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M Roskin

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PubMed1986

Psychosocial transitions: an emotional health comparison.

Utilizing the standardized Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90), emotional health scores of those experiencing psychosocial transitions were compared. Parents whose child died approximately 60 months earlier (N = 62) were compared to new immigrants living in absorption centers who arrived approximately 8 months earlier (N = 122). Even 5 years after the event, the emotional health of bereaved parents appeared to be lower than the new immigrant group. The differences appeared more pronounced for females and for the 45 + year old groupings (male and female). Depression seemed to be contrary. In most instances, no significant difference in depression scores were noted.

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PubMed1984

Buffers for the bereaved: the impact of social factors on the emotional health of bereaving parents.

Emotional health of bereaving parents (N = 62; control N = 56) were explored 5 years after the death of a child (age 0-12) in Israel. The Symptom Check List-90 was utilized as the primary measurement instrument. Comparisons to controls according to geographic area of birth indicated more interpersonal (over)sensitivity, obsessive-compulsiveness and anxiety among Asia/African born parents as compared to either European/American or Israeli-born. All geographical groupings of bereaving parents indicated significantly greater somatic concerns than their respective controls. The college-educated Israeli-born bereaving parents indicated significantly healthier SCL-90 scores than similarly educated European/American-born bereaving parents. This was in contrast to the trend in which European-American-born parents (regardless of educational level) exhibited scores indicating the least symptomatology.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1983

On the validity of the Symptom Check List-90 (SCL90): a comparison of diagnostic self-ratings in general practice patients and 'normals', based on the Hebrew version.

The short clinical diagnostic self-rating scale for emotional and somatic concerns--Symptom Check List--90 (SCL-90)--was translated into everyday Hebrew and tested on 131 subjects for: 1. Construct validity, using item analysis. 2. Discriminating validity on a gradient of general practice patients and 'normal' controls. The Hebrew SCL-90 was found to retain its validity and to be easily administered and scored in non-treatment situations. It was also used as a tool for generating and substantiating hypotheses on psychosomatic and psychosocial interrelationships.

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PubMed1982

Coping with life changes--a preventive social work approach.

Life changes requiring substantial social readjustment were utilized to identify a population presumed to be at risk. Respondents who incurred two or more life changes, e.g., death (family member or close friend), divorce, separation, loss of work, incapacitating illness of or accident to self or close family member, imprisonment and/or retirement, in the previous 6 weeks to 1 year and who had not received formal treatment were invited to the intervention. Intervention consisted of cognitive and affective measures utilizing didactic and small-group dynamics. Substantial verbal and nonverbal support was provided. A semi-crossover design was utilized. Less depression, anxiety, and interpersonal (over) sensitivity was indicated. Participants with more life changes as well as those who had experienced death in the family and/or of a close friend improved most.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1980

Integration of primary prevention into social work practice.

Although much has been written about the concept, primary prevention has not been integrated into social work practice. The author discusses factors that might move the profession toward adapting this concept and discusses as well those that inhibit its integration.

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