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E A Pasquali

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PubMed1999

The impact of premature menopause on women's experience of self.

Surgically or chemically induced premature menopause may have an impact on women's sense of self: the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual sense of self. This ethnographic research study explores the major factors that assaulted prematurely menopausal women's concept of self and the ways in which they attempted to readjust that concept. A unifying domain, evolution of self, and three constitutive themes emerged: change/loss, connectedness/disconnectedness, and transcendence/transformation. A holistic nurse-client relationship that transcends the hospital experience and extends into the community may help prematurely menopausal women to move toward a more synthesized sense of self and a greater degree of self-actualization.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1994

Santería.

The purpose of this ethnographic research was to explore the role of Santería in the orientation of Long Island Cuban-Americans towards health and illness. Santería serves both explanatory and treatment functions. By attributing the cause of illness to supernatural forces, Santería explains why some people stay well while others get sick. By dispelling malignant supernatural forces, mobilizing beneficial supernatural forces, and decreasing uncertainty and stress, Santería helps to maintain or reinstate balance and a sense of control over one's life. An understanding of the role of Santería in the conceptualization of Long Island Cuban-Americans towards health and health care behaviors provides a needed link between a people's perception of health and illness and the interventions that they find meaningful and acceptable.

Attitude to Health↗
PubMed1993

A holistic nursing response to mastectomy trauma syndrome.

As a consequence of mastectomy, women may experience disruptions in four domains of life: the physical, the psychological, the social, and the spiritual. Mastectomy trauma syndrome refers to these lifestyle disruptions. This ethnographic research study explores the major lifestyle disruptions associated with mastectomy. Holistic concepts and strategies are suggested to assist postmastectomy women toward self-actualization.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1990

Learning to laugh: humor as therapy.

Use of humor may indicate a person's mental health status, may reveal psychosocial problems and conflicts, and may indicate ability to cope with those problems and conflicts. Humor may also be one way of helping people more effectively cope with the stresses and strains of living in a complex world. Humor may be incorporated into psychotherapy, either as part of the therapist-client relationship or as a humor program. The humor used by the author in a humor program with chronically mentally ill clients is the laughing with, not the laughing at, type. It deals with problems of life and of people living life. The stories, jokes, comic strips, and songs selected show how people perceive and laugh at the ironies and absurdities in their predicaments and are able to cope with, and frequently transcend, them.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMedDate not supplied

Humor: preventive therapy for family caregivers.

Family caregivers provide the majority of home care for chronically ill family members. Many times, family caregivers become overburdended when the responsibility for caring for a chronically dependent family member is added to other family and occupational responsibilities. Such overburdening is implicated in caregiver burnout. Caregiver respite is one way to decrease role overburdening. Humor is one type of respite that has been underused in primary prevention of caregiver burnout.

Family↗