Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health

McGrady, Angele; Moss, Donald

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-1379-1

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“…Although publications of research, including some well-funded larger studies, have increased in recent years, overall the studies on hypnosis, acupuncture, and other complementary therapies tend to utilize much smaller samples and blinding is less feasible, when the patient's awareness is part of the therapies' pathways for action. Fortunately, the occasional dramatic improvement of medical patients with integrative care including complementary therapies can be persuasive for physicians, nurses, and other biomedically oriented members of the treatment team [1,2].…”

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Paradigms in Integrative Medicine and the Place of Clinical Hypnosis

Moss¹

2020

OBM ICM

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The face of illness has changed with progress in public health, immunizations, and antibiotic medication. Today, medical clinics are more likely to see patients with chronic illnesses, stress-related conditions, and complex bio-psycho-social conditions. This is a global trend, affecting patients worldwide, as Western lifestyle and diet have produced increases in chronic lifestyle-based disorders. Integrative medicine, which attends more fully to psychosocial dimensions of illness, appears to offer promise for today's patient. One might expect hypnosis to assume a central place in integrative healthcare settings, because hypnosis is evidence-based, person-centered, and attuned to subjective and life-historical dimensions of the human being. However, hypnosis currently receives relatively little attention in integrative medicine circles, and hypnosis is underutilized in spite of the availability of many effective clinical protocols for a wide range of medical disorders. This article introduces emerging paradigms in integrative healthcare and suggests that the field of hypnosis must increase attention to these paradigms and improve educational preparation for hypnosis practitioners to function within these paradigms.

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Paradigms in Integrative Medicine and the Place of Clinical Hypnosis

Moss¹

2020

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“…The causes of mental disorders are complex and vary from person to person (for an overview, see McGrady & Moss, , chapters 1, 2 and 3). Congenital genetic dispositions or vulnerability factors play a role (Rutter, ).…”

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Mental health among former students with special educational needs who are now in their mid‐30s

Myklebust¹,

Myklebust²

2017

British J Special Edu

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This article discusses how psychosocial health in adolescence influences adult mental health among former students with special educational needs in Norway. These individuals have been followed prospectively from their teens and into their mid-30s. The study is inspired by life course perspectives with an emphasis on cumulative processes. The logistic regression analysis reveals that the risk of suffering from adult mental distress is higher among those with psychosocial difficulties in their juvenile years compared with those without such problems. Our results also show that the mental health of subjects who experienced health problems and received social security benefits in their late 20s is negatively affected when they are 33 to 34 years of age. In addition, the risk of poor adult mental health is considerably higher for females than males. Receiving assistance from teaching assistants in the classroom at upper secondary school does not seem to be conducive to subsequent positive mental health.

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“…When a person is facing life-changing illness and injury, laypeople as well as professionals tend to assume that acceptance is a critical steppingstone to rehabilitation and recovery (Bailey et al, 2015;McGrady & Moss, 2013;Sviland et al, 2018). Due to the belief that new doors open after acceptance (Andersen, 2003), the injured person is often given the well-intentioned but typically not helpful advice to accept the new reality because this will help him or her to move forward.…”

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Uses and abuses of the concept of acceptance in rehabilitation and recovery.

Angel,

Halling

2023

The Humanistic Psychologist

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Although acceptance may be a crucial step in responding to catastrophic losses, such as those resulting from spinal cord injuries, a careful analysis of case studies and psychological literature supports the notion that acceptance is a place that one arrives at and not something one can make happen. We present five responses to loss with the goal of enabling helpers, whether professionals or family, to address the situation of patients in a nuanced, empathic, and helpful way: (a) Resisting, denying, and the value of fighting, (b) putting aside the painful awareness of loss allows forward moving action, (c) giving up and stopping the fighting while remaining distressed in an unacceptable situation, (d) resignation as a reluctant yes to a life situation that cannot be changed, and (e) reconciliating; coming to terms and finding peace with the way the world, which is what we mean by acceptance. Since acceptance is not an act of the will, it is crucial that helpers respect the difficult and lengthy process that patients move through in their individual way and at their own pace. Here we draw upon the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's interpersonal philosophy of ethics to elaborate on what it means to treat persons with respect and emphasize the critical importance of listening deeply to patients as fellow human beings. Public Significance StatementThis article provides a careful evaluation of the emphasis on encouraging people with spinal cord injuries to accept their new circumstances. Based on literature and extensive interviews we have concluded that while acceptance may be an important step in responding to catastrophic loss, it is not an action but a place that one may arrive at. Accordingly, we recommend that helpers be responsive to the particular situation and experiences of people who struggle with tragic life changes and consider how "denial" and "resistance" may be adaptive at both a physical and a practical level. Furthermore, those who have been injured may benefit significantly from having someone accompany them on their journey.

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Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health

Cited by 28 publications

References 376 publications

Paradigms in Integrative Medicine and the Place of Clinical Hypnosis

Paradigms in Integrative Medicine and the Place of Clinical Hypnosis

Mental health among former students with special educational needs who are now in their mid‐30s

Uses and abuses of the concept of acceptance in rehabilitation and recovery.

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