{"id":3013,"date":"2015-05-26T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T07:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2015-05-26T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T07:06:59","slug":"taking-care-of-the-quarantined-people-in-sars%ef%bc%9a-a-perspective-of-stress-coping-from-the-attachment-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=3013","title":{"rendered":"Taking Care of the Quarantined People in SARS\uff1a A Perspective of Stress Coping from the Attachment Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chia-Huei Wu<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Psychology\u00a0National Taiwan University
\nYi-Cheng Lin<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Psychology\u00a0National Taiwan University<\/p>\n

The SARS storm has thrown Asian countries into great turbulences. Hundreds of thousands of people were quarantined during the time. It wouldn\u2019t be surprising to learn that these quarantined people would be under tremendous pressure for uncertainties of falling ill, isolations from one\u2019s social network, and discriminations inflicted by others. What sort of help could and should be provided to them under this kind of crises, which are possible to happen again in the near future? Although many advices were indeed suggested to these people as well as to the general public, most of them were based on medical considerations, few focused on psychological adjustment, and none took the possible individual differences into account. This is unbelievable to us because it has long been a known fact in psychology that it is just not possible to find one single solution, which is equally effectively to all people. Individual differences in psychological needs have to be taken into account. Since social support has been recognized as one of the most important key to coping, the authors argue in this article that the attachment theory provides a useful perspective to the understanding of differential needs for effective social support. That is, people with different attachment styles have their unique expectations and needs for optimal social support. Thus, a progressive provision of social support is suggested to satisfy these differential needs. We believe that similar crises will definitely reoccur in the future and psychologists need to play a more active role in providing the needed help to the needy.<\/p>\n

Keywords: attachment theory, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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