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Lis Dreijer Hammond
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Searching funds to set up a project with the aim of testing the IMACC model clinically in a refugee population.
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Introduction
I am a Counselling Psychologist with a special interest in psychosocial adjustment to living with chronic or long-term conditions. Having worked clinically in brain injury and pain management gives me an applied focus in the research I am doing. I have developed an innovative process model of adjustment to chronic conditions (IMACC), which is directly applicable in clinical practice.
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Purpose
Literature regarding the WHO’s International Classification of Function, Disability and Health (ICF) has called for research into psychosocial adjustment processes. This project aims to establish the relevance of the Integrative Model of Adjustment to Chronic Conditions (IMACC) as a framework for research and a clinical tool in rehabilitati...
Long-term pain is a common comorbidity for people with acquired brain injury. This chapter explores what it is like to live with those two conditions, focusing on the meaning for the individual. The meaning of pain plays a part in determining people’s emotional reactions and behavioral choices, and it is central for the process of psychosocial adju...
Long-term pain is a common comorbidity for people with acquired brain injury. This chapter explores what it is like to live with those two conditions, focusing on the meaning for the individual. The meaning of pain plays a part in determining people’s emotional reactions and behavioural choices, and it is central for the process of psychosocial adj...
The Integrative Model of Adjustment to Chronic Conditions (IMACC) is an innovative model offering a theoretical understanding of the biopsychosocial adjustment processes happening when people acquire one or more long-term conditions and/or disabilities. The model, developed through use of Grounded Theory with a priori use of theoretical concepts fr...
The Integrative Model of Adjustment to Chronic Conditions (IMACC) is an innovative model proposing an understanding of the process of psychosocial adjustment. IMACC is developed in a way that makes it directly applicable to clinical practice in rehabilitation settings. This paper presents psychosocial adjustment in general and provides an introduct...
The WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) provides a means of researching and assessing functional issues in people with long-term conditions and disability, however, it does not provide an understanding of the process of change over time, when people adjust to live with their functional challenges. The Inte...
Adapting to life with adult-onset epilepsy is a challenge and there is a need for better interventions to support people, who have difficulty with psychosocial adjustment to the condition. The integrative model of adjustment to chronic conditions was developed for type 2 diabetes. This study aimed to demonstrate the applicability of the model to ad...
This poster reports on a study that aimed to verify the applicability of the IMACC to the area of adult onset epilepsy (AOE). This was done through use of Framework Analysis, mapping data from a study on the experience of living with AOE (Kılınç, van Wersch, Campell, & Guy, 2017) onto the model components of the IMACC.
This paper reported on work done to map key theories and standard interventions in pain management onto the IMACC model.
Psychosocial adjustment to living with a chronic condition was explored in this grounded theory study, focusing on type 2 diabetes. Despite a range of relevant theories, there is limited understanding of the process of adjustment. The study aimed to address this issue. That was achieved through collecting and analysing personal narratives using ind...