«For Better or for Worse ...» Differences and Similarities of Caring Spouses and Other Family Caregivers in the German Survey of the Project EUROFAMCAREThe vast majority of older people in need for care are cared-for by their relatives, mostly children ...
Is Caring for the Elderly a Health Risk? A Qualitative Study on Work Experience, Coping, and Health Behaviors of NursesCaring for elderly and disabled people poses a challenge not only for society but for each person working in this domain. This study ...
Psychological and Psychosocial Interventions to Support People Coping with Dementia in Early Stages. An OverviewPrimary degenerative dementia cannot be treated by medicaments casually. The following review contains the latest development in research, ...
This article focuses upon a new preventive approach designed to improve personal stress management skills. The Coping Enhancement Training (CET) is derived from the Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET) and encompasses both an individual and a dyadic ...
Abstract. Previous studies focused mostly on predicting the adjustment of adolescents based on distinct coping strategies. However, people generally do not use only one coping strategy, but rather select from a repertoire of coping strategies. This study ...
Fragestellung: In der Untersuchung klinisch auffälliger Jugendlicher fehlen bislang Studien zum Coping mit alltäglichen Stressoren im Vergleich zu gesunden Jugendlichen. Methodik: Klinisch auffällige Jugendliche mit verschiedenen Störungen (gemischten ...
Cluster-randomized, controlled evaluation of stress management training for high school studentsAbstract.Objective: One fifth of German adolescents show elevated levels of mental health problems. The development ...
Adolescents with Epilepsy: Psychosocial Adaptation and CopingAbstract: Adolescents with chronic diseases are challenged not only with general issues of this developmental phase but face many additional problems. The present article reviews issues of ...
Risk Factor Coping with a Disease – Associations between Coping and Health Related Quality of Life of Children with a Mentally Ill ParentIn this study health related quality of life of children of mentally ill parents was associated with the parental ...
Reactions to the Stigma of Mental Illness: Social-Psychological Models and Empirical FindingsRecent research on stigma and discrimination has focused on how members of a stigmatized group perceive and react to being discriminated. Well-established models ...
Which influence do stress with one's identity, problematic coping styles and dysfunctional maternal rearing behavior exert on symptomatology of healthy and clinically referred adolescents and young adults?Abstract. This ...
Assessment of stress processing strategies regeneration and resistance orientation – A study in psychosomatic patientsAbstract. When considering individual strategies to cope with stress, there is a dualism between ...
Acceptability, Feasibility and First Results on the Effects of the New Version of the Secondary Preventive Stress Management Training for ChildrenAbstract. Stressful experiences and physical strain increase ...
Objective: To investigate helpful and stressful factors in coping with COPD of patients and their partners. Method: Nine COPD patients and their partners (9 couples) were interviewed. All interviews were audio taped and later transcribed and analysed ...
Patients suffering form chronic diseases have to deal with several problems, the illness itself only being one of them. Health care providers have to undergo a paradigm shift to be able to meet the new challenges which differ from those in acute care. ...
When a Parent Falls Severely Ill – Challenges for the Medical Practice from the Children’s PerspectiveAbstract. A serious somatic parental illness affects the whole family. However, children of ill parents rarely attract ...
Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs (Sheldon, 2011). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their ...
A comparison of patients with and without immigration background at the beginning and the end of drug addiction treatmentAims: Are there differences between addicted immigrants from Eastern Europe and addicted persons from Germany in emotional distress, ...