The nursing information systems: Collaborative design of healthcare information systems

This paper will describe a participatory design process by which individuals from many levels of hierarchy and diverse technical background envisioned and then determined the design criteria for the software system to support the delivery of high quality nursing services.     

A reflection on the blending of person-centered therapy and solution-focused therapy.

This article provides a commentary on the article by Cepeda and Davenport (2006; see record 2006-05485-001) that proposes an integration of solution-focused and person-centered therapy. The commonalities of each approach are highlighted as well as the differences. The primary argument of the article is that the process orientation of person-centered therapy may conflict with the goals of solution-focused therapy. Markers for identifying when each approach might be appropriate are identified and the implications for the therapeutic alliance of combining the two approaches are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Videoconferencing-based family counseling for rural teenagers with epilepsy: Phase 1 findings.

Objective: Assess the effects of videoconferencing-based counseling on the psychosocial functioning of rural teenagers with epilepsy. Setting: University and rural communities. Participants: Twenty-two teenagers with epilepsy and their parents. Interventions: Six sessions of home-based video counseling, home-based speakerphone counseling, or office-based counseling. Main Outcome Measures: Problem severity and frequency, Social Skills Rating System, modified Working Alliance Inventory, and treatment adherence. Results: Teenagers and parents reported significant reductions in both problem severity and frequency across all 3 conditions from pre- to post-6th session to the 6-month follow-up. Parents reported significant increases in prosocial behaviors from pre- to post-6th session to follow-up. In contrast, both parents and teachers reported no change in problem behaviors over time. No differences in adherence were found across the 3 modalities. Overall therapeutic alliance was high but varied as a function of family member and treatment. Conclusions: Mode of delivery did not influence initial treatment outcomes or adherence. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Meeting Freud's family.

Reviews the book, Meeting Freud's family by Paul Roazen (see record 1993-99040-000). Over the years, Roazen has built a reputation as an expert on Freud. This is not a view to which many Freud scholars would be inclined to subscribe, but their opinions do not reach the general educated public to any appreciable extent. For most people, anything written about Freud that is thought to carry authority is considered informed comment on the psychoanalytic discipline itself. Roazen's new book is likely to be seized on for further enlightenment and, in view of its title, for inside information. "This book," he tells us, "is an attempt to re-create--based on my understanding of the place of psychoanalysis in intellectual history--the world of Freud's family life" (p. 16). What he wants to report is "the whole ambience surrounding these, people, and how their lives said something special about Freud" (p. 16). He wants to do this on the basis of personal interviews. The family Roazen met were two of Freud's daughters, Anna Freud (in 1965) and Mathilda (Hollitscher) Freud (1966), and one son, Oliver Freud (1966). Anna Freud granted him two interviews; the others appear to have seen him on only one occasion. He also interviewed Martin Freud's estranged wife, Esti, in the spring and summer of 1966. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Fathers who fail: Shame and psychopathology in the family system.

Reviews the book, Fathers who fail: Shame and psychopathology in the family system by Melvin R. Lansky (see record 1992-98607-000). Melvin Lansky's riveting book is about fathers who cannot find their way in the world of either love or work, but are driven to self-destructive bonds with others by problems with their "paternal imago." This book addresses the central role of the affect of shame, and the defenses against experiencing it, leading to varieties of "impulsive" symptom formation, disturbing the capacity for sustaining work or love relationships and constantly threatening breakdown of fragile self-esteem. Symptoms are viewed as failed efforts to escape shame through rage and to rigidly regulate optimal distance in family relationships. The attempt throughout is to meld a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives with family systems perspectives. The book is organized into several sections, beginning with an overview entitled Symptom, System and Personality in Fathers Who Fail, followed by The Paternal Imago. Next comes Defenses Against Shame: Narcissistic Equilibrium in the Family System, and then a section on shame and symptom formation. A section entitled Treatment Difficulties completes the book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

家庭因素对独生子女人格社会化的消极影响

独生子女的成长问题一直是社会关注的焦点之一。在独生子女的人格社会化过程之中,家庭因素具有极大的阻碍和推进作用。就其消极作用结合独生子女人格发展的心理缺陷,从家庭教育的关系、目标、内容、环境、方式等方面做详细分析。     

家庭数字网络展望

展望未来的数字家庭网络 ,让人们感受到网络带给我们的方便。     

一种基于感性设计的产品平台参数的辨识方法研究

在基本功能满足的前提下,顾客对产品的感性认识往往是其选择产品的主要依据。提出了一种基于顾客对产品感性认识进行产品平台参数与个性参数辨识的新方法。该方法能使设计人员理解设计参数对顾客喜好的敏感程度,为设计人员准确理解顾客需求提供了理论依据。并以自行车车架为例进行说明。     

Review of Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy: Vol. 1. Psychodynamic/Object Relations.

This initial volume is an introduction to a four-volume work. The text consists of 25 chapters, organized into six different sections. The first three sections address psychotherapy for three different age stratifications: children, adolescents, and adults. Sections IV and V address couples and family therapy, and group therapy, respectively. The closing section (VI) addresses "special topics," which turn out to include group interventions in therapeutic communities, cardiac patients, and ethnic and gender topics, as these have a bearing on transference in psychotherapy. This is followed by a closing summary of the entire volume by the editor. The reviewer recommends this volume to psychotherapists of all persuasions, who are interested in expanding their horizons and perhaps broadening the applicability of their other techniques and formulations to problems of human motivation, conflict and pathology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Family obligation and the transition to young adulthood.

Changes in a sense of obligation to assist, support, and respect the family were examined among an ethnically diverse group of 745 American individuals as they began to move from secondary school into young adulthood. A sense of family obligation increased for all young adults, with slight variations according to ethnic and financial backgrounds. Young adults from Filipino and Latin American families reported the strongest sense of familial duty during young adulthood, which partially explained their tendency to live with and contribute financially to their families. The implications of family obligation for employment and educational persistence depended on age and academic performance in high school. Finally, a sense of family obligation was associated with more positive emotional well-being. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)