Support

Social Support: Social Support means having emotional support from people that you know, such as family, close friends and your birthing partner. They can support you using approval, praise, and physical/psychological comfort. For example, if the client has antenatal depression, social support from the healthcare professionals would include being referred to counselling, generally being there to talk to and listen to and give advice, and reassure them. Social support in general is important as health

approach to the study of social support views it as an interactive process involving support-seeking behavior, the giving of support, and a response to support by the receiver (Barbee, 1990; Burleson et al., 1994; House, 1981). Support-giving communication includes "any behaviors with altruistic intent directed toward another individual" (Dunkel-Schetter, Blasband, Feinstein, & Herbert, 1992, p. 90), such as providing advice or comfort. Those who receive effective social support may experience benefits such

there is support and understanding, yet things can turn sour. Family members themselves can become part of the problem instead of being a support system. Some of the reasoning behind this is because often times family members get caught up in the excitement of it all and get stressed themselves instead of remaining calm and being the strong structured person that one in a crisis needs. The crisis’ may vary from time to time so the levels of support will also need to differ. As a support system, family

social support approaches from which to draw from, for the purpose of this paper, I will adopt and briefly introduce the “three social support perspectives on social support research” outlined by Lakey and Cohen (Cohen, Underwood & Gottlieb, 2000, p. 29). The three perspectives on social support are the (a) stress and coping perspective, (b) the social constructionist perspective and (b) the relationship perspective (Lakey & Cohen, 2000). The first perspective suggests that social support acts as

INTRODUCTION Support groups bring together people facing similar issues, whether that's illness, relationship problems or major life changes. Members of support groups often share experiences and advice. It can be helpful just getting to talk with other people who are in the same boat. While not everyone wants or needs support beyond that offered by family and friends, you may find it helpful to turn to others outside your immediate circle. A support group can help you cope better and feel less

Form of support is one of the important aspects in every organization. People in support team have responsible for helping, distributing, and maintaining the condition of computer and customer or user satisfaction including hardware, software, and multimedia resources. By helping students, and staff in the faculty about the correct way to use the technology, they also gives a one-to-one contact for end-user support. Support team provide offers for a wide range of services including help desk, call

Benefits of Fibromyalgia Support Groups Excuse us mainstream medicine for borrowing your phrase – benefits outweigh the risks. But, dealing with fibromyalgia is a lonely business and members of fibromyalgia support groups agree, the mental and emotional benefits outweigh the risks. You need a safe place where you can vent and find companionship and compassion. You need the comfort that comes when someone is listening. You need to know you aren’t in this alone. What are the Benefits and Risks of

IT Help Desk Support By: John Eirich IT Help Desk Support Where would the world be without computers? In the world today you can’t seem to go anywhere without running into a cell phone or pc, but who is the one who handles all the issues when it comes to dealing with their problems? If you work in a office setting and you’re having computer issues chances are you rely on some form of help desk support. Whether it be a Network Administrator, Server Administrator, or just the ole fashion IT Help Desk

Addiction can be one of the hardest things to overcome in an individual’s life. Having to go through the process alone can be extremely difficult, not to mention the withdraws that come from fighting an addiction. However, there are many support groups and different associations a person can join to help them fight of their addiction. Even so, addiction is still extremely hard to fight off. So what can an addict do when they have done everything to fight off their addiction, but they are still addicted

are receiving full payment, 28% partial payment, and 25% of no payment out of about million custodial parents with child support. The three most popular reasons for legally not paying child support include child(ren) were too old, a noncustodial parent had died, or that the family lived together for part of the previous year. Custodial parents that paid the full child support, 62% had at least a bachelor’s degree, 58% were at least 40 years of age 56% were divorced, and 35% fall below the poverty