Publications by authors named "Grace Wing Ka Ho"

Article Synopsis
  • * It includes a sample of 146 young adults who completed surveys on childhood trauma, self-stigma, and dissociative symptoms at the start and again after three months.
  • * The findings suggest that self-stigma may worsen the effects of childhood trauma on dissociative symptoms, highlighting the importance of addressing self-stigma in childhood trauma survivors for better mental health outcomes.
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Adolescents with physical disabilities experience common psychological distress that interacts with impaired physical function. While cognitive-based interventions have been implemented for adolescents with physical disabilities, their effects on enhancing psychological health remain uncertain. This systematic review aimed to synthesise the effects of cognitive-based interventions on the psychological distress of this population and identify optimal components for evidence-based interventions.

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Background: Cognitive impairment gradually brings changes to the relationship between older married couples. Therefore, this study aimed to understand the individual viewpoints of couple dyads on the important attributes of a 'good dyadic relationship' in the context of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and to explore if the congruencies and discrepancies in their perceptions related to the quality and closeness of their relationship and well-being.

Methods: Q-methodology was used to reveal the perceptions of a 'good dyadic relationship' among couples with one having MCI.

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Background: There is very little work on the role of positive or benevolent childhood experiences and how such events might offer protection from the insidious effects of adverse experiences in childhood or later in life.

Objectives: We set out to test, using latent variable modelling, whether adverse and benevolent childhood experiences could be best described as a single continuum or two correlated constructs. We also modelled the relationship between adverse and benevolent childhood experiences and ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) symptoms and explored if these associations were indirect via psychological trauma.

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