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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"physical pain"”.
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Emotional Pain: The Effect of Clinical Treatment on Perceived Physical Pain
… it has become evident that thesuffering of both physical and emotional pain plays a role in the underlying risk factorsfor addiction. This research attempted to discover a correlation between the reduction ofemotional pain and the subsequent lowering of perceived physical pain in …
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The problem of pain: a heuristic and structural existential analysis of unexplained physical pain
… increase understanding of recovery from chronic pain in the absence of medical intervention. Chronic pain is a debilitating condition that inflicts significant human suffering and costs the economy of the Western world £billions each year. Despite advances in modern medicine pain remains poorly …
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Tackling the Measurability Problem of Physical Pain in Personal Injury Cases: The Case for Remembered Pain and for Disregarding Race and Gender
… tackles the thorny issue of translating pain into money. I propose valuing pain using the willingness-to-pay formula, according to which jurors would ask themselves what is the maximum sum of money that a reasonable person would have been willing to pay to eliminate the risk of ending up …
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Subjective Vs. Objective Physical Pain in Individuals Who Report a History of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Closer Look at What it Means to Experience Pain
… behavior and differences in the experience of pain among those who self-injure. The goals for the current study were to reveal any relationships between the function of NSSI, the subjective experience of pain, and an objective measurement of pressure pain threshold. Participants completed the …
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Virginiana
… trauma. These poems exist at the intersection of physical pain and emotional pain. Among other topics, the poems examine the experience of living with three chronic health conditions. The speaker sees her physical pain and personal grief reflected in the scarred landscapes of Virginia. These poems …
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What Pain Calls to Witness for Mezzo-soprano, Clarinet, Piano, and Fixed Media
What Pain Calls to Witness is an extended song cycle for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, piano, and fixed media, that contemplates aspects of disability. The work sets seven poems from Travis Chi Wing Lau’s Vagaries, which explores chronic physical pain through a cripistemelogical lens. Rather than …
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Psychosocial influences on total pain management by informal hospice caregivers
… emotional, psychological, spiritual, and physical pain. The purpose of this in-depth, grounded theory study was to generate a model describing how psychosocial factors influence informal hospice caregivers' management of pain. Findings revealed that caregivers' pain management strategies …
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Pain and Spiritual Distress at End of Life
… is to examine the relationship between unmanaged pain and spiritual distress in adults newly admitted to hospice.</p> <p><strong>Background/Rationale:</strong> Current evidence supports the presence of a positive relationship between increased physical pain and spiritual distress for those with …
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THE RELATIONSHIP OF PROCESS TO OUTCOME IN BRIEF EXPRESSIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY.
… the Session Evaluation Questionnaire and a physical pain measure at the end of each session and the SCL-90R at the beginning of each session. There were four sessions of baseline, ten sessions of treatment with the Gestalt-based Focused Expressive Therapy, and four sessions of follow-up. The …
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Pure Immanence
… on the subjective experience of psychic and physical pain. Experiencing bodies on display, however metaphorical, has the power to elicit emotional responses from a viewer. By interacting with the aforementioned three bodies of work in their various settings, social constructions are …
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Lucid, Likable, and Hopefully Sane: The Narrative Medicine of Socio-Psychiatric Recovery
… the mind, bisexual identity, Ehlers-Danlos and physical pain, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, the art of standup comedy, and cross-diagnoses friendships – all within the context of an American, late-stage capitalist system. This long list of topics is matched by …
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A Longitudinal Investigation of the Effect of Violent Video Game Play on Capability for Suicide
… be fearless about death and possess elevated physical pain tolerance. It is believed that such capability is developed through exposure to painful and/or provocative events, which serve to habituate the individual to fear and pain. The current study sought to expand on previous studies to …
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Recognising, assessing & treating pain in dementia: the experiences of caregivers
Background & Aim: Pain presents a major challenge for people with dementia (PwD)and their caregivers. This thesis aimed to investigate the experiences of informal caregivers (IFCs) and care home(CH) staff supporting PwD, exploring how they recognise, assess, and treat pain among this population. …
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Relationship between problem behaviors, function, and adaptive skills in individuals with intellectual disabilities
… attention, access to tangible items, escape, physical pain, and nonsocial reinforcement), as measured by the Questions About Behavior Functions (QABF). The researcher found that individuals with a physical or nonsocial function engaged in significantly fewer communication, socialization, and …
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The Problem of Evil as the Problem of Pain
… use of the distinction between mental and physical suffering. Accordingly, in this thesis I develop a version of the problem that focuses specifically on the phenomenal experience of physical pain. After providing (in the first chapter) a detailed analysis of (i) both logical and evidential …
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Investigation into the molecular mechanisms of congenital insensitivity to pain
Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP) is an extremely rare inherited disorder characterised by the inability to perceive physical pain from birth, resulting in a number of injuries including self-mutilation, repeated burns and fractures. A number of different genes underlying CIP have been …
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Corporal punishment: cultural-historical and socio-cultural practices of teachers in a South African primary school
… punishment refers to the administration of physical pain to children by teachers with the purpose of disciplining them. It is a phenomenon that occurs in South African primary schooling despite its legal abolition two decades ago. Anecdotal evidence suggests that teachers, particularly those …
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The Destructive Nature of Suffering and the Liturgical Refashioning of the Person
… dissertation is an exploration of the role that physical pain and trauma play in inhibiting moral development and personal relationships; it further asks how the Christian liturgy, as a central act and pedagogical tool of the church, might respond to the crises brought about by pain and trauma. …
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