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R R Hutzell

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PubMed1997

A multimodal, second generation, posttraumatic stress disorder rehabilitation program.

Second Generation posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment programs were recently proposed as one component of a model of treatment of chronic PTSD. While First Generation PTSD programs emphasized trauma work, Second Generation programs emphasize skills for the present/future ability to adapt within society. The present paper describes a functioning Second Generation PTSD treatment program for Vietnam combat veterans. The guiding principles underlying this multimodal and vocational rehabilitation program are outlined.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1987

An Orientation questionnaire.

We describe the development of an Orientation Questionnaire (OQ), a standardized measure of the impairment of an older person's ability to communicate orientation information. Starting with a pool of selected items, we made a series of revisions that resulted in a 17-item questionnaire with a score range from 0 through 40 points. In additional studies we determined that OQ scores evidence adequate reliability (test-retest r = .969) and adequate validity (r with nurse ratings = .798 and .793; r with behavioral assessment = .807). The OQ scores discriminated groups on the basis of environmental structure (community vs. nursing home vs. neuropsychiatric hospital) and psychiatric diagnosis (organic vs. schizophrenic vs. no diagnosis). Tentative classification data are presented, and uses of the OQ are discussed.

Aged↗
PubMed1986

Use of the Life Purpose Questionnaire with an alcoholic population.

This paper examines the potential use of the Life Purpose Questionnaire (LPQ), which is an uncomplicated paper-and-pencil instrument designed to measure an individual's sense of life meaning. Sense of life meaning is an important focus of Crumbaugh's logotherapy for alcoholics. Correlations between scores of the LPQ and the more complicated Purpose-in-Life Test are significant for three separate alcoholic groups. Based on these results, it is concluded that the LPQ can be used with alcoholics in order to obtain a quick and readily understandable measure of the individual's sense of life meaning.

Adult↗
PubMed1984

A comparison of the effectiveness of MMPI indices in the discrimination of brain-damaged and schizophrenic patients.

Assessed the effectiveness of 22 published MMPI procedures to differentiate organic brain syndrome (OBS) from schizophrenic (Sc) patients. Generally, each procedure previously has been suggested to have some effectiveness in making this differentiation. When assessed across studies, however, the S groups have differed on so many relevant variables (age, sex, clinical setting, etc.) that direct comparisons of their relative effectiveness cannot be made. In the current study the accuracy rates are presented for each of the 22 discrimination procedures with a sample matched on age, education, and IQ and also with an unmatched sample, all selected from the patient population at a neuropsychiatric setting. With the matched sample the Hs-Pt Index (Watson, Plemel , & Jacobs, 1978) and the Sc-O Scale, Unweighted Long form (Watson, 1971) reached statistical significance (p less than .10). With the unmatched sample both of the above procedures plus the OBS Signs procedure ( Markowitz , 1973) and P-O Scale (Watson & Plemel , 1978) reached statistical significance (p less than .10). Overall accuracy rates of those procedures found to be statistically significant ranged from 61.5 to 70.0%. These accuracy rates compare favorably to those obtained with more complex and time-consuming neuropsychiatric batteries.

Adult↗
PubMed1983

Further evaluation of the CPI Repeated Item Short Form.

Cross-validated the CPI Repeated Item Short Form (RISF). Three populations (police dispatcher recruits (N = 22), college students (N = 30), and penitentiary prisoners (N = 51) were used for comparison purposes. Each S was administered the full-length CPI, from which scores for the short forms were extracted. CPI short-form comparisons were conducted by contrasting intercorrelational matrices, comparing correlations with full length CPI scales, and determining profile validity/invalidity as well as matching profile high and low points. On all of the described comparisons the RISF compared favorably relative to the only other published CPI short form (i.e., the Factor Analyzed Short Form--FASF). The authors conclude the RISF is a good approximation of the full length CPI profiles for both institutionalized and normal populations.

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