Coping but not coping in health and social care: masking the reality of running organisations beyond safe design capacity

Coping with health care reform.

This paper describes the evaluation of a case study of health service reform in southern Adelaide. A mail survey, interviews and focus groups were used to gain an understanding of health care providers' perceptions and experiences of reform. The paper discusses lessons learnt about health service reform and its impact on people working in the health system. It finds that continual change that i...

the role of type-d personality, social support and self-compassion in prediction of health behaviors in coronary heart disease patients

نظر به اهمیت و تاثیر روزافزون عوامل روانی – اجتماعی در سلامت جسمی و تاثیر عوامل روان شناختی در بروز بیماریهای مختلف از جمله بیماریهای قلبی و عروقی این پژوهش با هدف کلی بررسی ارتباط تیپ شخصیتی d ، حمایت اجتماعی و خود دلسوزی در پیش بینی رفتارهای بهداشتی بیماران کرونر قلبی و تعیین تفاوت بین بیماران کرونر قلبی با و بدون جراحی و افراد سالم در این متغیرها و رفتارهای بهداشتی آنان، انجام گرفت. جامعه آ...

Personality and coping 1 Running Head: PERSONALITY AND COPING

Coping resources, coping processes, and mental health.

Coping, defined as action-oriented and intrapsychic efforts to manage the demands created by stressful events, is coming to be recognized both for its significant impact on stress-related mental and physical health outcomes and for its intervention potential. We review coping resources that aid in this process, including individual differences in optimism, mastery, self-esteem, and social suppo...

Coping with the Reluctance to Face Reality

General population surveys in India, have shown that 6 to 20% of the suffer from psychiatric disorders (Sethi et al, 1967; Varghese et al, 1973; Nandi et al, 1990; Premarajan et al, 1993). Surveys conducted in General Hospitals have revealed the presence of psychiatric morbidity among their outpatient population to be as high as 30% (Srinivasamurthy et al, 1976). Thus in a country with populati...