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G Caplan

Publications and source records attributed to G Caplan.

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PubMed1981

Mastery of stress: psychosocial aspects.

Psychological stress may increase an individual's vulnerability to mental and physical illness. This may be prevented if the individual receives social support in mastering the stressful situation in the form of cognitive guidance that compensates for the inevitable reduction in his problem-solving capacity caused by stress-induced emotional arousal. This guidance should also help the individual or compensate for this arousal and enable him to come to terms with inescapable changes in his life produced by the experience. Empirical researches confirm that exposure to high stress by individuals receiving adequate support does not increase the risk of mental and physical illness.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1980

An approach to preventive intervention in child psychiatry.

A conceptual model for primary prevention is proposed. Its five elements are (1) Risk Factors that increase the likelihood of (2) eventual Mental Disorder contingent upon (3) intervening psychological stresses that promote Crises, which the individual may master more or less effectively dependent on (4) his current psychological Competence and (5) the powerful influence of Social Supports. The paper summarizes recent preventive intervention efforts and evaluative studies that focus on these elements in seeking to reduce psychiatric disorders in child populations: reduction of risk factors through mental health consultation and collaboration by mental health clinicians with child care workers and administrators; improvement of competence in children t risk by special educational programs with children and their parents that seek to enhance their cognitive and emotional programs with children and their parents that seek to enhance their cognitive and emotional problem-solving and coping skills; crisis intervention for children and their families by anticipatory guidance and preventive intervention; and fostering protective social supports by convening supportive groups for persons in need, and organizing mutual help groups, both of which seek to provide individuals under stress with help with emotional reequilibrium and cognitive guidance to compensate for capacities that are usually temporalily eroded by the upheaval of crisis.

Child Development↗
PubMed1975

Erich Lindemann.

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Boston↗
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A post-acute respiratory outreach service.

This paper describes an outreach nursing service for patients discharged from a Sydney hospital after treatment for an acute episode of chronic airflow limitation (CAL) and people referred for early exacerbation of the condition. In its first two years, 395 patients received the home-based service. The readmission rate of these patients within 28 days of discharge was approximately half that of the hospital's CAL patients in the year before the service was available. The cost of the outreach service in 1994-5 and 1995-6 was 36% and 61% lower respectively than the cost of hospitalizing the estimated 57 patients whose admission or readmission to hospital was avoided because their conditioned was managed at home by the outreach service.

Acute Disease↗