Abstract
Adequate coping skills are essential for the maintenance of a person’s emotional well-being. Well being is dependent on the balance and the quality of the prevaling feelings, emotions and moods experienced by the individual. Feelings and emotions, serve to facilitate effective interaction with the environment. The feelings engendered in the mother by the helpless cry of the baby impel her to feed the hungry child. Erotic sensations facilitate the association with members of the opposite sex and ultimately the continuity of the human race. Anger readies the individual to defend his rights, while fear induces him to flee and give up when the fight is likely to be lost.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bakker, C.B., & Bakker-Rabdau, M.K., 1973, No Trespassing!, Chandler & Sharp Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA.
Bakker, C.B., Bakker-Rabdau, M.K. & Verhulst, J., 1980, Learning to Cope: Content and Context of an Educational Program. In Behavioral Group Therapy, Eds. D. Upper & S.M. Ross, Research Press Company, Champaign, IL.
Erikson, E., 1950, Childhood and Society, L.W. Norton & Company, Inc., p 219–234, New York.
Fromm, E., 1941, Escape From Freedom, Rinehart & Company, Inc., N.Y.
McFall, R.M., 1982, A review and reformulation of the concept of social skills. Behavioral Assessment, 4, p 1–33.
Pearlin, L.I., & Schooler, C., 1978, The structure of coping. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 19, p 2–21.
Selye, H., 1976, Stress In Health and Disease, Butterworth, Inc., Boston, MA.
Vaillant, G., & Vaillant, C., 1981, Natural history of male psychological health, X: Work as a predictor of positive mental health. Am. J. Psychiatry, 138 p 1433–1440.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1985 Plenum Press, New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Bakker, C.B., Bakker-Rabdau, M.K. (1985). An Educational Approach to Psychiatric Problems. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Psychiatry the State of the Art. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4697-5_20
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4697-5_20
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4684-4699-9
Online ISBN: 978-1-4684-4697-5
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive