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Health Care Costs Children Of Alcoholics
1,750 wordsLiving with a non-recovering alcoholic in the family can contribute to stress for all members of the family. Each member may be affected differently and react to this stress in the same or different way. The level of dysfunction or resiliency of the non-alcoholic spouse is usually a key factor in the effects of problems and levels of stress impacting the children. Children raised in alcoholic families have different life experiences than children raised in non-alcoholic families. Children in alc...
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1,251 wordsProfessional Articles -- The Social Meaning of Illness The article that I choose to use for this assignment was "The Measurement of Meaning in Illness" by Betsy L. Fife. I was assigned chapter 5, which dealt with the social meaning of illness. The chapter explored the idea of illness as a form of social control and considers the various models of illness and how they have changed over time. The Sociological model of illness refers to the subjective judgment regarding the meaning of the condition...
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Crisis Situations Coping Skills
1,094 wordsDisturbing, resilience, and courageous are merely a glimpse of how impacting the story of Mary Karrs life was growing up as a child in an unpredictable home life. Reading about situations that Mary and her sister experienced made me think about my own childhood with its crisis and misfortunes. I myself have never come close to experiencing anything in my life like she had, but how she described the situations she endured made me feel her frustrations and vulnerabilities. Even with the difference...
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Fight Or Flight Response Stress Responses
1,046 words... om the alarm stage. These changes allow people to deal with stressors more effectively over a longer period of time. When the body eventually runs out of energy from trying to resist stressors, the exhaustion stage takes over. In this stage, the body admits defeat and suffers the negative consequences of the stressors, such as a decreased capacity to function correctly, less sleep, or even death. C. Behavioral Responses People act differently when they are reacting to stressors. Sometimes, t...
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Low Self Esteem Personality Traits
968 words... on the context. Problem-focused coping is more appropriate for problems in which a constructive solution can be found, such as family-related or work-related problems. Alternatively, emotion-focused coping is more appropriate for problems that just have to be accepted, such as physical health problems. B. Moderating Factors Moderating factors influence the strength of the stress responses induced by stressors or the direction of the relation between stressors and stress responses. Regarding ...
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Negative Emotions Coping Strategies
1,692 words... d produce harm or loss. A challenge event refers to the potential for growth, mastery, or some form of gain. Lazarus argues that we cannot assess the origins of stress by looking soley at the nature of the environmental event, rather stress is a process that involves the interaction of the individual with the environment. These categories are based mostly on one's own prior experiences and learning. Also, each of these categories generates different emotional responses. Harm / loss stressors...
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Taking Into Consideration Chronically Ill
1,927 wordsRunning head: WRITTEN RESPONSE 3 - THE CAREGIVER STRESSORS AND COPING MECHANISMS IN PARENTING A CHILD WITH A CHRONIC MEDICAL DISORDER Written Response 3 The Caregiver Stressors and Coping Mechanisms in Parenting a Child with a Chronic Medical Disorder Written Response 3 - The Caregiver Stressors and Coping Mechanisms in Parenting a Child with a Chronic Medical Disorder Introduction According to recent statistic data, over 31 per cent of children aged 18 and less have at least one chronic disease...
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Chronically Ill Chronic Illness
2,008 words... providers. In addition, there are numerous factors affecting coping strategies and outcomes in parents with chronically ill children. Hughes and Caliandro (1996), Melnyk and Alpert-Gillis (1998) assert that social support serves as a some sort of buffer in decreasing parental stress related to the child's chronic illness. Social support also positively influences on coping in parents (Rodrigues, Geffken, Clark, Hunt, & Fisher, 1997). In such a way, assessment of the level of social support i...
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Impact Of Nursing Models In A Professional Setting
2,759 wordsIMPACT OF NURSING MODELS IN A PROFESSIONAL SETTING INTRODUCTION People of all ages and life circumstances are bringing to nurses increased numbers of complaints about being depressed. Nursing practitioners in diverse settings are well aware of this increase. The growing incidence of depression is often attributed to factors in contemporary society such as depersonalization, loss of the capacity to trust, interpersonal destructiveness in transitory but intense relationships, and a loss of control...
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Adolescent Depression Menstrual Cycle
1,712 wordsCARRIE BY STEPHEN KING Adolescence is a time of emotional turmoil, mood liability, gloomy introspection, great drama and heightened sensitivity. It is a time of rebellion and behavioral experimentation. The physician's challenge is to identify depressive behaviors which may be superimposed on the backdrop of a more transient, but expected, developmental storm. This paper explores the theme of coping mechanisms of a teenager as she undergoes traumas in high school, with the power of telekinesis a...
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Prefrontal Cortex Stephen Kings
1,720 words... in the brain that result in changes in behavior as well. Stress increases the size of the amygdala (as evidenced by the increased display of fear in rats) and causes shrinkage of another part of the brain called the hippocampus. Brain changes can also be observed in studies of patients with major depression. Stresses early in life such as low birth weight, low socioeconomic status, a negative home environment, and physical or sexual abuse can influence an individual's physical response to st...
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Low Self Esteem Fight Or Flight Response
3,990 wordsby Ashley Strawder I. Stress Stress by Ashley Strawder I. What Is Stress? Stress is the combination of psychological, physiological, and behavioral reactions that people have in response to events that threaten or challenge them. Stress can be good or bad. Sometimes, stress is helpful, providing people with the extra energy or alertness they need. Stress could give a runner the edge he or she needs to persevere in a marathon, for example. This good kind of stress is called eu stress. Unfortunate...
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3,277 wordsWhat is Dyslexia Accommodating a Disability: Adults with Learning Disabilities Tara J. Childers University of Oklahoma EIPT 6183, Dr. Greene May 3, 1999 Whether we graduate from highschool or college we all hope to find a challenging career that will propel us forward in todays society. For those suffering from dyslexia this only adds to the frustration and fears associated with seeking employment. Many adults with dyslexia or other forms of learning disabilities never disclose their disability ...
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Coping Strategies Teenage Mothers
4,717 wordsThis study aims to determine the stresses and coping strategies encountered by Teenage Parents. Life is a series of choices. Deciding whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to have two careers in one marriage, and whether to view a situation positively are among the more important choices you will ever make in your lifetime. And besides of all this choices, problems may appear and turn to stress that people encounter in daily living. Stress is the " wear and tear" our bodi...
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Mental Health Professionals Gay And Lesbian
3,114 wordsCounseling Homosexual Families Homosexual Families: Counseling the New Generation of Families Table of Contents I. Introduction. 2 II. Societal Issues and Beliefs Facing Gay and Lesbian Parents. 4 III. Research on the Family Environment in Gay and Lesbian Homes 6 IV. Implications for Training 9 V. Coping Strategies 11 VI. General Critique of the Literature... 12 VII. Conclusions 14 VIII. Works Cited 15 Chapter 1 Introduction As years pass, fewer families fit the traditional family mold of mother...
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Emotional Distress Negative Social
1,247 wordsProfessional Articles The Social Meaning of Illness The article that I choose to use for this assignment was The Measurement of Meaning in Illness by Betsy L. Fife. I was assigned chapter 5, which dealt with the social meaning of illness. The chapter explored the idea of illness as a form of social control and considers the various models of illness and how they have changed over time. The Sociological model of illness refers to the subjective judgment regarding the meaning of the condition or b...
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Social And Cultural Bone Marrow
1,422 words1. The original example of a stressful experience is both Marie and David are taking evening classes at a local community college, working full time, and two children to take care of. David found a new job last year before he was laid off but he does not get along well with his boss. Marie is not completely happy with her job and the headquarters will move from Tulsa to Mexico City, so she will quit her current job. This is a good example of stress. The negative emotional state occurring in resp...
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Positively Correlated Heavy Drinkers
4,520 wordsAbstract In response to the need for research that incorporates multiple aspects of theory into a testable framework, this study attempted to replicate and extend the results of Cooper, Russell, Skinner, Front, and Mudar (1992). A modified stressor vulnerability model of stress-related drinking was tested in a homogeneous sample of 65 male and female undergraduate student drinkers. Total weekly consumption of alcohol was used as the criterion measure, whereas family history of alcoholism (Adapte...
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Open Ended Questions American Medical Association
3,833 wordsRELAXATION IN CANCER Introduction Cancer is encroaching upon heart diseases status as the number one killer of Americans. Nearly one million people are diagnosed each year with some type of cancer (Heimlich, 1990) and will undergo chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or a combination as an adjunct to surgery. Many of these patients report experiencing debilitating side effects to these treatments. Not only can the physical effects from the illness and the treatment be quite intense, the emotional and psy...
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