Psychotic Disorders - Nursing
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Monday, November 23, 2009

HEART--the Hounslow Early Active Recovery Team: implementing an inclusive strength-based model of care for people with early psychosis.

30 Jul 2009 In recent years in the UK, the National Health Service has made policy commitments to delivering mental health services based on recovery principles. In general though, the UK mental health service providers are in the early stages of implementing ... Read more...

Are stigma experiences among persons with mental illness, related to perceptions of self-esteem, empowerment and sense of coherence?

30 Jul 2009 The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between stigmatizing rejection experiences and self-related variables. Our hypothesis was that rejection experiences would be negatively associated with perceptions of self-esteem, empowerment and ... Read more...

Differentiation and clinical implications of postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis.

29 Apr 2009 Postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis are serious mood disorders encountered by nurses working in a variety of settings. Postpartum depression refers to a nonpsychotic depressive episode, while postpartum psychosis refers to a manic or ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Psychotic Disorders - Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• HEART--the Hounslow Early Active Recovery Team: implementing an inclusive strength-based model of care for people with early psychosis. 30 Jul 2009
• Are stigma experiences among persons with mental illness, related to perceptions of self-esteem, empowerment and sense of coherence? 30 Jul 2009
• Differentiation and clinical implications of postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. 29 Apr 2009
• [Being there, a nursing function with many dimensions in a "place in life"] 29 Apr 2009
• Additional exercise resources. 29 Apr 2009
• [Counseling, support and rest lead the way out of the low mood] 30 Dec 2008
• [Finding coherence in difficult professional encounters] 30 Dec 2008
• The risks and benefits of switching antipsychotics: a case study approach. 30 Dec 2008
• Electroconvulsive therapy. 30 Dec 2008
• Using a conceptual approach with a concept map of psychosis as an exemplar to promote critical thinking. 30 Dec 2008
• Developing the concept of family involvement and the alienation questionnaire in the context of psychiatric care. 29 Nov 2008
• [Research priorities in psychiatric nursing] 29 Nov 2008
• Psychiatric nurses' attitudes to antipsychotic depots in Hong Kong and comparison with London. 30 Oct 2008
• Crisis engagement in mental health: a New Zealand Maori contribution. 29 Sep 2008
• Profiling police presentations of mental health consumers to an emergency department. 29 Sep 2008
• [Symptoms of psychiatric diseases in the aged] 30 Aug 2008
• Creating a space for recovery-focused psychiatric nursing care. 30 Aug 2008
• Photo stories, Ricoeur, and experiences from practice: a hermeneutic dialogue. 29 Jun 2008
• [How can the unthinkable be understood?] 30 May 2008
• The art of prescribing: pharmacological management of psychosis in Alzheimer's disease: clinical challenges associated with second-generation antipsychotic medications. 30 Mar 2008

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Technical information about 'Psychotic Disorders'

Definition: Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)

Descriptor UI: D011618

Alternative terms: Psychotic Disorders; Disorder, Psychotic; Disorders, Psychotic; Psychotic Disorder; Psychoses; Schizoaffective Disorder; Disorder, Schizoaffective; Disorders, Schizoaffective; Schizoaffective Disorders; Schizophreniform Disorders; Disorder, Schizophreniform; Disorders, Schizophreniform; Schizophreniform Disorder; Psychosis, Brief Reactive; Brief Reactive Psychoses; Brief Reactive Psychosis; Psychoses, Brief Reactive; Reactive Psychoses, Brief; Reactive Psychosis, Brief;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.700.675;

Online Note: use PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS to search PSYCHOSES 1966-80

History Note: 81; was PSYCHOSES 1963-80

Technical Notes: puerperal psychoses = PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS (IM) + PUERPERAL DISORDERS (IM); psychoses or psychotic disord in children = CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE