OBJECTIVE The Psychosocial Resistance to Activities of Daily Living Index (PRADLI) was developed for psychiatric nurses, geropsychologists, and clinical social workers to assess the level of long-term care (LTC) residents' resistance to and cooperation with staff in performing activities of daily living. DESIGN The PRADLI consists of 8 activities of daily living that commonly trigger a psychi...

During the development of the DSM-5, even the lay press questioned psychiatr's scientific validity. This review provides 21st century psychiatry residents with ways of answering these attacks by defining the concepts and history of psychiatry (a branch of medicine), medicine and science. Psychiatric language has two levels: first, describing symptoms and signs (19th century descriptive psychopa...

Though psychiatric residents are expected to be competent psychotherapists on graduation, further growth in skill and versatility requires continued experience in their ongoing career. Maturity as a psychotherapist is essential because a psychiatrist is the only mental health provider who, as a physician, can assume full responsibility for biopsychosocial patient care and roles as supervisor, c...

A weekly, year-long research seminar, led by two clinical research faculty members, provides psychiatric residents with an opportunity to integrate clinical and research experience and “hands-on” familiarity with clinical research. The functional goal is production of an IRB-approved clinical research project design. The group approach is less intimidating for the residents, allows for individu...

The Susan Britton Wills Unit at the Bristol General Hospital is a small and busy multidisciplinary psychiatric unit, providing a wide range of in-patient, out-patient and day-patient services for the residents of Bristol Health District.

There is increasing interest within the Greek psychiatric community in the early detection and prevention of psychotic disorders. To support this, there is a need for a valid and reliable tool to identify young people that may be at risk of developing a psychotic disorder. Our team has previously translated the Comprehensive Assessment of At-Risk Mental States (CAARMS). The validity of the CAAR...