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  • 9 - Personal Perspectives of Dyslexia and Career Success

  • from Part II
  • Carol Leather, Independent Dyslexia Consultants, John Everatt, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Book:
    Succeeding and Adult Dyslexia
    Published online:
    11 January 2024
    Print publication:
    01 February 2024, pp 267-299

  • Summary

    Chapter 9 explores the impact that dyslexia has had on people in a range of professional settings. As detailed at the start of this book, we asked a number of adults with dyslexia to tell us about their career journeys. Those who responded to our request work in a variety of professions, such as health care, the civil service, management, entertainment, engineering and some are self-employed (entrepreneurs). All have achieved some degree of success in their work. This chapter includes their stories, with as little editing from us as possible to fit the requirements of the book. We told our contributors that the aim of these stories was to gain their perspectives of the impact that dyslexia had on them as individuals as well as on their careers. We asked them to consider what skills supported them in their work-life, and what challenges had influenced their job performance, as well as how they may have overcome these challenges. We also asked them to talk about whether they felt that their current job was right for them. The variety of perspectives are consistent with many of the points made in previous chapters, including self-understanding, positive attitudes and goodness of fit.

  • Psychological Distress Among Nurses Caring for Victims of War in Sri Lanka

  • Wasantha Jayawardene, Ahmed YoussefAgha, Scott LaJoie, Mohammad Torabi
  • Journal:
    Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness / Volume 7 / Issue 3 / June 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 August 2013, pp. 278-286
  • Objective

    To determine prevalence and factors associated with psychological distress among nurses caring for war victims in Sri Lanka.

    Methods

    Descriptive, cross-sectional study design was used to collect data from 241 nurses from 2 hospitals with stratified random sampling according to workstation. Self-administered 30-item General Health Questionnaire was used to detect psychological distress.

    Results

    The prevalence of psychological distress was 21%. Female sex was found to be the most significant predictor of psychological distress among nurses. Factors, such as being married, having children, or both, were found to be protective. High exposure to war victims, measured by the frequency with which a nurse tended to those patients, also resulted in less psychological distress.

    Conclusions

    The prevalence of psychological distress is higheramong nurses in this study compared with that among the general population. Brief screening instruments, such as the General Health Questionnaire, can be used to identify individuals at risk for psychological distress. Results suggest that the presence of a social support network helped to psychologically buffer these nurses. Findings also imply the importance of promoting positive attitudes and beneficial stress (eustress) to complement a well-developed focus on distress prevention. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2013;7:278-286)