Psychosocial adjustment to traumatic loss of the hand: Understanding the experience of psychosocial adjustment following upper extremity amputation due to work injury.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780494214084
Description: There exists a lack of understanding of the process of psychosocial adjustment following upper extremity amputation due to work injury. Qualitative methods were used to explore this process and gain greater understanding of the experience of such injury. Data from interviews with 11 participants were gathered and analyzed using the grounded theory method. The Value of the Hand, and the Value of Working and Doing, emerged as central phenomena in the adjustment process. These two central categories create a Value Screen through which the participants' experiences and responses are interpreted, and along with the supporting themes of Instability of the Core Identity, and Efforts to Stabilize the Self, form the basis of a preliminary theory of the process of adjustment in this population. The theory and accompanying model are discussed in the context of other theories including Chaos and Complexity theory. Implications for future research and clinical practice are addressed.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1488.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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