Posted on August 5, 2008 by sjennings29
Top 25 Hottest Articles from Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, January – March 2008
Below are the Top 25, click on the links to see the abstract, for the full-text of any of the articles please email: susan.jennings@lancashirecare.nhs.uk
Social Skills Training as Nursing Intervention to Improve the Social Skills and Self-Esteem of Inpatients with Chronic Schizophrenia
Postnatal Depression: [...]
Filed under: Mental Health Nurses, Top 25 Articles, nursing | Tagged: bpd, cognitive, Current Awareness, depression, Eating Disorders, evidence base, mental health, nurses, nursing, Older People, patients, postnatal depression, psd, psychiatric nursing, Schizophrenia, self injury, suicide, Therapy, top 25 hottest journal articles | Comments Off
Posted on August 5, 2008 by sjennings29
Use of the Perceive, Recall, Plan and Perform System of Task Analysis for persons with schizophrenia: A preliminary study. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal Early View, Date: June 2008
Abstract:
Background/aim: Task analysis that targets information processing skills is an essential tool to understanding difficulties encountered by people with schizophrenia in their daily activities. The purpose of this [...]
Filed under: OT - Occupational Therapy, Schizophrenia | Tagged: cognition • occupational therapy • reliability and, forensic, occcupational therapy, OT | Comments Off
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Risk Management by Early Recognition of Warning Signs in Patients in Forensic Psychiatric Care Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, Volume 22, Issue 4, August 2008, Pages 208-216
Abstract:
To clarify the concept of early recognition for the field of forensic nursing. The concept is based on the proposition that patient behavior deteriorating toward aggression is idiosyncratic but [...]
Filed under: Anger Management, Forensic Mental Healthcare, Mental Health Nurses, Violence and Staff | Tagged: aggression, early recognition, feelings, forensic, forensic nursing, mental health, patient behavior, patients, social, violent behaviour | Comments Off
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Older People and Wellbeing, 29th July 2008, Institute for Public Policy Research
Click on the report title for full-text access
Abstract
Urgent action needs to be take action to curb a decline in mental health and wellbeing amongst the over 65s, according to a report from the institute for public policy report (ippr).
ippr highlights that older people’s mental [...]
Filed under: Older People, dementia, depression | Tagged: decline, deprivation, elderly, ippr, mental health, neglection, old people, policies, poor health, research, social, standard of living, statistics, wellbeing | Comments Off
