The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the importance of compassion in health care and experiences of... more Purpose This paper aims to discuss the importance of compassion in health care and experiences of Compassion Circles (CCs) in supporting it, placing this into the national policy context of the National Health Service (NHS), whilst focusing on lessons from using the practice in mental health care. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper is a discussion of the context of compassion in health care and a description of model and related concepts of CCs. This paper also discusses lessons from implementation of CCs in mental health care. Findings CCs were developed from an initial broad concern with the place of compassion and well-being in communities and organisations, particularly in health and social care after a number of scandals about failures of care. Through experience CCs have been refined into a flexible model of supporting staff in mental health care settings. Experience to date suggests they are a valuable method of increasing compassion for self and others, improv...
A. The application of Siegel Limited Partnership and Ocean Castle Limited Partnership, property o... more A. The application of Siegel Limited Partnership and Ocean Castle Limited Partnership, property owners, and Lang and Long Meadow Development, LLC, applicant, for property located off Lang Road wherein site plan approval is requested for the construction of four (3) story free-standing buildings with 24 units each and one (3) story free-standing building with 21 units with each floor having a footprint of 14,000 s.f. + (for a total footprint of 210,000 s.f. +) with each building having one parking level and the construction of a 4,400 s.f. + one-story building for use as a club house with related paving, utilities, landscaping, drainage and associated site improvements. Access is proposed from Lang and Longmeadow Roads. Said property is shown on Assessor Plan 291 as Lot 1-1 and lies within a Garden Apartment/Mobile Home district. (This application was tabled at the Committee’s September 2, 2003, meeting to this meeting.)
The Chair read the notice into the record, and then advised the Committee that the applicant had ... more The Chair read the notice into the record, and then advised the Committee that the applicant had submitted a letter requesting a postponement to the March TAC meeting. Ms. Finnigan made a motion to postpone this application to the March 2, 2010 TAC meeting. Mr. Desfosses seconded the motion. The motion to postpone this application to the March 2, 2010 TAC meeting passed unanimously.
The Chair called the Special Meeting to order at approximately 2:05 p.m. and read the notice into... more The Chair called the Special Meeting to order at approximately 2:05 p.m. and read the notice into the record. A. The application of the City of Portsmouth for property located at 175 Parrott Avenue wherein site plan approval is requested for the construction of a two-story 38,000 s.f. + building for use as a public library with related paving, utilities, landscaping, drainage and associated site improvements including improvements to a municipal parking area. Said property is shown on Assessor Plan 128 as Lots 14 and 15 and lies within the Municipal district.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2003
The coexistence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic head or brain injury (TBI) ... more The coexistence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic head or brain injury (TBI) in the same individual has been proposed to be paradoxical. It has been argued that individuals who sustain a TBI and have no conscious memory of their trauma will not experience fear, helplessness and horror during the trauma, nor will they develop reexperiencing symptoms or establish the negative associations that underlie avoidance symptoms. However, single case reports and incidence studies suggest that PTSD can be diagnosed following TBI. We highlight critical issues in assessment, definitions, and research methods, and propose two possible resolutions of the paradox. One resolution focuses on ambiguity in the criteria for diagnosing PTSD. The other involves accepting that TBI patients do experience similar symptoms to other PTSD patients, but that there are crucial differences in symptom content. (JINS, 2003, 9, 663–676.)
English verbs (in common with other categories of words, in other lan-guages) can take various ph... more English verbs (in common with other categories of words, in other lan-guages) can take various phrasal categories as complements. Different verbs specify, either as a grammatical requirement or as a statistical preference, different complement categories. Consider the sentences in ...
Research seeking to establish the relationship between sleep and posttraumatic stress disorder (P... more Research seeking to establish the relationship between sleep and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is in its infancy. An empirically supported theory of the relationship is yet to emerge. The aims of the present paper are threefold: to summarise the literature on the prevalence and treatment of sleep disturbance characteristic of acute stress disorder (ASD) and PTSD, to critically review this literature, and to draw together the disparate theoretical perspectives that have been proposed to account for the empirical findings. After a brief overview of normal human sleep, the literature specifying the relation between sleep disturbance and PTSD is summarized. This includes studies of the prevalence of sleep disturbance and nightmares, content of nightmares, abnormalities in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, arousal threshold during sleep, body movement during sleep, and breathing-related sleep disorders. In addition, studies of the treatment of sleep disturbance in individuals with PTSD are reviewed. We conclude that the role of sleep in PTSD is complex, but that it is an important area for further elucidating the nature and treatment of PTSD. Areas for future research are specified. In particular, a priority is to improve the methodology of the research conducted.
$22.95 USA ($34.50 Canada) _ifls' participation in school and commu-nity sports ... more $22.95 USA ($34.50 Canada) _ifls' participation in school and commu-nity sports programs is skyrocketing; they now make up 33 percent of all high school athletes a dramatic increase from the 4 percent who partic-ipated in 1971, the year before the enactment of Title DC. ...
We investigated the trauma narratives of 131 road traffic accident survivors prospectively, at 1 ... more We investigated the trauma narratives of 131 road traffic accident survivors prospectively, at 1 week, 6 weeks, and 3 months post-trauma. At 1 and 6 weeks, narratives of survivors with acute stress disorder (ASD) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were less coherent and included more dissociation content. By 3 months, their narratives also contained more repetition, more non-consecutive chunks, and more sensory words. Traumatic brain injury was associated with a separate characteristic, confusion, at all three time points. Three aspects of narrative organisation at 1 week-repetition, non-consecutive chunks, and coherence-predicted PTSD severity at 3 months after controlling for initial symptoms. The results suggest both a strong concurrent and predictive relationship between narrative disorganisation and ASD/PTSD but that as people recover from ASD, their narratives do not necessarily become less disorganised.
The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice
Purpose This paper aims to discuss the importance of compassion in health care and experiences of... more Purpose This paper aims to discuss the importance of compassion in health care and experiences of Compassion Circles (CCs) in supporting it, placing this into the national policy context of the National Health Service (NHS), whilst focusing on lessons from using the practice in mental health care. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper is a discussion of the context of compassion in health care and a description of model and related concepts of CCs. This paper also discusses lessons from implementation of CCs in mental health care. Findings CCs were developed from an initial broad concern with the place of compassion and well-being in communities and organisations, particularly in health and social care after a number of scandals about failures of care. Through experience CCs have been refined into a flexible model of supporting staff in mental health care settings. Experience to date suggests they are a valuable method of increasing compassion for self and others, improv...
A. The application of Siegel Limited Partnership and Ocean Castle Limited Partnership, property o... more A. The application of Siegel Limited Partnership and Ocean Castle Limited Partnership, property owners, and Lang and Long Meadow Development, LLC, applicant, for property located off Lang Road wherein site plan approval is requested for the construction of four (3) story free-standing buildings with 24 units each and one (3) story free-standing building with 21 units with each floor having a footprint of 14,000 s.f. + (for a total footprint of 210,000 s.f. +) with each building having one parking level and the construction of a 4,400 s.f. + one-story building for use as a club house with related paving, utilities, landscaping, drainage and associated site improvements. Access is proposed from Lang and Longmeadow Roads. Said property is shown on Assessor Plan 291 as Lot 1-1 and lies within a Garden Apartment/Mobile Home district. (This application was tabled at the Committee’s September 2, 2003, meeting to this meeting.)
The Chair read the notice into the record, and then advised the Committee that the applicant had ... more The Chair read the notice into the record, and then advised the Committee that the applicant had submitted a letter requesting a postponement to the March TAC meeting. Ms. Finnigan made a motion to postpone this application to the March 2, 2010 TAC meeting. Mr. Desfosses seconded the motion. The motion to postpone this application to the March 2, 2010 TAC meeting passed unanimously.
The Chair called the Special Meeting to order at approximately 2:05 p.m. and read the notice into... more The Chair called the Special Meeting to order at approximately 2:05 p.m. and read the notice into the record. A. The application of the City of Portsmouth for property located at 175 Parrott Avenue wherein site plan approval is requested for the construction of a two-story 38,000 s.f. + building for use as a public library with related paving, utilities, landscaping, drainage and associated site improvements including improvements to a municipal parking area. Said property is shown on Assessor Plan 128 as Lots 14 and 15 and lies within the Municipal district.
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2003
The coexistence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic head or brain injury (TBI) ... more The coexistence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic head or brain injury (TBI) in the same individual has been proposed to be paradoxical. It has been argued that individuals who sustain a TBI and have no conscious memory of their trauma will not experience fear, helplessness and horror during the trauma, nor will they develop reexperiencing symptoms or establish the negative associations that underlie avoidance symptoms. However, single case reports and incidence studies suggest that PTSD can be diagnosed following TBI. We highlight critical issues in assessment, definitions, and research methods, and propose two possible resolutions of the paradox. One resolution focuses on ambiguity in the criteria for diagnosing PTSD. The other involves accepting that TBI patients do experience similar symptoms to other PTSD patients, but that there are crucial differences in symptom content. (JINS, 2003, 9, 663–676.)
English verbs (in common with other categories of words, in other lan-guages) can take various ph... more English verbs (in common with other categories of words, in other lan-guages) can take various phrasal categories as complements. Different verbs specify, either as a grammatical requirement or as a statistical preference, different complement categories. Consider the sentences in ...
Research seeking to establish the relationship between sleep and posttraumatic stress disorder (P... more Research seeking to establish the relationship between sleep and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is in its infancy. An empirically supported theory of the relationship is yet to emerge. The aims of the present paper are threefold: to summarise the literature on the prevalence and treatment of sleep disturbance characteristic of acute stress disorder (ASD) and PTSD, to critically review this literature, and to draw together the disparate theoretical perspectives that have been proposed to account for the empirical findings. After a brief overview of normal human sleep, the literature specifying the relation between sleep disturbance and PTSD is summarized. This includes studies of the prevalence of sleep disturbance and nightmares, content of nightmares, abnormalities in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, arousal threshold during sleep, body movement during sleep, and breathing-related sleep disorders. In addition, studies of the treatment of sleep disturbance in individuals with PTSD are reviewed. We conclude that the role of sleep in PTSD is complex, but that it is an important area for further elucidating the nature and treatment of PTSD. Areas for future research are specified. In particular, a priority is to improve the methodology of the research conducted.
$22.95 USA ($34.50 Canada) _ifls' participation in school and commu-nity sports ... more $22.95 USA ($34.50 Canada) _ifls' participation in school and commu-nity sports programs is skyrocketing; they now make up 33 percent of all high school athletes a dramatic increase from the 4 percent who partic-ipated in 1971, the year before the enactment of Title DC. ...
We investigated the trauma narratives of 131 road traffic accident survivors prospectively, at 1 ... more We investigated the trauma narratives of 131 road traffic accident survivors prospectively, at 1 week, 6 weeks, and 3 months post-trauma. At 1 and 6 weeks, narratives of survivors with acute stress disorder (ASD) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were less coherent and included more dissociation content. By 3 months, their narratives also contained more repetition, more non-consecutive chunks, and more sensory words. Traumatic brain injury was associated with a separate characteristic, confusion, at all three time points. Three aspects of narrative organisation at 1 week-repetition, non-consecutive chunks, and coherence-predicted PTSD severity at 3 months after controlling for initial symptoms. The results suggest both a strong concurrent and predictive relationship between narrative disorganisation and ASD/PTSD but that as people recover from ASD, their narratives do not necessarily become less disorganised.
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