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Tell Me About It: The Historical Development of the Psychiatric Interview. Harv Rev Psychiatry 2021; 29:438-443. [PMID: 34767330 DOI: 10.1097/hrp.0000000000000319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Kessing ML. "It is a different world in here": collective identification and shared experiential knowledge between psychiatric inpatients. SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS 2020; 42:724-738. [PMID: 31965596 DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This paper explores the social relations between inpatients in psychiatric wards. Combining Barker's (2002) concept of 'collective illness identity' with Nelson's (1993) concept of 'epistemological communities', I draw attention to the inpatients' collective identification and experiential knowledge. Through the analysis, three aspects of the inpatients' relationships are unfolded. First, how the inpatients, through bodily expressions and narrative accounts, construct a collective illness identity based on shared experiences of symptoms and suffering. Second, the ways in which the inpatients use their shared experiential knowledge to support one another and challenge the mental health professionals. Third, how the inpatients' reflections on the long-term potential of their relationships reveal a number of concerns related to their continuation. Centrally, the paper points to the potential and challenges that arise from the inpatients' relations to one another and their embeddedness in a specific time and space. Empirically, the paper draws on five months of participant observation conducted in two psychiatric wards in Denmark and interviews with 14 psychiatric patients.
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- Malene L Kessing
- Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Danish Center for Social Science Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Gaudiano BA, Davis CH, Epstein-Lubow G, Johnson JE, Mueser KT, Miller IW. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Inpatients with Psychosis (the REACH Study): Protocol for Treatment Development and Pilot Testing. Healthcare (Basel) 2017; 5:E23. [PMID: 28475123 PMCID: PMC5492026 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare5020023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2017] [Revised: 03/31/2017] [Accepted: 05/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Patients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders frequently require treatment at inpatient hospitals during periods of acute illness for crisis management and stabilization. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a "third wave" cognitive-behavioral intervention that employs innovative mindfulness-based strategies, has shown initial efficacy in randomized controlled trials for improving acute and post-discharge outcomes in patients with psychosis when studied in acute-care psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. However, the intervention has not been widely adopted in its current form because of its use of an individual-only format and delivery by doctoral-level research therapists with extensive prior experience using ACT. The aim of the Researching the Effectiveness of Acceptance-based Coping during Hospitalization (REACH) Study is to adapt a promising acute-care psychosocial treatment for inpatients with psychosis, and to pilot test its effectiveness in a routine inpatient setting. More specifically, we describe our plans to: (a) further develop and refine the treatment and training protocols, (b) conduct an open trial and make further modifications based on the experience gained, and
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- Brandon A Gaudiano
- Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA.
- Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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- Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA.
- Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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- College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Flint, MI 48502, USA.
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- Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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- Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA.
- Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
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Williamson AE, Johnson PCD, Mullen K, Wilson P. The disappearance of the "revolving door" patient in Scottish general practice: successful policies. BMC FAMILY PRACTICE 2012; 13:95. [PMID: 23035887 PMCID: PMC3528483 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-13-95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2012] [Accepted: 09/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND We describe the health of "revolving door" patients in general practice in Scotland, estimate changes in their number over the timescale of the study, and explore reasons for changes, particularly related to NHS and government policy. METHODS A mixed methods predominantly qualitative study, using a grounded theory approach, set in Scottish general practice. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with professional key informants, 6 Practitioner Services staff who administer the GP registration system and 6 GPs with managerial or clinical experience of working with "revolving door" patients. Descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative analysis of patient removal episodes linked with routine hospital admissions, outpatient appointments, drug misuse treatment episodes and deaths were carried out with cohorts of "revolving door" patients identified from 1999 to 2005 in Scotland. RESULTS A "revolving door" patient is removed 4 or more times from GP lists in 7 years. Patients had complex health issues including substance misuse, psychiatric and physical health problems and were at high risk of dying. There was a dramatic reduction in the number of "revolving door" patients during the course of the study. CONCLUSIONS "Revolving door" patients in general practice had significant health problems. Their numbers have reduced dramatically since 2004 and this probably resulted from improved drug treatment services, pressure from professional bodies to reduce patient removals and the positive ethical regulatory and financial climate of the 2004 GMS GP contract. This is a positive development for the NHS.
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- Andrea E Williamson
- General Practice and Primary Care, College of MVLS, University of Glasgow, 1 Horselethill Rd, Glasgow, G12 ORR, UK
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- Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, College of MVLS, University Avenue, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
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- School of Medicine, College of MVLS, University of Glasgow, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 0XH, UK
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- University of Aberdeen, The Centre for Health Science, Old Perth Road, Inverness, IV2 3JH, UK
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Eghigian G. Deinstitutionalizing the history of contemporary psychiatry. HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY 2011; 22:201-214. [PMID: 21877387 DOI: 10.1177/0957154x11399499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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While contemporary mental health services have been marked by the burgeoning of outpatient and preventive care, the historiography of psychiatry remains largely tied to the study of custodial and palliative treatment.The work in which contemporary psychiatry has been involved cannot be adequately understood as a singular, autonomous enterprise based in a residential facility. It has become a technoscience that operates in numerous settings and alongside multiple sciences, technologies and decision-makers. This paper explores what it might mean to 'deinstitutionalize' the history of contemporary psychiatry by examining the case of social therapy for sex offenders in West Germany.
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- Greg Eghigian
- Department of History, 102 Weaver Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Bell SE. Claiming justice: knowing mental illness in the public art of Anna Schuleit's 'Habeas Corpus' and 'Bloom'. Health (London) 2011; 15:313-34. [PMID: 21335360 DOI: 10.1177/1363459310397979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This study investigates two public art performances by artist Anna Schuleit in the early 2000s commemorating the life and history of two state hospitals ('asylums') in Massachusetts and the people who built, worked, and were patients in them. Public art is made for and sited in the public domain, outside, freely accessible, frequently collaborative, and often ephemeral. This study addresses a series of questions: What can public art 'do' for understanding mental illness? What use is a public art project for those living with (and caring for those who live with) mental illness? How can a public work of art sustain and portray meaning in an expressive way, open up a shared discursive space, and demand witness through embodiment?
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- Susan E Bell
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bowdoin College, 7000 College Station, Brunswick, ME 04011-8470, USA.
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O'Brien AJ, McKenna BG, Kydd RR. Compulsory community mental health treatment: literature review. Int J Nurs Stud 2009; 46:1245-55. [PMID: 19296950 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2009.02.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2008] [Revised: 01/15/2009] [Accepted: 02/09/2009] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Following their introduction in the United States in the 1970s various forms of compulsory treatment in the community have been introduced internationally. Compulsory treatment in the community involves a statutory framework that mandates enforceable treatment in a community setting. Such frameworks can be categorized as preventative, least restrictive, or as having both preventative and least restrictive features. Research falls into two categories; descriptive, naturalistic studies and controlled and uncontrolled comparative studies. The research has produced equivocal results, and presents numerous methodological challenges. Where programmes have demonstrated improved outcomes debate continues as to whether these outcomes are associated with legal compulsion or enhanced service provision. Service user, family and clinician perspectives demonstrate a divergence of views within and across groups, with clinicians more strongly in support than service users. The issue of compulsory community treatment is an important one for nurses, who are often at the forefront of clinical service provision, in some cases in statutory roles. Critical reflection on the issue of compulsory community treatment requires understanding of the limitations of empirical investigations and of the various ethical and social policy issues involved. There is a need for further research into compulsory community treatment and possible alternatives.
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- Anthony J O'Brien
- School of Nursing, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Milliken PJ, Northcott HC. Redefining parental identity: caregiving and schizophrenia. QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH 2003; 13:100-113. [PMID: 12564265 DOI: 10.1177/1049732302239413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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When parents try to assume responsibility for an ill adult-child with schizophrenia, the law, mental health practitioners, and often the ill person reject their right to do so. Consequently, these parents regard themselves as disenfranchised, i.e., lacking the rights required to care properly for their loved ones. Redefining Parental Identity, a grounded theory of caregiving and schizophrenia, traces changes in a parent's identity and caregiving during the erratic course of the child's mental illness. Participants were a purposive sample of 29 parent caregivers from 19 families in British Columbia, Canada, caring for 20 adult children. This understanding of their experience will be helpful to parents of people with schizophrenia, professional practitioners, and those involved in mental health care reform.
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- P Jane Milliken
- School of Nursing, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 2Y2.
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Chinman MJ, Weingarten R, Stayner D, Davidson L. Chronicity reconsidered: improving person-environment fit through a consumer-run service. Community Ment Health J 2001; 37:215-29. [PMID: 11440423 DOI: 10.1023/a:1017577029956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In the past, the term "chronic" referred to people who had serious mental illness and who typically received long-term care in a state mental hospital. Although this term recently has fallen out of favor, we resurrect the term here, not to revive a demeaning euphemism, but rather to redefine it as the result of a poor person-environment fit between the complex and challenging needs of those with serious psychiatric disorders and a community-based service system that often is ill-equipped to treat them. Previous research indicates that recurrent acute hospitalizations and an inability to establish or maintain tenure in the community may be due to a disconnection from community-based services and supports, social isolation, and demoralization. One promising approach to addressing these issues is that of peer support. To illustrate the potential utility of peer support in improving person-environment fit and decreasing the chronicity of the subsample of people who continue to have difficulty in establishing viable footholds in the community, we describe a peer support-based program, the Welcome Basket, developed, staffed, and managed entirely by mental health consumers. Preliminary analyses that evaluate Welcome Basket's effectiveness are included, and we discuss the implications of these data for future research and program development in this area.
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- M J Chinman
- Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
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O'Reilly RL, Komer W, Dunbar S. Why are patients discharged by review boards? CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY. REVUE CANADIENNE DE PSYCHIATRIE 1999; 44:259-63. [PMID: 10225127 DOI: 10.1177/070674379904400306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To identify why Review Boards revoked certificates for involuntary hospitalization. METHOD The outcome of all applications for a Review Board hearing at 2 psychiatric hospitals in Ontario were recorded from the beginning of 1987 to the end of 1996. All cases where a certificate of involuntary hospitalization was revoked were identified. For each of these cases, the clinical record, including the Review Board's written reasons for its decision, was reviewed. RESULTS During the study period, 2644 patients applied for a review of their involuntary hospitalization. Only 42% of applications reached a hearing. Of these, 9% were revoked. Several recurring reasons for overturning certificates were identified. These included the physician relying too much on hearsay evidence, relatives supporting discharge at the hearings, and the patient clearly having recovered by the time the hearing took place. CONCLUSIONS Relatives or staff who observe dangerous behaviour should be encouraged to give evidence at hearings. The treatment team should take careful note of the views of patients' families and friends and review the patients' progress before hearings.
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- R L O'Reilly
- Research and Education London/St Thomas Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario.
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TOPIC Assessing suicide potential and intervening to prevent suicide in partial-hospitalization patients. PURPOSE To provide information for assessing and intervening with outpatients who express suicidal thoughts and to propose a decision tree. SOURCE Literature review, clinical experience. CONCLUSIONS Careful assessment and sound management are required to provide treatment in outpatient settings while maintaining patient safety. A decision tree can help the clinician make sound decisions.
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- P E Freed
- University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA
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Frazier RS, Amigone DK, Sullivan JP. Using continuous quality improvement strategies to reduce repeated admissions for inpatient psychiatric treatment. J Healthc Qual 1997; 19:6-10; quiz 20. [PMID: 10167162 DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-1474.1997.tb00883.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A multidisciplinary performance improvement team was chartered to examine the problem of repeated admissions to psychiatric hospitals. It was also asked to devise an intervention strategy to reduce the number of readmissions, including the number of patients with three or more admissions in a 12-month period and the number of days patients spend in hospital beds. Multivoting, benchmarking, and a review of medical records for 88 psychiatric patients who had been hospitalized three or more times in 1 year were the methods used to gather data on client characteristics. An analysis of the data suggested that these high-end users had similar patterns of service utilization prior to their hospitalizations. The team identified 11 of these patterns as triggers that appear to signal early stages of decompensation that can lead to hospitalization. The team implemented an early intervention and prevention system by using the triggers as criteria for initiating a change in treatment plans. A study of the effectiveness of the Triggers Intervention and Prevention System (TIPS) was undertaken over the next 2 years. An automated program for deriving the triggers from the emergency services database was developed. Initial results that TIPS is an effective means of reducing recidivism and that the triggers can identify high-end users. Some of the triggers were deemed to be more effective than others in the early identification of individuals who may need to be hospitalized. A comparison of hospitalization rates for the pre- and postimplementation periods of TIPS showed a significant reduction in the number of patients who had three or more hospitalizations, fewer total admissions, and a shorter average length of stay. During 1995, the triggers were successful in the early identification of all patients who had more than one admission. The teams used the Design, Measure, Assess, Improve method recommended by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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- R S Frazier
- Dr. John C. Corrigan Mental Health Center, Fall River, MA, USA
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Belcher JR, DeForge BR. The appropriate role for the state hospital. JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 1997; 24:64-71. [PMID: 9033157 DOI: 10.1007/bf02790481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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This article explores the role of the state hospital in providing long-term care. It is argued that long-term care is an important part of a mental health system, specifically for people with severe mental illness. The state hospital can be made to function more efficiently and also provide needed long-term care.
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- J R Belcher
- University of Maryland at Baltimore, School of Social Work 21201, USA
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Wuerker AK. The changing careers of patients with chronic mental illness: a study of sequential patterns in mental health service utilization. JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 1996; 23:458-70. [PMID: 8965058 DOI: 10.1007/bf02521029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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The aim of this study was to describe patterns of service use over time by a group of persons with chronic mental illness who were homeless at the time of the index admission. Subjects were all persons admitted to Skid Row Mental Health Services in a recent year who had 25 or more previous admissions to any Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health service (N = 49). Sequences of type of service at each of the 25 admissions were compared with optimal matching and categorized with cluster analysis. Patients in earlier clusters had many inpatient admissions; those in later clusters had many admissions to outpatient, residential, and jail services. Service use by individuals in each cluster showed the same trends. However, there were also different patterns of service use for patients in cluster within the same tie frame. Analyzing multiple admissions sequentially helps to locate likely places to intervene in downward-spiraling careers.
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- A K Wuerker
- School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA
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