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Modern Healthcare (40)18 2010
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I examine the ways that bereaved older adults attribute responsibility for their late spouses' deaths, and the consequences of such attributions for psychological adjustment to loss. Data are from the Changing Lives of Older Couples, a prospective study of married persons ages 65 and older Bereaved...
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PMID: 19711811
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Health Expectations (11)4 2008
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(i) the experiences of obesity are diverse, but there are common themes, (ii) people living with obesity have heard the messages but find it difficult to act upon them, (iii) interventions should be tailored to address both individual and community needs and (iv) we need to rethink how to approach o...
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PMID: 18684133
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New Zealand Medical Journal (121)1284 2008
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New Zealand Medical Journal (121)1282 2008
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There was an overall response rate of 33% (123/373). 50% of responders reported experiencing at least one episode of bullying behaviour. The largest source of workplace bullying was consultants and nurses in equal frequency. The most common bullying behaviour was unjustified criticism. Only 18% of r...
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PMID: 18815599
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We explore the dynamic social conditions that give rise to transformative agency and institutional change. Our results show that hospitals are often permeated with the habitus of employment, kinship and reproductive social fields, through which a number of social, economic and healthcare conflicts,...
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PMID: 18298632
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In 2000 the American Institute of Medicine, adviser to the federal government on policy matters relating to the health of the public, published the report To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, which was to become a call to arms for improving patient safety across the Western world. By re-...
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PMID: 18290938
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New Solutions (18)2 2008
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When public health researchers study the health effects of disasters (whether "naturally-occurring," disasters due to failure of technology, or disasters due to terrorism), some aspects of the post-disaster situation of victims are often overlooked. Social science research has shown that the vast ma...
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PMID: 18511398
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Journal of Homosexuality (55)3 2008
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We are confronted with the question of why he continues to be such a central and emotionally fraught aspect of American culture. The answer to this question is found in his political usefulness. Specifically, the religious right uses him to further its agenda of sexual repression, and the political...
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PMID: 19042277
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The author uses literary plagues as a model for thinking psychoanalytically about the basic anxieties activated among perpetrators of sanctioned massacres. The model of the plague allows abstracting an underlying primitive psychological organization characterized by syncretism and a powerful anxiety...
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PMID: 18055377
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (149)41 2007
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This paper examines the production of risk and blame discourses during the 2003 SARS epidemic and responses to those messages in New York City's Chinatown, a community stigmatized during the SARS epidemic despite having no SARS cases. The study consisted of 6 weeks participant observation and 37 sem...
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PMID: 17544189
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The Health service journal (117)6064 2007
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This paper examines the role of group interaction in the workplace and the impact of anxiety on group cohesion. It takes a psychoanalytical perspective and highlights how early learning within a familial setting influences later attitudes and behaviour at work. In particular the article focuses on t...
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PMID: 17456166
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Nurse Education Today (27)3 2007
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This paper considers the theories of scapegoating and their application to nursing. It reviews the literature on scapegoating drawing particular attention to those studies which have emphasised on the instrumental uses of scapegoating in organisational contexts. The paper draws on data from a qualit...
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PMID: 17257712
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Nursing Management (38)3 2007
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The Seroconversion Narratives for AIDS Prevention (SNAP) study elicited narratives from recently infected seropositive gay and bisexual men that described the circumstances of their own seroconversion. This analysis of the narratives explored participants' attributions of responsibility for HIV prev...
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PMID: 17411387
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We are forced to abandon conceptualizations of blame that assume a dichotomy (either culpable or not), and shift instead to a more nuanced version that estimates the degree to which an actor desired, generated, or could have foreseen the harmful outcome, and the extent to which constraints external...
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PMID: 17714255
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Physician Executive (33)4 2007
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"Systems" in health care organizations are difficult to visualize and understand by people across the organization. Systems exist as behaviors that have reasons and consequences rather than strict, linear cause and effect relationships. Learn how to sketch and see the systems at work in health care,...
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PMID: 17715703
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Physician Executive (33)4 2007
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Discover steps that physician leaders can take to end the blame game and begin working as a much more functional and focused team.
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PMID: 17715702
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The purpose of this paper is to describe and illuminate the phenomenon of scapegoating in group psychotherapy. Specifically, the role of projective identification - on both individual and group-wide bases - in the evolution of the deviant is delineated. Individual, interpersonal, and whole-group int...
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PMID: 17266431
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New England Journal of Medicine (355)24 2006
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (55)4 2006
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The author introduces both the concept and practice of Integrative Parent-Infant Psychotherapy (IPI-P), a treatment specifically designed for the most frequent developmental problems and psychological needs of infants and their parents. Based on growing knowledge from interdisciplinary infancy resea...
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PMID: 17436558
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This paper examines the reporting of the story of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and its human derivative variant Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (vCJD) in the British newspapers. Three 'snapshots' of newspaper coverage are sampled and analysed between the period 1986 and 1996 focusing on how repre...
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PMID: 16046039
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Relatively little research has considered the risk to siblings within maltreating families. The sample in the present study consisted of the 795 siblings from a cohort of 400 "index" children who had been referred to police child protection units in England for abuse and/or neglect. In 44% of famili...
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PMID: 16402877
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This article highlights the clinical progress of three long-term psychotherapy groups for children with pervasive developmental disorders. Unique aspects of working with such children are addressed as well as their movement through the phases of group development. Clinical observations suggested tha...
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PMID: 15899759
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This study investigates whether depressive tendencies or anger/hostility is associated with an increased propensity for a mother to target a particular child in the family as the "problem child." The 180 participants were drawn from a larger cohort of urban, low-income mothers and young children. Ma...
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PMID: 15731887
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According to psychoanalytic theory, punitiveness is based on a projection of one's own immoral desires and the moral conflict they cause (scapegoat hypothesis). This hypothesis implies that transgressors impose harsher punishment onto comparable wrongdoers. This effect should be amplified by strengt...
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PMID: 15536246
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The concept of discourse is an important tool in negotiating conflict and facilitating conversations within therapy. This article offers a useful framework for negotiating conflict in a couple relationship by highlighting the manner in which individual's expectations are mutually emergent from parti...
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PMID: 15293651
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Because groups are an intrinsic part of the adolescent's life, group therapy can be a powerful and effective treatment modality for them. However, it poses many challenges to group leaders and members alike. This paper, drawing on Maurice Sendak's well-known and beloved picture book Where the Wild T...
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PMID: 15164131
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These data highlight the need for significant attention to the management of rural disasters, such as, the OJD program. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS: There is an acknowledgement in the literature that rural disasters have a significant impact on the well-being of individuals, families and communities. The m...
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PMID: 15023222
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Medical Journal of Australia (180)7 2004
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During the 1950s and 1960s, the concept of culture had currency beyond the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology and sociology. This article takes up a clinical example of the invocation of the culture concept by examining how early family therapists such as Nathan Ackerman, Murray Bowen, and Don...
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PMID: 14724915
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Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie: Ergebnisse aus Psychoanalyse, Psychologie und Familientherapie (52)10 2003
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The aim of this paper is to develop a few ideas on the etiology of enuresis nocturna from a systemic point of view. Based on twenty single case studies a typology of the function of enuresis will be described by a detailed analysis of two case studies. The presentation is preceded by a brief summary...
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PMID: 14699787
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We focus here on two incidents in which that client was involved. Discourse analytic techniques were used to examine her account of the two incidents and those of the staff members involved. Participants discussed key themes from the interviews in terms of several dilemmas: whether the violent or ag...
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PMID: 12850116
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The Lancet (362)9383 2003
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic provides fertile breeding ground for theories of the origin of HIV/AIDS, its mode of transmission, and the allocation of blame. Drawing on ethnographic research in the Bushbuckridge region of the South African lowveld, this article examines the articulation of AIDS through goss...
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PMID: 14516020
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Surgical Neurology (60)1 2003
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In contemporary societies, risk culture and risk profiling lead to the stigmatization of unhealthy behaviours as 'risky'. Risk denial theory refers to a cognitive way to deal with risky behaviours and can be considered as an updated variant of Sykes and Matza's neutralization theory. People neutrali...
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PMID: 12745817
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Comparing moral panic with the potential catastrophes of the risk society, Sheldon Ungar contends that new sites of social anxiety emerging around nuclear, medical, environmental and chemical threats have thrown into relief many of the questions motivating moral panic research agendas. He argues tha...
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PMID: 12745816
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Hastings Center Report (33)6 2003
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Modern Healthcare (32)43 2002
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The Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association last week released a report scrutinizing hospitals' role in healthcare cost inflation, which at 10% last year was the highest in a decade. Blues association President and CEO Scott Serota (left) defended the report, which angered hospital grou...
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PMID: 12436767
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We need to cooperate and respond as befits this global public-health disaster and not engage in the misguided and bad faith activity of dividing the world into the blameworthy and blameless....
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PMID: 11961699
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The aim of this study was to further understanding of blame in systemic therapy. Five families were chosen by their therapeutic team as engaging in blaming of a kind that the therapists found difficult to work with. Couples from each of the five families participated. A video extract from therapy id...
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PMID: 11977374
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The news media have the potential to influence public perceptions about childhood vaccination. Research has quantified the extent of positive news reportage on immunisation but no studies have explored the rhetorical nature and the core appeals that characterise positive reportage. To complement our...
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PMID: 11824920
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Hospital Quarterly (5)4 2002
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Commitment to patient safety must be a priority of every healthcare institution. York Central Hospital has implemented a quality initiative to address multi-professional issues that result from a significant sentinel event where there is a notion of perceived wrongdoing due to an adverse and/or unex...
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PMID: 12357574
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Medico-Legal Journal (70)Pt 4 2002
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Milbank Quarterly (80)1 2002
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A crucial aspect of medical consumerism has been overlooked in past research and policymaking: how consumers decide whom to "blame" for bad outcomes. This study explores how, in a system increasingly dominated by managed care, these attributions affect consumers' attitudes and behavior. Using data f...
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PMID: 11933793
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