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Implementation Of A Peer Mentoring-Network Initiative In Outpatient Psychiatry To Improve Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses' Job Satisfaction, Maria Romanoff Rand

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Background: Post-pandemic rates of mental illness have increased, resulting in a rise in demand for psychiatric services. At the same time, a growing shortage of psychiatric providers is occurring. This combination has given rise to an expanding mental health crisis where strengthening and stabilizing the psychiatric workforce is paramount. Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses are uniquely qualified to staff this shortage. Therefore, positive job satisfaction for Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurses is vital to increase and retain psychiatric healthcare providers available to address this critical need for mental health services.

Methods: At the project site, the shift to telehealth, changing leadership, and …

Finding Solutions To Institutional Corruption: Lessons From Cognitive Dissonance Theory, Lisa Cosgrove, Robert Whitaker

Counseling and School Psychology Faculty Publication Series

The American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry in the United States have two conflicts of interest that may affect their assessment of psychiatric drugs and their development of diagnostic and clinical care guidelines: payments from pharmaceutical companies and guild interests. Until recently, the proposed solution to industry-academic relationships has been transparency. However, cognitive dissonance research reveals that disclosure is not a solution because cognitive biases are commonplace and difficult to eradicate. Indeed, bias is most often manifest in subtle ways unbeknownst to the researcher or clinician, and thus is usually implicit and unintentional. Also, recent studies suggest that disclosure of …

Warum Gesunde Menchen Immer Häufiger Fur Psychisch Krank Erklärt Werden, Lisa Cosgrove

Counseling and School Psychology Faculty Publication Series

zuerst einmal nicht schaden": Das ist der wohl wichtigste Grundsatz der Medizin. Aber diese Mission droht durch den Einfluss großer Pharmafirmen unterhöhlt zu werden. Der Vorwurf einer Verstrickung von Ärzten und Arzneimittelherstellern ist schon in fast allen medizinischen Fachrichtungen aufgekommen. Vor allem aber die Psychiatrie steckt in einer Glaubwürdigkeitskrise. Das zeigt sich in der aktuellen Debatte um die neue Auflage des "Diagnostischen und Statistischen Manual Psychischer Störungen" (DSM).

Dieses von der US-Psychiater-Vereinigung APA herausgegebene Handbuch definiert, was eine psychische Erkrankung ist. Die Bedeutung dieser Wertung geht weit über die USA hinaus - das Handbuch nimmt oft Definitionen der Weltgesundheitsorganisation vorweg. …