Empirically derived guidelines for assessing the psychosocial needs of children and adolescents with sickle cell.
This paper introduces an empirically derived psychosocial assessment form that may facilitate the incorporation of the growing body of research on sickle cell into the psychosocial assessment process. The psychosocial assessment form was guided by two theoretical models that explain the variability in adjustment among children and adolescents with sickle cell--the Disability-Stress-Coping Model (Wallender, Varni, Babani, Banis, & Wilcox, 1989) and the Transactional Stress and Coping Model (Thompson, Gustafson, George Spock, 1994). The Psychosocial Assessment Form consists of two sections. The first section includes primary indicators of adjustment such as internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, school performance, and difficulties in social relationships. The second section lists secondary indicators of adjustment including intrapersonal factors, stress processing factors, and social ecological factors. The literature that guided this form is also reviewed.
Burlew
Ann Kathleen
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States