Transition: Understanding and Managing Personal Change

Abstract

The review of stress, and more specifically the discussion of life events on pp. 297–300, has already indicated that the individual’s experience can affect both his health and his psychological well-being. There can be little doubt, for instance, that life experiences (even pleasant events) do increase the risk of a broad range of physical and psychological disorders. In some cases, life events have a direct causal effect in producing a problem (e.g. experiences involving loss increase the risk of depression) whilst in others they maintain or exacerbate an existing condition (as in the effects of emotional involvement in the family on relapse in schizophrenia). Life events are, however, inevitable and affect most individuals. If this is accepted, what can be done to facilitate the task of coping with life’s problems, and also deriving some benefit from the process?

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