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.

Dear Mental Health Practitioners, Take Care of Yourselves: a Literature Review on Self-Care.

Stress, burnout, and professional impairment are prevalent among mental health professionals and can have a negative impact on their clinical work, whilst engagement in self-care can help promote therapist well-being. This literature review examines the role of self-care in the promotion of well-being among mental health practitioners. Specifically, empirical research is presented in relation to specific domains of self-care practice, including awareness, balance, flexibility, physical health, social support, and spirituality.

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.

The relationship between religious/spiritual factors and perceived growth following a diagnosis of breast cancer.

This study investigates the role of religious salience, God image and religious coping in relation to perceived growth following a diagnosis of breast cancer. Eighty-seven breast cancer patients were followed from pre-diagnosis up to 24 months post-surgery. The findings of this study provided limited support for the role of positive aspects of spirituality in relation to perceived growth.

The trajectory of religious coping across time in response to the diagnosis of breast cancer.

Objectives: This study investigates the mobilization of religious coping in women's response to breast cancer.

Methods: Ninety-three breast cancer patients and 160 women with a benign diagnosis participated. Breast cancer patients were assessed on their use of religious coping strategies and their level of emotional distress and well-being at pre-diagnosis, 1 week pre-surgery, and 1 month, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years post-surgery.

A longitudinal study on the role of spirituality in response to the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.

This longitudinal study addressed the role of spirituality in women's response to breast cancer. Ninety-three women diagnosed with breast cancer were assessed on various measures of image of God, positive attitude, social well-being and emotional distress at pre-diagnosis, 6 months post-surgery and 1 year post-surgery. As compared to women who dropped out of the study, this sample reported religion to be less important in their daily lives.

Spirituality and coping with life stress among adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the role of spiritual coping in adult survivors' responses to current life stressors. Although there has been research on general coping and adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA), there has been no work done on spiritual coping behaviour and survivors' current adjustment.

Method: One hundred and one adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse volunteered to participate in this study.

The role of religious coping in adjustment to prostate cancer.

This study explored the role of religious coping in men's long-term adjustment to prostate cancer. Thirty-four men with prostate cancer completed questionnaires on demographic and illness factors, religious and general coping, and physical, social, and emotional functioning. Results showed that religious coping was related to poorer role, social, and emotional functioning for these cancer survivors.

Relationship with God and the quality of life of prostate cancer survivors.

This study explored the role of relationship with God with respect to the quality of life of men with prostate cancer. Thirty-four men with prostate cancer completed questionnaires on demographic and illness factors, aspects of relationship with God (e.g.

The role of religious resources for older adults coping with illness.

The present study investigated the role of religious/spiritual appraisal and coping among a community sample of older adults with illness. In particular this study explored the relationship between these religious resources and nonreligious cognitive appraisals (e.g.

Breast cancer survivors give voice: a qualitative analysis of spiritual factors in long-term adjustment.

As part of a cross-sectional, quantitative study on adjustment factors in long-term breast cancer survival, 52 women were asked to write in their own words how religious and spiritual factors played a part in their understanding of and coping with this illness. A subsample of 39 women responded to this question. The qualitative method of content analysis was used to define meaning units, descriptive categories and themes from the data.