PSY 0515 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Body Image, Tilting Train
Document Summary
Adaptation is the dynamic process that a person with cid experiences in order to achieve the final state of maximal person-environment congruence known as adjustment. Awareness of remaining assets and existing functional limitations. Theoretical frameworks (models) of psychological adaptation to cid. Stage-phase models: linear series of psychological stages through which one has to progress through to become adjusted. Initial impact: shock: defense mobilization: bargaining, denial. Initial realization: mourning/depression, internalized anger: retaliation: aggression, reintegration: acknowledgement and acceptance, similar to the grief theory, experience of disability is not always linear. Linear-like models: still a linear process, but pay attention to other cid-related characteristics, personality attributes, environmental influences. Interactive or mediating: recurrent model of psychosocial adjustment, based on new schemas evolving, modified, or developed as a result of the acquired disability. Individual consolidates his new position in life and explores relationship with environment: vulnerable to negative schemas, ongoing process, search for meaning in post-disability life; effort to protect and enhance.
