Measuring Your Progress

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-158
Author(s):  
Dennis C. Daley ◽  
Antoine Douaihy
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Spiritual Well Being

Clients can measure their progress by comparing their current status to the goals they set at the beginning of their change program. These goals may relate to their substance use; to other areas of their lives such as physical, mental, or spiritual well-being, or relationships with family or friends; or to any other problem or issue that clients are working on changing. Progress is improvement or positive movement toward identified goals. Sometimes progress is significant and happens quickly. Other times progress is less significant and happens slowly. The goals of this chapter are to learn to define and measure the progress the client has made this far and to recognize that progress shows in many aspects of one’s life, just not substance use.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Spiritual Well-Being and Burnout in Collegiate Athletic Trainers

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 518-528
Author(s):  
Leslie W. Oglesby ◽  
Andrew R Gallucci ◽  
Christopher Wynveen ◽  
Kelly Ylitalo ◽  
Nicholas Benson
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Religious Coping ◽  
Athletic Trainers ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Collegiate Athletic Trainers ◽  
The Relationship

Context Spiritual well-being is the expression of one's spirituality as measured in the dimensions of existential and religious well-being. The Smith Cognitive Affective Model of Athletic Burnout suggests that personality factors such as spiritual well-being and the use of religious coping methods may affect burnout as well as its causes and outcomes. This has not been examined in collegiate athletic trainers (ATs). Objective To investigate the relationship between spiritual well-being and burnout in collegiate ATs. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Web-based survey. Patients or Other Participants A total of 783 certified ATs employed full time in the collegiate setting participated. Part-time employees (eg, graduate assistants, interns) were excluded. Main Outcome Measure(s) A 100-item online questionnaire was created for this study. It used items from previously developed scales, including the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, the Brief RCOPE, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and substance-use questions from the Monitoring the Future study. Participants were able to complete the survey in approximately 10–15 minutes. Multiple regression analyses were used to analyze survey data. We mapped all independent (existential well-being, religious well-being, positive and negative religious coping) and dependent variables (situational variables, Maslach Burnout Inventory burnout subscales, substance use, and intention to leave) onto the Smith Cognitive-Affective Model of Athletic Burnout to determine which variables altered burnout levels, substance use, and intention to leave. Tests of mediation or moderation were conducted when appropriate. Results Existential well-being was a significant positive predictor of social support and a significant negative predictor of work-family conflict, decreased sense of personal accomplishment, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, intention to leave the profession, and binge drinking. Existential well-being also served as a mediator or moderator in several components of the model. Conclusions Existential well-being was a protective factor against burnout as well as some of the causes and effects of burnout in collegiate ATs.

scholarly journals A vallásfüggőség mint egy lehetséges új viselkedési addikció vizsgálata serdülőkorú populációban

2015 ◽  
Vol 156 (18) ◽  
pp. 731-740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eszter Kovács ◽  
Bettina Pikó
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Screening Tool ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Activity ◽  
Symptomatic Group ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Amphetamine Use ◽  
Role Of Religion

Introduction: Religious addiction is a new behavioral addiction, featured with pathologic religious activity. Aim: The authors examined whether this new phenomenon appears in adolescence, and whether it correlates with substance use and mental health variables. Method: The General Addiction Screening Tool was used to investigate the presence of religious addiction among youth (N = 656; mean age, 16.5 years; 49.2% females). Besides monthly and lifetime prevalence of substance use, variables of psychological well-being (e.g., depression, aggression, optimism) were also detected. Results: Religiosity was relatively low among adolescents. Nearly 1% of the sample might be characterized as being addicted to religion, 16.2% belonged to the symptomatic group, while 83% of them were asymptomatic. Religious addicts were more likely to be more religious and the role of religion in one’s life was more important. Also, they tended to pray and attend the churches more frequently. It was also found that amphetamine use was more frequent among the addicts. In terms of mental health level, aggression scored lower and spiritual well-being reached higher level. Conclusions: Religiosity is a vague phenomenon, and further investigation is needed to detect when healthy enthusiastic religiosity turns into religious addiction. Orv. Hetil., 2015, 156(18), 731–740.

Psychological Resilience Provides No Independent Protection From Suicidal Risk

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danica W. Y. Liu ◽  
A. Kate Fairweather-Schmidt ◽  
Richard Burns ◽  
Rachel M. Roberts ◽  
Kaarin J. Anstey
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Project ◽  
Resilience Factors ◽  
First Time

Abstract. Background: Little is known about the role of resilience in the likelihood of suicidal ideation (SI) over time. Aims: We examined the association between resilience and SI in a young-adult cohort over 4 years. Our objectives were to determine whether resilience was associated with SI at follow-up or, conversely, whether SI was associated with lowered resilience at follow-up. Method: Participants were selected from the Personality and Total Health (PATH) Through Life Project from Canberra and Queanbeyan, Australia, aged 28–32 years at the first time point and 32–36 at the second. Multinomial, linear, and binary regression analyses explored the association between resilience and SI over two time points. Models were adjusted for suicidality risk factors. Results: While unadjusted analyses identified associations between resilience and SI, these effects were fully explained by the inclusion of other suicidality risk factors. Conclusion: Despite strong cross-sectional associations, resilience and SI appear to be unrelated in a longitudinal context, once risk/resilience factors are controlled for. As independent indicators of psychological well-being, suicidality and resilience are essential if current status is to be captured. However, the addition of other factors (e.g., support, mastery) makes this association tenuous. Consequently, resilience per se may not be protective of SI.

Relationship Between Spiritual Well-Being and the Perception of Life Events in First Nations

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob A. Burack ◽  
Gillian H. Klassen ◽  
Adrienne Blacklock ◽  
Johanna Querengesser ◽  
Alexandra D'Arrisso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Well Being

Cortisol stress reactivity and spiritual well-being after traumatic brain injury

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Hubbarth ◽  
Lisa J. Rapport ◽  
Brigid Waldron-Perrine ◽  
Sarah-Jane Meachen
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Stress Reactivity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spiritual Well Being
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