Showing papers in "Archives of Psychiatric Nursing in 2010"

TL;DR: No change in depression or anxiety for 25 children who came from ethnically diverse backgrounds are reported, and there is scant research addressing mindfulness in children.

TL;DR: The scope for seclusion reduction in English acute psychiatry may be small, and some substitution of seclusion with time-out may be possible, but a rigorous trial is required to establish this.

TL;DR: Patients' embodied, dialectical, and often paradoxical experiences of fear and affirmation, alienation and connection, and abandonment and healing are described, suggesting that the inpatient psychiatric milieu remains an important but often neglected component of psychiatric treatment.

TL;DR: The memory training group made greater gains on global cognition and had fewer memory complaints, but both groups generally maintained their performance on the other cognitive measures and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) throughout the 24-month study period.

TL;DR: It is concluded that an analysis through a bioethics lens demonstrates that the use of restraints as a tool in psychiatric settings is a complex and multifaceted problem.

TL;DR: A significant finding was that, for girls, lower emotion regulation predicted later relational aggression (beta = -2.95, P < .05).

TL;DR: The literature on Asperger's disorder is reviewed, leading to a comprehensive, evidence-based transition assessment guide framed by A. Maslow's (1972) hierarchy of needs.

TL;DR: It is concluded that visual narratives can reveal and foster agency in clients and function as an alternative to common acceptance strategies, such as facing one's losses and reconciliation.

TL;DR: Nursing interventions need to include care assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation for clients treated with antipsychotic medicines in terms of risk minimization strategies in routine nursing care, particularly in clients with a chronic psychiatric disorder, particularly schizophrenia.

TL;DR: There is evidence that the perception of coercion can be mitigated by procedural justice that is demonstrated by fairness, patient inclusion in the process, and benevolence on the part of authority figures.

TL;DR: This qualitative focused ethnography explored the perceptions and actions of community mental health nurses in building a therapeutic alliance in the context of brief therapy and the factors that facilitate or impede its development.

TL;DR: Group music activity significantly reduced the scores in total and subscales of the BPRS in patients with acute schizophrenia in patients from an acute psychiatric ward of a regional hospital in south Taiwan.

TL;DR: The WALC intervention was feasible and acceptable to participants; approximately two-thirds of all groups were attended and nearly half of participants attended at least 75% of groups.

TL;DR: It is suggested that aggression is an important issue for staff working in child and adolescent settings and that aggression may impair the therapeutic capacity of staff.

TL;DR: The purpose of this systematic literature review was to determine the relationship between the diagnosis of diabetes and depression and missed appointments in a low-income, uninsured, racially heterogeneous, adult population.

TL;DR: Anger, anger expression, and suicidal Ideation exhibited significant differences according to school level and gender, suggesting that school-based programs which alleviate anger may be needed to decrease suicidal ideation among Korean adolescents.

TL;DR: The extent to which registered and practical mental health nurses support, and the support in the units on parental responsibility in adult psychiatry, with regard to clients who are parents of dependent children and the predictors for this are described.

TL;DR: From mental health providers' perspectives, strengths and challenges in Asian American (AA) family management of mental illness in a member are described.

TL;DR: The anger management program was effective to promote anger expression and anger management for family members of patients with alcohol use disorders and subjects in the experimental group reported that they felt more comfortable and their life was changed in a better way.

TL;DR: In this article, a descriptive correlation study described demographic characteristics, depressive and anxiety symptom levels, and prevalence of hazardous drinking, rewards, and subjective burden and explicated predictors of subjective burdens and mental health status for a convenience sample of 73 family caregivers of persons with chronic liver disease.

TL;DR: Empirical evidence is presented of how individual mental health nurse prescribers develop competence in prescribing within the context of the therapeutic relationship and it is proposed that these findings can be extended to inform medicines management training relevant to all mental health nurses, whether prescriber or not.

TL;DR: Results from a qualitative descriptive study that explored how a diverse ethnic group of postsecondary students diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) conceptualized their condition and how this conceptualization shaped their efforts to seek help have implications for nurses when providing culturally appropriate care to individuals with ADHD in their practice settings.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the developed CBT program might be effective for improving the resilience of adolescents with alcohol-dependent parents.

TL;DR: Within contemporary inpatient mental health nursing practice, the psychodynamic model of care considered previously to be central to the nurse-patient relationship now seems a radical concept, and appears to exist only within primary care facilities and public health care practice settings.

TL;DR: The findings portray mental health nursing as a psychosocial enterprise, encompassing both phenomenological and diagnosis-related elements.

TL;DR: Improvement of the interaction between forensic mental health nurses and patients may lead to a reduction of inpatient violence and detached concern may be a meaningful concept in forensicmental health nursing in measuring nurses' concern for their patients.

TL;DR: Social and structural barriers to managing medical health conditions while living with COD were identified in three realms: (a) in having interpersonal relationships with health care providers, (b) in negotiating an arduous health care "system," and (c) in trying to manage health conditions While living in unstable shelter.

TL;DR: The article finds that the search for a world where the automatic response to depression is a pharmacological intervention not only ignores the use of alternative efficacious treatment options but may also inhibit the persons' chance to explore the meaning of their experience and thus prevent people from individual growth and personal development.

TL;DR: A mall implementation model will be discussed specifically focusing on intra- and interdisciplinary nursing practice, and current literature fails to adequately highlight the role nurses and nursing staff play in treatment malls.

TL;DR: Inquest into death of a lady in the West of Ireland had a verdict of self-neglect, the nation was rocked to hear the death had occurred 3–12 months earlier, the body was very decomposed and the deceased had lived in a cluttered and unhygienic environment.