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C M Chemtob

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PubMed1988

Patients' suicides: frequency and impact on psychiatrists.

Results of a national survey of randomly selected psychiatrists revealed that 51% (N = 131) of the 259 respondents had had a patient who committed suicide. This event had an impact on both their personal and their professional lives. Sixty-five psychiatrists reported stress levels in the weeks following the suicide that were comparable to levels reported in studies of people seeking treatment after the death of a parent. Younger, less-experienced clinicians were more affected by a patient's suicide than older clinicians with more experience. Implications of these results for the training and practice of psychiatrists are discussed.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1985

The effect of decreasing delays in appointments on patients' failure to keep appointments.

Patients who fail to keep their appointments for mental-health services are not likely to receive optimal treatment for their disorders and valuable professional time is not used efficiently. One means to decrease failures to keep appointments is to decrease delays in appointments. This study examined the effects of decreasing delays in appointments on appointment keeping for patients who were scheduled for initial intake appointments at a day-treatment center. Decreasing delays in appointments from 5.44 days during baseline to 1.67 days during intervention resulted in a significant decrease in failures to keep appointments from 34 to 13% (P less than 0.05). Reducing delays in appointments, therefore, can be an effective means to reduce failures to keep appointments and increase the likelihood that psychiatric patients who are initially seeking services at mental-health programs will receive prompt attention to their disorders.

Appointments and Schedules↗
PubMed1981

Hemispheric lateralization and aesthetic judgement.

Pairs of slides depicting works of art were presented tachistoscopically to the left or right visual half-fields. Subjects performed an aesthetic judgement task, selecting the better work of art in each pair. Subjects with highly lateralized cerebral organization, as inferred by handedness or sex, performed significantly better in response to slides presented in one visual half-field (VHF) than in response to slides presented in the opposite VHF. Some of these subjects showed a left VHF superiority, while others showed a right RHF superiority. Subjects who were less lateralized showed no significant tendency to perform better in response to slides presented in one VHF or the other. The results are interpreted as an indication that subjects will perform a given task in a lateralized or a non-lateralized manner as a function of the interaction between individual differences in cerebral organization and the cognitive processes used to perform the task.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Paradoxical complementarity in the esthetic preferences of the cerebral hemispheres: an exploratory study.

Significant differences in the consistency of intrahemispheric and interhemispheric preferences indicate reliable differences in the esthetic choices associated with each hemisphere. Given an initial like or dislike of stimuli by the hemisphere first activated, the other hemisphere will exhibit preferences in the opposite direction. This suggests a process of paradoxical complementarity between the hemispheres in which the preferences of the hemispheres are antithetical but not fixed.

Adult↗