Perspectives in Psychiatric Care back issues from July 2005:
Pain Assessment in Nonverbal Older Adults with Advanced Dementia
Jul 01, 2005; ... TOPIC: Pain assessment is a particular challenge among individuals with advanced dementia who lack the ability to formulate and express their experience of discomfort. PURPOSE: Awareness of pain scales and methods specifically designed for use with nonverbal individuals with dementia is ...
The Lived Experience of Long-Term Psychiatric Hospitalization of Four Women in Brazil
Jul 01, 2005; ... PROBLEM: What is the experience from long-term psychiatric hospitalization? How can psychiatric nursing contribute to reduce the emotional suffering and the feeling of social exclusion related to this process? METHODS: This study was conducted on four women committed to long periods of ...
The Logistics of Setting of a Private Practice
Jul 01, 2005; ... This column offers news and views that will help nurses who are in private practice or are thinking about this option. It will give the needed information to develop a practice and how to navigate the ongoing challenges of being a competent and successful therapist. I hope that you will ...
Holographic Memory Resolution
Jul 01, 2005; ... Aloha colleagues. At the 2004 annual conference of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Mary Paquette invited me to write this column for Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, on a novel treatment approach I have been using in my private psychotherapy practice in Honolulu for the past 4 ...
Depression and Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS): Pharmacologic Considerations
Jul 01, 2005; ... Question: I am a psychiatric consultation liaison nurse with prescriptive authority and over the past 6 months I have seen a large number of patients in primary care with chronic pain problems and depression, namely women with fibromyalgia. Chronic pain and depression are not new clinical ...
Me and Emma
Jul 01, 2005; ... Me and Emma by Elizabeth Flock 0-7783-2082-0 Mira Books March 2005 This review of Me and Emma, a novel by Elizabeth Flock, continues the practice of looking at a work of fiction that is instructive to nurse psychotherapists. This poignant, honest book is told from the perspective of ...
Lives Recovered
Jul 01, 2005; ... People who have overcome schizophrenia and regained their mental health still have to contend with society's negative perception of the illness. It used to be that people with schizophrenia were given no hope of improving, but now, thanks to new drugs and reintegration, they are moving back into ...
Commentary from Blackwell Publishing about Open Access
Jul 01, 2005; ... Since the publication of Dr. Mary Paquette's editorial entitled "The Public-Access Movement" (Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, Vol. 41, No. 2), Blackwell Publishing has formalized its position on Open Access (OA) and would like to share some background and context on the issues surrounding OA ...
Exploring Alexithymia, Depression, and Binge Eating in Self-Reported Eating Disorders in Women
Jul 01, 2005; ... TOPIC: Binge eating is often a way of life for many women even if the diagnostic criteria for the tentative DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of binge eating disorder is not met. METHODS: Binge eating was conceptualized as a problem in affect regulation. Affective indices of alexithymia and depression ...
Where Is the Mental Health in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing?
Jul 01, 2005; ... I have been wondering lately, what happened to mental health in America? I have wondered about the role of psychiatric mental health nurses in addressing the mental health problems that seem to be everywhere. As a psychiatric nurse, I have always thought I knew madness. I thought I understood ...
Whatever Became of Sin? Revisiting Menninger's Question
Jul 01, 2005; ... But first I must return to the promise to review the events in the recent rapid decline and disappearance of the word "sin," not because any particular word is so important in itself, but because its obsolescence may be a clue to fundamental changes in the moral philosophy of our ...