Nancy Pistrang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 228530 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nancy Pistrang |
| PRENOMES | Nancy |
| SOBRENOME | Pistrang |
| ASSINATURA | PISTRANG N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7872-8152 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Mutual Help Groups for Mental Health Problems
This paper reviews empirical studies on whether participating in mutual help groups for people with mental health problems leads to improved psychological and social functioning. To be included, studies had to satisfy four sets of criteria, covering: (1) characteristics of the group, (2) target problems, (3) outcome measures, and (4) research design. The 12 studies meeting these criteria provide limited but promising evidence that mutual help gro…
Policeman or Friend? Dilemmas in Working with Homeless Young People in the United Kingdom
This qualitative, phenomenological study examined the relationships between residents and staff in hostels for homeless young people in the UK. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 12 homeless youth (residents) and 10 hostel staff (keyworkers). The interviews focused on how participants perceived and experienced the keyworker relationship. Qualitative data analysis yielded three core themes, or dimensions, describing central features of…
Quality Criteria Under Methodological Pluralism
Many community psychologists adhere to a methodological pluralist orientation to research; however, it is often unclear what such a position means in practice. This paper draws out the practical implications of methodological pluralism for community research. It proposes four sets of criteria for how research might be appraised under a pluralistic ethos: criteria applicable to all research, research-relevant community psychology values and princi…
A safe place? Service users' experiences of an acute mental health ward
Studies of safety in psychiatric settings have tended to focus on the experience of staff, with little consideration of the experience of service users. This qualitative study aimed to provide a detailed description of the experience of being an inpatient on a mental health ward, specifically with regard to feelings of safety and threat. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with nine patients and seven nursing staff on an acute inpatient psy…
Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
The Benefits of Mutual Support Groups for Parents of Children With Disabilities
This study examined what parents of children with disabilities and special needs found helpful about belonging to mutual support groups. Quantitative data (based on 56 parents from 6 groups) indicated that members found the groups very helpful and were very satisfied with the support they received from their groups; they also described the groups as high in cohesion, expressiveness, task orientation, and self‐discovery. A grounded theory analysis…
The communication of empathy in couples during the transition to parenthood
This study examined how empathy is communicated and experienced in the helping interactions of couples expecting their first baby. Eighteen couples took part in a semistructured communication task, and then, in a tape-assisted recall session, identified helper responses that were high and low in empathy. Qualitative data analysis yielded five themes characterizing high empathy responses—checking out or exploring meaning, acknowledging the concern…
The communication of empathy in couples during the transition to parenthood
This study examined how empathy is communicated and experienced in the helping interactions of couples expecting their first baby. Eighteen couples took part in a semistructured communication task, and then, in a tape‐assisted recall session, identified helper responses that were high and low in empathy. Qualitative data analysis yielded five themes characterizing high empathy responses—checking out or exploring meaning, acknowledging the concern…
Peer support for women with breast cancer
This study examined how women with breast cancer perceived different styles of peer helping. Forty recently diagnosed breast cancer patients evaluated three audiotaped conversations between a breast cancer patient and an (ex-patient) volunteer helper; the conversations differed in terms of the empathy and self-disclosure offered by the helper. The findings supported the first hypothesis, that a helping style involving high self-disclosure would b…
The helping process in couples during recovery from heart attack
This single case study aimed to illustrate help‐intended communication in couples, in particular how a husband and wife attempted to help each other with adjusting to the husband' s recent myocardial infarction. The study employed a semi‐structured communication task to gather samples of the couple's helping interactions: the couple had two conversations in which they alternated helper and discloser roles. Quantitative and qualitative data were o…
Partners and Fellow Patients
This study examined the helping process that occurred when 26 breast cancer patients (the disclosers) talked about their illness‐related concerns with their partner and, in a separate conversation, with a fellow patient (the volunteer helpers). The conversations were rated by trained observers and by the disclosers in terms of several process and outcome variables. From the observers' perspective, the volunteer helpers were more helpful, empathic…
Social support as conversation
The partner relationship in psychological response to breast cancer
Women's Work Involvement and Experience of New Motherhood
This study examines whether career-oriented women have more trouble adjusting to new motherhood than more traditional women and whether new mothers who return to work shortly after childbirth have more stress than nonworking mothers. 105 women who had given birth to a first child within the last 5 to 9 months who had also worked before pregnancy were interviewed on work involvement psychological loss of work sex role attitudes changes in self per…
The partner relationship in psychological response to breast cancer
Quality Criteria Under Methodological Pluralism
Many community psychologists adhere to a methodological pluralist orientation to research; however, it is often unclear what such a position means in practice. This paper draws out the practical implications of methodological pluralism for community research. It proposes four sets of criteria for how research might be appraised under a pluralistic ethos: criteria applicable to all research, research-relevant community psychology values and princi…
The Benefits of Mutual Support Groups for Parents of Children With Disabilities
This study examined what parents of children with disabilities and special needs found helpful about belonging to mutual support groups. Quantitative data (based on 56 parents from 6 groups) indicated that members found the groups very helpful and were very satisfied with the support they received from their groups; they also described the groups as high in cohesion, expressiveness, task orientation, and self‐discovery. A grounded theory analysis…
Social support as conversation
The communication of empathy in couples during the transition to parenthood
This study examined how empathy is communicated and experienced in the helping interactions of couples expecting their first baby. Eighteen couples took part in a semistructured communication task, and then, in a tape‐assisted recall session, identified helper responses that were high and low in empathy. Qualitative data analysis yielded five themes characterizing high empathy responses—checking out or exploring meaning, acknowledging the concern…
Women's Work Involvement and Experience of New Motherhood
This study examines whether career-oriented women have more trouble adjusting to new motherhood than more traditional women and whether new mothers who return to work shortly after childbirth have more stress than nonworking mothers. 105 women who had given birth to a first child within the last 5 to 9 months who had also worked before pregnancy were interviewed on work involvement psychological loss of work sex role attitudes changes in self per…
Policeman or Friend? Dilemmas in Working with Homeless Young People in the United Kingdom
This qualitative, phenomenological study examined the relationships between residents and staff in hostels for homeless young people in the UK. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 12 homeless youth (residents) and 10 hostel staff (keyworkers). The interviews focused on how participants perceived and experienced the keyworker relationship. Qualitative data analysis yielded three core themes, or dimensions, describing central features of…
Partners and Fellow Patients
This study examined the helping process that occurred when 26 breast cancer patients (the disclosers) talked about their illness‐related concerns with their partner and, in a separate conversation, with a fellow patient (the volunteer helpers). The conversations were rated by trained observers and by the disclosers in terms of several process and outcome variables. From the observers' perspective, the volunteer helpers were more helpful, empathic…
The helping process in couples during recovery from heart attack
This single case study aimed to illustrate help‐intended communication in couples, in particular how a husband and wife attempted to help each other with adjusting to the husband' s recent myocardial infarction. The study employed a semi‐structured communication task to gather samples of the couple's helping interactions: the couple had two conversations in which they alternated helper and discloser roles. Quantitative and qualitative data were o…
Women's Work Involvement and Experience of New Motherhood
This study examines whether career-oriented women have more trouble adjusting to new motherhood than more traditional women and whether new mothers who return to work shortly after childbirth have more stress than nonworking mothers. 105 women who had given birth to a first child within the last 5 to 9 months who had also worked before pregnancy were interviewed on work involvement psychological loss of work sex role attitudes changes in self per…
The partner relationship in psychological response to breast cancer
Social support as conversation
Partners and Fellow Patients
This study examined the helping process that occurred when 26 breast cancer patients (the disclosers) talked about their illness‐related concerns with their partner and, in a separate conversation, with a fellow patient (the volunteer helpers). The conversations were rated by trained observers and by the disclosers in terms of several process and outcome variables. From the observers' perspective, the volunteer helpers were more helpful, empathic…
Peer support for women with breast cancer
This study examined how women with breast cancer perceived different styles of peer helping. Forty recently diagnosed breast cancer patients evaluated three audiotaped conversations between a breast cancer patient and an (ex-patient) volunteer helper; the conversations differed in terms of the empathy and self-disclosure offered by the helper. The findings supported the first hypothesis, that a helping style involving high self-disclosure would b…
The helping process in couples during recovery from heart attack
This single case study aimed to illustrate help‐intended communication in couples, in particular how a husband and wife attempted to help each other with adjusting to the husband' s recent myocardial infarction. The study employed a semi‐structured communication task to gather samples of the couple's helping interactions: the couple had two conversations in which they alternated helper and discloser roles. Quantitative and qualitative data were o…
The Benefits of Mutual Support Groups for Parents of Children With Disabilities
This study examined what parents of children with disabilities and special needs found helpful about belonging to mutual support groups. Quantitative data (based on 56 parents from 6 groups) indicated that members found the groups very helpful and were very satisfied with the support they received from their groups; they also described the groups as high in cohesion, expressiveness, task orientation, and self‐discovery. A grounded theory analysis…
The communication of empathy in couples during the transition to parenthood
This study examined how empathy is communicated and experienced in the helping interactions of couples expecting their first baby. Eighteen couples took part in a semistructured communication task, and then, in a tape-assisted recall session, identified helper responses that were high and low in empathy. Qualitative data analysis yielded five themes characterizing high empathy responses—checking out or exploring meaning, acknowledging the concern…
The communication of empathy in couples during the transition to parenthood
This study examined how empathy is communicated and experienced in the helping interactions of couples expecting their first baby. Eighteen couples took part in a semistructured communication task, and then, in a tape‐assisted recall session, identified helper responses that were high and low in empathy. Qualitative data analysis yielded five themes characterizing high empathy responses—checking out or exploring meaning, acknowledging the concern…
Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
A safe place? Service users' experiences of an acute mental health ward
Studies of safety in psychiatric settings have tended to focus on the experience of staff, with little consideration of the experience of service users. This qualitative study aimed to provide a detailed description of the experience of being an inpatient on a mental health ward, specifically with regard to feelings of safety and threat. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with nine patients and seven nursing staff on an acute inpatient psy…
Quality Criteria Under Methodological Pluralism
Many community psychologists adhere to a methodological pluralist orientation to research; however, it is often unclear what such a position means in practice. This paper draws out the practical implications of methodological pluralism for community research. It proposes four sets of criteria for how research might be appraised under a pluralistic ethos: criteria applicable to all research, research-relevant community psychology values and princi…
Policeman or Friend? Dilemmas in Working with Homeless Young People in the United Kingdom
This qualitative, phenomenological study examined the relationships between residents and staff in hostels for homeless young people in the UK. Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 12 homeless youth (residents) and 10 hostel staff (keyworkers). The interviews focused on how participants perceived and experienced the keyworker relationship. Qualitative data analysis yielded three core themes, or dimensions, describing central features of…
Mutual Help Groups for Mental Health Problems
This paper reviews empirical studies on whether participating in mutual help groups for people with mental health problems leads to improved psychological and social functioning. To be included, studies had to satisfy four sets of criteria, covering: (1) characteristics of the group, (2) target problems, (3) outcome measures, and (4) research design. The 12 studies meeting these criteria provide limited but promising evidence that mutual help gro…
Psychology (13 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Psychotherapist (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (5 obras) · Empathy (5 obras) · Psychiatry (5 obras) · Communication (4 obras) · Conversation (4 obras)