OBJECTIVE This study examined the competence and accuracy of ad hoc interpreters in interpreting key psychiatric terms at a South African psychiatric hospital METHODS Nine individuals were asked to translate key psychiatric terms from English to Xhosa. These translations were then back-translated by independent translators, who do not have knowledge of psychiatric terminology. These back-tran...

This practice parameter presents recommendations for the mental health assessment and treatment of youths in juvenile detention and correctional facilities. Mental and substance-related disorders are significant public health problems affecting youths in juvenile justice settings. Sufficient time is necessary to conduct a comprehensive diagnostic assessment, interview collateral historians, and...

background: nurses’ clinical competency plays an important role in the care of preterm infants. on the other hand, burnout is one of the most important factors in reducing the nurses’ efficiency. with regard to the importance of the role of nurses, and the vulnerability of the infants, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between nurses’ burnout and clinical competency ...

The potential to foster successfully starts with developing and supporting competency in 12 domains: providing a safe and secure environment, providing a nurturing environment, promoting educational attainment and success, meeting physical and mental healthcare needs, promoting social and emotional development, supporting diversity and children's cultural needs, supporting permanency planning, ...

Child sexual abuse has received growing attention in recent years, and the topic continues to spark controversy among mental health and legal professionals as well as in the popular media. This paper will review the concept of child sexual abuse, cover relevant definitions, address the clinician's role, and then will address the principal evolving and controversial areas. These areas include ps...

The tough noise environment in helicopter cockpit can passively influence pilots mental and physical way, weaken their core competency, as a result, maybe causing pilot error even accidents. current research evaluate the characteristics of its impact on emotion such annoyance, but it ignores human competence. Therefore, this paper establishes evaluation prediction model based competence with ta...

In competency-based education, it is important to frequently evaluate the degree of competency achieved by establishing and specifying competency levels. To self-appraise one's own competency level, one needs a simple, clear, and accurate description for each competency level. This study aimed at developing competency stages that can be used in surveys and conceptualizing clear and precise comp...

This is the third essay on consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in this issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics. It contains a psychiatrist's criticisms of the lack of procedural guidelines, in Britain's recently amended Mental Health Act, for obtaining consent to ECT from involuntarily committed patients and her comments on preceding articles by Richard Sherlock and Harry Lesser. Taylor...

This article presents the results of a study of 894 criminal defendants referred by Virginia courts for evaluation of competency to stand trial or criminal responsibility. All evaluations were conducted on an outpatient basis by mental health professionals who had received specialized training in forensic evaluation. Findings as to the referral questions posed, the criminal offenses charged, an...

Collaboration competency has been increasingly emphasized and valued in medical curricula because physicians work in multiprofessional health care settings where care is patient-centered and patients have a trajectory of care. Psychiatry is a discipline that has a more intuitive inclination toward the collaboration role than other specialties in medicine. This may, in part, be attributed to the...