Adaptive Style in Children with Cancer: Implications for a Positive Psychology Approach

Adaptive style in children with cancer: implications for a positive psychology approach.

OBJECTIVE To describe the adaptive style paradigm as a heuristic model for understanding the very positive psychosocial adjustment that has been observed in children with cancer, and to integrate findings regarding repressive adaptive style into a broader positive psychology framework. METHOD A selective review of the literature on adaptive style, and its' relevance to outcomes of depressive ...

Implications of moral psychology for medical education

Adaptive mental mechanisms. Their role in a positive psychology.

Psychology needs a metric for positive mental health that would be analogous to the IQ tests that measure above-average intelligence. The Defensive Function Scale of the DSM-IV offers a possible metric. In the present article the author links the transformational qualities of defenses at the mature end of the Defensive Function Scale--altruism, suppression, humor, anticipation, and sublimation-...

Comparison of the Effectiveness of Group Counseling by Gestalt Therapy and Positive Psychology Approach on Psychological Well-Being in Woman with Lung Cancer

Background and Objectives: According to medical literature, lung cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality among women, which is more prevalent in Iran and leads to women’s function decline in the family. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of group counseling by Gestalt Therapy and Positive Psychology approach on psychological well-being in woman wit...

Repressive adaptive style in children with chronic illness.

OBJECTIVE The primary objectives of this study were 1) To assess whether previously reported findings of high levels of repressive adaptation in children with cancer are unique to the cancer population or are generally characteristic of children with serious chronic illness and 2) to assess the utility of including a new measure of anger expression in the adaptive style measurement paradigm. ...