Learned Helplessness in Pediatric Juvenile Rheumatic Disease : An Experimental Examination in Children and Adolescents

ISBN-13: 9783639144963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 80 str.

Kevin Hommel

Opis

The objective was to examine a learned helplessness conceptualization of psychological sequela in children and adolescents with juvenile rheumatic diseases (JRD) via an experimental procedure utilizing behavior outcome contingent and noncontingent feedback. JRD represents a heterogeneous group of chronic inflammatory disorders including juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), juvenile spondylarthropathies (JS), and juvenile dermatomyositis (JDMS). These debilitating chronic childhood illnesses are characterized by jointinflammation and a variable and unpredictable diseasecourse. The chronic episodic nature of these illnesses creates particular challenges for children to engage in pleasurable and valued activities as well as ordinary daily self-care. The study consists of fifty children and adolescents with JRD who completed measures of transient affect, self-efficacy for functional ability, and causal attributions prior to and immediately following a computerized learned helplessness induction procedure.

O autorze

Dr. Kevin Hommel received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology
from Oklahoma State University. He is an Assistant Professor of
Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children s Hospital. His
current research is on the development and testing of behavioral
interventions to improve disease self-management in children
with chronic medical conditions.