What is it about?
The long-term psychological adjustment of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). The better adjusted persons with SCI reported more life satisfaction, lower levels of depression and higher levels of social support.
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Why is it important?
The results of this study confirm previous research and much of the research that has followed. More importantly it shows that many persons with SCI are psychologically resilient and within the 'normal' range of adjustment compared to non-disabled persons.
Perspectives
I conducted this research in 1989 (it was published in 1992) with persons who had spent several years (at least) living in the community. Many of these people I had known during their acute (hospital) and tertiary phases of rehabilitation. My overall impression is that adjustment to traumatic SCI is anon-linear and iterative process. If I was conducting this research today, I would be framing their lives in terms of 'post-traumatic growth' (Tedeschi & Calhoun).
Dr Ross Crisp
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This page is a summary of: The long-term adjustment of 60 persons with spinal cord injury, Australian Psychologist, March 1992, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/00050069208257573.
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