The impact of illness on patients and their families
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Individuals facing illness are considered to have to deal with...
- Uncertainty - tries to understand the meaning and severity of the first symptoms
- Disruption - Becomes evident that indiv has sign. illness. Crisis characterised by intense stress and high level of dependence on health professionals and/or other people who are emotionally close to the individual
- Striving for recovery - attempts to gain some form of control over their illness by means of active coping
- Restoration of well-being- New emotional equilibrium based on acceptance of the illness and its consequences.
According to Shelley Taylor on what does adjustment to threatening events center?
- Searching for meaning in the experience
- Attempting to gain a sense of control or mastery over the experience
- Making efforts to restore self-esteem
Adjustment to chronic disease by Stanton (2001)
- mastery of disease-related adaptive tasks
- Preservation of functional status
- Perceived quality of life in several domains
- Absence of psychological disorders
- Low negative affect
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Snyder and aspects of hope
Frederickson. Key benefits of maintaining + emotions
- promotion of psychological resilience and more effective problem solving
- Dispelling of negative emotions
- Triggering of an upward spiral of positive feelings
Five domains of positive change as a result of stress or trauma
- Enhanced personal relationships
- Greater appreciation of life
- A sense of increased personal strength
- Greater spirituality
- Valued change in life priorities and goals
Moos and Schaefer identified three processes taht resulted from crisis of illness
- Cognitive appraisal - appraises the implications of the illness for their lives
- Adaptive tasks
- Coping skills
The adaptive tasks required as a result of chronic illness include
- Dealing with the symptoms of the disease and the possibility of pain
- Maintaining control over the illness
- Managing communicative relationships with health professionals
- Facing and preparing for an uncertain future
- Preserving self-image and possibly self-esteem when challenged
- Maintaining control and emotional balance over health and life in general
- Dealing with changes in relationships with family and friends.
Stages in a continuum of adaptations
Three specific factors in parental coping styles when faced with illness of child
- Coping by maintaining and focusing on family life and the relationships therein
- Coping by trying to maintain well-being trough the use of social relationships
- Coping by having relationships with medical staff and parents of other ill children.
Patient's support system
Benefits of social support include
- increased adherence to treatment and self-care
- less distress/better emotional adjustment and coping with stressful events
- better physiological functioning
- reduced mortality or increased survival
Four types of unsupportive interation
- Insensitivity
- Disconnecting or disengaging behavior
- Blaming or fault-finding
- Forced optimism
Resistance factors to caregiver distress
- personality
- motivation
- family environment
- support resources
- cognitive appraisals of the situation
- coping responses
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