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- More specifically, it refers to the way individuals and groups invest in activities and seek affordances and pathways that they hope will be nourishing and help them grow, while also trying to avoid stressors, injuries, risks, and damaging costs. As the processes of learning and development unfold, patterns of adaptation emerge.
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Aug 24, 2021 · Adaptive methodology is about a continuous reflection on the possibilities and limits of mutual adaptation between topic, theory, concepts, method and data. The approach derives from basic post-structuralist and semiotic insights and it is based on the assumption that all the boundaries in research are constructed and can in theory be crossed ...
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- Short-Term Gain, Long-Term Problems
- Maladaptive Patterns Become Entrenched
- Adaptation Is Largely A Relational Process
- Rigid Narratives Create Problematic Cycles
- Psychotherapy Helps to Change Maladaptive Patterns
A maladaptive pattern occurs when a typical way of responding results in short-term gain but long-term problems. Consider, for example, that what we call “anxiety disorders” are usually marked by patterns of stressfulevents that trigger anxious feelings and threatening interpretations, which are then followed by patterns of avoidance. For example, ...
Because they are often reinforcing, maladaptive patterns can become entrenched. And such entrenched maladaptive patterns develop not just in our actions or habitual ways of responding, but also in our patterns of feeling, thinking, and relating to others. Consider that many people develop “affect phobias,” such that they develop a fear of negative ...
Of course, as Wachtel’s relational model of cyclical psychodynamics highlights, not all maladaptive patterns are about how we cope through actions or defend against feelings. Rather, as he and other interpersonal and family systems theorists and therapists have long noted, adaptation is largely a relational process. Attachment theorists clearly sho...
The idea of maladaptive patterns is also central to the more cognitively inclined therapists who explore the interpretations, explanations, and attributions people make. Rigid, simplistic, overgeneralized, and extreme narratives about the self, the other, and the world result in feelings and actions that trap individuals into problematic cycles. Co...
Psychotherapy is a complicated endeavor that deals with some profound questions pertaining to the human condition, suffering, and change. Nevertheless, there does seem to be a useful way to frame the core of the enterprise, shared by many perspectives. At its fundamental base, psychotherapy can be considered to be focused on developing ways of unde...
Jan 27, 2019 · Using the Brief COPE as an illustrative example, its 14 strategies have been used to represent both problem- and emotion-focused styles (Tuncay, Musabak, Engin Gok, & Kutlu, 2008), and adaptive and maladaptive styles (Rohland, 2000).
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Adaptive behavior is defined as the collection of conceptual, social, and practical skills learned by people to enable them to function in their everyday lives. Adaptive behavior is a required diagnostic criterion of all systems defining intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Aug 24, 2021 · This paper explores the concept of adaptive research design, in which topic, theoretical framing, method, and data are in principle open to adaptation during the research process.
Oct 11, 2021 · Complex adaptive systems (CAS) theory is used to conceptualise participants’ experiences. An interpretive critical research paradigm valued the unique viewpoint of rural social workers whilst also disrupting the urban-centric focus of social work practice.
It presents a review of literature that point to the potential utility of processing and expressing emotions, and theories that bear on potentially adaptive functions of coping through emotional approach (such as active processing and expression of emotion).
