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Personality style, psychological adaptation and expectations of psychologists in clinical trainingBrooks, Jennifer Margaret Beckett January 1999 (has links)
Objectives: The current study aimed to profile the personality styles, expectations and psychological adaptation of Clinical Psychology Trainees. It also aimed to look at the relationship between these variables. Design: A cross-sectional postal questionnaire study, employing between group and correlational analyses. Methods: A sample of 364 psychologists in clinical training (57% response rate) from 15 UK clinical psychology training courses participated in the study. They completed questionnaires of personality, psychological adaptation, social support and an expectations measure specifically designed for the study. Results: The majority of psychologists in clinical training who participated in the study were well adjusted in terms of personality, did not experience extensive problems with psychological adaptation, and had the majority of their expectations met. A significant sub group reported personality adjustment problems and problems with self esteem, anxiety, depression and work adjustment. Low self esteem was present in just under a quarter of the sample. Personality adjustment was found to be related to expectations and psychological adaptation. Trainee psychologists with poorer personality adjustment were less likely to have their expectations met, especially with regard to the impact of training on their life, and were more likely to suffer from poor psychological adaptation, particularly in terms of low self esteem, anxiety, depression and work adjustment problems. Self esteem was related to discrepancies in actual and ideal social support. Some differences were found between year groups. Gender and age were not related to personality adjustment, psychological adaptation or expectations. Conclusions and Implications: The findings were discussed in terms of the interpretation of personality style. Implications for clinical psychology training and the profession of clinical psychology were considered.
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Employment and well-being : a social-psychological study of Bermondsey housewives and employed womenHaw, Catherine Elise January 1986 (has links)
No description available.
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Awareness of vicarious trauma among novice social workers a project based upon an independent investigation /Griswold, Jennifer L. January 2010 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.W.)--Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Mass., 2010. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 28-29)
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Working with sexual abuse survivors : the effects on sexual assault counsellors /Wood, Allison January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M.S.W.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-100). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.
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Coping with stress : personality, life history and social dominance in swordtail fishes, Xiphophorus spBoulton, Kay January 2014 (has links)
Competition for resources plays an important role in natural selection, creating winners and losers. Winners become socially dominant, obtain resources and so increase their fitness at the expense of losers. Provided they are heritable, phenotypic traits promoting competitive success will be inherited by subsequent generations. Thus, while resource dependent traits (e.g. growth) that rely on competitive outcomes are widely recognised as being under strong selection, this is also likely to be the case for those traits that determine competitive ability and social dominance. In addition, competition is expected to be an important source of stress, for example, harassment of subordinates by dominant individuals. Consequently individual fitness may depend not only on the ability to win resources, but also on the ability to cope with stress. This thesis proposes that social dominance is not just a simple consequence of body size or weaponry, but rather that the interplay between growth, repeatable behavioural characteristics (i.e. personality), and the ability to cope with social and environmental stressors are equally important factors. Thus the dynamic of dominance arises, a model that highlights the expectation of complex relationships between traits causal and consequent to social dominance. Here, empirical studies of Xiphophorus sp. are used to test each element in the model. First the concept of individual personality is explored, asking to what extent it is really stable over long periods of time (equivalent to lifespans). Next, the links between behaviour, physiological stress and contest outcome are considered and, using a repeated measures approach, the hypothesis that individuals differ in stress coping style is evaluated. Finally, using a quantitative genetic approach the additive genetic variance-covariance matrix (G) is estimated between behavioural and life history traits under experimentally manipulated levels of competition. In this way the contribution of genetic and environmental effects to the patterns of trait (co)variation that make up the dynamic of dominance is assessed.
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Ethical stress in Scottish criminal justice social workFenton, Jane January 2013 (has links)
This thesis uses empirical data to explore criminal justice social workers’ experience of ‘ethical stress,’ which is the discomfort experienced by workers when they cannot achieve value/behaviour congruence in their practice. The research was operationalised via questionnaires distributed to criminal justice social workers in four Scottish local authorities, from which both quantitative and qualitative data were gathered. From the data, it appears that the more risk averse a workplace is perceived to be, and the less value-based the ethical climate is judged to be, the more ethical stress will be experienced. The approach to working with offenders, however, seems not to have a direct effect on ethical stress experienced. Rather, workers are very clear that public protection/risk work takes priority and this only becomes a source of stress when the ethical climate is such that any additional welfare, helping work the social worker is inclined to undertake, is thwarted. A worker’s experience of ethical stress may depend upon where they work, as levels vary significantly between local authorities, as do perceptions of ethical climate. Approaches taken to risk and to working with offenders, however, do not vary between local authorities, probably because of the strength of influence from government. A model of ethical stress in criminal justice social work (CJSW) is ultimately suggested, highlighting the connections and influences above, and depicting the important role of the senior social worker. Finally, significant differences on all variables were found between older, more experienced workers and younger, less experienced workers who appear to be happier with a ‘new penological’ approach to the management of (as opposed to engagement with) offenders. Less experienced workers seem to accept, more uncritically, the prioritisation of public protection and reduced autonomy and, although they do experience ethical stress when value based practice is impeded and risk aversion prevails, it is experienced to a significantly lesser degree. The culmination of these differences may well cast doubt upon CJSW’s continuing commitment to social work values.
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Fairness at work its impacts on employee well-being /Fujishiro, Kaori, January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 203 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-203). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center
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Effect of Imipramine and Classical Benzodiazepines on Stress-induced Neuroimmune Dysregulation and BehaviorRamirez Chan, Karol Gabriela 09 October 2015 (has links)
No description available.
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Modulation de la production de cytokines par l'environnementMERLOT, Élodie 21 November 2003 (has links) (PDF)
Les conséquences immunitaires d'un stress d'origine environnementale sont complexes et encore difficilement prévisibles. Le stress affecte le système immunitaire soit en agissant sur l'immunité innée, en altérant la réactivité inflammatoire, soit en agissant sur l'immunité acquise, en modulant la production de cytokines dites Th1 et Th2. L'environnement social<br />contribue largement au développement et à l'expression de maladies. Dans les espèces sociales, la position sociale occupée dans le groupe module la susceptibilité aux infections mais les supports endocriniens et immunitaires de ces différences de susceptibilité sont ignorés. La remise en cause de l'organisation sociale engendre un stress important dont les conséquences immunitaires sont encore sujettes à controverse.<br />Ce travail de thèse a pour objectifs (1) de décrire l'influence du statut social sur le fonctionnement des systèmes endocrinien et immunitaire, (2) de préciser les effets du stress<br />social sur la production de cytokines et la susceptibilité aux infections et (3) de rechercher des facteurs à l'origine de la variabilité des conséquences immunitaires du stress social.<br />Chez le porcelet, un regroupement après le sevrage élève transitoirement le cortisol salivaire et altère le comportement mais n'affecte pas la réactivité des lymphocytes sanguins.<br />La suite des travaux a utilisé une procédure de défaite sociale chronique chez la souris. Les résultats obtenus mettent en évidence une influence du statut social. En absence de stress, les<br />dominants présentent des niveaux de base de corticostérone et une réponse spécifique à la tuberculine supérieurs aux dominés. Suite à une défaite sociale, les dominants sont plus affectés que les dominés. La défaite sociale augmente la réactivité inflammatoire mais ne modifie pas de façon nette l'équilibre de la production de cytokines de type Th1 et Th2 et n'affecte pas l'immunité spécifique développée contre une infection mycobactérienne. Les conséquences immunitaires de la défaite sociale ne sont observées que lorsque le stress est associé à des combats et à des blessures. Ces travaux montrent que la réponse au stress dépend de l'histoire sociale de l'individu, en particulier de son statut social. De plus, les<br />répercussions immunitaires du stress dépendent aussi de l'histoire immunitaire récente. En effet, une réaction inflammatoire systémique inhibe la libération plasmatique de cytokines<br />inflammatoires en réponse à un stress psychologique ultérieur.
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Modulation de la production de cytokines par l'environnement social et susceptibilité aux infectionsMERLOT, Élodie 11 1900 (has links) (PDF)
Les conséquences immunitaires d'un stress d'origine environnementale sont complexes et encore difficilement prévisibles. Le stress affecte le système immunitaire soit en agissant sur l'immunité innée, en altérant la réactivité inflammatoire, soit en agissant sur l'immunité acquise, en modulant la production de cytokines dites Th1 et Th2. L'environnement social contribue largement au développement et à l'expression de maladies. Dans les espèces sociales, la position sociale occupée dans le groupe module la susceptibilité aux infections mais les supports endocriniens et immunitaires de ces différences de susceptibilité sont ignorés. La remise en cause de l'organisation sociale engendre un stress important dont les conséquences immunitaires sont encore sujettes à controverse. Ce travail de thèse a pour objectifs (1) de décrire l'influence du statut social sur le fonctionnement des systèmes endocrinien et immunitaire, (2) de préciser les effets du stress social sur la production de cytokines et la susceptibilité aux infections et (3) de rechercher des facteurs à l'origine de la variabilité des conséquences immunitaires du stress social. Chez le porcelet, un regroupement après le sevrage élève transitoirement le cortisol salivaire et altère le comportement mais n'affecte pas la réactivité des lymphocytes sanguins. La suite des travaux a utilisé une procédure de défaite sociale chronique chez la souris. Les résultats obtenus mettent en évidence une influence du statut social. En absence de stress, les dominants présentent des niveaux de base de corticostérone et une réponse spécifique à la tuberculine supérieurs aux dominés. Suite à une défaite sociale, les dominants sont plus affectés que les dominés. La défaite sociale augmente la réactivité inflammatoire mais ne modifie pas de façon nette l'équilibre de la production de cytokines de type Th1 et Th2 et n'affecte pas l'immunité spécifique développée contre une infection mycobactérienne. Les conséquences immunitaires de la défaite sociale ne sont observées que lorsque le stress est associé à des combats et à des blessures. Ces travaux montrent que la réponse au stress dépend de l'histoire sociale de l'individu, en particulier de son statut social. De plus, les répercussions immunitaires du stress dépendent aussi de l'histoire immunitaire récente. En effet, une réaction inflammatoire systémique inhibe la libération plasmatique de cytokines inflammatoires en réponse à un stress psychologique ultérieur.
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