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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Psychological care"”.
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Emotions in Christian Psychological Care
… experiential engagement to be a crucial key to psychological change, namely Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). There is no distinctive Christian counseling model that has as its main paradigm emotion experience. Yet, several Christian models exists in which experiencing emotions is considered to be …
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Considerations in the provision of adequate psychological care for the sexually assaulted woman
… the acute stress reaction following assault, the psychological effects and practical issues which affect the woman and her important social support networks are outlined. The therapeutic intervention is described, paying attention to helper-related issues, the problems of the woman herself and the …
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Emergency Department Nursing Psychological Care (Early Crisis Intervention) for Adult Victims of Violent Crime: A Quantitative Study
… interventions and the importance of addressing psychological trauma for the victim of violence is of utmost importance for quality of life and the victim’s future. The serious impact of psychological trauma on victims of violent crime supports further study to determine whether Emergency …
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Effects of Self-Disclosure on Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Among Black Males
… their attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help remain unfavorable. Black males are often grounded and socialized in traditional masculinity and ethnic ideologies, including those that prevent professional psychological care, a normative method of coping with distress. As men, …
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Contribuições da Psicologia Hospitalar em um hospital do Interior baiano: uma avaliação de serviço
… of hospital psychologists as agents of care and in the expansion of public debate on the humanization of care. Technological Product II, the Technical Assessment Report of the Hospital Psychology Service of the Vitória da Conquista Hospital Complex (CHVC), systematized field findings and …
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Mental Health Care at the Margins: A Critical Ethnography of Psychological Practice in an Inner City Mental Health Setting
… the field of psychology has attempted to improve psychological services for a greater diversity of people. However, despite these attempts, research continues to document a "gap" when it comes to mental health care services for marginalized populations. Various studies have addressed the issue of …
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The implementation of integrated psychological medicine services in historically siloed acute healthcare systems: A study on the factors influencing implementation
Integrated care is a crucial component of Western healthcare provision; however, its implementation within secondary acute care faces significant challenges and delivery remains inconsistent and under-theorised. Key challenges include fragmented service structures, contested conceptualisations of …
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COMPASSION FATIGUE, BURNOUT, AND SELF-CARE: WHAT SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS NEED TO KNOW
… thesis attempted to examine the impact of self-care, compassion fatigue and burnout on social work students. This was achieved through the use of a Demographic Survey, the Self-Care Assessment, the Professional Quality of Life-IV (ProQOL-IV) survey, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory Human …
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The cognitively-impaired institutionalized elderly: spousal perceptions and expectations of nursing care
… spouses' perceptions and expectations of nursing care delivered to their cognitively-impaired institutionalized elderly mate. Data were collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire, based on the concept of caring, designed to elicit spouses' perceptions and expectations of certain …
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Online Psychosocial Support for Oncology Patients: A Group Facilitation Manual
… is seeking, yet not receiving, adequate psychological treatment. Therefore, the Internet has become an important resource for delivering services to those that may be limited by barriers that accompany traditional oncology support groups. While research has shown that online therapy is …
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The relationship between the loss of parents and academic performance among selected secondary school pupils in Mufulira district,Zambia
… revealed that some orphans exhibited varying psychological reactions as a result of the encounter they had with the death of their parents. The study also revealed a decline in the academic performance of the orphans owing to the various challenges they faced such as adjusting to new …
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The relationship between the loss of parents and academic performance among selected secondary school pupils in Mufulira district,Zambia
… revealed that some orphans exhibited varying psychological reactions as a result of the encounter they had with the death of their parents. The study also revealed a decline in the academic performance of the orphans owing to the various challenges they faced such as adjusting to new …
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Audio and visual self-confrontation in psychotherapy
… self-awareness, movement toward greater psychological health, with the obvious by-product of shorter length of psychological care - a matter of no little import in a time of decreased spending in the area of mental health.In the review of the literature no studies could be found which …
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Psychobiotics: Exploring an adjunct intervention for mental health
… the gap between novel microbiome science and psychological care. However, little is known about Healthcare Professionals’ (HPs) awareness of psychobiotics or psychologists' attitudes towards their use in practice. <br/><br/>Methods: This study adopted a mixed-methods approach to examine HPs' …
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A social history of paediatric nursing 1920-1970
… and as a result, failed to provide social and psychological care appropriate to the child and family. Nursing failed to question and develop its own practice and what changes did take place were the result of other agencies' manipulation of nursing for their own ends.The nurse participants …
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Developing a Culturally Adapted Low-Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Intervention for Saudi Adults with Multiple Sclerosis
… of life and illness adjustment. In Saudi Arabia, psychological difficulties among adults with MS remain insufficiently recognised and inadequately addressed within routine care. Barriers including cultural stigma, limited availability of psychological services, and the absence of culturally …
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An evaluation of the palliative care unit at Groote Schuur Hospital
… solution to this problem is an Acute Palliative Care Unit. Groote Schuur Hospital opened such a unit in April 2011, managed by the ED staff. This kind of service was not available in this tertiary, academic state hospital prior to that. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate aspects of care at …
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Ruolo ed efficacia di un team multidisciplinare nel percorso psicologico e terapeutico del trapianto renale
Il trapianto renale costituisce il miglior trattamento terapeutico per la malattia renale cronica, permettendo alla maggior parte dei pazienti il ritorno ad una qualità di vita soddisfacente. La letteratura ha identificato alcuni aspetti problematici che possono influenzare l'adattamento alla …
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Cognitive representations and attitudes as predictors of prosthetic use and recovery following lower limb amputation
… the known impact of irrevocable limb loss on psychological states in addition to physical limitations. At present, however, there is an inadequate evaluation of psychological factors, either as dependant health outcome variables or as predisposing independent variables that may influence …
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A Participatory Action Research (PAR) into how the language and vocabulary of diabetes facilitates peoples’ experience of living with diabetes: the Language in Diabetes Study (LIDAS)
… UK. It has been established that diabetes causes psychological strain for people with diabetes (PWD) both in increased mental health diagnoses and specific issues under the heading “diabetes distress” (DD). The language and vocabulary of diabetes has been implicated in DD as it may comprise of a …