after struggling with stressful or traumatic events. What are we to make of these claims? Can we determine whether perceptions of change reflect real, verifiable change--that is, is it possible for someone to believe that he or she has grown while still exhibiting the same self-defeating thoughts and behaviors? Or is the perception of change itself an important meaning reconstruction process? What factors influence personal growth, and what effect does growth have on physical and mental health? This book examines these issues in depth and draws out their implications for research and clinical practice. Because medical illness has been one of the primary contexts in which researchers have studied the phenomenon of positive life change, this book focuses on how positive life change might be fostered in the context of medical illness"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved)
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 261 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9781433818776
1433818779

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