Medical illness and positive life change
Subtitle: can crisis lead to personal transformation?
By: edited by Crystal L. Park ... [et al.].
Contributors: Park, Crystal L.; American Psychological Association.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Decade of behavior
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781433803963
Subjects: Sick -- Psychology; Life change events; Clinical health psychology; Self-actualization (Psychology); Life Change Events; Adaptation, Psychological; Personality Development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of theoretical perspectives / Crystal L. Park; title: Challenges to assessing positive life change / Howard Tennen & Glenn Affleck; title: Example statistical strategy for assessing positive life change among individuals with breast cancer / Charles S. Carver, Suzanne C. Lechner, and Michael H. Antoni; title: Benefit finding among children and adolescents with diabetes / Vicki S. Helgeson, Lindsey Lopez, and Constance Mennella; title: Lifespan developmental perspectives on stress-related growth / Carolyn M. Aldwin, Michael R. Levenson, and Linda Kelly; title: Lessons learned about benefit finding among individuals with cancer or HIV/AIDS / Suzanne C. Lechner and Kathryn E. Weaver; title: Illness perceptions and benefit finding among individuals with breast cancer, acoustic neuroma, or heart disease / Keith J. Petrie and Arden Corter; title: Positive life change and the social context of illness: an expanded social-cognitive processing model / Stephen J. Lepore and William Kernan; title: Biological correlates: how psychological components of benefit finding may lead to physiological benefits / Julienne E. Bower, Elissa Epel, and Judith Tedlie Moskowitz; title: Is benefit finding good for individuals with chronic disease? / Sara B. Algoe and Annette L. Stanton; title: Enhancing positive adaptation: example intervention during treatment for breast cancer / Michael H. Antoni, Charles S. Carver, and Suzanne C. Lechner; title: The clinician as expert companion / Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun.