Emotional Recovery Research Articles

Resolving relationship dissolution-What predicts emotional adjustment after breakup?

Relationship dissolution is a critical life event individuals have to cope with. Factors like relationship duration and relationship quality or having a new partner are likely to affect how people recover emotionally from a separation, which is linked to long-term adjustment. However, prospective evidence on the role of these factors is scarce. Hence, this study aims to investigate predictors of emotional recovery following relationship dissolution. Pooled data of the German Family Panel pairfam on 3734 separation events of 2709 individuals aged 18 to 48 were used, applying a statistical model called seemingly unrelated regressions to predict emotional outcomes (relief, anger, guilt, and sadness) and the general emotional state regarding separation. Sociodemographic and relationship characteristics, indicators of relationship quality, conditions of the separation, and features of the current situation were considered as potential predictors. Regression analyses evidence strong links of initiator status, having a new partner, time since separation, and satisfaction with the social network to less negative emotional outcomes following separation. Relationship quality or serious problems before the separation only affected some of the investigated emotional outcomes. Interestingly, the predictors investigated were less powerful in explaining respondents' feelings of guilt compared to the other emotions. Overall, these findings provide deeper insight into short-term adjustment to separation. Understanding these processes may help to assess risk factors for negative coping mechanisms and improve tailored counseling strategies.

독거노인의 집단미술치료 경험에 대한 질적 사례연구

The purpose of this study is to find out what the elderly living alone experience through the group art therapy program and the process of change due to participation. This was conducted as a program for self-awareness and emotional recovery by facing mental and physical changes expressed in life in old age and internal conflicts and anxiety felt in life. Participants in the study were selected as eight elderly people living alone who experienced bereavement over the age of 65 belonging to the elderly welfare center, and a total of 10 sessions were conducted. As a research method, Stake (1995) and Yin (2009)’s qualitative case study procedures were classified and analyzed into topics containing meaning among the total contents. As a result of the study, the empirical meaning of the group art therapy program of the elderly living alone gave flexibility to the rigid emotional response and showed active changes in the behavioral aspect. The progression of aging according to the characteristics of old age can cause a decrease in overall function, but by continuing self-expression through art work, the speed of cognitive awareness and work response has improved and language literacy has become abundant. Functional learning and emotional stimulation through the use of art media were found to have helped improve achievement and self-exploration, helping to perform positive flexibility, voluntary roles, and self-understanding and reflection processes in the bond between participants.

Effects of Educational Intervention on Self Esteem among Burn patients

Background: Burns are a potentially fatal illness as well as a serious traumatic event with a high risk of complications. Burn victims must also adjust to their new body image. Burn patients face numerous challenges. Patients recovering from severe burns may experience extreme distress, with devastating physical and psychological consequences. Aim: To investigate the effect of educational intervention on self-esteem among burn patients Method: A quasi experimental study conducted in Pak-Italian Modern Burn Center Multan over 108 burn patients: Data were collected through Rosenberg's global self-esteem scale. Data was analyzed through Chi Square and paired t test with a significance of p<0.05; However data display in the form of frequency table. Result: The majority of the patients (60.2%) were male aged 32 to 45, lived in cities (52.8%) and half of the patients (48.1%) were single on marital status. Patients had low self-esteem prior to the intervention, with a mean score of 16.21±4.41 before intervention, and 30.72±4.49 after intervention, with a significance of P equal to 0.002. Practical Implication: Educational interventions and support systems help to enhance the psychological well-being and overall quality of life for burn patients and facilitating their journey towards physical and emotional recovery. Conclusion: The current study found that providing educational intervention at the burn unit was effective when it came to educating patients to promote coping with changes, strengthening ability and enhancing self-esteem, using relaxation techniques, providing mental health, and sexual relations. Encouraged patients to be active participants in their care, which resulted in significant improvements in burn patient’sself-esteem. Keyword: Educational intervention, self-care management, self-esteem, Burn patients

Favorable recovery profiles and good reliability among youngest unrelated stem cell donors supports lowering the minimum donor registration age.

Younger donor age in hematopoietic cell transplantation has been associated with improved overall and disease-free survival. Safety data on peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) and bone marrow (BM) donation is well established, including in the <18-year old age group in the related setting. In response, Anthony Nolan became the first stem cell donor registry to lower the minimum age for unrelated donors to 16-years. This retrospective study reviewed unrelated donors donating PBSC or BM for the first time between April 2015 and October 2017 since adoption of the lowered recruitment age. Data were collected from registry electronic database and structured follow-up questionnaires. Primary outcomes were turnaround time from VT to donation, optimal cell yield achievement, and physical and emotional recovery. Out of a total of 1013 donors, there were no differences between the different age groups in proportion of donors achieving optimal CD34+ or TNC (PBSC and BM, respectively). There was no increased central line requirement for younger donors or increased emergency telephone support. Youngest donors were more likely to report physical recovery 2 and 7 days post-PBSC (P = .024 and P = .015, respectively) as well as an earlier emotional recovery (P = .001) and fewer physical symptoms 1 week BM donation (P = .04). This study shows that younger donors are as reliable as older donors, and have favorable recovery profiles without need for increased support at any stage of the donation, supporting Anthony Nolan recruitment strategy and offering reassurance to donor registries considering the same.

Testing emotional response coherence assumptions: Comparing emotional versus non-emotional states.

Although central to theories of emotion, emotional response coherence, that is, coordination among various emotion response systems, has received inconsistent empirical support. This study tests a basic assumption of response coherence, that is, that it characterizes emotional states defining their beginning and end. To do so, we (a) compare response coherence between emotional versus non-emotional states and (b) examine how emotional coherence changes over time, before, during, and after an emotional episode. Seventy-nine participants viewed neutral, pleasant, and unpleasant film clips and rated continuously how pleasant they felt (experience) before (anticipation), during, and after (recovery) each clip. Autonomic physiological arousal responses (skin conductance level, heart rate; physiology) and facial expressions (corrugator, zygomatic activity; expression) were recorded. Within-person cross-correlations between all emotional response pairs were calculated for each phase. Analyses comparing coherence during emotional versus neutral film viewing showed that only experience-expression coherence was higher for emotional versus neutral films, indicating specificity for emotional states. Examining coherence across phases indicated that coherence increased from anticipation to emotional film viewing, as expected, for experience-expression and experience-physiology pairs (SCL only). Of those pairs, increased coherence returned to baseline during recovery, as theoretically assumed, only for experience-corrugator activity coherence. Current findings provide empirical support for theoretical views of response coherence as a defining feature of emotional episodes, but mostly for the coherence between experience and facial expressions. Further research needs to investigate the role of sympathetic arousal indices, as well as the role of response coherence in emotional recovery.

History of Racial Discrimination by Police Contributes to Worse Physical and Emotional Quality of Life in Black Americans After Traumatic Injury.

Black Americans are more likely than their White counterparts to experience traumatic injury and worse functional outcomes. Unfair police treatment has been identified as one specific form of racial discrimination potentially driving these deleterious outcomes. The aim of the investigation was to better understand the relationship between experiences of discrimination by police and trauma-specific quality of life outcomes, including PTSD symptom severity, in Black Americans following traumatic injury. Traumatically injured Black American adults (N = 53) presenting to a level 1 trauma center completed a measure of police and law enforcement discrimination at baseline, and quality of life and PTSD were assessed 6months later. Stepwise regressions results showed more frequent discrimination by police and law enforcement significantly predicted lower emotional and physical well-being 6months after injury. Further, more frequent police discrimination resulted in more severe PTSD symptoms by 6months after injury. Findings underscore that following an injury not specifically related to discrimination by police, patients' historical, negative police experiences contributed to worse physical and emotional recovery in the present. These findings, in unison with prior investigations, reveal the need to consider patients' history of negative police experiences as a social determinant of health in their recovery.

The Role of Theatre in the Development of the Modern Human

"Theatre, along with all other forms of the performing arts - music, literature and visual arts, in their various manifestations - have always accompanied humanity, offering, among seductive ways to spend the free type, entertainment, moments of wonderful introspection, beneficial soul healing, indispensable spiritual development. Theater, through its specific means and effects, must be seen as material for reflection and thought, as a forum for implantation in contemporary consciousnesses or future of healthy moral and social concepts, as a space of prophylaxis or emotional recovery. Consequently, the actor as direct witness and keen observer of the times, can encompass, gratitude to his art, various functions: from histrion - in an appreciative sense, to spokesperson of the system or the collective, or the therapist."

The Integration of the Resolved Through Sharing Perinatal Bereavement Follow-up Model with Latinx Cultural Values: A Case Illustration.

The Resolved Through Sharing (RTS) Perinatal bereavement model is an approach used for working with birthing people and their families who have experienced a perinatal loss. RTS is designed to help families cope with their grief and integrate the loss in their lives, meet the needs of the families during the initial crisis, and offer comprehensive care to each member of the family affected by the loss. This paper utilizes a case illustration to describe a year-long bereavement follow-up of an undocumented underinsured Latina woman who suffered a stillbirth during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the hostile anti-immigrant policy during the Trump presidency. The case illustration is based on a composite case of several Latina women who had pregnancy losses with similar outcomes, demonstrating how a perinatal palliative care (PPC) social worker provided ongoing bereavement support to a patient who experienced a stillbirth. The case illustrates how the PPC social worker utilized the RTS model, incorporated the patient&rsquo;s cultural values, and acknowledged systemic challenges which resulted in the patient receiving comprehensive, holistic support that aided her emotional and spiritual recovery from her stillbirth. The author ends with a call to action for providers in the field of perinatal palliative care to incorporate practices that allow for greater access and equity for all birthing people.

Sounding the Alarm: What Clinicians Need to Know about Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Recovery After Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.

We summarize the existing data on the occurrence of physical, emotional, and cognitive dysfunction associated with postintensive care syndrome (PICS) in adult survivors of venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO). MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Web of Science, and CINAHL databases were searched. Peer-reviewed studies of adults receiving VA-ECMO for any reason with at least one measure of health-related quality of life outcomes or PICS at long-term follow-up of at least 6 months were included. The participant demographics and baseline characteristics, in-hospital outcomes, long-term health outcomes, quality of life outcome measures, and prevalence of PICS were extracted. Twenty-seven studies met inclusion criteria encompassing 3,271 patients who were treated with VA-ECMO. The studies were limited to single- or two-center studies. Outcomes variables and follow-up time points evaluated were widely heterogeneous which limits comprehensive analysis of PICS after VA-ECMO. In general, the longer-term PICS-related outcomes of survivors of VA-ECMO were worse than the general population, and approaching that of patients with chronic disease. Available studies identified high rates of abnormal 6-minute walk distance, depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder that persisted for years. Half or fewer survivors return to work years after discharge. Only 2 of 27 studies examined cognitive outcomes and no studies evaluated cognitive dysfunction within the first year of recovery. No studies evaluated the impact of targeted interventions on these outcomes. Survivors of VA-ECMO represent a population of critically ill patients at high risk for deficits in physical, emotional, and cognitive function related to PICS. This systematic review highlights the alarming reality that PICS and in particular, neurocognitive outcomes, in survivors of VA-ECMO are understudied, underrecognized, and thus likely undertreated. These results underscore the imperative that we look beyond survival to focus on understanding the burden of survivorship with the goal of optimizing recovery and outcomes after these life-saving interventions. Future prospective, multicenter, longitudinal studies in recovery after VA-ECMO are justified.

Eli and Susannah Wiggill: South African Saints

Eli and Susannah Wiggill: South African Saints

Behavioural and psychological telehealth support for people with cardiac conditions: randomized trial of the 'back on track' self-management programme.

Behaviour modification and mood management are essential to recovery after a cardiac event. Recent times have seen a major shift to remote delivery of cardiac services. This study assessed behavioural and psychological outcomes of the Back on Track online self-management programme, comparing the programme undertaken alone (self-directed) vs. with telephone support (supported). Relevance for people with depression was also assessed. Participants with cardiac conditions (n = 122) were randomly assigned to self-directed or supported groups and given access to the online programme for 2 months. The programme addressed depression, anxiety, physical activity, and healthy eating. Supported group participants also received two telephone sessions facilitated by a trained counsellor to further enhance their self-management skills and engagement with the online modules. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7, and Active Australia Survey and Diet Quality Tool were administered at baseline, 2, and 6 months. χ2 tests were used to compare self-directed and supported groups. Cochrane's Q tests assessed changes over time in depression, anxiety, and physical activity (PA) and healthy diet guideline achievement. Participants in both groups showed reduced depression rates (self-directed, P < 0.05) and increased PA after programme completion (both groups, P < 0.05). Amongst those classified as depressed at baseline, significantly fewer were classified as depressed over time (P < 0.001) and significantly more were achieving the PA guidelines (P < 0.01) compared to those who were not depressed at baseline. The Back on Track telehealth programme was effective in assisting with behavioural and emotional recovery after a cardiac event. The programme may be particularly beneficial for those who are depressed early in their recovery period. Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry: ACTRN12620000102976.

Beautifully broken: Implementing a peer support program to help healthcare providers heal

Introduction: This evidence-based project aimed to determine the feasibility of implementing a peer support program to minimize trauma in healthcare professionals (HCP)s following unanticipated adverse events. Based on the forYOU Program designed by Sue Scott at the University of Missouri Health System, this program trained peers to offer real-time caring and support to other clinicians coping with such events. Most healthcare professionals are involved in at least one adverse event in their careers. Albert Wu, MD (2000) coined the term second victim to capture the essence of the trauma experienced by healthcare professionals when an unanticipated event negatively impacts a patient. When left unchecked, this trauma can result in moral distress, stress disorders, and burnout as the clinician ruminates over the event. Providing emotional support has improved second victims' emotional well-being and recovery. Therefore, healthcare leaders are encouraged to develop comprehensive programs to provide easy access to peer and social support when they experience an adverse event.Methods: Designed for implementation in the Women's Service Department of a 350-bed southwestern hospital, this project employed a pre-/post-evaluation of subjective outcomes using an online survey for nurses. A core group of trainers attended a two-day peer support train-the-trainer event hosted by the forYOU Program at the University of Missouri Health Care System. This group trained 26 peer supporters representing the four departments in Women's Services and both shifts. Baseline data was collected (n = 44) to assess the frequency and impact of unanticipated adverse events, the perceived support, and the type of support received. Following the four-month implementation in the Summer/Fall of 2020, post-data was obtained, including a program awareness assessment (n = 17).Results: Pre- and post-implementation of the Peer Support Program, nurses in Women's Services reported adverse events impacting their emotional well-being. Post-program, more nurses reported receiving support (86% post-program versus 43% pre-program). Before employment, 79% of nurses who received support received peer support, versus 86% receiving peer support post-implementation. The implementation occurred during the COVID pandemic, which may have resulted in a decreased post-assessment sample size. However, the peer supporters reported hesitancy in completing encounter forms feeling that providing support was “too personal”. The participants said that they found the peer support program worthwhile.Conclusions: Nurses on the implementation units indicated receiving more support after the peer support program was implemented and felt the program was beneficial. Since unanticipated events are inevitable in health care, the steering committee recommended sustaining and spreading the program to all the nursing departments. More data is needed to determine the full impact of the program.

Travel for later abortion in the USA: lived experiences, structural contributors and abortion fund support

As abortion restrictions expand in the USA, pregnant people will continue to experience delays and be forced to travel for abortion. The study aims to describe later abortion travel experiences, understand structural factors influencing travel, and identify strategies to improve travel. This qualitative phenomenological study analyses data from 19 interviews with people who travelled at least 25 miles for abortion after the first trimester. Framework analysis used a structural violence lens. More than two-thirds of participants travelled interstate, and half received abortion fund support. Key considerations of travel include logistics, challenges during the journey, and physical and emotional recovery during and after travel. Restrictive laws, financial insecurity and anti-abortion infrastructure are forms of structural violence that created challenges and delays. Reliance on abortion funds facilitated access but also entailed uncertainty. Better resourced abortion funds could organise travel in advance, facilitate the travel of accompanying escorts, and tailor emotional support to reduce stress for those travelling. Clinical and practical support systems must be prepared to support people travelling for abortion, as later abortion and forced travel is increasing since the constitutional right to abortion in the USA was overturned. Findings can inform interventions to support the increasing number of people travelling for abortion.

Effectiveness of Corrective Emotional Psychotherapy in drug addicts in the Psychiatric Hospital of Havana

Psychological traumas are essentially emotional sequelae caused by negative life events that become traits. Corrective Emotional Psychotherapy is considered effective for the treatment of traumas. Main objective: to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Corrective Experiential Psychotherapy program for emotional affectations in drug addicts, implemented to enhance the emotional recovery and psychological well-being of the group. Specific objectives: Psychoemotional characterization of the group, design the psychotherapeutic program appropriated to the characteristics of the group and those of the institutional setting and evaluate the effectiveness of the program implemented to enhance the recovery of the affective area and psychological well-being Material and Methods: It was a technological development research with a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative), aimed at the design and evaluation of health programs, based on the principle of the psychotherapeutic group as an agent of change promoted by participatory coordination. The group's pre- and post-test assessment as its own control, procedural assessment, and follow-up were used to assess the effectiveness of the treatment. Anxiety, depression, anger and other negative emotions, illness awareness, and assertiveness were assessed before and at the end of treatment. Results: An initial group anxiety and depression, both high in state and trait, presence of other negative emotions that broaden the diagnosis, all went through some psychotraumatic experience that left emotional sequelae. Both anxiety and depression were reduced at the end of treatment. Both awareness of the disease and assertiveness increased, and follow-up showed preservation of abstinence, at least during the first six months after discharge. Conclusions: the implemented program was effective for the emotional recovery of the users and the enhancement of their psychological well-being.

When thriving requires effortful surviving: Delineating manifestations and resource expenditure outcomes of microaggressions for Black employees.

Although overt racism is condemned by many organizations, insidious forms of racism persist. Drawing on the conservation of resources framework (Hobfoll, 1989), this article identifies forms and outcomes of racial microaggressions-daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities that denigrate individuals from racially minoritized groups (Sue, Capodilupo, et al., 2007). Leveraging survey data from 345 Black employees, open-ended question qualitative insights delineate three overarching themes of workplace microaggression toward Black employees: anti-Black stereotype expression, racialized role assignment, and interactional injustice. We also detail how these themes manifest in nine distinct ways. Then, we model the cognitive and emotional resource recovery and protection processes that Black employees engage in to overcome workplace microaggressions. Quantitative results demonstrated that workplace microaggressions related to subsequent resource replenishment (i.e., co-rumination, or discussing feelings and venting about problems with coworkers; Rose, 2002) and protection (i.e., racism-related vigilance, or mentally preparing for anticipated racism; Clark et al., 2006) efforts. Further, results suggested undesirable effects of microaggressions on burnout and job satisfaction. Finally, we found a positive relationship between resourcing efforts and job satisfaction but found no support for trait resiliency or organizational support as buffers of microaggression effects. Implications for future research and direct interventions are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

A longitudinal study of Oklahoma City bombing rescue and recovery responders providing qualitative introspections of their experience nearly a quarter century later.

The 1995 terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City provided a particularly useful research opportunity. It was the most severe incident of terrorism on American soil at the time. Prior research on rescue and recovery workers responding to such events has been largely limited to early post-disaster periods, most focusing on psychopathology such as post-traumatic stress disorder. This incident provided a unique unrealized opportunity to examine long-term psychosocial effects on first responders studied longitudinally over decades after the event, using qualitative methods to yield rich, in-depth observations. A volunteer sample of 181 volunteer first responders for the Oklahoma City bombing was initially assessed 3 years after the bombing, and 124 (70 percent of those documented to still be alive) participated in longitudinal follow-up interviews an average of 23-24 years after the incident. The follow-up study included open-ended, nondirected qualitative interviews of the workers' personal disaster narratives. The experience of providing rescue and recovery efforts after the Oklahoma City bombing had lasting effects on these first responders' personal and professional relationships. It taxed their coping skills, elicited an enduring resilience, and permanently altered their outlook on life. Unlike the directly exposed survivors, these first responders found meaning and affirmation in their professional service, reaffirming their original motivations to be part of a helping profession that in today's world now requires recovery and rescue work in major terrorist incidents. Even though the work was very gruesome and taxing, more than two decades later, these workers expressed pride in their participation and had no regrets about it. The Oklahoma City bombing experience was life-changing for first responders, setting a standard for those who will follow in their footsteps. Continuing to conduct this line of work in the decades to follow reflected a conviction that their continued service honored both survivors and members of their profession. Despite the positive aspects of their perspectives on their experience, the attention they received to their emotional and psychological processing and recovery was limited, implying the importance of additional development and research on assistance to these needs.

Parent-Child Attachment and Emotion Regulation Dynamics in Late Middle Childhood

Abstract: Parent–child attachment is robustly associated with typical patterns of emotion regulation but rarely examined in relation to changes in emotion in response to events. We studied how attachment is related to emotion reactivity to positive and negative events and to immediate and delayed emotion recovery from social exclusion. The sample (78% White, 46% girls) included 110 children (9–12 years). Children completed a story stem measure that was scored for security, avoidance, ambivalence, and disorganization. Emotion reactivity and recovery were assessed with child-reported and observer positive affect and negative affect ratings. Parents rated child temperament. More avoidant children showed dampened emotion responding (low reactivity and recovery), whereas more ambivalent children showed heightened emotion responding (high reactivity and recovery). Attachment security, disorganization, and temperament were not consistently related to emotion reactivity or recovery. The findings highlight that emotion regulation occurs in response to contextual changes and is related to attachment.

Study on the influence of residents' well-being on the use of urban parks and emotional recovery under air pollution environment

Study on the influence of residents' well-being on the use of urban parks and emotional recovery under air pollution environment

Study on the influence of residents well-being on the use of urban parks and emotional recovery under air pollution environment

Study on the influence of residents well-being on the use of urban parks and emotional recovery under air pollution environment

Unveiling the Experiences of the Vehicular Accident Victims

Road accidents particularly vehicular accidents have been one of the most common causes of death around the world. It has been the leading cause of trauma, injuries, and even death to people who are otherwise the victims or the to someone who causes the accident. These accidents result from human errors contributed by the following risks factors, driving without a license and the right training, driving under the influence of alcohol and prohibited drugs which will result in speeding, driving without the proper use of safety equipment like the absence of the use of helmet and seat-belt and driving while being distracted. This study seeks to unveil the experiences/cases of the victims of the vehicular accident who otherwise have gone into traumatic experiences during and after the incident in order to determine the underlying concerns that need to be addressed for future reference in search for remedies to extend specific assistance needed concerning to the victims of the vehicular accident. There are fifteen (15) respondents that have gone into this study and permitted themselves to be the participants of the conducted study. Data gathering is achieved through interviews using YIn’s Approach: plan, design, prepare, collect, analyze, and share in order to come up with qualitative data. Data gathered were analyzed and researchers have found the following themes: a. Emotional Trauma b. Psychological Trauma c. The Legal Process. The researchers have presented the implications of the findings and have commendations to concerned government agencies to provide assistance to vehicular victims and support them specifically in emotional and psychological recovery, legal process, and other assistance needed to serve the right of the victim.