Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to R Kasan.
A case study illustrates the narrative or story-telling approach to treating alcoholism. We discuss the rationale for this method and describe how it could be useful in family practice for treating people with alcohol problems.
This paper discusses the relevance of a storytelling approach for understanding psychological problems in family practice and assesses the value of such an approach.
This paper describes the personal determinants in health promoting behavior, and, in particular, life style changes. A review is made of internal factors, including personality factors, health beliefs, and health attitudes. Environment factors are also taken into account. Suggestions for future research are proposed.
The study of stress in general and occupational stress in particular has, until recently, usually included male samples, with findings erroneously extrapolated for women. This review outlines common occupational and domestic stressors, many of which are unique to women, especially to mothers in paid employment. Stress is viewed as resulting from the combination of high role demands and low coping resources (material, psychological, interpersonal, and organizational). Women in paid employment worldwide are still expected to assume primary responsibility for home and family and are subject to a double burden of work, especially when the children are young. Women are also subject to considerable conflict between marital/parental and occupational demands. They occupy different jobs than men, usually hierarchically inferior and entailing fewer benefits and opportunities for growth. In this conceptual framework, three groups of women in paid employment have been empirically identified as being at relatively high risk for stress as conceptualized above: clerical workers, managers, and single (mainly divorced) parents. Further research is needed to explore occupational stress in blue-collar working women, and to elucidate the role and variety of coping resources.