The Effectiveness of Group Training Concepts Choice Theory on Cognitive Emotional Regulation Strategies and Social Adjustment in HIV-Positive Prisoners

Links between political violence and children's adjustment problems are well-documented. However, the mechanisms by which political tension and sectarian violence relate to children's well-being and development are little understood. This study longitudinally examined children's emotional security about community violence as a possible regulatory process in relations between community discord a...

Court-referred youth participated in an intervention program and completed the Reynolds Adolescent Adjustment Screening Inventory. Reoffending rates were tracked for 2 years. Antisocial behavior, anger control, and emotional distress were influencing characteristics for recidivism. The Reynolds Adolescent Adjustment Screening Inventory may serve as a tool to identify the likelihood of reoffendi...

OBJECTIVE. The utilization of a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnostic framework for categorizing the psychological adjustment of breast cancer (BC) patients has been debated. We wanted to study the prevalence of PTSD and predictors for PTSD. DESIGN. The current study is a one-year follow-up of 64 early BC patients. METHODS. PTSD, subclinical PTSD, delayed onset PTSD and several theor...

Objective: To assess levels of and factors associated with depression and negative affect 5 years after heart transplant (HT). Participants: 370 adults 5 years post-HT. Outcome Measures: Cardiac Depression Scale and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS). Research Method: Stepwise multiple regression analyses were used to test 32 potential demographic, medical, functional, and psycho...

The present paper deals with the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) (Salovey & Mayer, 1990) for the main purpose of investigating the claim that it involves emotion perception. Emotion perception was operationalized as accuracy in the judgment of others acute and habitual feeling states. An accurate perception of others emotions should be related to, on the one hand, heightened reactivity t...

Background The purpose of this investigation is to determine the efficacy of emotionally focused couples therapy (EFT-C) on enhancement of marital adjustment in infertile couples. MaterialsAndMethods This was a semi-experimental study with a pre- and post-test design. We selected 30 infertile couples (60 subjects) by purposive sampling. Couples were randomly assigned to two groups, sample and c...

BACKGROUND Emotional and behavioural problems in children under 3 years of age have a high prevalence, and parenting practices have been shown to be strongly associated with their development. A number of recent systematic reviews have shown that group-based parenting programmes can be effective in improving the emotional and behavioural adjustment of older children (aged 3-10 years). The aim o...