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Miers, Anne C.; Rieffe, Carolien; Terwogt, Mark Meerum; Cowan, Richard; Linden, Wolfgang – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2007
Attempts to explain the experience of somatic complaints among children and adolescents suggest that they may in part result from the influence of particular strategies for coping with anger on the longevity of negative emotions. To explore these relationships British (n = 393) and Dutch (n = 99) children completed a modified version of the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Coping, Adolescents, Children
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Saltzman, Kasey M.; Holden, George W.; Holahan, Charles J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
We examined the psychological and physiological functioning of a community sample of children exposed to marital violence, comparing them to a clinical comparison group without marital violence exposure. Results replicated past findings of elevated levels of trauma symptomatology in this population. Further, children exposed to marital violence…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Anatomy, Family Violence, Marital Instability
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Gatchel, Robert J. – American Psychologist, 2004
An exciting period in mental and physical health research is beginning, resulting from a paradigm shift from an outdated biomedical reductionism approach to a more comprehensive biopsychosocial model, which emphasizes the unique interactions among biological, psychological, and social factors required to better understand health and illness. This…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Pain, Mental Health, Chronic Illness
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Etherington, Kim – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2005
This paper is based on a study of how childhood trauma can be experienced in the body and the resources individuals have chosen to deal with that. Ten individuals (including myself) wrote stories showing how they had made sense of those experiences and found ways to heal. In this paper, I tell the story of that research, contextualising myself as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Abuse, Psychosomatic Disorders, Psychophysiology