BACKGROUND The personal is a vital part of professional nursing practice. From a psycho-social perspective, nurses produce and reproduce conceptions of the Self through experience. A literature search on nurses' self-understanding in a psycho-social perspective yields no results. Hence, the aim of this study was to investigate personal and professional experiences that may have formed the self-...

BACKGROUND The stress and burden on parents of children with disabilities are well documented, and the parents' way of handling the situation is crucial to the health and well-being of all family members, including the child with special needs. We conducted a group-based counselling programme for parents, based mainly on Gestalt education and personal construct theories, aiming at increasing th...

Evidence suggests that insight in psychosis has been related to treatment adherence, recovery and good prognosis, but also to depression, low self-esteem, and diminished quality of life. Thus, insight might not be advantageous under all circumstances. Internalized-stigma (i.e. self-acceptance of stigmatizing images of illness) and experiential avoidance (i.e. unwillingness to experience negativ...

diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases. insulin resistance is defined as a state that needs more insulin to get the biological effects achieved by a lower amount of insulin in the normal state. several molecules which are secreted through adipocytes have been involved in insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus. adiponectin as a 244 amino acid protein is exclusively expressed...

An evaluation of patients’ insight into their mental illness has long been included in the standard mental state examination. The last 10 years have shown a resurgence of interest in insight, with better definitions and operationalizations of the concept. Insight into psychosis is seen as the ability of patient for self observation and knowledge about his illness. This has received scant attent...

In a study of lithium compliance in 35 patients with Manic Depressive Psychosis on prophylactic lithium it was found that insight into the nature of illness and drug compliance were unrelated.

A depressive syndrome as identified by subjectively volunteered dysphoria occurred in 17.4% of a group of 45 DSM III-R schizophrenics, studied initially in a medication free state. Among the 24 patients who could be followed up for six months, another 25% developed depressive symptoms while on treatment. Mild depressive syndromes occurred more frequently in older patients, in association with r...