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K P Krone

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PubMed1991

A standardized behavioral group treatment program for obsessive-compulsive disorder: preliminary outcomes.

This paper provides outcome data about the efficacy of a behavioral group therapy program for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Thirty-six patients completed a 7-week outpatient treatment program which provides: (1) education about OCD and its treatment, (2) instruction in a cognitive and behavioral approach to the self-treatment of OCD and (3) guided behavioral treatment. Significant improvement in obsession, compulsion, and depression scores were observed at completion of the group and at 3 month follow-up. Significant improvement in obsessions and compulsions was observed for both patients taking anti-obsessional medications and those who did not.

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PubMed1991

An integrated nursing model of depressive behavior in adults. Theory and implications for practice.

Accumulating evidence suggests that cognitive processes or stimuli associated with a stressor may influence the neurochemical state. In addition, it has been suggested that a person's coping responses may protect him or her from the biologic dysregulations implicated in depression. From a nursing care perspective, the proposed model suggests the following practice components. First, assessment not only should include the symptom profiles of each client but should address both physical and psychosocial stressors. Second, once identified, individualized care needs to incorporate a variety of interventions that focuses on the target components (i.e., cognitive interventions for negative thought patterns, interventions to build interpersonal skills, sleep hygiene principles, pharmacologic interventions, and so forth). Finally, one needs to address how having experienced episodes of depression may influence the client's self-perception and ongoing quality of life. Nurses must begin to understand how the experience of having a depressive episode itself may serve as an ongoing stressor for the client. The factors that maintain depressive behavior and influence recurrence need to be the central focus of mental health nursing from a research and clinical perspective. It is this attention to integration and recurrence that will define nursing's unique contributions to this important area of mental health.

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PubMed1979

Interdiscimplinary differences on a general hospital psychiatry unit.

A questionnaire was distributed to staff members of a 28-bed general hospital psychiatry unit to determine and compare staff perceptions of the value of psychotherapies and the role of the disciplines in conducting treatments. Marked interdisciplinary differences were reported in attitudes toward the use of psychopharmacologic agents, the importance of diagnostic evaluation, the value of psychotherapy in the treatment program, the role of various disciplines in the program, and the therapeutic community approach. Clinical implications of the magnitude of interdisciplinary differences are discussed, and recommendations are made for resolving intergroup conflict.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗