scholarly journals The role of faith in mental healthcare: Philosophy, psychology and practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 419-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Foreman
Keyword(s):  
Group Decision ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
List Type ◽  
Human Reasoning ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Therapeutic Choice ◽  
Effective Assessment ◽  
Optimal Implementation

SummaryIt is time to improve clinical approaches to faith in mental healthcare, particularly in psychotherapy. Understood as a psychological trait, faith has potentially great personal salience and introduces socially desirable biases into human reasoning. Therapies may have faith-informed components, either explicitly, or (as with some forms of mindfulness) implicitly, which may modify the patient's faith as well as producing symptomatic change. In this narrative review, the ethics of faith's inclusion in therapy is briefly appraised. The psychology of faith is discussed, and a model of the influence of the practitioner's faith on therapeutic choice is presented. Finally, faith-informed approaches to practice, including their impact on therapeutic effectiveness, are considered and recommendations made for their optimal implementation.LEARNING OBJECTIVES•Understand the main types, characteristics and likely effectiveness of faith-informed therapies versus their secular equivalents•Develop a framework for effective assessment of the contribution of faith to a patient's quality of life, and use this to balance the advantages and risks of employing a faith-informed therapy•Be aware of the unavoidability of bias in the assessment of faith, and learn how to minimise this bias, if necessary by making a group decision

Law for Aerospace Activities 1966-2066

1969 ◽  
Vol 73 (700) ◽  
pp. 255-270
Author(s):  
H. Caplan
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
The Future ◽  
Impossible Task

The purpose of this prologue is to outline how I have approached the arrogant and impossible task of surveying an unborn century of law. I may also be able to illustrate that the nature and quality of the task is completely different from that attempted in the preceding papers. In the whole paper I have done little more than infer repeatedly, in different ways (a) that the shape of the future so far as law is concerned will be determined by the methods of communication adopted between sectors of the aerospace community and between the aerospace community and society at large, and (b) that the search for effective methods of communication is urgent. But my target is not the lawyers of our community—who I am not qualified to advise. I write for the other members of the Royal Aeronautical Society and I return to the task of persuading them that they have a role to play in evolving future laws for aerospace activities.

scholarly journals Editorial, Applied Practices: Perspectives From the Field Section Within the Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-234
Author(s):  
Susan Colmar
Keyword(s):  
School Psychologist ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number

I am pleased to introduce two practitioner papers for this issue of the Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools. 1.School camp refusal and reluctance: The role of the school psychologist. Mary Woods and John Burns.2.Understanding trauma in the refugee context. Kimberley De Deckker.

Economic Lirowth and Human Rights in Brazil: The First Nine Years of Military Tutelage

1973 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 208-213
Author(s):  
Brady Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Political Democracy ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Military ◽  
The City

This is an interim, summary and provisional judgment on the Brazilian experiment of the past nine years, that is, since the military took power on April 1, 1964. To try to give an impression of the results of the interaction among the values of political democracy, equality, and economic growth, and the present levels compared with those of 1964 as well as what appear to be the trends. I have chosen six “indicators”:(1)the autonomy and integrity of the legal system;(2)torture and police brutality;(3)freedom of the mass media;(4)income distribution patterns;(5)education distribution patterns; and(6)the quality of life of the people of the city of greater São Paulo.

Accessories

1966 ◽  
Vol 70 (663) ◽  
pp. 413-414
Author(s):  
F. Sturm
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Batch ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Normal Sequence ◽  
Design Requirements

The Title of this paper presupposes the existence of the most important and fundamental document, namely a clear specification of design requirements.The normal sequence of activities after receipt of the specification is as follows: — Design.Prototype and Experimental batch manufacture.Development (and Approval Testing).Production.Customers’ Use.The function of Design and Development determines the ability of the design to meet the specification, and this can be classified as the “Quality of Design.”

scholarly journals Evaluating mental health services. A world perspective

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (S1) ◽  
pp. 239-245
Author(s):  
Norman Sartorius
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
World Wide ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
World Perspective

Evaluations of mental health services are much in demand. Their results are supposed to help in improving the quality of mental health care and in making them economically better viable.Yet, world-wide there is: 1)little agreement about the content of terms such as evaluation, mental health service, outcome of an activity although these and other terms are widely used;2)uncertainty about the best use of results of evaluative research;3)lack of consensus about who should evaluate what and by what method.

scholarly journals Interventions for challenging behaviour in intellectual disability

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 184-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afia Ali ◽  
Jessica Blickwedel ◽  
Angela Hassiotis
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
List Type ◽  
Challenging Behaviour ◽  
Pharmacological Treatments ◽  
Current Evidence Base ◽  
The Individual

SummaryChallenging behaviour is common in intellectual disability but it is difficult to diagnose and manage. It can adversely affect the quality of life of the individual and cause the breakdown of community placements, resulting in hospital admission. This article discusses the aetiology of challenging behaviour (including the complex relationship with mental illness), diagnostic problems, the current evidence base in relation to psychosocial and pharmacological treatments, and service delivery.LEARNING OBJECTIVES•Understand the aetiological basis of challenging behaviour.•Understand the role of functional analysis.•Appreciate the evidence base in relation to the psychological and pharmacological treatment of challenging behaviour.

scholarly journals A Very Special Catalogue: The Hipparcos Input Catalogue

1988 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 245-257
Author(s):  
C. Turon
Keyword(s):  
Observational Constraints ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Multiple Stars ◽  
Final Data ◽  
Double And Multiple Stars ◽  
Input Catalogue

The various characteristics of the HIPPARCOS Input Catalogue are described:–How to select 110 000 stars for HIPPARCOS observation from the 210 000 proposed stars, taking into account the following sometimes conflicting requirements : satisfy a maximum of scientific programmes and respect the observational constraints inherent in the HIPPARCOS satellite operation ?–What are the present results regarding the principal astrometric programmes ?–How to process the specific problems which are raised by the HIPPARCOS observation of double and multiple stars and of stars in dense areas ?–Which compilations and observations have been undertaken and are in progress within the frame of the Input Catalogue preparation ? What will be the quality of the final data ?Finally, the contents of the catalogues and annexes that will be published are briefly presented.

scholarly journals Recent Developments in Improving Daytime Angular Resolution from the Ground

1974 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 27-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. O. Kiepenheuer
Keyword(s):  
Angular Resolution ◽  
Solar Chromosphere ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Modulation Transfer ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Subject ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Atmospheric Seeing

The subject of this symposium is the fine structure of the solar chromosphere. Progress in this field of reserach will depend to a high degree of the quality of seeing, resp. on the effective angular resolution available on the ground. Today's situation of solar ground seeing has changed distinctly in the last years. I would like to report here a few new aspects, which could be condensed into 3 questions: (1)Are there on the ground ‘good seeing windows’, comparable in quality with stratosphere results obtained from balloon borne equipment?(2)Is there a chance to resolve from the ground the solar scale height, corresponding to about 0.1″.(3)Is there a residual fundamental atmospheric seeing noise resp. a basic limit to the atmospheric Modulation Transfer Function (MTF)?

scholarly journals Uv Galaxies

1983 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 459-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Ye Khachikian
Keyword(s):  
Absolute Magnitude ◽  
High Energy ◽  
List Type ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Nuclear Region ◽  
Continuous Emission ◽  
Radio Halo ◽  
High Energy Particles ◽  
Relativistic Particles

The systematical statement of the concept of the activity of the nuclei of galaxies was first made public by Ambartsumian about 25 years ago (Ambartsumian 1958, 1962, 1965). Since 1965 he has been advancing and developing the idea of the basic role of the nuclei of galaxies in their life and evolution.According to Ambartsumian the “activity” of the nuclei of galaxies manifests itself mainly in the following forms: 1.Outflow of ordinary gas matter (in form of jets or clouds) from the nuclear region at the velocity of up to hundreds of kilometres per second.2.Continuous emission of the flux of relativistic particles or other agents, producing high energy particles, as a result of which a radio halo may form around the nucleus.3.Eruptive ejections of gas matter (M82 type).4.Eruptive ejections of concentrations of relativistic plasma (NGC 4486, 5128, etc.)I should like to emphasize on the form of activity which says: 5.Ejection of compact blue condensations with an absolute magnitude of the order of luminosity of dward galaxies (NGC 3561, IC 1182). Here the division of the nucleus into two or more comparable componentsis also presumed; initiating the formation of multiple galaxies.

Escitalopram vs duloxetine in major depressed patients with pain

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 604-604
Author(s):  
A. Baloescu ◽  
V. Baloescu ◽  
J.D. Sichitiu
Keyword(s):  
Daily Activity ◽  
List Type ◽  
Baseline Score ◽  
Type Number ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Icd 10 ◽  
Depressive Patients ◽  
Baseline Sample

ObjectiveEvaluate the efficacy and tolerability of escitalopram and duloxetine in depressive patients with pain.MethodsSample A (escitalopram): 22 patients (15 female and 7 man, mean age 51.75); Sample B (duloxetine) 25 patients (18 female, 7 man, mean age 53,85). They were diagnosed with major depressive disorder according to ICD 10; assessed with HAMD 17 items in baseline, 14, 28, 42, 56 days; CGIS at baseline, 28 and 56 days; CGII at 28 and 56 days.ResultsEscitalopram 10–20 mg/day; duloxetine 60–120 mg/day. Sample A HAMD 17 items: baseline-21.8; 14 days-19.7; 28 days- 17.2; 42 days-13.5; 56 days-11.8. Sample B HAMD 17 items: baseline-22.3; 14 days-19.9; 28 days- 17.4; 42 days-13.2; 56 days-10.5. Item 13(somatic/general) -diffuse or vague muscle aches or heaviness in the arms or legs mean baseline score for Sample A -1.65; Sample B-1.75; 56 days: Sample A-0.80 and Sample B-0.65. CGIS: mean baseline Sample A: 4.2 and Sample B-4.3; 56 days Sample A-1.9 and Sample B-1.5. CGII 56 days: Sample A 7/22 (31.8%) -much improved and 10/22(45.45%) very much improved; Sample B 11/25 (44%) much improved and 14.25(56%) very much improved. We noted mild nausea 20/47, mild restlessness 12/47, mild dizziness 9/47 at the beginning of the treatment (both samples).Conclusions1)Escitalopram and duloxetine are safe and effective treatment.2)Coexistence of depression with physical pain negatively affects the performance in daily activity and quality of life; in such cases the first treatment option could be duloxetine.3)Escitalopram is also efficient in such cases.

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