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Inge Seiffge-Krenke

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PubMed2006

[Chronically ill and psychologically impaired? Results of a new literature analysis].

Based on earlier literature analyses, this study summarizes more recent research on the links between chronic illness and psychopathology. This analysis was conducted on specific types of illnesses such as diabetes, cancer, asthma and arthritis. Results show increased psychopathology among chronically ill children and adolescents in most studies. Duration of illness, severity of illness as well as gender unsystematically impacted this process. Noteworthy, too, is that some studies reported quite low psychopathology and even higher life quality in chronically ill children and adolescents. In some cases this can be considered as a sign of defense mechanisms.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2003

Coping with everyday stress and links to medical and psychosocial adaptation in diabetic adolescents.

PURPOSE: To study coping with everyday stressors in a longitudinal sample of 98 adolescents with insulin-dependent mellitus (type 1) diabetes. METHODS: The adolescents with type 1 diabetes were classified into three homogeneous groups of metabolic control by latent class analysis, based on annual tests of hemoglobin A1 values. Questionnaires assessing frequent minor stressors as well as ways of coping with these stressors were given annually over the course of 4 years. Latent class analysis revealed three distinctive groups of metabolic control over time. Adolescents who exhibited continuously poor, satisfactory, and good metabolic control. Eighty percent of the adolescents stayed in the group assigned to them over the 4-year period. RESULTS: Adolescents with stable good metabolic control were characterized by lower levels of minor stressors that decreased over time, but those with stable satisfactory and poor metabolic control experienced continuously higher stress levels. Adolescents with stably good metabolic control also employed less avoidant coping in dealing with minor stressors, compared with the two other groups. CONCLUSIONS: Because of the danger of long-term complications, it is important to discriminate among different groups of metabolic control over time. Further, the impact of non-illness-related minor stressors on metabolic control should be considered for prevention purposes.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed2002

The body in adolescent diaries. The case of Karen Horney.

The role of the body and its functions in the psychic life of the individual has occupied a central place in psychoanalytic thinking and writing. Developmentally, the body and the ego as a psychic organization have an integral, mutual relationship which becomes particularly important during adolescence, when the body matures physically while at the same time cognition, self-reflection, and social relations develop. This contribution presents results of the content analyses, focusing on the body, of 40 diaries written by twenty women during their adolescent years, compared with Karen Horney's adolescent diaries. In contrary to these diaries of the other young women, Karen Horney's adolescent diaries lack a focus on the body. Instead, idealized relationships with teachers are frequently mentioned. Only in the last diary, written at the transition to young adulthood, is the body, with a focus on sexual relations, more prominent. This discrepancy between Horney and female age-mates in normative samples is noteworthy. It is discussed here with emphasis on theoretical approaches about the body in adolescence in psychoanalysis, the importance of body and sexuality in Karen Horney's later life, Horney's contributions to female psychoanalysis, and her relationship with her father.

Defense Mechanisms↗
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"Come on, say something, dad!": communication and coping in fathers of diabetic adolescents.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate fathers' coping and communication behavior in families with a healthy or a diabetic adolescent. METHOD: Fathers of diabetic adolescents and healthy adolescents (N = 134) were investigated longitudinally with respect to their non-illness-specific coping behavior, their perceptions of family climate, and communicative behavior in solving a joint family task. Data were obtained through questionnaires and content analysis of recordings of verbal communication activity. RESULTS: Based on questionnaire data, few differences were found between diabetic and healthy adolescents' fathers' styles of coping with non-illness-specific family problems over time. However, several significant differences emerged, both with respect to the fathers' perceptions of family climate and to aspects of family communication, as observed by independent raters. The findings revealed the overall low communicative activity and initiative of diabetic adolescents' fathers, despite the diabetic adolescents' frequent efforts to involve their fathers in solving a joint task. CONCLUSIONS: Counseling and related support services for families of chronically ill adolescents should endeavor to reinstate or increase the father's involvement in the family, thereby encouraging him to exercise his distinctive parental functions.

Adaptation, Psychological↗