L Valach
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1.
Valach L, Young R, Lynam M
J Health Psychol
. 2011 Oct;
1(1):49-63.
PMID: 22011520
The concept of the family health-promotion project is introduced as a means of describing and analysing health-promoting processes in a family. We suggest that an action-theoretical conceptualization provides a language...
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Valach L, Steck G, Roschli C, Selz B
Int J Rehabil Res
. 2002 May;
25(2):133-6.
PMID: 12021599
This study presents results of inpatient rehabilitation (as monitored by Functional Independence Measure (FIM)) of patients with vascular brain damage (n = 78), post surgery patients (n = 62) and...
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Young R, Lynam M, Valach L, Novak H, Brierton I, Christopher A
Qual Health Res
. 2001 Jan;
11(1):40-57.
PMID: 11147162
Based on an action theory approach, 32 videotaped parent-adolescent conversations about health in two Canadian ethno-cultural groups were analyzed to identify and describe the joint action of parents and adolescents...
4.
Michel K, Frey C, Wyss K, Valach L
Crisis
. 2000 Oct;
21(2):71-9.
PMID: 11019482
This study was conducted to support the publication of guidelines for media reporting on suicide. First, quantitative and qualitative aspects of suicide reporting in Swiss print media were surveyed over...
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Young R, Antal S, Bassett M, Post A, Devries N, Valach L
J Adolesc
. 1999 Sep;
22(4):527-38.
PMID: 10469516
Ten career conversations between adolescent peers were video-taped to examine the joint actions of adolescents that emerge in actual conversations about career. Based on an action-theoretical approach, joint action refers...
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Schnyder U, Valach L, Morgeli H, Heim E
Int J Psychiatry Med
. 1999 Jun;
29(1):75-90.
PMID: 10376234
Objective: The goal of this study was to analyze how far patient-disease characteristics (sociodemographic variables, previous psychiatric treatment, way of referral, the patient's current diagnosis), and the patient's coping strategies...
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Schnyder U, Valach L, BICHSEL K, Michel K
Gen Hosp Psychiatry
. 1999 Mar;
21(1):62-9.
PMID: 10068922
This explorative study compared the patients', doctors', and nurses' views regarding their attribution of reasons for attempting suicide and the patients' emotional state immediately preceding their suicide attempts. A sample...
8.
Heim E, Valach L, Schaffner L
Psychosom Med
. 1997 Jul;
59(4):408-18.
PMID: 9251161
Objectives: This study examined the relationship between coping and psychosocial adaptation in cancer patients over time and across distinct clinical events. Methods: In a prospective longitudinal study 74 patients with...
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Frey C, Valach L
Praxis (Bern 1994)
. 1997 May;
86(21):899-905.
PMID: 9244976
Torture is a means of repression in non democratic societies. Although banned, it is widely practised. About 30% of the refugees recognized 1987 in Switzerland were tortured. Torture and war...
10.
Schnyder U, Valach L
Gen Hosp Psychiatry
. 1997 Mar;
19(2):119-29.
PMID: 9097066
Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of psychiatric emergencies when the precipitating event for the emergency room visit was a suicide attempt, compared with other...