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| Kenneth I PakenhamSummaryAffiliation: University of Queensland Country: Australia Publications
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The role of illness, resources, appraisal, and coping strategies in adjustment to HIV/AIDS: the direct and buffering effectsK I Pakenham
Behaviour Research and Therapy Centre, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
J Behav Med 24:259-79. 2001..There was limited support for the stress-buffering effects of optimism. Findings support the utility of a stress and coping model of adjustment to HIV/AIDS...
Test of a model of the effects of parental illness on youth and family functioningKenneth I Pakenham
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD, Australia
Health Psychol 31:580-90. 2012..This study tested a conceptual model of the effects of PI on youth and family functioning derived from the Family Ecology Framework (FEF; Pedersen & Revenson, 2005)...- Caregiving tasks in caring for an adult with mental illness and associations with adjustment outcomesKenneth I Pakenham
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
Int J Behav Med 19:186-98. 2012..This caregiving is of immense social and economic value, but often at a high cost to carers. Investigation of the specific caregiving tasks these carers undertake and how these may affect their adjustment has been neglected... - The nature of caregiving in children of a parent with multiple sclerosis from multiple sources and the associations between caregiving activities and youth adjustment overtimeKenneth I Pakenham
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Psychol Health 27:324-46. 2012..Findings delineate the key dimensions of young caregiving in MS and the differential links between caregiving activities and youth adjustment... - Parenting difficulties and resources: the perspectives of parents with multiple sclerosis and their partnersKenneth I Pakenham
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
Rehabil Psychol 57:52-60. 2012..The purpose of this exploratory study was to provide descriptive data on the difficulties and resources associated with parenting with MS... 
Evaluating the effectiveness of psychosocial resilience training for heart health, and the added value of promoting physical activity: a cluster randomized trial of the READY programNicola W Burton
The University of Queensland School of Human Movement Studies, Brisbane, Australia
BMC Public Health 9:427. 2009..This paper describes the design and measures of a study to evaluate a resilience training program (READY) to promote psychosocial well-being for heart health, and the added value of integrating physical activity promotion...- Relations between acceptance of multiple sclerosis and positive and negative adjustmentsKenneth Ian Pakenham
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Psychol Health 26:1292-309. 2011..This is the first study to examine the role of acceptance (as defined in ACT) in adjusting to MS over time and as such provides a first step for further investigation of acceptance in MS... - Making sense of caregiving for persons with multiple sclerosis (MS): the dimensional structure of sense making and relations with positive and negative adjustmentKenneth I Pakenham
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Int J Behav Med 15:241-52. 2008..Sense making is a meaning-making process that refers to the development of explanations for adversity. Despite a growing interest in this construct within the chronic illness literature, it has been neglected in research on carers... - Making sense of illness or disability: the nature of sense making in multiple sclerosis (MS)Kenneth I Pakenham
University of Queensland, Australia
J Health Psychol 13:93-105. 2008..Sense making was related to lower disability and disease severity and evidenced beneficial direct effects on positive adjustment outcomes and depression after controlling for illness and religious-spiritual belief... - The nature of benefit finding in multiple sclerosis (MS)Kenneth I Pakenham
Behaviour Research and Therapy Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia
Psychol Health Med 12:190-6. 2007.... - Benefit finding in multiple sclerosis and associations with positive and negative outcomesKenneth I Pakenham
Behaviour Research and Therapy Centre, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD, Australia
Health Psychol 24:123-32. 2005..Benefit finding did not have a direct effect on distress or subjective health but had a weak association with negative affect. Family Relations Growth had a stress-buffering effect on distress... - Relations between social support, appraisal and coping and both positive and negative outcomes in young carersKenneth I Pakenham
University of Queensland, Australia
J Health Psychol 12:89-102. 2007..The stress/coping framework and findings have the potential to inform interventions designed to promote well-being in young carers... - The efficacy of a psychosocial intervention for HIV/AIDS caregiving dyads and individual caregivers: a controlled treatment outcome studyK I Pakenham
University of Queensland, Australia
AIDS Care 14:731-50. 2002.... - Adjustment in mothers of children with Asperger syndrome: an application of the double ABCX model of family adjustmentKenneth I Pakenham
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Autism 9:191-212. 2005..Findings indicate the utility of the double ABCX model in guiding research into parental adjustment when caring for a child with Asperger syndrome. Limitations of the study and clinical implications are discussed... - Relationships between quality of life and finding benefits in a diagnosis of colorectal cancerMachelle Rinaldis
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Br J Psychol 101:259-75. 2010..These findings have implications for theory building and the measurement of benefit-finding... - Development of the benefit finding in multiple sclerosis (MS) caregiving scale: a longitudinal study of relations between benefit finding and adjustmentKenneth I Pakenham
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Br J Health Psychol 13:583-602. 2008..Benefit finding (BF) is a meaning-making construct that has been shown to predict carer and care recipient adjustment... - Development, confirmation, and validation of a measure of coping with colorectal cancer: a longitudinal investigationMachelle Rinaldis
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Psychooncology 18:624-33. 2009..This longitudinal study developed and confirmed the factor structure of the 32-item Coping with Colorectal Cancer (CCRC) measure. Reliability and validity of the measure were also assessed... - The positive impact of multiple sclerosis (MS) on carers: associations between carer benefit finding and positive and negative adjustment domainsKenneth I Pakenham
Behaviour Research and Therapy Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Disabil Rehabil 27:985-97. 2005.... - A stress and coping model of adjustment to caring for an adult with mental illnessChristina Mackay
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Community Ment Health J 48:450-62. 2012..Findings support the utility of stress and coping theory in identifying risk and protective factors associated with adaptation to caring for an adult with mental illness... - Associations between benefit finding and adjustment outcomes in thyroid cancerRachel V Costa
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Psychooncology 21:737-44. 2012..Partner ratings of patient's BF and health behaviour changes were examined as sources of external validity for these constructs... - Application of a stress and coping model to positive and negative adjustment outcomes in colorectal cancer caregivingAmber Fitzell
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Psychooncology 19:1171-8. 2010..Stress appraisal emerged as the strongest and most consistent predictor of all adjustment outcomes. Findings support the utility of the stress and coping model of adjustment to caregiving in colorectal cancer... - The dimensional structure of benefit finding in multiple sclerosis and relations with positive and negative adjustment: A longitudinal studyKenneth I Pakenham
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Psychol Health 24:373-93. 2009..Findings delineate the dimensional structure of benefit finding in MS, the differential links between benefit finding dimensions and adjustment and the temporal unfolding of benefit finding in chronic illness... - Relations between social support, appraisal and coping and both positive and negative outcomes for children of a parent with multiple sclerosis and comparisons with children of healthy parentsKenneth I Pakenham
Behaviour Research and Therapy Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia
Clin Rehabil 20:709-23. 2006..To examine adjustment in children of a parent with multiple sclerosis within a stress and coping framework and compare them with those who have 'healthy' parents... - Finding meaning in parenting a child with Asperger syndrome: correlates of sense making and benefit findingKenneth I Pakenham
Behaviour Research and Therapy Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Res Dev Disabil 25:245-64. 2004..The meaning variables were positively related to adaptive coping processes: social support, self-efficacy, and problem-focused and emotional approach coping strategies... - Evaluation of a resilience-based intervention for children of parents with mental illnessEliza Fraser
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Aust N Z J Psychiatry 42:1041-50. 2008..The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a group psychosocial intervention for children (aged 12-18) of a parent with mental illness (copmi)... - Application of a stress and coping model to antenatal depressive symptomatologyKenneth I Pakenham
Behavior Research and Therapy Centre, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia K
Psychol Health Med 12:266-77. 2007..Findings provide preliminary support for the use of a stress/coping model to guide future research into psychosocial predictors of antenatal depression... - A structural model of the relationships among stress, coping, benefit-finding and quality of life in persons diagnosed with colorectal cancerMachelle Rinaldis
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Psychol Health 27:159-77. 2012..1997). Positive psychological states and coping with severe stress. Social Science and Medicine, 45, 1207–1221]. Theoretical and clinical implications are discussed... - The nature of sense making in caregiving for persons with multiple sclerosisKenneth I Pakenham
Behaviour Research and Therapy Centre, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia
Disabil Rehabil 30:1263-73. 2008..This study investigated the nature of sense making in multiple sclerosis (MS) carers and relations between it and care recipient illness, caregiving context, carer religious-spiritual beliefs and carer and care recipient adjustment... - A randomised controlled trial of a tele-based lifestyle intervention for colorectal cancer survivors ('CanChange'): study protocolAnna L Hawkes
Viertel Centre for Research in Cancer Control, Cancer Council Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
BMC Cancer 9:286. 2009..This paper presents the study protocol for a novel telephone-delivered intervention to improve lifestyle factors and health outcomes for colorectal cancer survivors... - Health-related quality of life in chronic fatigue syndrome: predictors of physical functioning and psychological distressTimothy J Lowry
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Psychol Health Med 13:222-38. 2008..Results identify a potent set of predictors of HRQoL and show that CFS has a pervasive negative impact on quality of life, particularly physical and psychological functioning... - Are psychologists willing and able to promote physical activity as part of psychological treatment?Nicola W Burton
The University of Queensland School of Human Movement Studies, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
Int J Behav Med 17:287-97. 2010..Physical activity can provide psychological benefits, but there is little research on psychologists' promoting activity as part of psychological treatment... - Identification of stress and coping risk and protective factors associated with changes in adjustment to caring for an adult with mental illnessChristina Mackay
The University of Queensland, Australia
J Clin Psychol 67:1064-79. 2011..Findings support the application of stress/coping theory to guide identification of modifiable risk and protective factors associated with caregiver adjustment... - Youth adjustment to parental illness or disability: the role of illness characteristics, caregiving, and attachmentMichael J Ireland
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Psychol Health Med 15:632-45. 2010..Findings highlight young caregiving as an important target for service and policy planning... - Coping and health-related quality of life in men with prostate cancer randomly assigned to hormonal medication or close monitoringHeather J Green
School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Psychooncology 11:401-14. 2002..HRQoL in men with prostate cancer was associated more strongly with appraisal and coping than with medical variables... - Self-reported information on the diagnosis of colorectal cancer was reliable but not necessarily validBrigid M Lynch
Viertel Centre for Research in Cancer Control, The Cancer Council Queensland, PO Box 201, Spring Hill 4006, Brisbane, Australia
J Clin Epidemiol 61:498-504. 2008..We examined the test-retest reliability and validity of colorectal cancer patients reporting on the process of their diagnosis...