Integrating positive psychology and spirituality in the context of climate change.

In the context of climate change and its accompanying impact on stress and mental health, we argue that positive psychology (PP) may benefit from an integration of spirituality to better support people's wellbeing. Starting with an overview of climate change's impact on wellbeing and health, we explore the paradoxical and complex relationship between humans and nature. Following which, we will briefly define spirituality and present an evocative metaphor of the wave to portray the evolution of the field of PP.

Case study assessing the feasibility of using a wearable haptic device or humanoid robot to facilitate transitions in occupational therapy sessions for children with autism spectrum disorder.

Introduction: Some children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulties with transitions that may lead to problem behaviours. Although the use of technologies with children with ASD is receiving increasing attention, no study has looked at their effect on transitions in activities of daily living. This study aimed to document the feasibility of (1) using two intervention technologies (NAO humanoid robot or wearable haptic device) separately to facilitate transitions in occupational therapy sessions for children with ASD and (2) the method used to document changes.

God Attachment: Resource or Complication in Women's and Their Partners' Adjustment to the Threat of Breast Cancer.

This study explored the role of adult attachment and God attachment in women's and their partners' adjustment to the threat of breast cancer. Women and their partners were assessed on their adult attachment, God attachment, empathic coping and couple adjustment prior to the women receiving their breast biopsy results. Results showed that a secure God attachment buffered the effects of an anxious adult attachment on the use of empathic coping for women and their partners.

Attachment to God and coping with the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer: a longitudinal study.

Background: Religious/spiritual factors are important for some individuals in the context of life stress. To the authors' knowledge, the present study is the first to explore the role of women's attachment to God (anxious vs secure) in their adjustment to breast cancer.

Objective: To explore the (1) pattern of change in women's attachment to God across time and (2) relationship between attachment to God and coping behaviors and depression.

The role of positive and negative religious/spiritual coping in women's adjustment to breast cancer: A longitudinal study.

Investigate change in women's use of religious/spiritual coping (R/S) in relation to breast cancer. Longitudinal, prospective. Fifty-six breast cancer and 82 benign diagnosis.

"Why me?" - women's use of spiritual causal attributions in making sense of breast cancer.

Objective: This study addressed the role of positive (event is due to God's Love or to God's Will) and negative (event is due to God's Anger) spiritual causal attributions in women's adjustment to breast cancer.

Design: Ninety-three women diagnosed with breast cancer were assessed at six times from pre-diagnosis through two years post-surgery.

Main Outcome Measures: Women completed positive and negative measures of spiritual causal attributions (e.

Impaired Facial Affect Perception in Unaffected Children at Familial Risk for Panic Disorder.

Recent studies suggest that impaired processing of facial affect has a familial component and may reflect a marker of liability to psychopathology. This study investigated whether facial affect processing is impaired in offspring with parental panic disorder (PD). Psychiatrically healthy children with parental PD (n = 51) and age and sex matched control children with no parental psychopathology (n = 51) completed a standard facial recognition task.

A multifaith spiritually based intervention versus supportive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: We have previously reported that a multifaith spiritually based intervention (SBI) may have efficacy in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). This randomized pilot trial tested whether the SBI had greater efficacy than a nonspecific control condition in GAD.

Method: Twenty-three participants with GAD of at least moderate severity were randomized to 12 individual sessions of the SBI (n = 11) or supportive psychotherapy (SP)--our control condition (n = 12).

Parental bonds in children at high and low familial risk for panic disorder.

A rejecting and overprotective parenting style is considered to be an important risk factor for the development of anxiety disorders. This study examined the role of perceived parental bonding as a potential environmental risk factor for panic disorder (PD) in unaffected offspring with parental PD. Children with a biological parent with PD (n = 71) and children of parents with no psychiatric history (n = 80) participated in the study.