Post-stroke emotionalism (PSE): a qualitative longitudinal study exploring individuals' experience with PSE

CONCLUSION: The results indicate specific psychological aspects of PSE which could be viable targets in psychological interventions such as increasing adaptive coping strategies and challenging negatively held beliefs.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONEmotionalism can cause emotional consequences such as distress, embarrassment and fear.Helping individuals to develop insight into triggers for emotionalism could be beneficial to help gain understanding and awareness whereby post-stroke emotionalism (PSE) has the potential to be anticipated and adapted to psychologically.Potential adaptive responses such as acceptance or control and better anticipation of episodes of emotionalism could help to reduce the emotional consequences of PSE.PMID:34784814 | DOI:10.1080/09638288.2021.2002439
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Source Type: research