Psychiatric Aspects of Geriatric Crisis Intervention

Responding to Crisis Strategies and Intentionality in Community Psychiatric Intervention

Crisis prevention and intervention training for psychiatric hospital staff.

A 5-day course designed to train psychiatric hospital staff verbal and physical methods of preventing violence and injury when dealing with upset patients was taught to 89 staff from maximum and less secure wards. Compared to no-treatment controls, experimental subjects improved significantly on four tests of crisis-related tests and knowledge. Questionnaire and self-report measures from staff ...

Geriatric Aspects of Aortic Stenosis

Currently, AS is the most frequent heart valve disease in industrialized countries and its prevalence sharply increases with age (Iung et al., 2003; Nkomo et al., 2006). Thus with the prolongation of life expectancy, the population of old patients with AS is expected to grow in the future. In elderly patients AS is most frequently caused by progressive calcification and degeneration of the tric...

Psychiatric Aspects of Hysterectomy

A prospective psychiatric study of women undergoing hysterectomy conducted in Christian Medical College, Vellore, is described. About 20% of patients who had Hysterectomy developed depressive symptoms during the first year of follow up. Those who developed these symptoms had higher N score on Eysenck Personality Inventory and a higher M. R. Score on Cornell Medical Index before the operation wh...

Psychiatric Aspects of Referral

A handsome appearance is greatly prized in our contemporary society and persistently portrayed by the advertising media as a sure road to happiness and success. Physical attractiveness may indeed often be associated with a sense of confidence and self-esteem, but, as Marilyn Munroe's tragic life and death so clearly illustrate, these personal qualities are not invariable accompaniments of good ...