Social Support: An Interactional ViewBarbara R. Sarason, Irwin G. Sarason, Gregory R. Pierce Focuses on one of the fastest-growing areas of psychological research and application, that of social support and its relevance to socialization, development and clinical concerns. Included are up-to-date findings on assessment of social support, the contribution of social support to personal relationships, its importance in personality development, applications in dealing with stressful situations, practical applications in prevention and therapeutic intervention in clinical and community settings. Approaches discussed include clinical and field studies, experimental investigations and empirical inquiries that take a life-span developmental perspective. |
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... family members . This pattern held regardless of whether the family mem- bers were adult children or spouses . Further analyses traced the benefits of con- tact with friends partly to differences in the content of the interactions with ...
... family members . This pattern held regardless of whether the family mem- bers were adult children or spouses . Further analyses traced the benefits of con- tact with friends partly to differences in the content of the interactions with ...
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... members in managing chronic pain . There are three basic " family " treatment approaches being used in multimodal treatment centers . The trans- actional approach promotes awareness of the ways in which patients use pain for ...
... members in managing chronic pain . There are three basic " family " treatment approaches being used in multimodal treatment centers . The trans- actional approach promotes awareness of the ways in which patients use pain for ...
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... members and their families involved in the in- cident , locate the survivors and the injured , aid in identifying the dead , coordi- nate the transportation of family members , and provide emotional and material help to the injured and ...
... members and their families involved in the in- cident , locate the survivors and the injured , aid in identifying the dead , coordi- nate the transportation of family members , and provide emotional and material help to the injured and ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
1 the conceptualization | 4 |
Traditional Views of Social Support and Their Impact | 9 |
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