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Debunking ADHD : 10 reasons to stop drugging kids for acting like kids
The time has come for debunking ADHD and exposing how this invented disorder created to drug children that does not exist. Despite unanimous agreement that no test exists to identify ADHD, 6.4 million American children are labeled with ADHD. To make matters worse, approximately two-thirds of those children diagnosed with ADHD are prescribed drugs with many dangerous side effects, which include more serious mental disorders and death. After six decades of marketing stimulants and scaring parents into thinking something is seriously wrong with their highly creative, energetic, and communicative children, ADHD drug manufacturers still claim they have no idea what ADHD drugs actually do to children's brains. They make such claims when research shows ADHD drugs cause permanent brain damage in lab animals. How can children dream about achieving greatness, reach their full potenial, and release their creative imagination when they are drugged every day, year after year, to do the opposite? -- This book provides adults with the evidence to say no to ADHD, the help they need to raise slightly annoying children, and 10 Reasons to Stop Drugging Kids for Acting Like Kids! -- Book Cover
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The science of false memory
This book encompasses and weaves together the common threads of the four major topics that comprise the core of false memory research: theories of false memory, adult experimental psychology of false memory, false memory in legal contexts, and false memory in psychotherapy. By integrating material on all four of these topics, the book provides a comprehensive picture of our current understanding of human false memory.
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Memory and Healing
This book addresses the current demand to apply findings in neuroscience to a broad spectrum of psychotherapy practices. It offers clear formulations for what has long been missing in how psychotherapists present their work: research-based descriptions of specific memory functions and attention to the role that synaptic plasticity and neural integration play in making lasting psychological change possible. The book provides a detailed perspective on how patients integrate into their own narratives what transpires in their treatment and how the clinician's memory guides the different phases of the process of healing. Long-neglected in psychotherapeutic formulations, findings about memory-in particular, episodic and autobiographical memory-have a direct bearing on what happens in treatments. Whether the information is about the recent past, such as what happened between sessions, or about traumatic childhood experiences, the patient's disclosures are in the service of a more complete narrative about self. At the same time, the therapist's ways of remembering what occurs in each therapeutic relationship will guide much of the healing process for the patient.
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Practicing Patient Safety in Psychiatry
Clinically focused for everyday use in psychiatric care, Practicing Patient Safety in Psychiatry covers all problematic aspects of care delivery in an easy-to-read format featuring vivid case study examples. Based on extensive administrative and clinical experience, Dr. Geetha Jayaram has put together an expert account of wide-ranging clinical case studies from one of the highest ranked Departments of Psychiatry in the United States: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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A Feminist Clinician's Guide to the Memory Debate
First published in 1997, A Feminist Clinician's Guide to the Memory Debate accomplishes four goals: it publishes a range of chapters which are explicitly feminist to empower feminists, activists, practitioners, scholars, and advocates to be knowledgeable and do the most competent work possible; it helps feminist-friendly clinicians become alert as to how a feminist analysis can expand and contextualize their understanding of the recovered memory controversy; it makes proactive statements of what constitutes ethical, healing treatment for the profoundly deforming experience of child sexual abuse; and it empowers the clinician to be effectively political outside the therapy setting. A Feminist Clinician's Guide to the Memory Debate is an invaluable collection of articles that explores nearly every aspect of the controversy over recovered memories that has shaken public life, the courts, feminist psychotherapy, contemporary psychoanalysis, and cognitive science.
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Memory in dispute
'This is a much-needed book - experienced clinicians writing intelligently about one of the most fraught and complex clinical problems facing psychotherapy today. We have patients who are suffering - suffering because of memories of experiences with which they cannot cope, with which nobody should have to cope. This book is aimed at the clinicians working with such individuals. For the most part, it does not attempt to resolve the dispute or to provide an illusion of certainty in a context where none can exist. It is a challenge to all of us to preserve precious doubt in a situation where we are under pressure from our clients, from their relatives, and from the general public to adopt a clear position; however, when clarity can only be achieved through extremism, the price is too high - the sacrifice of individual lives is intolerable. This book contains some excellent chapters, and the editor is to be congratulated on her selection of themes. It is clearly not the final word in the field of recovered memory.
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Recovered memories and false memories
The question of whether memories can be lost, particularly as a result of trauma, and then ‘recovered’ through psychotherapy has polarized the field of memory research. This volume attempts to answer the question, bringing together leading memory researchers and clinicians to share their views. It offers a unique and timely summary of the theories of memory recovery, and how false memories may be created. Some of the first findings relating to the phenomenal characteristics of memory recovered is reported in detail, suggesting important avenues for new research. Theories of autobiographical memory, implicit memory, reminiscence, and the effects of repeated recall on memory are included. This title provides the authoritative thinking in this area, and will be an essential sourcebook for memory researchers and psychotherapists.
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Use of complete medication history to identify and correct transitions-of-care medication errors at psychiatric hospital admission
Methods for categorizing the scale and severity of medication errors corrected by pharmacy staff during admission medication reconciliation using complete medication history continue to evolve. We established a rating scale that is effective for generating error reports to health system quality leadership. These reports are needed to quantify the value of investment in transitions-of-care pharmacy staff. All medication errors that were reported by pharmacy staff in the admission medication reconciliation process during a period of 6 months were eligible for inclusion. Complete medication history data source was utilized by admitting providers and all pharmacist staff and a novel medication error scoring methodology was developed. This methodology included: medication error category, medication error type, potential medication error severity, and medication non-adherence. We determined that 82 medication errors were detected from 72 patients and assessed that 74 of these errors may have harmed patients if they were not corrected through pharmacist intervention. Most of these errors were dosage discrepancies and omissions. With hospital system budgets continually becoming leaner, it is important to measure the effectiveness and value of staff resources to optimize patient care. Pharmacists performing admission medication reconciliation can detect subtle medication discrepancies that may be overlooked by other clinician types. This methodology can serve as a foundation for error reporting and predicting the severity of adverse drug events.
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Safety culture among healthcare professionals in psychiatric clinics: a study from a psychiatric hospital in Türkiye
Background
The perceptions of safety culture in psychiatric clinics are critically important for both patient safety and the sustainability of high-quality care delivery. This study aims to assess the levels of safety culture among mental health professionals working in psychiatric clinics.
Methods
This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 205 healthcare professionals, including 103 nurses and 102 psychiatrists, employed in a psychiatric hospital in Türkiye. Data were collected between 24 June and 27 November 2024, using a demographic information form and the Patient Safety Culture Scale. The scale consists of items rated on a four-point Likert scale (1 = Strongly disagree to 4 = Strongly agree).
Results
The mean overall safety culture score of the participants was 2.73 ± 0.46. The highest mean score was found in the “employee behaviour” subdimension (2.78 ± 0.51), while the lowest was in the “management and leadership” subdimension (2.68 ± 0.47). Unmarried participants had significantly lower scores in the management and leadership dimension compared to their married counterparts (
p
< 0.05). Participants who were unhappy with working in the psychiatric clinic and those who had not received patient safety training scored significantly lower (
p
< 0.05). Professionals with ≤ 5 years of experience in psychiatry scored higher in some subdimensions compared to those with > 5 years of experience (
p
< 0.05).
Conclusions
The perception of the safety culture among healthcare professionals in psychiatric clinics is generally positive, but still needs improvement. Factors such as educational status, job satisfaction, and participation in patient safety training significantly influence perceptions of the safety culture.
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