Not exact matches
Athletic Trainers work closely with physicians and other health professionals and are responsible for being current in several areas,
including: an evidence based practice (EBP), prevention and health promotion (PHP), clinical examination and diagnosis (CE), acute care of injuries and illnesses (AC), therapeutic
interventions (TI),
psychosocial strategies and referral (PS), healthcare administration (HA), and professional development and responsibility (PD).
«Given the current state of the opioid overdose epidemic, it is critical that patients seeking help for opioid addiction have access to comprehensive treatment that
includes highly effective medications whose effects may be enhanced with the provision of
psychosocial interventions,» according to the report by Karen Dugosh, PhD, of Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, and colleagues
Nine of these studies showed significant benefits of
psychosocial interventions in patients being treated with methadone,
including reduced drug use and increased treatment attendance.
Additional limitations to the traditional approach
include: costly failures to replicate positive results in larger trials; difficulty in determining the reasons for negative results; low yield in terms of identifying disease or
intervention mechanisms due to an exclusive focus on symptom change and clinical endpoints; and, the expensive and very lengthy practice of first establishing multi-component
psychosocial treatments followed by years of «unpacking» studies.
Dr. Carothers» training and expertise spans a wide variety of evidence - based treatments,
including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), the Incredible Years parent & child
psychosocial intervention, and trauma - focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF - CBT).
A review of 16 empirical studies, from 1982 to 2008, found that sitting meditation,
including mindfulness and Transcendental Meditation practices seems to be an effective
intervention in the treatment of physiologic,
psychosocial, and behavioral conditions among youths ages 6 - 18.
Conducted social work on acute psychiatric adult and child inpatient units and provided direct social work services
including individual and family brief therapeutic
interventions, discharge planning,
psychosocial evaluations, and treatment planning.
Social Worker — Duties & Responsibilities Successfully serve as a psychiatric social worker and practice manager for multiple institutions Perform crisis
intervention, adult, geriatric, child, and adolescent case management and therapy Counsel patients facing depression, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, dementia, and schizophrenia Serve survivors of domestic violence, rape, robbery, child abuse, suicide, and other traumatic events Responsible for 24 hour on call crisis
intervention for multiple hospital emergency rooms Complete
psychosocial assessments to ensure appropriate patient diagnosis and care Design and implement treatment plans
including medication and individual / group / family therapy sessions Attend weekly team meetings to assess patient progress and document in the DAP system Review psychometric and psychological reports and provide feedback to patients and families Provide clients and family members with guidance and referrals to community resources Maintain contact with family members and encouraged their involvement in patient treatment Performed discharge planning
including nursing home placement, home health, medication needs, transportation and Passport screening, extended in - patient and out - patient mental health services Serve as public speaker, referral development committee member, and marketing / financial advisor
The following 3 literature reviews were conducted for the updated GLAD - PC recommendations: (1) nonspecific
psychosocial interventions in pediatric PC,
including studies pertaining to integrated behavioral health and collaborative care models; (2) antidepressant treatment; and (3) psychotherapy
interventions.
The quality improvement
intervention included (1) expert leader teams at each site that adapted and implemented the
intervention; (2) care managers who supported primary care clinicians with patient evaluation, education, medication and
psychosocial treatment, and linkage with specialty mental health services; (3) training of care managers in manualized CBT for depression; and (4) patient and clinician choice of treatment modalities (CBT, medication, combined CBT and medication, care manager follow - up, or referral).
«Behavioral Health Consultants, LLC seeks to improve day - to - day functioning by addressing
psychosocial barriers and specific dynamics that necessitate therapeutic
intervention.Vanessa has worked as a clinical therapist addressing specialty areas to
include crisis
intervention, trauma focused
intervention, risk assessment and family skill building.
This section of Blueprint for Change — Research on Child and Adolescent Mental Health examines issues
including cost and service utilization, areas of scientific research
including basic neuroscience, behavioral science, prevention,
psychosocial interventions, and psychopharmacology.
Studies were selected if the
intervention targeted children with a chronic health condition or their family members; a planned
psychosocial intervention was evaluated (naturally occurring family resources, medical
interventions and medical or physical treatment, medications, or treatment regimens were excluded); psychological or social outcomes were examined; and ≥ 15 participants were
included in the study which had random assignment to treatment groups, a matched comparison group, or a convenience comparison group.
Although physiological reactivity in humans can be altered in the short term by
psychosocial interventions (34, 35),
including in children exposed to maternal deprivation (36, 37), we are unaware of experimental research examining whether random assignment to a caregiving environment alters patterns of physiological reactivity later in development.
Depression in young people is a problem with such pervasive features that one can find abnormalities in almost any domain (eg, cognitive, family) to justify any treatment.1 A great variety of
psychosocial interventions have therefore been used with depressed children,
including CBT, psychotherapy, and family therapy.
The quality improvement
intervention included: expert leader teams at each site to implement and adapt
intervention; care managers to support primary care clinicians with evaluation, education, medication, and
psychosocial treatment, and linking with specialised mental health services; training care managers in manual cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for depression; and access to participant and clinician choice of treatment (CBT, medication, combined CBT and medication, care manager follow up, or referral).
We have previously reported the immediate effects of this
psychosocial family - based
intervention on independently observed aspects of the caregiving environment and child social competence during unfamiliar peer entry,
including approach and regulatory behaviors.30 Thus, we have demonstrated the efficacy of the
intervention in altering the targeted risk factors.
For example, a tobacco - focused review which
included any
intervention type, classified
interventions with a component of resilience content into different subgroups such as social competence or social influence
interventions, finding evidence for both broad
intervention approaches.6 For the alcohol - focused review, only universal
interventions were
included with such
interventions grouped according to whether they targeted alcohol alone or targeted multiple substance types.5 While meta - analysis was not conducted due to the heterogeneity of studies, the review concluded that some
psychosocial and developmental prevention programmes were effective.
Barsevick et al
include in their review a heterogeneous mix of
psychosocial interventions, and they pool together research studies of people with different types of cancers.
Participants Inclusion criteria are: (1) randomised controlled trials of structured,
psychosocial interventions offered to a universal population of parents with infants 0 — 12 months old in western OECD countries, (2)
interventions that
include a minimum of 3 sessions with at least half of the sessions delivered postnatally and (3) programme outcomes reported for child development or parent — child relationship.
Adjunctive
psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder target many of the issues that are not addressed by medication alone,
including non-adherence, efficacy — effectiveness gap and functionality.
Any adverse effects relating to child or parental
psychosocial health or indeed, family functioning (unintended consequences of parent training may
include, for example, feelings of disempowerment on the part of untrained spouses / partners / other carers related to the participants of the
interventions).
It considers the range of appropriate clinical and
psychosocial interventions,
including organisational frameworks at the interface between primary and secondary care.
A review of 16 empirical studies, from 1982 to 2008, found that sitting meditation,
including mindfulness and Transcendental Meditation practices seems to be an effective
intervention in the treatment of physiologic,
psychosocial, and behavioral conditions among youths ages 6 - 18.
Medical trauma has some distinct characteristics that may impact the course of traumatic stress symptoms and have implications for medical care and
psychosocial intervention,
including:
Parent - training programmes have been shown to be successful in improving a range of outcomes
including maternal
psychosocial health32 and emotional and behavioural adjustment in children under 3 years of age.33 In the UK, the Sure Start project was launched in 1999 targeting preschool children and their families, in disadvantaged areas, with a number of
interventions including good quality play, learning and child care.34 Recent evidence suggests that enrolled families showed less negative parenting and provided a better home - learning environment.35 The findings presented in this paper suggest that successful parenting
interventions may improve the transfer of cognitive skills between generations thereby protecting disadvantaged families from unintentionally placing their children at risk of being on a path of continual negativity.