Publications by authors named "D Kimberly Steele"

Background: Bullying, harassment, and undermining behaviour has a profound detrimental effect on the multi-professional team, patient safety, and clinical outcomes. Bullying creates a poor working and training environment , increasing stress, damaging confidence, and impairing wellbeing. We sought to characterize the prevalence and nature of bullying, harassment and undermining within cardiothoracic surgery in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.

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Context: Treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children and adolescents.

Objective: Evaluate the comparative efficacy of behavioral and pharmacologic treatments.

Data Sources: Six databases and ClinicalTrials.

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Context: Children and adolescents with suspected obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Objective: To estimate the comparative performance of brief diagnostic assessment tools.

Data Sources: PubMed, the Cochrane Register of Clinical Trials, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Embase, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and ERIC, and for unpublished studies with reported results in ClinicalTrials.

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Article Synopsis
  • Studying empathy in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is crucial due to the challenges they face in interpersonal relationships.
  • This review suggests that BPD is characterized by a unique pattern of empathy, specifically showing deficits in cognitive empathy while potentially having normal or heightened emotional empathy.
  • Out of 320 articles identified, 38 met the criteria, confirming that individuals with BPD demonstrate atypical empathetic abilities that correlate with severity of the disorder and are influenced by unusual neural pathways.
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