It is the persistent historical acceptance of white racist ideology intersecting with the founding documents of this country that perpetuate and reproduce the terror and fear of being Black, Jewish, Mexican, and "other" in America.
This paper reports the first in a series of studies exploring ways to enhance care for patients with persistent pain using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
The greatest and most persistent obstacle to acceptance is the news media's reluctance to expand its vocabulary of praise to include this new generation of African-American quarterbacks.
PERSPECTIVE: In a sample of obese patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain, pain acceptance was a significant predictor of psychological distress and pain disability even after controlling for optimism, demographic, and medical variables.
These results add to the growing literature on the importance of pain acceptance in understanding adjustment to persistent pain.
In the book The Philosophy of The X-Files, he notes that the final scene "undermines Mulder's seemingly persistent scorn of traditional" religion and his subtle acceptance of theism.
This study conducted in obese patients with persistent musculoskeletal pain (N = 89) examined the degree to which pain acceptance and hope explained pain intensity, pain unpleasantness, psychological distress, and pain-related disability, after controlling for the effects of optimism.
This manuscript describes the rationale and methods for a protocol to pilot test the feasibility and effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), an evidence-based psychological treatment for persistent pain, delivered by a Behavioral Health Consultant in primary care.
On this occasion the R&R2 MHP participants showed persistent significant improvement on the MVQ Total score (see Figure 2) Machismo and Acceptance of Violence subscales.
UNLABELLED: There is growing interest in the role that positive aspects of psychological adjustment, such as pain acceptance, hope, and optimism, may play in explaining adjustment in persons suffering from persistent pain.
