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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview of theoretical perspectives / Crystal L. Park
  • Assessing positive life change : in search of meticulous methods / Howard Tennen and Glenn Affleck
  • Challenges in studying positive change after adversity : illustrations from research on breast cancer / Charles S. Carver, Suzanne C. Lechner, and Michael H. Antoni
  • Benefit finding among children and adolescents with diabetes / Vicki S. Helgeson, Lindsey Lopez, and Constance Mennella
  • Life span developmental perspectives on stress-related growth / Carolyn M. Aldwin, Michael R. Levenson, and Linda Kelly
  • Lessons learned about benefit finding among individuals with cancer or HIV/AIDS / Suzanne C. Lechner and Kathryn E. Weaver
  • Illness perceptions and benefit finding among individuals with breast cancer, acoustic neuroma, or heart disease / Keith J. Petrie and Arden Corter
  • Positive life change and the social context of illness : an expanded social-cognitive processing model / Stephen J. Lepore and William Kernan
  • Biological correlates : how psychological components of benefit finding may lead to physiological benefits / Julienne E. Bower, Elissa Epel, and Judith Tedlie Moskowitz
  • Is benefit finding good for individuals with chronic disease? / Sara B. Algoe and Annette L. Stanton
  • Enhancing positive adaptation : example intervention during treatment for breast cancer / Michael H. Antoni, Charles S. Carver, and Suzanne C. Lechner
  • The clinician as expert companion / Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun.

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