Psychological Treatment - Science topic

I need articles that use experimental design for reducing Fearing laughter Gelotophobia

at college students or others.......

Any human being can suffer from the daily life stress: viewing bad national or/and international news, having responsibilities in work, Caring about family and friends, being worried, anxious... due to covid 19....

What about occupying one's mind with research, having a human goal to enrich science, whatever would be the field of research, could science and research occupation be considered as a psychological treatment from daily stress, in stead of being itself (the research), stressing?

Dear Colleagues,

Doctors from UCLA and Yale University are conducting a Survey on Postoperative Practices in Evaluating and Treating Patients with Brain Tumors in North America.

We are asking neurosurgeons, (neuro)psychologists, speech-language therapists, and occupational therapists, physiotherapists, or psychotherapists to participate in the survey.

Our goal is to understand common practices, disseminate standards of care, and gather information on post-operative outcomes in patients with brain tumors. We will publish the results from this survey in an open-access journal.

The survey can be accessed here:

Thank you very much for your help! Please reach out with any questions.

Monika Polczynska

UCLA Dept. of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences

Email: MPolczynska@mednet.ucla.edu

I have had some trouble finding articles on the holistic treatment that OTs use in the field. As an aspiring OT, I am interested in the trends with the field and the progress made with holistic health. This is for a school project. Any help is appreciated.

I am working with Rev manager 5.3, doing a meta-analysis on 8 studies that each compare 2 psychological treatments and found no difference between them.

Which validated self-administerede questionnaires could you recommend to measure psychosocial functioning among veterans seeking treatment by a psychologist? The questionnaire should be able to examine and detect the effect of treatment on psychosocial functioning e.g. among clients with severe PTSD where the symptom severity does not diminish although it is obvious that the clients improve in their contact to their spouse, children, friends and family - and are able to participate in social activities. The assessment is meant to be before treatment initiation and after treatment termination (after e.g. 10/20 times)? I am aware of WHODAS 2.0, recommend by WHO, however I do not find that it suits younger clinets (WHODAS also includes questions about mobility). I do hope you have some suggestings.

I am interested in the use of behavioural experiments or tasks to assess the effectiveness of a psychological treatment. For example how close someone could get to a feared stimulus; setting a task and their ability to complete it or self rated anxiety whilst completing it.

I wonder if anyone can recommend papers that have used these approaches or any reviews looking at the validity of these as an outcome measure?

Thanks

Sinéad

Many articles on psychological treatment of bipolar disorder (and anxiety in bipolar disorder) report small samples. However, very few describe or raise the question about the challenges in recruiting patients with bipolar disorder. Please help me find articles about this topic or write what you know if you are an expert! Thank you

In patients with schizophrenia, after several times of relapse, the patients' response to previous antipsychotic medication seems to become poor or take longer time to achieve response. Is there any hypothesis to explain this phenomenon ? 

What sorts of treatment is best for children ages 6-12?

What are the pros/cons of withholding treatment?

One of the most reliable findings in depression treatment is that adjunctive pharmacological and psychological treatments lead to better outcomes than any monotherapy. Is there a case, however, for patients not taking antidepressants when undertaking dynamic psychotherapies? 

Possible mechanism would be reduced emotionality experienced in exploring difficult topics

Are there reviews on molecular/targeted therapies and patient-reported outcomes / HRQoL /psychological sequalae?

There seems to be a bulk of articles about seemingly advantagous effects of so called "targeted therapies" even on the QoL of cancer patients. But sparse data about individual, psychological sequalae of those therapies. Or even of psychological interventions for patients in "targeted therapies".

Is anyone doing or has done a comparative study to examine the efficacy of mindful awareness practices with other psychological treatment techniques such as Remedial training, Cognitive training and CBT in children with learning disabilities? I am looking for literature on this topic.

Usually both psychological treatments are used for cancer patients, especially breast cancer. In your opinion which of them can be more effective and longer term impact?

Many individuals who present for treatment of a psychiatric disorder have strong and well-formed spiritual or religious beliefs. Can this characteristic be leveraged to help alleviate symptoms and behaviors, or does it act as a barrier by its rigidity and resistance to new or nonorthodox solutions?