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Starting with the key recommendations from the literature regarding the psychological intervention for people with cancer, the aim of this paper is to present the trajectory of psychological interventions during the medical treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy) and a patient's situation with breast cancer one year after the completion of oncological treatment. I.S. patient is aged 41 and has a diagnosis of invasive ductal carcinoma in her right breast, stage 2 B. The used tools in assessing the emotional/affective, cognitive and behavioral dimensions, the personality, interpersonal relationships and coping mechanisms have been the Emotion Thermometers Tool, BDI scale, ABSs scale, SCID II, SRGS scale, the semi-structured clinical interview, and the COPE Questionnaire. The main diagnosis is of mild depressive disorder, a unique episode having elements of anxiety without bringing together the criteria for a clinical diagnosis. The emotional condition monitoring has been performed in all stages of the cancer treatment. The psychological intervention has been held during 19 sessions and it has been a supportive and cognitive behavioral one. One year after the accomplishment of cancer treatment, but also of psychological intervention, the patient registered a score of 28 on the SRGS scale, which signifies posttraumatic growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, the Internet has become a very important and easily accessible health resource. More than that, at a global level, young adults use the Internet most often to search information about health. The aim of this paper was to study the extent to which the level of eHealth Literacy and internal health locus of control moderate the relationship between internet health information seeking and emotional and behavioral consequences among university students. Online health information seeking was associated both with increased emotional distress and engaging in activities that promote health. Moreover, eHealth Literacy was demonstrated as a protective factor against emotional distress associated with online health information seeking. This protective effect was observed particularly when the students had lower levels of internal health locus of control. This is the first study that demonstrates the protective effect of eHealth literacy in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Throughout our lives, as children or adults, each event we encounter is a mixture of positive and negative aspects. Depending on our perspective, various characteristics of objects or situations become salient. The tendency to attend, use and learn more from negative features of stimuli (i.e., negativity bias) can constitute a risk factor for emotional disorders, especially mood and anxiety. The evolutionary perspective is that weighting negative information more heavily than the positive has served as an adaptive mechanism throughout evolution. Nowadays, giving far more importance to negative features of stimuli than to positive, manifesting a high sensitivity to threat and using biased interpretations of the world can seriously alter optimal functioning of individuals. Given the existing theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms through which cognitive biases influence vulnerability to emotional disorders and the empirical data regarding their assessment and modification,we highlight the need to investigate such cognitive mechanisms in regard to emotionally relevant novel stimuli that parallel an ecological environment. We conclude our paper by discussing the practical implications and future directions that such research may provide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last five decades, the number of social-economical-political changes has significantly increased worldwide. These drastic changes challenge the individual's abilities to adapt and lead a congruous life. Consequently, in the newly formed life-conditions, the issue of a well-lived life becomes imperative. The major aim of the present paper was to investigate the specificities of subjective and psychological well-being in a sample of healthy Transylvanian Hungarian adults, depending on age, gender, and education. Our results indicate a decreasing pattern both within the subjective and the psychological well-being (except self-acceptance), with a recovery pattern in subjective well-being after the age of 56 years. We also found gender differences, with female participants attaining significantly higher levels of psychological well-being than male participants. Correlational patterns observed between subjective and psychological well-being and conscious cognitive emotion regulation strategies present specific trends, mostly regarding the use of adaptive emotion regulations strategies. Our results could be extremely useful in the tailoring prevention and intervention programs targeting the development of subjective and psychological well-being in this specific population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Burnout is an extremely debilitating mental health problem that affects not only the quality of life of those who suffer from it, their interpersonal relationships, but also the quality of their work. These aspects are extremely relevant in case of schoolteachers whose aim is to teach and shape the life of children and adolescents. The major objective of the present paper is to investigate the phenomenon of burnout in a sample of Romanian school teachers, identify some of the factors associated with it, thus delineating a portrait of those who suffer from this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to provide an overview of current research investigating the impact of childhood anxiety upon working memory paralleling the mounting evidence documenting this relationship in the adult literature. We review mostly behavioral evidence, but we also consider neurobiological data and theories where available. From a processing efficiency perspective developed by M. W. Eysenk and M. G. Calvo (1992), the documented detrimental effect of childhood anxiety on cognitive performance, in general, and academic performance, in particular, is thought to be mediated by the impact of anxiety-biased processes upon working memory processes, at both the level of storage and manipulation of information. This effect is proven to be present even in emotionally neutral tasks, therefore not only in those that manipulate the emotional arousal and valence of the stimuli. Still, even if we keep the focus on available research at the behavioral level, the data regarding the extent of the working memory transitory impairment in anxious children, as well as its exact target, that is the verbal, visual-spatial or executive component of working memory, remain controversial. We attempt an in-depth task-analysis indicating that outputs of current studies are not directly comparable. We propose further lines of investigation, considering specific developmental aspects; finally, some emergent implications for educational and clinical practice are delineated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Popular neuropsychological models of affect and affective disorders have revived the interest in functional asymmetries of the cortical hemispheres. However, research in this area does not seem to benefit very much from advances that were made in other areas of laterality research. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to bridge some gaps to other areas of laterality research and draw the attention to some issues that may be of importance in laterality research on emotion and psychopathology. Among the discussed issues are the differentiation of different aspects of functional hemisphere asymmetries, the concept of functional and regional modularity, and the importance of interindividual differences in hemispheric specialization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]