Catastrophe, Chaos, and Complexity Models and Psychosocial Adjustment to Disability
| Autor: | Randall M. Parker, James Schaller, Sandra Hansmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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030506 rehabilitation
Rehabilitation Psychotherapist medicine.medical_treatment 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Rehabilitation counseling Erikson's stages of psychosocial development CHAOS (operating system) 050106 general psychology & cognitive sciences 03 medical and health sciences medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Psychology Psychosocial Applied Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin. 46:234-241 |
| ISSN: | 1538-4853 0034-3552 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/003435520304600404 |
| Popis: | Rehabilitation professionals may unknowingly rely on stereotypes and specious beliefs when dealing with people with disabilities. One such belief is that an individual's adjustment to disability proceeds through well-defined stages or phases. Literally hundreds of publications based primarily on clinical observations promote various stage or phase theories of psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness and disability despite contradictory empirical findings. Developments in mathematics, physics, biology, economics, and psychology over the last four decades, however, have led to the formulation of theories that suggest new models of the adjustment process. Specifically, we believe Catastrophe, Chaos, and Complexity Theories hold considerable promise in this regard, and yet these theories have received relatively little attention in the rehabilitation research literature. The purpose of this article is to review these theories and suggest applications in adjustment to chronic illness and disability. |
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