News tagged with coping strategies


Early relationships, not brainpower, key to adult happiness

Positive social relationships in childhood and adolescence are key to adult well-being, according to Associate Professor Craig Olsson from Deakin University and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia, and ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Aug 02, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Unique treatment proposed for children's developmental coordination disorder

An Indiana University study in the Journal of Child Neurology proposes an innovative treatment for developmental coordination disorder, a potentially debilitating neurological disorder in which the develo ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Stressed out? Tips for taking control

While part of everyday life, stress seems to intensify around the holidays and into the new year.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Personalized plans to address barriers to HIV drug adherence boost chances of successful therapy

HIV patients who participated in an intervention that helped them identify barriers to taking their drugs properly and develop customized coping strategies took a significantly greater amount of their prescribed doses than ...

HIV & AIDS created Jan 29, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Кesearcher identifies factors to help parents and professionals recognize teens in distress

Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Now, a University of Missouri public health expert has identified factors that will help parents, medical ...

Health created Oct 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stress contributes to cognitive declines in women with breast cancer, researcher says

Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer can experience cognitive declines, such as decreased verbal fluency or loss of memory and attention. Often experienced by patients undergoing chemotherapy, the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study looks at importance of coping skills during hospital stays

(Medical Xpress)—No mother wants to see her child hospitalized, but how she copes with it could impact the child's anxiety level, a recent study by a University of Alabama researcher found.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Mar 06, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A vaccination for depression

Over the last decade, Dr. Benjamin Van Voorhees has been trying to find the best way to teach coping strategies to adolescents who are at risk of suffering from severe depression. The idea is to help them keep depression ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers find abuse during childhood may contribute to obesity in adulthood

Investigators from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center report research findings that may shed light on influences on obesity during adulthood. Appearing in the journal ...

Pediatrics created Jul 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research project on psychopaths finds there is hope for treatment

Lindsay Sewall has spent the last three years studying a feared and misunderstood segment of the population: Psychopaths.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Caregivers of veterans with chronic illnesses often stressed, yet satisfied: study

Veterans are almost twice as likely as the general public to have chronic illnesses, such as diabetes and heart failure. Therefore, veterans may require more assistance from informal caregivers, especially as outpatient treatment ...

Health created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stigma among HIV-positive women complex and overlapping

In this week's PLoS Medicine, Mona Loutfy of the University of Toronto, Canada and colleagues report their study examining experiences of stigma and coping strategies among HIV-positive women in Ontario, Canada.

HIV & AIDS created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

African-American women stress compounded

Using incense or lighting a candle may seem like good ways to let go of racial stress, but a recent study found that might not be the case in terms of racial tension among women. In fact, some coping strategies employed by ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study shows hospice caregivers need routine care interventions

A study led by the University of Kentucky researcher Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles found that hospice family caregivers are "second order patients" themselves and require their own unique care needs.

Health created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Supportive role models, coping lead to better health in poor teens

Low-income teenagers who have supportive role models and engage in adaptive strategies have lower levels of a marker for cardiovascular risk than low-income teens without such resources, according to a new study.

Health created Dec 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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