28 research outputs found
Caring for a child with a learning disability born into the family unit: Women's recollections over time
This is the authors' print-print version of an article published in Scandianavian journal of disability research which is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15017419.2010.540827Caring over time for a child/young adult with a learning disability requires that the family, and in particular the mother, negotiate their needs with services and professionals, and these negotiations are complicated further by significant behavioural issues in the children. This study reports on a series of interviews undertaken with mothers of children and young adults with learning disabilities and a history of challenging behaviours. The interviews were supplemented by documentary data from clinical and other notes in order to provide a more detailed view of the issues arising from caring over time. Detailed thematic analysis revealed five key themes demonstrating the cumulative effect of caring for someone with such complex needs, the centrality of that individual’s needs to the lives of those interviewed and the ongoing negotiation between family and professionals required in order for the former to work out how to continue caring both effectively and on their own terms. All the names of mothers and children are psuedonyms
Reviews : Bram P. Buunk & Frederick X. Gibbons (Eds.) Health, Coping and Well-Being: Perspectives from Social Comparison Theory Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997, 450 pp. US $99.95 (hbk); ISBN 0-8058-1858-8
A web-based examination of experiences with intrusive thoughts across the adult lifespan
Stress on health-related quality of life in older adults: the protective nature of mindfulness
Acculturative stress and coping among Korean immigrant elders residing in non-Korean ethnic enclaves
The relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and narrative structure among adolescent terrorist-attack survivors
Prolonged Grief, Autobiographical Memory, and Its Interaction With Value Orientations in China and Switzerland
Organisational stressors, coping and coping effectiveness: a longitudinal study with an elite coach.
The purpose of this study was to examine organisational stressors, coping, and perceptions of coping effectiveness with an elite coach. The participant completed a daily diary over a 28-day period. Each diary entry consisted of an open-ended stressor, a coping response section, and a Likert-type scale measure of coping effectiveness. Inductive and deductive content analysis procedures were used to analyse the diaries, in addition to frequency data which were obtained for both stressors and coping strategies. Findings indicated administration, overload, competition environment, the athletes, and team atmosphere were the salient organisational stressors. Coping strategies used to alleviate such stressors were communication, preparation, planning, social support, and self-talk. These strategies were generally effective, but coping effectiveness declined over the 28-days