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L S Beeber

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PubMed1990

To be one of the boys: aftershocks of the World War I nursing experience.

The mass deployment of nurses during World War I removed them from their structured professional culture and thrust them into the unfamiliar world of men at war. Analysis of personal accounts indicates that for some nurses, this event increased awareness of conflicts between autonomous professional practice and the "good woman" image. It led them to examine the disparity between healing and participation in war and to experience sex-based inequality in the face of equal danger. The emerging dialectic provoked personal and professional change. The value of confrontation with differentness as an impetus to growth is examined.

Female↗
PubMed1989

Update on medications for the treatment of anxiety.

It is interesting to note that antidepressants are widely represented in the medications used to treat the anxiety disorders. This has led to speculation about the role of depression, particularly subclinical forms being manifested as anxiety disorders. The specificity of diagnostic categories suggests that, at least for the moment, medications have a very specific and circumscribed role in the treatment of anxiety. This suggests that the difficulties of many anxious patients are not effectively treated with medication or that medication has only a short-term role at best. The next column will review health problems associated with psychotropic treatments for anxiety and discuss strategies for creating a "wedge," ie, introducing adjunct learning experiences along the anxiety gradient in conjunction with pharmacotherapy.

Anxiety Disorders↗
PubMed1989

Enacting corrective interpersonal experiences with the depressed client: an intervention model.

In an attempt to protect the self from anxiety associated with the need for tenderness, the depressed patient enacts particular interpersonal phenomena designed to create distance and control intimacy. A theoretical framework using Sullivan and Peplau explains these phenomena in the context of the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship and guides specific responses by the nurse to create a corrective interpersonal experience. Case material illustrates these processes.

Anxiety↗
PubMed1986

Cohesiveness in groups: a concept in search of a definition.

Cohesiveness in groups has been studied intensively since the 1950s. It is viewed as a central property of all groups and a "curative factor" in therapy groups. Literature on group work in nursing incorporates discussion of group cohesiveness. Its "positive valence" has invited broad application without critical examination of its meanings and limitations. Progress in thinking about cohesiveness in groups, as well as the lack of generally accepted theoretical and operational definitions, suggests the relevance of a reexamination of the concept with a view toward recognizing its limitations or moving toward greater specification of the meaning and improved measurement of the concept.

Female↗