Perspectives in Psychiatric Care back issues from April 2001:
AMA's scope of practice for nonphysicians
Apr 01, 2001; ... According to Jay Greene of the AMA News, in an article dated January 8, 2001, obtained by APNA Government Relations, the AMA "House of Delegates approved several actions intended to both slow down and study nonphysicians seeking independent practice and prescriptive rights-a trend many ...
A more civil union
Apr 01, 2001; ... In 1968, when the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was published (American Psychiatric Association [APA]), homosexuality was listed as a psychiatric disorder. In December 1973, the American Psychiatric Association voted to eliminate homosexuality as a mental disorder and to ...
Teaching healthy anger management
Apr 01, 2001; ... TOPIC. Teaching anger management in the community. PURPOSE. To describe anger management and offer guidelines for assessing potential participants and teaching healthy behaviors. souRcEs. Drawing from the literature, more than 10 years of quantitative and qualitative studies by our ...
Male survivors' perspectives of incest/sexual abuse
Apr 01, 2001; ... PURPOSE. To show how understanding the aftereffects of incest and other forms of sexual abuse from male survivors' perspectives may help clinicians identify males with a possible history of sexual abuse. METHODS. Audiotaped interviews with 25 male survivors described the aftereffects in ...
The real and the researchable: A brief review of the contribution of John Bowlby (1907-1990)
Apr 01, 2001; ... TOPIC. John Bowlby PURPOSE. To provide a broad overview of Bowlby's life and contribution to psychoanalytic theory and to examine his departure from the British school of object relations. SOURCES. Literature review and author's interpretation of material. CONCLUSIONS ....
Dopaminergic and serotonergic receptor function in the CNS
Apr 01, 2001; ... This column reviews some basics of neuroreceptors. Understanding receptors is important because drug activity is directly related to drug effects on receptors. "It is a 5HT^sub 1A^ agonist," the speaker said confidently. "Obviously, this particular affinity, when combined with other ...
Setting fees: The conscious and unconscious meanings of money
Apr 01, 2001; ... Career Perspectives discusses alternative careers for psychiatric nurses in a variety of settings such as managed care, forensic nursing, and critical debriefing. This column explores concepts and topics that will assist advanced practice psychiatric nurses build their practice with ease and ...