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Psychologic adaptation to breast cancer

Cancer, 1980
Adaptation to breast cancer depends on two parameters: one derived from the patient and one from the disease. The first comprises the psychological and social factors that are determined by the patient and her surroundings: the psychologic adjustment the patient had before illness, her social supports, especially her spouse, and her social context ...
J C, Holland, R, Mastrovito
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Psychological Adaptation to Disability

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2005
The process of psychological adaptation to chronic illness and disability (CID) has been extensively studied by rehabilitation professionals for more than 50 years, yet it is still fraught with misunderstanding and often contradictory views. In this paper, the authors seek to expand on earlier suggestions by Parker, Schaller, and Hansmann (2003) and ...
Hanoch Livneh, Randall M. Parker
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Social and Psychological Determinants of Adaptation

The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1979
Social and psychological frameworks used to explain adaptation are examined. Findings from a study of three ethnic groups, Irish, Italian, and Polish Americans, aged forty to eighty are presented to test the effects of life stage, social surround, and personality on adaptation.
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Theory of psychological adaptive modes

Medical Hypotheses, 2016
When an individual is facing a stressor and normal stress-response mechanism cannot guarantee sufficient adaptation, special emotional states, adaptive modes, are activated (for example a depressive reaction). Adaptive modes are involuntary states of mind, they are of comprehensive nature, they interfere with normal functioning, and they cannot be ...
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The Concept of Adaptation in Modern Psychology

The Journal of Psychology, 1965
(1965). The Concept of Adaptation in Modern Psychology. The Journal of Psychology: Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 73-93.
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Social and Psychological Resources and Adaptation

Review of General Psychology, 2002
Psychology has increasingly turned to the study of psychosocial resources in the examination of well-being. How resources are being studied and resource models that have been proffered are considered, and an attempt is made to examine elements that bridge across models. As resource models span health, community, cognitive, and clinical psychology, the
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