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Mental Health Patients’ Experiences Of Being Misunderstood, Mona Shattell, Laura Gaillard, Sandra Thomas

Mona Shattell

Background: Mental health patients describe “being understood” as an experience that evokes feelings of importance, worthiness, and empowerment. However, the experience of “being misunderstood” is more prevalent in patients’ relationships with health care providers. Negative consequences such as vulnerability, dehumanization, and frustration reveal that being misunderstood has the potential to damage or destroy therapeutic relationships. Objective: The purpose of this secondary analysis was to examine mental health patients’ experiences of being misunderstood. Study Design: Data consisted of transcripts from 20 interviews with community-dwelling adults with mental illness, which were analyzed using an existential phenomenological approach. Results: Four figural themes expressed …

Depression In Latinas Residing In Emerging Latino Immigrant Communities In The United States, Mona Shattell, Jose Villalba, Natalie Stokes, Desmina Hamilton, Jaimie Foster, Harald Petrini, Kristina Johnson, Norma Hinderliter, Claretta Witherspoon, R. Kathy Hinshaw, Chris Faulkner

Mona Shattell

This study examined the ways in which depression affects immigrant Latina women residing in an emerging Latino immigrant community in the US. Three Spanish-language focus groups were conducted within a community-based participatory research framework. Latina women expressed concerns about their immigration status, separation from family in their native countries, and about finances and inabilities to meet family obligations. They expressed fears for their children in the US. Their sociopolitical, economic, and familial explanations for depression differ from the individual, biological explanations of depression common today. Implications for policy makers, community organizers, health care providers, public health educators, and school counselors …

Stigmatizing Language With Unintended Meanings: "Persons With Mental Illness" Or "Mentally Ill Persons"?, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Why Does "Pain Management" Exclude Psychic Pain?, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

No abstract provided.

Junior Nursing Students' Experiences Of Vertical Violence During Clinical Rotations, Sandra Thomas, R. Burk

Sandra Thomas

Horizontal violence is a form of workplace violence, a phenomenon that is prevalent in the nursing profession. Research has revealed a variety of negative peer-to-peer behaviors that lower morale and lead to turnover. However, little research has been conducted on “eating our young” (violence occurring between individuals with unequal power, such as staff nurse and student). We propose “vertical violence” as the appropriate term when abusive registered nurse (RN) behavior is directed towards students. We report a content analysis of stories written by junior nursing students about incidents of injustice perpetrated by staff RNs during their clinical experiences. Four levels …

Becoming A Reviewer, Sandra Thomas

Sandra Thomas

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Mental Health Patients' Experiences Of Being Misunderstood, L.M. Gaillard, M.M. Shattell, Sandra Thomas

Sandra Thomas

Mental health patients describe “being understood” as an experience that evokes feelings of importance, worthiness, and empowerment. However, the experience of “being misunderstood” is more prevalent in patients’ relationships with health care providers. Negative consequences such as vulnerability, dehumanization, and frustration reveal that being misunderstood has the potential to damage or destroy therapeutic relationships.

Motivating Persons With Schizophrenia To Exercise: Rationale And Design, Lora Humphrey Beebe Phd, P Mhnp-Bc, Renee Burk, Kelly B. Mcintyre, Kathlene Smith, Dawn Velligan, Barbara Resnick, Abbas Tavakoli, Cliff Tennison, Olivera Dessieux

Lora Humphrey Beebe PhD, PMHNP-BC

Persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSDs) are not only at risk because of disabling disease symptoms but because necessary medications create health risks associated with high rates of obesity. Despite the well-known benefits of exercise, persons with SSDs rarely adhere to such regimens; few interventions to motivate exercise behavior have been tested in this group.

The purpose of this study is to examine effects of the Walk, Address sensations, Learn about exercise, Cue exercise behavior for persons with SSDs (WALC-S) motivational intervention upon exercise behavior. We will recruit a total of eighty outpatients 18–68 years, meeting these criteria: 1) chart …