There has been much discussion about personality characteristics that relate to disease susceptibility. Problems exist with both the personality measures and the disease measures (Krantz & Hedges, 1997). Simonton and Matthews-Simonton (1994) have often been quoted after they have attempted …
Kiecolt-Glaser, Stephens, Lipetz, Speicher and Glaser (1994) studied DNA repair assays from 28 nonmedicated and nonpsychotic, newly hospitalized psychiatric inpatients to compare the speed of repair with psychological distress. Speed of DNA repair relates to cell growth, cell division, gene …
Coping as a theoretical concept has been most extensively described by Lazarus and Folkman (1994). They divide it to include two processes: appraisal and coping. Appraisal evaluates situations with two questions: What is at stake? And what can I do …
Mortality was related to social support in a nine-year follow-up study of a random sample of 2,229 men and 2,496 women between the ages of 30 and 69 were included in a nine-year follow-up study. In this study, social support …
Healing practices throughout history, and in the resent, have been and are varied and complex. Discussion of a few of these practices may add insight into the concept of holistic healing. The reliability of these reports is often difficult to …
A suitable design for exploring holistic healing from the perspective of the person in the mechanism of the health creation process is phenomenology. Phenomenology is the study of the essence of human experience (Solomon, 1980). Phenomenology is based on careful …
From these philosophical origins, methods of investigation began to emerge. Spiegelberg (1995) described “doing phenomenology” in a philosophical sense, while Giorgi, Van Kaam, and Colaizzi developed research methods which were inspired by phenomenological philosophy but not bound by it (Omery, …
The complexities of motivation and behavior in those who inflict violence upon themselves are challenging for both helping professionals and those they treat, yet we are fortunate as clinicians to have an abundance of theoretical literature and empirical data on …
Briere & Gil (1998) defined CSA as “sexual contact ranging from fondling to intercourse between a child in mid adolescence or younger and a person at least five years older” (p. 611). The definition can be expanded to include incest, …
The term traumatic stress refers to a combination of physiological and psychological reactions that include muscle tension and unpleasant emotions in response to challenging events or situations. The most common sources of stress are conflicts, failures, changes, situational or interpersonal …
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