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Bertrand, Jennifer – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2021
Chronic illness diagnoses frequently cause the shattering of personal assumptions about the self and the world, resulting in an experience of alienation and fragmentation of identity. Multiple studies on the effects of expressive writing have demonstrated physical, emotional, and psychological health benefits, yet little is known about how it…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Grief, Coping, Expressive Language
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Snodgrass, Jeffrey G.; Brewis, Alexandra; Dengah, H. J. François, II; Dressler, William W.; Kaiser, Bonnie N.; Kohrt, Brandon A.; Mendenhall, Emily; Sagstetter, Seth; Weaver, Lesley J.; Zhao, Katya X. – Field Methods, 2023
We review ethnographic methods that allow researchers to assess distress in a culturally sensitive manner. We begin with an overview of standardized biomedical and psychological approaches to assessing distress cross-culturally. We then focus on literature describing the development of reliable and valid culturally sensitive assessment tools that…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Research Methodology, Stress Variables, Cultural Awareness
Cohen, Lawrence J. – Independent School, 2016
Trying to jump in and fix everything when our children tell us that they have been mistreated by a friend, classmate, or teacher is an understandable response, but this tactic will not capture what children need in that moment. When children let their parent know that they are in pain or have been wronged, a parent's job is to acknowledge that…
Descriptors: Children, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Problems, Parent Child Relationship
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Anglin, James P. – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2014
Many actions of troubled children and adolescents can disguise and conceal their ever-present and deep-seated psycho-emotional pain. Adults living and working with these youth may overlook this pain in a strategy of avoidance. Labelling troubling behavior as "outbursts," "explosions," or "acting out," ignores the…
Descriptors: Pain, Children, Adolescents, Conflict
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Gilbert, Jenelle N.; Lyon, Hayden; Wahl, Mary-tyler – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2015
Sport participation can be a stressful experience for some high school athletes. Sustaining a sport injury can further increase athletes' stress levels. Coaches may feel uncomfortable interacting with injured athletes and can unconsciously or purposefully marginalize them. However, coaches have a responsibility toward all of their athletes,…
Descriptors: Coping, Injuries, Athletes, Athletic Coaches
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Smith, Phillip N.; Cukrowicz, Kelly C. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2010
A functional model of the acquired capability for suicide, a component of Joiner's (2005) Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide, is presented. A component of Joiner's (2005) Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide a functional model of the acquired capability for suicide is presented. The model integrates the points discussed by…
Descriptors: Pain, Emotional Disturbances, Suicide, Psychological Patterns
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Burns, Stephanie T. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2010
Chronic pain affects 35% to 57% of the adult population in the United States and results in billions of dollars spent annually in direct health-care costs and lost productivity. Extensive research confirms the considerable role psychological factors play in the experience and expression of chronic pain. The author discusses implications for…
Descriptors: Pain, Adults, Counseling Techniques, Role
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Jiron-King, Shimberlee – Bilingual Review, 2009
Numerous critics have marked Alejandro Morales's controversial career by its shift from the experimental novel to historical fiction as well as by what Morales himself describes as the connection between intrahistory and intertextuality. Morales's latest work, "The Captain of All These Men of Death," emphasizes the fictive nature of historical…
Descriptors: Males, Fiction, History, Authors
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Digney, John – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2009
Emotional pain which manifests itself in problem behaviours is, for many children and youth, a part of their everyday struggle through life. Kids growing up in residential care or in a dysfunctional family or setting suffer this pain. Connecting with kids in pain, the primary task for youth workers, is made all the more difficult, the greater the…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Children, Adolescents, Humor
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Halvorson, Heather; Crooks, Janet; LaHart, Daniel A.; Farrell, Katherine P. – Journal of School Health, 2008
Mass psychogenic response (MPR), also referred to as epidemic hysteria, mass hysteria, or mass psychological illness, has been identified for over 600 years. MPR is a syndrome comprising a collection of symptoms, which are consistent with organic illness, but lack an identifiable cause, and which rapidly spread through socially connected groups…
Descriptors: Pain, Standardized Tests, News Reporting, Psychological Patterns
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Robinson, M. Renee – Journal of Black Psychology, 1999
Discusses coping and personal adjustment to chronic pain for adolescents with sickle cell anemia and presents a model of illness behavior for these adolescents. Offers a framework of disease severity and disease impact, and suggests using functional ability as an index of coping and personal adjustment. Contains 59 references. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Coping
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Jacobsen, Paul B.; Andrykowski, Michael A.; Thors, Christina L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
This study examined the relationship of catastrophizing to fatigue in 80 women receiving chemotherapy (CT) or radiotherapy (RT) for treatment of early stage breast cancer. Findings revealed expected relationships between catastrophizing and fatigue among women receiving RT but not CT. Among RT patients, those high in catastrophizing reported…
Descriptors: Fatigue (Biology), Patients, Females, Cancer
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Overskeid, Geir – Psychological Record, 2004
Bertrand Russell was a prominent philosopher, mathematician, and political activist. It is less well known that Russell suffered from various psychological problems and developed his own method of dealing with them. Continuing a long philosophical tradition, Russell examined how faulty thinking may elicit painful emotions. Though seldom, if ever,…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Cognitive Restructuring, Psychotherapy, Psychological Patterns
Steinhaus, Arthur H. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1945
This bulletin is committed to the thesis that the success of any educative experience varies as thoughts are or are not accompanied by appropriate feelings; that education must ever be alert to both of these happenings; and that the teacher can influence the feeling phase of an experience even as he can the cognitive phase. In limiting its efforts…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Safety, Health Behavior, Health Education