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Special Edition Editorial. Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment: Moving The Science Forward, Kathleen Delaney, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Student And Faculty Perceptions Of The National Conference On Undergraduate Research (Ncur), Mary Crowe, Debra Stanford, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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A Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy Intervention With Depressed Spanish-Speaking Mexican Women Living In An Emerging Immigrant Community In The United States, Mona Shattell, Ann Quinlan-Colwell, Jose Villalba, Nathaniel Ivers, Marina Mails

Mona Shattell

This paper reports feasibility issues with the implementation of an intervention study for depression in Latina women from Mexico living in an emerging immigrant community in the United States. Based on the PRECEDE-PROCEED model, the study explores implementation issues such as the intervention and retention; logistical issues such as transportation and childcare; and possible measurement issues such as reliability and validity of the CES-D, Spanish version. Future studies should evaluate the CES-D, Spanish version, and test the modified cognitive behavioral group therapy intervention in larger samples and through randomized controlled studies.

Using An Honors Program To Engage Undergraduate Students In Research, Debra Stanford, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Rethinking Idleness, Productivity, And Time Management: A Call To Do Nothing, More, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Authors’ And Editors’ Perspectives On Peer Review Quality In Three Scholarly Nursing Journals, Mona Shattell, Peggy Chinn, Sandra Thomas, W. Richard Cowling

Mona Shattell

Purpose: This study examined the quality of peer review in three scholarly nursing journals from the perspectives of authors and editors. Specifically, the study examined the extent to which manuscript reviews provided constructive guidance for authors to further develop their work for publication, and for editors to make informed and sound decisions on the disposition of manuscripts.

Methods: Corresponding authors who had submitted manuscripts to the study journals in 2005-2007 were invited via email to complete an online survey about the quality of the peer review process; 320 authors responded. In addition, one-third of the reviews of manuscripts submitted in …

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

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Advice To New Graduates: Get (At Least) One Year Of Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Experience Before Working In Medical-Surgical Settings, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Risk And Protection For Hiv/Aids In Hispanic, Black, And White Adolescents, T. Robin Bartlett, Raymond Buck, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

African Americans and Hispanics are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS in the US. HIV infection is often acquired during adolescence, a time when risky sexual behaviors are at their peak. This study explored relationships among selected risk factors, protective factors, and risky sexual behaviors among African American, Hispanic, and white adolescents, from a sample of adolescents from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. African Americans and Hispanics were more likely to have sexual intercourse without the use of birth control than whites. African Americans were more likely to have sexual behavior with multiple sexual partners than either Hispanics or whites. …

Mental Health Service Needs Of A Latino Population: A Community-Based Participatory Research Project, Mona Shattell, Desmina Hamilton, Sharon Starr, Courtney Jenkins, Norma Hinderliter

Mona Shattell

Community-based participatory research bridges the gap between academic researchers and the real-life issues of communities and offers promise for addressing racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care. The purpose of this community-based participatory research was to identify factors that affect access, use, and perception of mental health services by a Latino population at individual, organizational, and community levels. Individual level factors included health beliefs about mental illness and care, suspicions of providers, financial concerns, and culturally determined gender roles. Organizational factors included problems with access to care related to cost, lack of bilingual providers and culturally competent care; and …

How Patients And Nurses Experience The Acute Care Psychiatric Environment, Mona Shattell, Melanie Andes, Sandra Thomas

Mona Shattell

The concept of the therapeutic milieu was developed when patients’ hospitalizations were long, medications were few, and one-to-one nurse-patient interactions were the norm. However, it is not clear how the notion of “therapeutic milieu” is experienced in American acute psychiatric environments today. This phenomenological study explored the experience of patients and nurses in an acute care psychiatric unit in the United States (US), by asking them, “What stands out to you about this psychiatric hospital environment?” Three figural themes emerged, contextualized by time, which was a source of stress to both groups: for patients there was boredom, and for nurses, …

Healing Scents: An Overview Of Clinical Aromatherapy For Emotional Distress, Andrea Butje, Elizabeth Repede, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

Individuals in emotional distress are often treated with psychotherapeutic agents, but other treatment options exist (Hogan & Shattell, 2007). One safe and effective adjunct for the prevention and treatment of emotional distress is aromatherapy (Field et al., 2005; Kuroda et al., 2005; Lemon, 2004), the therapeutic use of inhaled essential oils. Aromatherapy is one of the fastest growing modalities in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States (U.S.) (d’Angelo, 2002), but research on aromatherapy is relatively scant and few nursing programs offer courses in aromatherapy. This article describes the physiological effects of scent, reviews the research on aromatherapy, …

Dispelling Desperation In Pre-Licensure Nursing Education, Mona Shattell, Katherine Smith, Emily Eddins, Cheryl Mcneill

Mona Shattell

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“I Have Always Felt Different:” The Experience Of Childhood Ad/Hd, Mona Shattell, T. Robin Bartlett, Tracie Rowe

Mona Shattell

Childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) is one of the most important psychiatric problems of our time. This study examined the experience of childhood AD/HD within the contexts that are most significant to this age group – home, school, and friendships. The sample included 16 college-enrolled young adults (ages 18 - 25) with a self-reported history of AD/HD. Participants revealed feelings of difference, misunderstanding, and struggle in all areas of their lives (home, school, and friendships). Nurses can use these findings to improve the care and long-term outcomes of children diagnosed with AD/HD.

Smoking Bans In Acute Care Psychiatric Settings: A Machiavellian Smoke Screen?, Mona Shattell, Melanie Andes

Mona Shattell

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Anti-Immigration Rhetoric In The United States: Veiled Racism?, Mona Shattell, Jose Villalba

Mona Shattell

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Factors Contributing To Depression In Latina Women Of Mexican Origin Residing In The United States: Implications For Nurses, Mona Shattell, Katherine Smith, Ann Quinlan-Colwell, Jose Villalba

Mona Shattell

Background: Latinas experience more depression and are less likely to receive mental health support. Latinas of Mexican origin living in the United States (US) are the focus of this review since almost two-thirds of the US Latina/o population is of Mexican descent.

Objective: This paper synthesizes the research on depression in adult Latinas of Mexican origin residing in the US.

Study Design: The Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Medline (PubMed), and PsycINFO databases for the years 2000 through 2008 were searched using the keywords Latina, Latino, Hispanic, Mexican-American, Mexican immigrant, women, and depression. The identified articles …

Visual Tracking Strategies To Move Scholarship Forward, T. Robin Bartlett, Mona Shattell, Eileen Rossen

Mona Shattell

Moving from the doctoral student role to the faculty member role is a challenging transition. Strategies that motivate and help to keep scholarship moving forward can be invaluable in helping to make the transition successful. The authors discuss 2 visual tracking strategies to promote the forward movement of scholarship. A white (dry erase) board and a publication trajectory table to track manuscript and research ideas through grant proposal and manuscript submission to publication are described.

Relationship Skills Building With Older Adults, Cheryl Mcneill, Mona Shattell, Eileen Rossen, T. Robin Bartlett

Mona Shattell

Relationship skills building is the focus of an innovative clinical experience with older adults for junior level nursing students in a psychiatric mental health course. The clinical experience is designed to help students apply, integrate, and validate previously learned therapeutic communication skills and experience discovery of self and others. This article describes a clinical experience that introduces students to older adults, who will make up the majority of health care recipients in the students’ future careers, and helps students explore the nurse’s role in mental health care for older adults.

Not only did students engaged in the clinical experience learn …

From The Guest Editor: Issues Affecting Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, And Transgender Persons, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Engaging Students And Faculty With Diverse First-Person Experiences: Using An Interpretive Research Group, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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“Take My Hand, Help Me Out:” Mental Health Service Recipients’ Experience Of The Therapeutic Relationship, Mona Shattell, Sharon Starr, Sandra Thomas

Mona Shattell

Statement of Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe mental health service recipients’ experience of the therapeutic relationship.

Research Question: The research question was “what is therapeutic about the therapeutic relationship?”

Methods: This study was a secondary analysis of qualitative interviews conducted with persons with mental illness as part of a study of the experience of being understood. This secondary analysis used data from 20 interviews with community-dwelling adults with mental illness, who were asked to talk about the experience of being understood by a health care provider. Data were analyzed using an existential phenomenological approach.

Findings: Individuals …

Boredom In Acute Psychiatric Care, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Peaceful Awakenings: Taking The “Alarm” Out Of The Alarm Clock, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Fallout From The Biological Model: Implications For Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses, Beverly Hogan, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialists, Nurse Practitioners, Or The New Practice Doctorate: Meeting Patients’ Needs?, Beverly Hogan, Mona Shattell

Mona Shattell

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Research As The Researcher’S Story, Mona Shattell, W. Richard Cowling

Mona Shattell

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