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Author : Barbara Snell Dohrenwend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Stressful Life Events & Their Contexts written by Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Snell Dohrenwend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Stressful Life Events and Their Contexts written by Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol S. Aneshensel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387325166
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health written by Carol S. Aneshensel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-05-11 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes ways in which society shapes the mental health of its members, and shapes the lives of those identified as mentally ill. Experts in the sociology of mental health discuss in depth the interface between society and the inward experiences of its members.
Author : Alex C. Michalos
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789400707528
Total Pages : 7347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research written by Alex C. Michalos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 7347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this encyclopedia is to provide a comprehensive reference work on scientific and other scholarly research on the quality of life, including health-related quality of life research or also called patient-reported outcomes research. Since the 1960s two overlapping but fairly distinct research communities and traditions have developed concerning ideas about the quality of life, individually and collectively, one with a fairly narrow focus on health-related issues and one with a quite broad focus. In many ways, the central issues of these fields have roots extending to the observations and speculations of ancient philosophers, creating a continuous exploration by diverse explorers in diverse historic and cultural circumstances over several centuries of the qualities of human existence. What we have not had so far is a single, multidimensional reference work connecting the most salient and important contributions to the relevant fields. Entries are organized alphabetically and cover basic concepts, relatively well established facts, lawlike and causal relations, theories, methods, standardized tests, biographic entries on significant figures, organizational profiles, indicators and indexes of qualities of individuals and of communities of diverse sizes, including rural areas, towns, cities, counties, provinces, states, regions, countries and groups of countries.
Author : Bernard L. Bloom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stressful Life Event Theory and Research written by Bernard L. Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barbara Snell Dohrenwend
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stressful Life Events: Their Nature and Effects written by Barbara Snell Dohrenwend and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1974 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles D. Spielberger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1134938772
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Stress And Emotion written by Charles D. Spielberger and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is in a series which explores the most current research in the Area Of Environmental Stressors And The Emotional Reaction They Envoke. Divided into four parts it considers stress in the workplace, in daily life, in schools as well as stress and disease.
Author : Stevan E. Hobfoll
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317770595
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Stress, Social Support, And Women written by Stevan E. Hobfoll and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. This book is concerned with the stressors women undergo from adolescence to old age and the resources, especially interpersonal resources, women use to cope with these stressors. There follows a series of chapters that address the use of social support as a resource for coping with stressful life events that confront women in a variety of contexts during their life span.
Author : William W. Dressler
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791404140
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Stress and Adaptation in the Context of Culture written by William W. Dressler and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique study in social and cultural psychiatry, carried out in an African-American community in the rural South. Using a combination of concepts and methods from anthropology and social epidemiology, the specific social and psychological risk factors for depression are examined. The author places special emphasis on how that risk is modified by the social and historical context of the Black community in the United States, and suggests a new basis for the sociocultural comparative study of health and disease.
Author : Irving B. Weiner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471385141
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Psychology, Health Psychology written by Irving B. Weiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes established theories and cutting-edge developments. Presents the work of an international group of experts. Presents the nature, origin, implications, an future course of major unresolved issues in the area.
Author : John Eckenrode
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489937404
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book The Social Context of Coping written by John Eckenrode and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am very pleased to have been asked to do abrief foreword to this second CRISP volume, The Social Context o[ Coping. I know most of the participants and their work, and respect them as first-rate and influen tial research scholars whose research is at the cusp of current concerns in the field of stress and coping. Psychological stress is central to human adaptation. It is difficult to visualize the study of adaptation, health, illness, personal soundness, and psychopathology without recognizing their dependence on how weil people cope with the stresses of living. Since the editor, John Eckenrode, has portrayed the themes of each of the chapters in his introduction, I can limit myself to a few general comments about stress and coping. Stress research began, as unexplored fields often do, with very sim ple-should I say simplistic?-ideas about how to define the concept. Early approaches were unidimensional and input-output in outlook, modeled implicitly on Hooke's late-17th-century engineering analysis in which external load was an environmental stressor, stress was the area over wh ich the load acted, and strain was the deformation of the struc tu re such as a bridge or building.
Author : Bruce P. Dohrenwend
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198028444
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Adversity, Stress, and Psychopathology written by Bruce P. Dohrenwend and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-20 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adversity" involves exposure to unpropitious or calamitous circumstances. It occurs in extreme situations such as prolonged combat or natural disasters, both of which affect whole groups or communities of people simultaneously. It is found as well in more individually targeted events such as child abuse, bereavement, rape, physical illness, marital separation or divorce, unemployment, and homelessness. Exposure to adversity is not randomly distributed in society. It varies, for example, with gender, ethnic or racial background, and socioeconomic status. And some types of adversity can be precipitated by an individual's own actions. In this volume, the leading investigators review research on the nature of adversity and its relationship to major types of psychopathology including schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism and other substance-use disorders, antisocial personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and nonspecific distress. These relationships are examined in terms of theoretical concepts of life stress that describe the characteristics of the ongoing situation in which adverse events occur and the factors of personality and coping ability that also affect psychiatric outcomes. The authors sift through firm and infirm findings and critically evaluate existing theory and research strategies and provide and integrative theoretical framework. No other book offers as comprehensive and authoritative a discussion of the role of psychosocial stress in causing mental disorders.
Author : Nan Lin
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483276317
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Social Support, Life Events, and Depression written by Nan Lin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Support, Life Events, and Depression describes a research program that looked into the social process of mental health. This research program provided an arena for opportunities to explore many topics concerning the relationships among social support, life events, and mental health (primarily depressive symptoms). The volume is organized into six parts. Part I sets the background and scope of the study. Part II focuses on the dependent variable (depression), one of the two independent variables (life events], and the key control variable [psychological resources). Part III describes the measurement of social support. Part IV examines the basic models involving social support, life events, psychological resources, and depression. Part V proceeds to examine the reduced basic model in terms of a number of factors, such as age, sex, marital status, social class, and history of prior illness. Part VI discusses several specific issues regarding the dynamics of social support. This book is intended primarily for researchers, scientists, professionals, and instructors who are interested in examining both conceptual and methodological issues regarding social factors in mental health. Thus, those working in the area of public health, social and behavioral sciences, and medical professions may find this book useful. Because of the way the chapters are organized, it is possible for researchers and practitioners alike to select and read chapters pertinent to their specific interests.
Author : Mortimer H. Appley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1468451227
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Dynamics of Stress written by Mortimer H. Appley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was our privilege, some twenty years ago, to assemble a group of Canadian and American investigators to examine the status of research in the then newly burgeoning field of psychological stress (Appley & Trumbull, 1967). As noted, in Chapter 1 of the present volume, there has been rapid development of the area since then. The conference on which the current volume is based was designed to do three things: 1. to further update the field, 2. to bring European and other perspectives to the subject, and 3. to focus on the status of theory of stress. We believe the reader will agree that all three objectives were accom plished, though in so vast and active a field, one can never be totally satisfied. The authors included in this volume are among the leading inves tigators in the field. They represent active research centers and programs in Austria, East and West Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Sweden, and the United States. Their chapters make contributions to stress theory and methodology, inform us meaningfully of the perspectives of the various research programs they represent, and provide, collectively, a description of the dynamics of the stress process as currently emerging.
Author : George William Brown
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898627237
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Life Events and Illness written by George William Brown and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of factors outside the province of the physical and biological sciences in the onset of illness has long been a source of speculation. While early efforts in psychosomatic medicine focused on the relationship between mental states and illness, the effects of personal status and social circumstances on physical health are only now receiving the attention they merit. By integrating current theory, methodology, and research, this ground-breaking volume advances the study of life events and disease to a new stage. George Brown and Tirril Harris are ideal editors for such an undertaking. George Brown has long been known for his path-breaking work on intensive clinical assessment and designing measures that capture the real complexity of social situations, assigned meanings, and personal response to crisis. He brought to light the importance of ``expressed emotion,' the differential role of life events in schizophrenia and depression, and most recently, produced a seminal work on the social etiology of depression with Tirril Harris. As David Mechanic notes in his Foreword, the defining characteristics of these efforts, which are also reflected in this volume are a ``sensitivity to clinical material and capitalizing on serendipity; self-consciousness about methods and methodological advances; and focus on theory with careful efforts to specify intervening processes and the links between macro events and personal meanings.' Along with their collaborators, these eminent editors bring together an impressive range of theoretical thought and empirical study organized around the Life Events and Difficulties Schedule (LEDS). Their examination of the origins of life events and difficulties and the notion of ``conveyor belts' to continuing adversity capture the immutable uncertainties of life and help to link concerns with life events and disease to larger issues of human development. The authors' innovative approach to establishing the relationship between ``attitudes' and psychiatric and physical disorders fully utilizes the wealth of data elicited by the LEDS, and demonstrates how the comprehensiveness of this data matches the sophistication and complexity of the theoretical ideas it serves. Addressing fundamental questions on the whether the specific nature of life events and vulnerability factors differ in different disorders, the authors conclude by providing a perspective on psychodynamic etiology which emphasizes the specificity of crucial links. It integrates social, psychological, and biological factors around the notion that specific types of cognitive-affective experience are linked to specific types of illness. While significantly advancing our understanding of how individuals define and deal with adversity, LIFE EVENTS AND ILLNESS also fosters a greater appreciation of the methodological tools available for examining these processes. For all clinicians, researchers, and students in the behavioral sciences, this timely work not only provides a comprehensive review of the literature and a critical examination of current research models but also points the way for future investigations.
Author : Sheldon Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190283882
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Measuring Stress written by Sheldon Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Measuring Stress is the definitive resource for health and social scientists interested in assessing stress in humans. With contributions from leading experts, this work provides for the first time a unified conceptual overview of the intricate relationship between stress and a variety of disorders. Its interdisciplinary approach to the selection of appropriate environmental, psychological, and biological measures includes comprehensive evaluations and practical advice regarding a wide range of measurement approaches. For environmental stress, techniques such as checklists and interviews that measure life event, daily event, and chronic stress are discussed. An analysis of psychological measurements includes methods for assessing stress appraisal and affective response. Neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and immune measures are examined as important biological stress assessments. Contributors also uncover the conceptual underpinnings of each approach as well as the various costs and benefits of available assessment techniques. Reflecting the diversity of theoretical conceptions of stress, Measuring Stress masterfully provides integrative, incisive guidelines that will prove invaluable to students, clinicians, and researchers in health and social psychology, medicine, nursing, epidemiology, sociology, and psychiatry.
Author : Robert J. Haggerty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521576628
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Stress, Risk, and Resilience in Children and Adolescents written by Robert J. Haggerty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many children's behavioral problems have multiple causes, and most children with one problem behavior also have others. The co-occurence and interrelatedness of risk factors and problem behavior is certainly an important area of research. This volume recognizes the complexity of the developmental processes that influence coping and resilience and the roles sociocultural factors play. The contributors focus on four themes that have emerged in the study of risk and coping over the past decade: interrelatedness of risk and problems, individual variability in resilience and susceptibility to stress, processes and mechanisms linking multiple stressors to multiple outcomes, and interventions and prevention. Psychologists, pediatricians, and others involved in the research or care of children will take great interest in this text.
