Spinal Cord Injury : Study On Coping Strategies

_**DisaHealth: **This post is about an interesting PhD thesis on coping strategies by peope with SCI (Spinal cord Injury) by patricia A. Dorset, at the U. Of Queensland , Australia**. Many of the topics discussed are of use beyond specific issues of spinal cord injury and will benefit para/quadraplegics from organic illnesses too.**_

_[Click Here for link][1] to the thesis in Pdf form_

_This Thesis is an extensive, 310 pages work. Although published in 2001, it has not lost it's interest for the community._

### _ **This is not an academic work only for use by professionals outside the SCI community  You can skip the quantitative analysis of use for social planners if you wish.**_

### _** We  particularly recommend for the SCI community:**_

### **_**Chap 6:  **_********Disruption to Life Following Spinal Cord Injury.******

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**_**Chap 7:  **_****Strategies to Manage Disruption to Life..******

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#### ******Chap 8: Factors that Interact With or Impact on the Effectiveness of the Coping Strategies******

_******Read the excerpts of personal interviews from SCI people in this chapter. ******** ******_

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Yes, I can!

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#### **Here are the questions the author responds to: **

1. What are the effects of spinal cord injury in the psychosocial, health related, and

environmental life spheres of the individual who sustains a spinal cord injury?

2. What are the processes of adjustment following spinal cord injury over time?

3. What variables relate to successful adjustment outcomes?

4. What strategies are used to cope with and adjust to a spinal cord injury?

5. How do people with spinal cord injury perceive their satisfaction with life and how

does this perception change over time?

6. What are the practice and research implications for social work from these findings?

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_**_** **_**_Those questions are answered with a simultaneously caring and rigorous way

_** **_Worth your time!

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[1]: http://www.health.qld.gov.au/qscis/PDF/QSCIS_Information/Spinal_Cord_Injury_How_Do_People_Cope.pdf
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[3]: http://www.disahealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Para_and_train_dreamstime_9909977.jpg

URL: http://www.disahealth.com/2011/02/27/spinal-cord-injuryhow-do-people-cope/