Bøger af Karen Pallesgaard Munk

Den amerikanske psykolog Richard S. Lazarus indtager med copingteorien en central plads i stress-forskningen. I denne bog viser Karen Pallesgaard Munk, hvordan Lazaus' teori kan udnyttes i en systematisk kortlægning og sammenligning af individers eller gruppers måde at opleve og håndtere stress. Metoden kaldes kvalitativ mikroanalyse.Mikroanalysen repræsenterer en ny type kvalitativ metode, idet den opsætter en psykologisk-teoretisk ramme for udforskning af belastninger og stress og anvender emotionsanalyse af de udforskede cases.Bogen stiller analyseredskaber til rådighed for alle, der er professionelt interesseret i udforskningen af copingprocesser. Den kan anvendes som manual i forbindelse med større forskningsprojekter, men også af psykologi- og medicinstuderende samt bachelorstuderende inden for sundhedsområdet, som skal udføre mindre undersøgelser af stress og trivsel.

Old men – especially those who live alone – remain an understudied group in the gerontological literature, despite their significance to the demographic development. Among the elderly, the proportion of old men living alone is rapidly rising. This book is an anthology of different perspectives on The Old Man. It contains a personal account of becoming an old man, treats ideas about the old man throughout Western cultural history, and presents the first studies on the very old man. It also discusses a wide variety of topics – including alcohol as a prism for male aging; the old man and sexuality, digitization, and masculinities; and the single old man as lonely or just living alone – paying much-needed attention to this long overlooked group.The contributing researchers come from disciplines as different as psychology, philosophy, theology, anthropology, health, and gender studies.

The concept of ‘coping’ is fundamental in stress research, as an overall designation for everything people do to deal with stressful situations. In this book Karen Pallesgaard Munk further develops the theory of coping, using the American psychologist Richard S. Lazarus’ analysis of emotions to research how individuals and groups experience stress.This new method, which Karen Pallesgaard Munk calls Qualitative Micro Analysis, begins with interviews that focus on both practical and emotional aspects of the life situation of the informant. Against this background, a systematic mapping of the informant’s coping strategies and related narratives is made as a basis for change.In this book, instructions are given for how to conduct a coping interview, analyse the results and then communicate the data. The guidelines are applicable to both large research projects and smaller investigations on stress and well-being, for example by students of health.