Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S1323892200000181
S. Redwood, F. Alpass
The impact of stress on both the psychological and physical wellbeing of the individual has been a primary topic in the psychological literature over the past decade. Alongside the weight of research on the effects of life stressors, the study of traumatic stress and its physical and psychological sequelae has overwhelmingly captivated researchers across the full range of the social science disciplines. Recent events have focused attention on the plight of combat veterans once again. The current review was undertaken in order to provide an overview of the recent extensive research activity on PTSD in war and combat veterans and focuses predominantly on veterans from the Vietnam War. Epidemiological data is presented on the prevalence of traumatic stress and the incidence of PTSD. Evidence for the high rates of co-morbidity between PTSD and other major clinical disorders is reviewed and the contribution of a number of peri-traumatic variables, pre-trauma and post-trauma factors to the development of PTSD is assessed. A review of the cognitive theories of PTSD suggests a number of common elements and theoretical similarities.
{"title":"Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Combat and the Vietnam Veteran.","authors":"S. Redwood, F. Alpass","doi":"10.1017/S1323892200000181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1323892200000181","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of stress on both the psychological and physical wellbeing of the individual has been a primary topic in the psychological literature over the past decade. Alongside the weight of research on the effects of life stressors, the study of traumatic stress and its physical and psychological sequelae has overwhelmingly captivated researchers across the full range of the social science disciplines. Recent events have focused attention on the plight of combat veterans once again. The current review was undertaken in order to provide an overview of the recent extensive research activity on PTSD in war and combat veterans and focuses predominantly on veterans from the Vietnam War. Epidemiological data is presented on the prevalence of traumatic stress and the incidence of PTSD. Evidence for the high rates of co-morbidity between PTSD and other major clinical disorders is reviewed and the contribution of a number of peri-traumatic variables, pre-trauma and post-trauma factors to the development of PTSD is assessed. A review of the cognitive theories of PTSD suggests a number of common elements and theoretical similarities.","PeriodicalId":43415,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling","volume":"11 1","pages":"44-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S1323892200000181","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57508909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S1323892200000089
Johanna S. Paddison, H. Heta, R. Flett
{"title":"Hauora Tãne: Mãori Men, Health Behaviours, and the Stages of Change Model","authors":"Johanna S. Paddison, H. Heta, R. Flett","doi":"10.1017/S1323892200000089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1323892200000089","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43415,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling","volume":"11 1","pages":"136-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S1323892200000089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57508193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S132389220000003X
Trevor K. Hawkins
{"title":"Duty of Care: Some Thoughts on The How? Where? and When?","authors":"Trevor K. Hawkins","doi":"10.1017/S132389220000003X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S132389220000003X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43415,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S132389220000003X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57508438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2005-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S1323892200000144
L. Guy, E. Kendall, J. Charker, N. Bellamy
Successful rehabilitation of whiplash injuries is a concern for patients, practitioners and third party payers. Despite advances in scientific knowledge and developments in the field of medical investigations and imaging techniques over recent years, recovery from whiplash injury following motor vehicle accident remains uncertain and controversial. Ongoing symptomatology has been associated with limitations in returning to work and home functioning, however, relationships between neck disability, perceived difficulty in return to work and ability to cope with functional demands despite the pain, have been not been explored. This study examined the relationships between these factors by identifying what daily functional activities were difficult for whiplash injured workers, and also comparing the individual's ability to function despite the pain (pain self-efficacy), with ongoing neck disability (NDI) and perceived difficulty in the return to work process.
{"title":"Difficulty in ‘Return-to-Work’ After Whiplash Injury: The Role of Pain Self-Efficacy in Mediating the Effects of Neck Disability on Perceived Difficulty in the Return to Work Process","authors":"L. Guy, E. Kendall, J. Charker, N. Bellamy","doi":"10.1017/S1323892200000144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1323892200000144","url":null,"abstract":"Successful rehabilitation of whiplash injuries is a concern for patients, practitioners and third party payers. Despite advances in scientific knowledge and developments in the field of medical investigations and imaging techniques over recent years, recovery from whiplash injury following motor vehicle accident remains uncertain and controversial. Ongoing symptomatology has been associated with limitations in returning to work and home functioning, however, relationships between neck disability, perceived difficulty in return to work and ability to cope with functional demands despite the pain, have been not been explored. This study examined the relationships between these factors by identifying what daily functional activities were difficult for whiplash injured workers, and also comparing the individual's ability to function despite the pain (pain self-efficacy), with ongoing neck disability (NDI) and perceived difficulty in the return to work process.","PeriodicalId":43415,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling","volume":"11 1","pages":"22-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S1323892200000144","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57508757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2004-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S1323892200000260
S. Redwood, F. Alpass, N. Long, N. Pachana, J. Blakey
The relationship between social support, mental health, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology was investigated in a sample of 229 former New Zealand military personnel. It was hypothesised that veterans reporting greater satisfaction with their social support networks would also report better mental health and lower levels of PTSD symptomatology, and that social support would buffer the relationship between trauma and PTSD. The number of social supports was expected to be unrelated to both PTSD and mental health. Among the subsample of combat veterans (N = 166), results from multiple regression analyses revealed that satisfaction with social support was significantly related to PTSD severity but unrelated to general mental health. The moderating model of social support on the relationship between trauma and PTSD was not supported in hierarchical regression analysis in the total sample (N = 229). Methodological limitations and other explanations for these results are discussed.
{"title":"Trauma, Social Support, and Mental Health Outcomes in a Community Sample of New Zealand Military Veterans.","authors":"S. Redwood, F. Alpass, N. Long, N. Pachana, J. Blakey","doi":"10.1017/S1323892200000260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1323892200000260","url":null,"abstract":"The relationship between social support, mental health, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology was investigated in a sample of 229 former New Zealand military personnel. It was hypothesised that veterans reporting greater satisfaction with their social support networks would also report better mental health and lower levels of PTSD symptomatology, and that social support would buffer the relationship between trauma and PTSD. The number of social supports was expected to be unrelated to both PTSD and mental health. Among the subsample of combat veterans (N = 166), results from multiple regression analyses revealed that satisfaction with social support was significantly related to PTSD severity but unrelated to general mental health. The moderating model of social support on the relationship between trauma and PTSD was not supported in hierarchical regression analysis in the total sample (N = 229). Methodological limitations and other explanations for these results are discussed.","PeriodicalId":43415,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling","volume":"10 1","pages":"102-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S1323892200000260","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57509216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2004-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S1323892200000302
Christine Roberts-Yates
{"title":"Promoting Excellence: A Learning Partnership Approach to Workplace Claims/Injury Management and Rehabilitation in South Australia.","authors":"Christine Roberts-Yates","doi":"10.1017/S1323892200000302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1323892200000302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43415,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling","volume":"10 1","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S1323892200000302","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57509495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2004-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S1323892200000338
M. Dillon, S. Kippen, J. Ellis
{"title":"A Knitting Together of Practices: Reflections on the Phenomenology of an Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Healthcare Team.","authors":"M. Dillon, S. Kippen, J. Ellis","doi":"10.1017/S1323892200000338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1323892200000338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43415,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling","volume":"10 1","pages":"36-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S1323892200000338","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57509574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2004-01-01DOI: 10.1017/S1323892200000223
J. Blakey, F. Alpass, N. Long, N. Pachana
Hearing loss is the third most prevalent chronic disability among older adults, with older adults the prime users of aural rehabilitation services. Ex-service personnel, in particular, frequently develop hearing-related disorders, and yet research on hearing aid utilisation in this group is sparse. The present study explored predictors of hearing aid use in a randomly selected sample of 1249 New Zealand veterans. Perceived benefit, performance and ease of use of aid(s) were related to increased use. Older veterans were more likely to use their aid(s) and greater overall hearing loss also increased adherence; however, inexperienced wearers were less adherent. Satisfaction with audiological service and overall satisfaction with the performance of the aid(s) was also linked to use. Health related variables were unrelated to frequency of aid use. These results highlight the need to provide ongoing support for all veterans, but in particular novice users, who become engaged in ongoing aural rehabilitation processes.
{"title":"Predictors of Hearing Aid Use in an Older, Community-Based, New Zealand Veteran Sample: Implications for Aural Rehabilitation.","authors":"J. Blakey, F. Alpass, N. Long, N. Pachana","doi":"10.1017/S1323892200000223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1323892200000223","url":null,"abstract":"Hearing loss is the third most prevalent chronic disability among older adults, with older adults the prime users of aural rehabilitation services. Ex-service personnel, in particular, frequently develop hearing-related disorders, and yet research on hearing aid utilisation in this group is sparse. The present study explored predictors of hearing aid use in a randomly selected sample of 1249 New Zealand veterans. Perceived benefit, performance and ease of use of aid(s) were related to increased use. Older veterans were more likely to use their aid(s) and greater overall hearing loss also increased adherence; however, inexperienced wearers were less adherent. Satisfaction with audiological service and overall satisfaction with the performance of the aid(s) was also linked to use. Health related variables were unrelated to frequency of aid use. These results highlight the need to provide ongoing support for all veterans, but in particular novice users, who become engaged in ongoing aural rehabilitation processes.","PeriodicalId":43415,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Rehabilitation Counselling","volume":"10 1","pages":"57-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S1323892200000223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"57508997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}