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Relevance of positive psychology in the veterinary profession: A narrative review

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Veterinary professionals encounter myriad stressors that challenge their wellbeing and mental health. Positive psychology provides an evidence‐based approach to improving mental health by emphasising individual strengths, effective coping mechanisms, and the promotion of overall wellbeing.
Aiman Khattak   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Affecting Caregiver Outcomes

open access: yes, 2008
Research in the area of caregiving has tended to focus on the impact of the caregiving experience itself without consideration of continued psychological distress for caregivers after institutionalisation or death.
Calder, Nicole
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Approaching the end of life and dying with dementia in care homes : the accounts of family carers. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Research into end of life and dying with dementia in care homes from the family carer's perspective is limited. From the available evidence, it appears that family carers find themselves in an unfamiliar situation about which they lack knowledge and ...
Keady, J.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Are Social Media Platforms an Effective Forum for Engaging Early‐Onset Cancer Survivors? Insights From X (Formerly Twitter)

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, EarlyView.
This study presents a novel approach to understanding whether social media can be used to effectively communicate with cancer survivors. Posts generated by early‐onset cancer survivors were scarce, while clinician‐ and researcher‐produced content dominated.
Abby Dawson, Savio George Barreto
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding anticipatory grief: relationship to coping style, attachment style, caregiver strain, gender role identification, and spirituality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This study investigated predictors of anticipatory grief among 70 caregivers using hospice services to care for a dying individual. Anticipatory grief (AG) was positively associated with disengagement coping; more specifically, it was negatively ...
Lane, Brent Nathan
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The role of grief in dementia caregiving.

open access: yesAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 2010
The literature examining issues of caregiver stress, burden,or depression has focused on the stress-process model of caregiving, which posits that there are characteristics inherent in dementia and in the course of caregiving for a person with dementia that can cause stress in the caregiver's life.
Brigg B, Noyes   +6 more
openaire   +1 more source

What is it like to be an infant?

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychotherapy, EarlyView.
Abstract In the philosophy of mind literature, consciousness is commonly defined not in terms of its physical correlates but rather its subjective character – the ‘something that it is like to be' an organism. In this conceptual article, this formulation is applied to the study of neonate subjectivity, giving rise to the question: what is it like to be
Matthew Goldreich
wiley   +1 more source

Bereavement among Hospice Caregivers of Cancer Patients One Year following Loss: Predictors of Grief, Complicated Grief, and Symptoms of Depression

open access: yes, 2013
Background: Informal caregivers are an integral part of end-of-life care for hospice patients with cancer. Although adjustment following loss is highly individual, many caregivers have significant psychological distress after the death of a loved one ...
Allen, Jessica Y.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Under the radar: a longitudinal exploration of mental health among children and adolescents experiencing parental and caregiver death during the COVID‐19 pandemic in South Africa

open access: yesChild and Adolescent Mental Health, EarlyView.
Background Death of a caregiver during childhood can have profound influences on child wellbeing and later trajectories. Globally, child and adolescent mental health is an increasing area of concern with widespread negative implications. These data provide the first comprehensive exploration of the mental health of children experiencing COVID‐19 ...
Kathryn Steventon Roberts   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The experience of living with a husband or partner who has a life-limiting illness

open access: yes, 2012
When an individual is cared for from within the household, this care-giver is most likely to be their spouse or partner. Research to date has explored the impact of life-limiting illness on spouses and partners, as well as other family members.
Jepson, Anna
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