Adolescent Resilience Model (ARM) Project This multi-site, longitudinal study has developed over 10 years of cumulative qualitative and quantitative research by Dr. Joan Haase, School of Nursing, and has culminated in an empirically based model of resilience and quality of life in adolescents with cancer (AWC). The AWC completed questionnaires corresponding to factors in the ARM. Resilience is the process of identifying or developing resources and strengths to flexibly manage stressors to gain a positive outcome-- a sense of confidence, self-transcendence, and self-esteem. Factors hypothesized to influence resilience are courageous coping (confrontive, optimistic, and supportant), derived meaning (hope and spiritual perspective), defensive coping (emotive, fatalistic, and evasive) and illness–related risk (symptom distress and uncertainty). Research continues to refine the model and develop interventions consistent with the model that are helpful with AWC. Issues related to family and social protective factors have been and are continuing to be explored.
Principal Investigators: Joan Haase (Nursing) / James Daley/ Carol Decker (Ph.D. student)
Project Dates: 1990 - Present (Dr. Haase and colleagues)
2002 - Present (Haase, Daley & Decker)
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