Feelings Of Futility Research Articles

Aftrede as integrasionele taak

Retirement as integrational task In this article, the stance is taken that retirement can be viewed as a critical life phase. Depending on how retirees cope with this phase, they can either experience feelings of futility or engage in an optimal use of this promising period. The critical task of the retirement phase could therefore be outlined as achieving a deep sense of fulfillment and optimisation of lifeopportunities during the so-called golden years. This article will explore retirement as integrational task, the challenge being to guide retirees to an integration of life and faith experiences in order to experience meaning. A narrative approach to pastoral care is suggested as a mode for integration as it takes the generated experiences (stories) of people seriously. Within a reformational view of the narrative the Word of God is also taken seriously. In this fusion between the Story of God and man’s story lies the integration which will result in the creation of meaning during the final stage of man’s journey through life.

VALUE AND INTELLIGENT COLLEGIATE DEPRESSION

Abstract: Philosophy teachers converse with troubled students who suffer from what I dub “intelligent collegiate depression” (ICD): a lack of self‐esteem, feelings of futility and pessimism about their futures, a distrust of academic values, and a lack of conviction that their lives matter. Students express their values and their resignation with what approaches conventional wisdom for them: They must be allowed to act as they wish so long as they do not hurt anyone; otherwise it does not matter what they do with their lives. I argue here that students' endorsement of this near‐nihilistic version of Mill's harm principle shows that they are committed to believing in more values than they realize. I then show how to parlay this commitment into a rejection of the worst effects of ICD—all the while holding in abeyance the question of metaethical objectivism vs. subjectivism. My approach shows that accepting a popular ICD premise logically undermines much of the unhappy ICD worldview.

Problems to discuss with cancer patients in palliative care: a comprehensive approach

This study presents a comprehensive overview of the problems patients experience in a palliative phase of cancer. A two-step qualitative method was used: in-depth interviews with patients and relatives ( N=9 patients+7 relatives), followed by interviews ( N=31 patients+15 relatives) using a checklist to confirm and complete the picture. Quality of life and quality of care domains were addressed. Patients experienced problems in all of these palliative care domains, although individual patients may have experienced only a few problems. Fatigue, feelings of futility, reluctance to accept help, fear of suffering and the fear that help would not be available if needed, were common problems. Communication problems arose when a grudge against a GP had remained, or because one family member tried to spare the other a confrontation with his/her feelings of fear or grief. A comprehensive checklist of relevant problems is presented.

Misuse of anticholinergic drugs by people with serious mental illness.

This study assessed misuse of anticholinergic drugs in a population of 50 patients with serious mental illness who were assertively managed by a community-based outreach team in Sydney, Australia. One-third of the subjects reported having misused anticholinergics over the previous month. All anticholinergics were misused, and trihexyphenidyl (benzhexol) was misused most frequently. Most subjects misused at least one other drug as well. On direct questioning, the reason given most frequently was "to get high"; on indirect questioning, reasons were related more to peer participation and feelings of futility. Marginalized patients living in the community are vulnerable to the misuse of anticholinergic drugs.

Quality of Life After Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac arrest resuscitation is a frustrating endeavor, with survival rates in the single digits at best. The feeling of futility sometimes spills into

The old calendarists: A social psychological profile of a Greek Orthodox minority

The authors discuss the social psychological dynamics by which a minority group, faced with different levels of discrimination, moves from an initial reaction of outrage to a state of passive fright and, finally, to a feeling of futility and powerlessness. These dynamics and stages of accommodation to differential discrimination are applied to the historical experience of a Greek Orthodox religious minority, the so-called Old Calendarists, to which the authors themselves belong. The authors argue that the historical experience of the Old Calendarists suggests that minority groups, in their downward spiral toward powerlessness, become the victims of other social and political forces which reinforce both discrimination against the minority group and the minority group's perception of its own powerlessness.

Psychologists Beset by Feelings of Futility, Self-Doubt

Psychologists Beset by Feelings of Futility, Self-Doubt

Planning as Institutional Innovation in The Smaller City

Abstract An exploratory research study in the smaller cities of Pennsylvania looked at the extent to which community planning is considered as innovation, attempting to change aspects of day-to-day life. The study compared the attitudes of local public officials, as exemplified by mayors and planning commission chairmen, with the attitudes of city planners. It found an inability to respond to the demands of cooperative federalism and the newer programs for community development emanating from the state and federal governments. This inability to act was seen to derive from a negative view of external pressures for change, a sense of bewilderment concerning the plight of the smaller community amid the larger societal forces managing and determining its destiny, feelings of futility stemming from years of operating in the context of municipal poverty, and a generally underdeveloped philosophy or sense of direction guiding public decisions and policy-making.