abstract：TOPIC:Establishing a standard for preparation for prescriptive authority for advanced practice psychiatric nurses. PURPOSE:To outline a best practice standard for the clinical and prescriptive authority preceptorship. SOURCES:NACNS and NONPF competencies and practice guidelines. CONCLUSIONS:The authors recommend a c...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Hales A,Karshmer JF,Williams J,Mann AS,Robbins LK

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PROBLEM:To understand the experience of recovery from psychosis from the consumer/client perspective. METHODS:A naturalistic, qualitative design with an ethnographic method for data analysis. Subjects (N = 10) were interviewed prior to and during the initial year of treatment with clozapine or risperidone. FINDINGS:P...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Forchuk C,Jewell J,Tweedell D,Steinnagel L

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:Whether nature or nurture is the most appropriate paradigm for mental health nursing practice, education, and research. PURPOSE:To present detailed information that nurture is the most inclusive and sustaining paradigm for mental health nursing. SOURCES:Published literature. CONCLUSIONS:Psychological, social, ...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Raingruber B

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:Theoretical models to guide research into schizophrenia. PURPOSE:To review the most commonly used biological and environmental models of schizophrenia. SOURCES:Published literature and research conducted by the author. CONCLUSIONS:The vulnerability model includes both biological and environmental variables tha...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Beebe LH

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:Complementary and alternative medicine agents (CAMs). PURPOSE:To summarize the current empirical data about the major CAMs purporting to have psychotherapeutic value. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:Extant literature. CONCLUSIONS:Available evidence indicates that CAMs, while generally safe, are not risk free. While CAM...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： McCabe S

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PROBLEM:People with mental illness are twice as likely to smoke than people without a mental illness. METHODS:Data were collected through interviews with individuals who smoke and have been diagnosed with schizophrenia (N = 100). The research design included a descriptive, correlational design that described and exami...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Forchuk C,Norman R,Malla A,Martin ML,McLean T,Cheng S,Diaz K,McIntosh E,Rickwood A,Vos S,Gibney C

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To explore the roles, functions, and work practices of case managers and their perceptions on the implementation of case management in the Community Psychiatric Nursing Services. METHODS:A qualitative descriptive approach was used. Data were collected from daily reports, field observations, reflective diaries,...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Ng DT,Chan SW,MacKenzie A

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:The reexamination of ego function from the perspective of ego strength rather than ego deficit. PURPOSE:To promote the assessment of ego strength as a valuable skill for nurse psychotherapists, and to underscore the importance of ego strength as a relevant construct for both assessment and psychotherapy outcome ...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Bjorklund P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:One common long-term effect of childhood sexual abuse is rage. This phenomenological study deals with such rage as it is expressed through women's sexuality. METHODS:A guided interview method (N = 7). The constant comparative method was used for data analysis. FINDINGS:Results provide information about ways rag...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Painter SG,Howell CC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:Assessing suicide potential and intervening to prevent suicide in partial-hospitalization patients. PURPOSE:To provide information for assessing and intervening with outpatients who express suicidal thoughts and to propose a decision tree. SOURCE:Literature review, clinical experience. CONCLUSIONS:Careful asse...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Freed PE,Rudolph S

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:Psychotherapy with abused women. PURPOSE:To contrast the usefulness of several models of psychotherapy with abused women. SOURCE:Review of the literature and clinical experience of the authors. CONCLUSIONS:Because marital counseling often focuses on the violence as a product of the couple system rather than op...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Hattendorf J,Tollerud TR

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:The essence of the healing phenomenon in women who had been abused METHODS:A qualitative study using a phenomenological approach (N = 7) FINDINGS:Four major themes of healing were identified: flexibility, awakening, relationship, and empowerment. Each theme became an explication of the whole healing experience ...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Farrell ML

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:A client's personal experience of depression presented in her own words. SOURCE:Case study. PURPOSE:To assist nurses to understand, accept, and reassure depressed clients and "offer themselves" in a caring and continuing relationship. CONCLUSION:Understanding depression allows nurses to respond in a way that i...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Jambunathan J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:How Operation Desert Storm, and the positive response of the public to this crisis, seemed to stimulate and heighten unresolved feelings for many Vietnam veterans. PURPOSE:To show that understanding the lived experiences of Vietnam veterans, at time when men and women returning from Operation Desert Storm were w...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Vellenga BA,Christenson J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：TOPIC:How impaired personal boundaries play a significant role in mental illnesses and co-dependency. PURPOSE:To demonstrate the value of having a formal nursing diagnosis of "impaired personal boundaries." SOURCE:A concept analysis of personal boundaries, which describes the physical, emotional, intellectual, and sp...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Hoover D

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author discusses a relatively new syndrome in which toxic hyperserotonergic states can result from the interaction of different classes of antidepressant drugs. He also distinguishes between this "serotonin syndrome" and neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Using case examples, he demonstrates the potential lethality o...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Keltner N,Harris CP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors assert that some of the most regressed, treatment-resistant clients with persistent mental illness will show a favorable response to a group approach called remotivation therapy. The remotivation therapy techniques of the 1950s have been updated by psychiatric nurses and a social work clinician in one VA s...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Murphy MC,Conley J,Hernandez MA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors provide data in this descriptive study to suggest that physical and sexual abuse within the family system frequently expedites youths' decisions to leave home. The role that drugs and alcohol play in runaway youths' lifestyles is also explained. ...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Warren JK,Gary F,Moorhead J

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considering the growing power of third-party payers to control the length and methods of treatment, the authors summarize alternative treatment models of providing care. These models are evaluated within the context of nursing's metaparadigm. Clinical examples are provided to illustrate how focusing on client strength...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Montgomery C,Webster DC

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author claims that involuntary confinement of clients is a problematic and uncomfortable topic for nurses who are involved in such interventions. After reviewing some literature relevant to the topic of seclusion and restraint, she summarizes her findings from a survey regarding staff attitude toward client confin...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Steele RL

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scurvy is not just a disease of the past, but of the present as well. Yet, the possibility of scurvy is often overlooked in assessing a client's mental health status. Prompt recognition and treatment of scurvy can prevent unnecessary diagnostic testing, as well as a delay in treatment. The author presents a case histo...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： DeSantis J

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As Hildegard Peplau has established, the orientation phase of the nurse-client relationship represents the first stage of therapeutic work. The author studied the length of the orientation phase with clients with chronic mental illness. Findings suggested that the orientation phase was related to the number and length...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Forchuk C

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How the treatment planning process is developed and documented in clinical settings is often influenced by various accreditation processes. As healthcare organizations attempt to incorporate written findings and verbal recommendations of surveyors, an incremental approach to the treatment plan often results. The autho...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Nathenson P,Johnson C

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children who have a history of physical and emotional abuse present special problems to nurses who attempt to teach them more effective ways of dealing with anger. Since the adults in abused children's lives have not modeled constructive conflict resolution, the social and cultural learning about aggression in such ch...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Raynor CM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementing research protocols with critically ill psychiatric patients sometimes creates professional dilemmas. It almost always intensifies countertransference issues. Working through the process assisted staff at this hospital to reaffirm their commitment to clinical research. ...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Paternostro JM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of clinical and financial advantages exist when clients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder are placed in an unlocked milieu-oriented treatment unit during hospitalization. The author describes the transition from a locked inpatient unit to an unlocked unit, the effects of this change on staff and ...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Wester JM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication in enhancing cotherapists' therapeutic effectiveness in family/couples work is of vital importance. Drawing on interactional communication theory, the author stresses the symmetrical relationship necessary for a therapeutic cotherapy relationship. Two illustrations demonstrate the potential advantages of...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Crowther D

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The practice of secluding patients after violent incidents has long been a treatment used by mental health nurses. While seclusion keeps the patient from further self-inflicted pain and restores normalcy to the unit, the practice often sets up an unending cycle of negative behavior. Other methods of dealing with the v...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Myers S

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Two thousand years ago, Ovid unfolded a world view of human beliefs and practices that make up today's symptom formation and psychodynamic in victims of sexual abuse. Herewith the mythology of Io. Her rape and subsequent sympt...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Mayr S,Price JL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ego Competency Model of psychiatric nursing provides a framework to guide nurses when developing or revising the nursing care or treatment plan. ...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Kerr NJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent trends in psychiatry, such as shorter hospitalization and the renewed preeminence of biological treatments, are changing the practice of psychiatric nursing. The traditional tension-reduction model of anxiety and defense mechanisms is less suitable for clients in shortterm settings where somatic therapies are o...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Sayre J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overtly psychotic patients can be managed in a flexible psychotherapy group. Specific guidelines for admission to the group coupled with special consideration and techniques by the group therapists contributed to the success of one such group. The patients were part of an unusually accommodating and tolerant group exp...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Brix DJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing a counseling and consultation service to general hospital employees through contractual arrangements is beneficial, and is an appropriate function for nurse therapists. Employees willingly use the service, and as stresses increase in the workplace the service can have a favorable impact on both personnel fun...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： Campbell JE

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A teaching hospital is frequently overwhelmed by the number of people who want to observe a working therapeutic group; therefore the need to provide and enhance this experience for group members and leaders led us to try a new approach. After some initial experimentation, the technique of an observer participating thr...

journal_title：Perspectives in psychiatric care

authors： LaSor B,Phanidis J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00