Distress, trauma, and recovery: adjustment to first episode psychosis.

Objective: To understand the experiences that people with early psychosis are adjusting to and their perceived barriers to recovery.

Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants. Grounded Theory was applied to the design and analysis.

A prospective study of relationships between propositions about risk and driver speeding.

Risk propositions are specific and modifiable hypotheses that people hold about the outcomes of risk-taking behavior. According to fuzzy trace theory (FTT), risk propositions arise from the subjective and idiosyncratic interpretations that people make about the meaning of risk information, and form the primary basis of decision-making. A community sample of 255 drivers was interviewed at baseline (T1), 6 weeks after baseline (T2) and 14 weeks after baseline (T3).

Psychological adjustment to gynaecological cancer: patients' illness representations, coping strategies and mood disturbance.

This study examined associations between illness representation dimensions specified by the self-regulation model, coping and mood in recently diagnosed gynaecological cancer patients. Participants were 61 patients recruited from a specialist outpatient gynaecology clinic. Patients completed a survey measuring their cognitive illness representations (IPQ-R), coping strategies (COPE) and mood (POMS-SF).