This study aimed to conduct an in-depth analysis of post-traumatic growth experiences based on the perception of mothers with children with special needs in primary school. As a qualitative research method, the phenomenological design was used because the study focused on how the participants made sense of this growth process. Eight volunteer…

Teachers face increased workplace challenges in South Africa. Through a process of intervention research, this study aimed to develop and evaluate the efficacy of a work-based support programme for teachers. Maslow's hierarchy of needs was adopted as the theoretical framework informing both programme design and evaluation. Teachers (n = 10) were…

Objectives: African American women are disproportionately impacted upon by HIV, particularly in the Southern states of the USA where the percentage of new cases of HIV and the percentage of people living with HIV in the USA are highest. This study describes the lived experiences of HIV-positive African American women based on their written…

This study examined the relation between the sense of self-continuity, defined as the ability to perceive oneself as extending temporally backwards into the past and forwards into the future, and the adaptiveness of strategies of coping with job loss. We created a web site that was linked to several Israeli web sites dealing with unemployment in…

Background: The concept of NEET (young people not in employment, education or training) was introduced to capture the varieties of youth labour market disengagement and has become a standard statistical indicator for labour market performance. However, it is criticised for simplifying the heterogeneity of young people in problematic youth…

The first year of college constitutes a time of substantial transition for incoming students. Clearly, students vary greatly in their ability to cope with and adjust to these new challenges, and some students face far more challenges than others. A potentially important resource for successfully accomplishing this life transition is positive…

A longitudinal study investigated variations in the coping patterns of 52 married men who experienced infertility problems in their first marriage. Styles of coping considered were initial substitutes, subsequent parenting resolutions, and final marital outcomes and the impact of these variations on the men's subsequent success in achieving…

Of 15 older learners who kept a journal or diary, a few had started diary keeping in adolescence or young adulthood. Their current practices varied in terms of time, method, and type of writing. Most linked journals with other writing practices. Writing helped them cope with daily life, experience the joy of discovery, and nurture voice and…

Interviews with five men and five women who had made significant career changes yielded a psychosocial development model that illustrated how they used career change as an opportunity to integrate new and previously unused aspects of their personality. (SK)

In longitudinal study of female college graduates, self-definition, measured by freshman-year Thematic Apperception Tests, predicted problem-solving and coping behavior 14 years later. Women who viewed their problems in ways that facilitated effective coping scored higher in self-definition. Women who took instrumental actions to solve their…

Studies respondents with spinal cord injuries. Shows their causal attributions for the event are distinguishable from their perceptions of availability, the latter frequently focusing on mutable aspects of their own behavior. Discusses research results. Implications for the study of self-blame and perceived availability are discussed. (KW)

An actualized group of helping professionals and a nonactualized group of mental patients visualized their own aging process. The actualized group had more successful completion, indicating a fantasy of dying a natural death in old age. Ability to face death appears to be a concomitant of actualized authentic existence. (JAC)

Surveyed urban school superintendents and college of education deans regarding strategies for coping with stress through self/inner development. Participants defined self/inner development as balance, self-actualization, values, personal improvement, inner focus, and relationships. Self/inner development terms used most frequently at work were…

Presents a case for group counseling, a curricular intervention that aids young people in learning how to make decisions, take charge of their emotions and reorder their thinking, and focus on themselves as human beings. They learn to shed their erroneous zones and to opt for a neurosis-free, self-actualized life. (Author/BEF)

Describes an innovative model of female talent development based upon the life experiences of gifted women from a wide variety of backgrounds and talent domains. Key issues addressed by the model are the personal, professional, and cultural challenges common to gifted females and strategies for coping with them. (Author/CR)