Lauren Woodward Tolle

Handbook of Adolescent Health Psychology

Context and perspectives in adolescent health psychology.- A biopsychosocial perspective on adolescent health and disease.- Issues of diversity in adolescent health psychology: exploring sociocultural influences on adolescent health.- Socioeconomic influences on health and health behavior in adolescents.- Public health approaches to adolescent health beyond disease and illness.- Epidemiology of adolescent health.- Disease prevention in adolescence.- Determinants of health-related behaviors in adolescence.- Psychosocial stress, emotion regulation, and resilience in adolescents.- Mental literacy, mental health, and adolescents.- Advances in measurements and utilization of health-related quality of life instruments.- The Effects of physical activity on the physical and psychological health of adolescents.- Adolescent sexual assault: prevalence, risk associates, outcomes, and intervention.- Intimate partner violence in adolescent romantic relationships.- Continuity of behavior and parenting from childhood through adolescence.- School performance.- Brain development and health implications in adolescents.- Puberty: its role in adolescent maturation.- Adolescent sexuality and sexual behavior.- Intervention effectiveness research in adolescent health psychology: Methodological issues and strategies.- Training issues in adolescent health.- Reforming the behavioral health delivery system for adolescents: why is it needed and what is psychologys role?.- Confidentiality and care of the adolescent patient.- Treatment adherence in adolescents.- Smoking in adolescents.- Adolescent substance abuse.- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adolescence.- Social and biological changes during adolescence that precipitate the onset of antisocial behavior.- Personality disorders in adolescence.- Deliberate self-harm in adolescents.- Eating disorders in adolescents.- Anxiety in adolescents.- Depression and suicide-related behavior in adolescence.- Adolescents with intellectual disabilities.- Pregnancy in adolescents.- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and the developing adolescent: influences of and strategies to reduce STI acquisition.- HIV among adolescents in the United States.- Obesity in adolescents.- Cardiovascular complaints in adolescence: clinical considerations.- Asthma in adolescents.- Endocrine disorders in adolescents.- Musculoskeletal injuries in adolescents: a sports medicine model.- Headaches in adolescents.- Chronic pain in adolescents: physiological and psychological bases for pain.

Behavioral Approaches to Chronic Disease in Adolescence

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Ritual: the final expression of care.

Hospice nurses know that all their patients will die. There are several potential benefits of including rituals and healing practices into the hospice care setting for staff. Evidence suggests that not only does it provide an outlet for hospice workers to express their grief and reflect on their work in an accepting environment; providing closure for their patients passing but it has also been shown to decrease the risk of burnout and compassion fatigue. This article discusses the important aspects of grief rituals and provides an illustrative example of one such ritual.

Dimensions of Child Sexual Abuse Allegations: What is Unusual and What is Not?

Summit claimed via his child sexual abuse accomodation syndrome (CSAAS) that children often (a) recant; (b) make disclosures that are unconvincing (i.e., “illogical” and “incredible”); (c) make contradictory claims; and (d) make delayed claims. In this study, 97 substantiated cases of child sexual abuse were examined for both the key properties outlined by Summit and also for other key properties that have been discussed by experts. Results indicate that some of the key properties of CSASS (recantation and contradictions) are rare in substantiated cases. While delayed claims were common, the delays in this sample were generally shorter than proposed in CSAAS. Results also revealed that allegations rarely contained logistical implausibilities, impoverished details, a stake factor, strange elements in the context of the outcry, fantastical details, or reports of repressed memories.

An Innovative Model for Conducting a Participatory Community Health Assessment

Understanding a communitys perceived health care needs is essential to the promotion of community health. The purpose of this article is to review various methodologies used to assess community health care needs, and then provide a case example of a transcultural exploration of perceived health care needs of the residents of Utila, Honduras. This study presents a template for using unique assessment tools to empower communities to identify their health care needs. Implications for future transcultural community nursing studies are discussed.

Veteran preferences for end-of-life care.

Understanding ones disease and prognosis is a difficult thing for anyone to be faced with. Thinking about end-of-life issues can be incredibly stressful, and this is true for individuals who have knowledge of the options and services that are available to them. Not having knowledge about these issues can make facing decisions confusing, to the point of impossible. In addition, not having awareness of options when facing a terminal illness could mean missing out on receiving a lot of healthcare needs that others who have been provided with education and planning around these issues are afforded with. It is necessary that this very important aspect of care, education about palliative care, hospice, comfort care and advanced directives begin in primary care clinics, before individuals find themselves in acute care with so many unknowns.

Who Gets Blamed After a Collective Tragedy? The Role of Distress, Identification With Victims, and Time

Belief in a just world theory (BJWT) restoration strategies were longitudinally examined after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Analyses examined the influence of terrorism-related distress, identification with victims, and the passage of time on levels of group- and individual-level blame. Initial levels of distress were associated with less blaming of the U.S. (group-level blame) but positively related to derogating victim compensation 5 months later. Psychological distancing from the victims increased individual-level blame, while prolonged identification with victims appeared to dampen this response. These results extend our understanding of BJWT by showing the importance of temporal variation in justice-restoring strategies in a dramatic real-world loss.

When There Is Nothing Left To Do, There Is Everything Left To Do

Circle of Life Hospice in Reno, Nevada is not only a special place for patients and their families to find peace through a sense of meaning and purpose at the end of their life but is also an important place for staff to take care of each other as they take care of those who are dying. The Circle of Life Hospice provides a unique opportunity to examine carefully the power of providing an outlet for hospice staff to process their grief and offer support for one another so that they can continue to give the “everything that there is to do to” to their patients.

Introduction and the Wellness Imperative with Adolescent Behavioral Health

Health psychology as a field is focused on the intricate and complex balance between physical and psychological health and disease. While there is a large body of literature dedicated to the study of health psychology, research on both mental and physical health intervention and outcome in adolescents has historically been neglected (Williams, Holmbeck, & Greenley, 2002). This comprehensive handbook seeks to fill this gap by covering a wide range of topics that fall under five general categories: general issues in adolescent health psychology, the developmental processes that occur during adolescence, treatment and training of professionals as each relate to adolescent health psychology, mental health and adolescents, and physical health and adolescents. In this introductory chapter we focus on the following: child/adolescent well-visits as being health-promoting and preventative (both of which appear as themes throughout the book); screening in primary care; preventative interventions in adolescence; and public health crises affecting adolescents. The organization of the handbook is also reviewed.

Discussion of the Preliminary Validation Study’s Results

This study provided preliminary support for the Egregious/Promotive Factors Model (EPFM) as a guideline for conducting child custody evaluations. The EPFM was developed based on empirical evidence that has been shown to predict outcomes in children. It suggests assessments that may assist in measuring evidence of egregious and promotive factors in families to assist in making custody recommendations that are consistent with the Best Interests of the Child. Overall, judges who received the EPFM-guided report found it to have a clear rationale, to be acceptable, and reported that they would want custody evaluators to write reports in the same way. Furthermore, judges who received the EPFM-guided report reviewed it more positively than judges who received the unspecified constructs report across all areas of the report, even though not all of these domains reached statistical significance. Judges who received the EPFM-guided report cited the egregious and promotive factors as being influential in their custody decision, and a high percentage of judges adopted the recommendations of the evaluator. In total, support was found for the three hypotheses of this study. Based on these favorable outcomes, additional research to further refine and develop the EPFM is warranted.