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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"psychiatric diagnosis"”.
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Psychiatric diagnosis : views of service users and professionals
… General Practitioners’ (GPs’) views regarding psychiatric diagnosis. These have been written within a literature review and research paper, and I have shared my own views regarding diagnosis within the critical review. The importance of sharing and hearing narratives have been highlighted …
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Intercultural communication in psychiatric diagnosis and psychiatric consultations in Leicester, UK
… (2023) into constructing a British Intercultural Psychiatric Communication Formulation within British psychiatric practice. It identified four key experiential themes and their subthemes: 1) non-verbal and verbal behaviours, 2) identity of a professional psychiatrist, 3) mapping clinically …
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The Social Ontology of Psychiatry: Psychiatric Diagnosis as an Ontogenetic, Interpellative Speech Act
… thesis, I argue that, because of this context, psychiatric diagnosis can be modeled as an ontogenetic, interpellative speech act. A speech act is an utterance or sign that constitutes an action through its performance, called an illocution. In psychiatric diagnosis, this illocution is …
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Psychiatric diagnosis : learning from people who have been labeled and the practitioners who work with them
… 12 studies that explored experiences of psychiatric diagnosis. Four themes emerged; ‘the diagnostic experience: problems with validity and utility’; ‘reaction to diagnosis: devastation and hope’; ‘personal experience: impact on self’; and ‘interpersonal experience: relationships and …
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<i>“It was quite a relief. To know that there was something, and I wasn’t just a bit you know, weird”</i> - A qualitative study using interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the lived experience of psychiatric diagnosis in young people, primary caregivers and diagnosing professionals
… individual. This is especially the case when a psychiatric diagnosis is used with young people. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of research which has focused on young people’s experience of receiving a psychiatric diagnosis. There are also limited studies looking at the perspectives of a …
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Tri-Ethnic Differences: an Examination of Associated Symptoms Within an Inpatient Setting
… status on admission, clinical symptoms, and psychiatric diagnosis. The study analyzed archived data from a sample of inpatients admitted to a large urban teaching psychiatric mental health facility between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2007. The extant literature suggests that African …
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Being ill with the disease of schizophrenia
… has seen the shift in responsibility for the psychiatrically ill from psychiatrists to community care workers and the schizophrenics themselves. In addition to the historical development of institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation this work includes a description of the places …
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Celestial Bodies and Other Stories
… owner and MMA fighter, as she struggles with a psychiatric diagnosis. The last four stories address concerns of identity as part of a larger community, primarily as members of a family and of the American South. “Negative Space” is a woman’s recounting of her sister’s suicide and the part she …
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The Effects of Art Therapy Homework on the Self-Disclosure Statements of Seriously Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents
… Bay area. In addition, each participant had a psychiatric diagnosis ranging from Major Depression to Schizoaffective Disorder. Ethnic origins represented by this population included: 2 Hispanic, 1 Spanish, and 6 Caucasian. The results of this study suggest that the opportunity for independently …
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A validity study of three diagnostic screening and assessment instruments for autistic symptomatology.
… the research sample. All subjects had received a psychiatric diagnosis of Infantile Autism. The degree of correspondence between the three assessment instruments under study and DSM-III criteria was assessed using chi square, analysis of variance, and content analysis. The correspondence between …
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Childhood sexual abuse: how do women experience a subsequent diagnosis of emotionally unstable personality disorder/borderline personality disorder?
… history of the pathologisation of women through psychiatric diagnosis. Upholding a feminist social constructionist epistemology, this thesis explores the lived experience of women who have experienced CSA and received a subsequent diagnosis of BPD. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with …
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Impact Of The 2015 CMS Inpatient Psychiatric Facility Quality Reporting (IPFQR) Rule On Tobacco Treatment
… quality measures as part of the Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities Prospective Payment System (IPF PPS). This study evaluates the impact of that policy at a large academic medical center that opted to improve performance as it implemented reporting measures. Methods: Electronic medical record …
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Identification Of Essential Content On Caring For Persons With Schizophrenia And Medical Comorbidities For Non-Psychiatric Nurses
… schizophrenia and medical comorbidities for non-psychiatric nurses.</p> <p>Background. Approximately 30-40% of medically hospitalized patients carry psychiatric diagnoses. They have complex medical needs and higher rates of morbidity and mortality, yet more restricted access to health care …
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Diagnosing and Treating the Voices:The Professionals’ and Clients’ perspective
… professionals’ and clients’ experiences of diagnosis and treatment of auditory verbal hallucinations with a view to identifying important clinical issues for counselling psychologists. Six professionals, three psychologists and three psychiatrists, who had worked with people who hear voices, …
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The subjective experiences of disagreeing with one's diagnosis of schizophrenia – a phenomenological study
This research focuses not on the diagnosis, aetiology and psychopharmacology of schizophrenia, but on the experiences of receiving an unwanted diagnosis of schizophrenia. Six participants were studied using semi-structured interviews focusing on their experiences of disagreeing with a schizophrenia …
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Madness as the Foundation of Non-Culpability
… consisted of interviews with Swedish forensic psychiatric patients (n=46) and professionals (n=150). Patients were asked to describe their experience of the circumstances leading up to the crime. Professionals were asked to assess 12 psychiatric diagnostic in terms of negative influence on …
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Identity commitment in the context of psychosis: a grounded theory study
… and in the ‘social predicament’ posed by psychiatric diagnosis and unwanted identities. This means they are concerned with self-viability: with how to ‘get along with themselves’. The aim of this study was to develop a grounded theory of how persons deal with this concern of …
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Leveraging the Human-Animal Bond for care access in the unhoused population: A One Health Study
… 72% of the ESAs were dogs. With each additional psychiatric diagnosis, the odds of having an animal considered to be an ESA decreased by 83.3% (PR: 0.167, CI: 0.0192, 0.764). Individuals who have an ESA have a 5.5% (PR: 0.945, CI: 0.152, 5.87) lower odds of being homeless compared to those who …
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Predictors of Depression in a High-Risk Hospitalized Pregnancy Population: A Prospective Longitudinal Study
… clinical interview to assess for a formal diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder. Additionally, women's depressive symptoms were assessed weekly across hospitalization until discharge. Forty-four percent of the sample exceeded set threshold at admission, indicating they were experiencing …
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Stigma and mental illness: are there cultural differences?
… were more likely to provide the correct psychiatric diagnosis for the problem described in the vignette. Both groups were found to have similar levels of contact with individuals with mental illness. Future research is needed to develop a better understanding of how mental illness is …
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