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Medical illness and positiv...
"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)
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monografia Rebiun16919485 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun16919485 090804s2009 dcu sb 001 0 eng d 9781433803963 print ed.) 1433803968 print ed.) UDE 991003804129703351 DcWaAPA Medical illness and positive life change Recurso electrónico] :] can crisis lead to personal transformation? edited by Crystal L. Park ... [et al.]. 1st ed Washington, DC American Psychological Association 2009 Washington, DC Washington, DC American Psychological Association xv, 261 p. cm xv, 261 p. Decade of behavior Includes bibliographical references and index Overview of theoretical perspectives / Crystal L. Park -- Challenges to assessing positive life change / Howard Tennen & Glenn Affleck -- Example statistical strategy for assessing positive life change among individuals with 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 -- Lifespan 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 "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) Also issued in print Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2009 dcunns Sick- Psychology Life change events Clinical health psychology Self-actualization (Psychology) Life Change Events Adaptation, Psychological Personality Development Park, Crystal L. American Psychological Association PsycBooks (Servicio en línea)