Posted on July 22, 2008 by sjennings29
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety in Patients With Dementia: Two Case Studies, Journal of Psychiatric Practice. 14(3):186-192, May 2008.
Abstract: Anxiety is common in dementia and is associated with decreased independence and increased risk of nursing home placement. However, little is known about the treatment of anxiety in dementia. This article reports results from two patients who [...]
Filed under: CBT Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Older People, Therapy, dementia, depression | Tagged: anxiety, case study, cbt, dementia, elderly, evidence-based practice, Therapy | Comments Off
Posted on July 22, 2008 by sjennings29
The Medium, the Message, and Evidence-Based Practice, Issues in Mental Health Nursing Volume 29 Issue 3 2008
Abstract: Marshal McLuhan, the media guru of the 1960s, famously observed “we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us” (McLuhan, 1994, p. ix).Tools influence thewaywe think and behave, “we become what we behold” (McLuhan, 1994, p. [...]
Filed under: Finding the Evidence, Mental Health Nurses | Tagged: development, evidence, evidence based pracitce, future development, good practice, healthcare, message, nursing, tools | Comments Off
Posted on July 22, 2008 by sjennings29
Support, time and recovery (STR) workers: a competence framework: best practice guidance, 3rd July 2008, Department of Health
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This best practice guidance sets out the background, purpose, and development of the Competence Framework for Support, Time and Recovery (STR) workers employed across health and social care sectors of mental health. It supports the original STR guidance [...]
Filed under: Depatment of Health 2008 | Tagged: best practice guidelines, competency, department of health 2008, str, support time | Comments Off
Posted on July 22, 2008 by sjennings29
Chronic Insomnia, American Journal of Psychiatry 2008 165:6, 678-686
Abstract: Insomnia is used to refer to both a symptom and a disorder. The symptom of insomnia is defined as a subjective complaint of difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, or poor quality sleep. In DSM-IV-TR, insomnia symptoms are included among the diagnostic criteria for several other mental disorders, [...]
Filed under: insomnia, psychiatry | Tagged: chronic, insomnia, mental health, psychiatry, sleep deprivation | Comments Off
Posted on July 22, 2008 by sjennings29
Early Intervention for Adults at High Risk of Recurrent/Chronic Depression: Cognitive Model and Clinical Case Series, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 2008, 36: 263-282
Abstract: This paper describes a cognitive model for first/second onset depression that has been precipitated by major life stress, entrenched for several months and is unresponsive to pharmacotherapy. These conditions create high risks [...]
Filed under: CBT Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, depression | Tagged: cbt, cognitive behavioural therapy, Depression; early intervention; recurrence; personal id, Therapy | Comments Off
Posted on July 22, 2008 by sjennings29
The Development of CBT Programmes for Anger: The Role of Interventions to Promote Perspective-Taking Skills, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (2008), 36:299-312
Abstract:Although the emotion of anger has, in recent years, been the subject of increasing theoretical analysis, there are relatively few accounts of how interventions designed to reduce problematic anger might be related to cognitively [...]
Filed under: Anger Management, CBT Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Therapy | Tagged: Anger; perspective taking; empathy; anger management; c | Comments Off
