AIMS Cognitive-behavioral treatments (CBT) are among the most popular interventions offered for alcohol and other substance use disorders, but it is not clear how they achieve their effects. CBT is purported to exert its beneficial effects by altering coping skills, but data supporting coping changes as the mechanism of action are mixed. The purpose of this pilot study was to test a treatment i...

BACKGROUND Patients in the terminal phase of a disease may have complex needs. It is often family and friends who play a central role in providing support, despite health professional input and regardless of whether the patient is at home or elsewhere. Such informal caring may involve considerable physical, psychological, and economic stresses. A range of supportive programmes for caregivers is...

BACKGROUND One of the most important factors affecting relapse of addiction is craving beliefs of substance use. The goal of the present study was assessment of the effectiveness of coping skills education program to reduce craving beliefs among opium addicts. METHODS In a randomized controlled trial, during September 2011 to August 2012, 70 opium addicted men referred to the Behavioral Disor...

The current study aims at studying the relationship between the religious attitudes and the coping skills and the subjective well-being of the students of the Azad University, Gorgan branch. To do this, 357 female and male students of the Azad University of Gorgan were randomly selected using cluster sampling. Data were collected by using a questionnaire on assessing the religious attitudes (RA...

AIM To investigate the impact of regular exposure to paediatric medical trauma on multidisciplinary teams in a paediatric hospital and the relationships between psychological distress, resilience and coping skills. METHOD Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, secondary traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, stress, burnout, compassion satisfaction, resilience and coping skills were meas...

This paper examines existing research on the impact of terrorism on expatriate coping strategies. We consider pre-assignment fear of terrorism, in-country coping strategies, and anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) associated with repatriation. The extant research is small but growing. Our model for expatriate coping at the pre-departure, in-country, and repatriation stages includes...

in this cross-sectional study, psychosocial factors were assessed in patients with duodenal ulcer (du) (n=20) and healthy subjects (n=20) matched for sex, age, and education. these factors were assessed during the active phase of du and again 3 months following the completion of medical treatment. the psychosocial factors included psychological distress symptoms, stressful life events, coping s...

BACKGROUND Emotion dysregulation is a critical transdiagnostic mental health problem that needs to be further examined in personality disorders (PDs). The current study examined dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills use, emotion dysregulation, and dysfunctional coping among adults who endorsed symptoms of cluster B PDs and psychopathy. We hypothesized that skills taught in DBT and emotion d...

OBJECTIVES This paper reports on the cross sectional data from the longitudinal study examining the impact of genital herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection on quality of life. In particular the report sought to study the relation between recurrence of genital HSV and coping style, mood, personality, and quality of life, among other factors. SETTING AND SUBJECTS 116 patients with a known histor...