Combatting Postnatal Depression: Exploring the Role of Serious Games in New Parent Support.

This study makes innovative use of digital and serious games technologies as well as early detection innovations that work with perinatal infant mental health (PIMH) clinicians to help new parents and parents during pregnancy, including both birthing and non-birthing parents, combat social stigma towards postnatal depression.

Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications.

Objective: There are significant temporal and financial barriers for individuals with personality disorders (PD) receiving evidence-based psychological treatments. Emerging research indicates Group Schema Therapy (GST) may be an accessible, efficient, and cost-effective PD intervention, however, there has been no synthesis of the available evidence to date. This review therefore aimed to investigate the efficacy of GST for PDs by systematically synthesizing available literature.

An exploratory investigation of schema modes in social anxiety disorder: Empirical findings and case conceptualization.

Background: Current "gold standard" treatments for social anxiety disorder (SAD) are limited by the limited emphasis of key etiological factors in conceptualization, and many individuals with SAD experience residual symptoms posttreatment. Hence, the novel application of the Schema Therapy Mode Model may provide a helpful framework for extending clinical understanding and treatment options for SAD. This exploratory study aimed to investigate the presence and pattern of schema modes among SAD individuals.

Collaboration of hospital case managers and home care liaisons when transitioning patients.

Purpose/objectives: Hospital case managers frequently collaborate with home care liaisons when coordinating special discharge plans. This article focuses on the collaborative relationship between the hospital case manager and on-site liaison whose primary role centers around care coordination and patient teaching. Ineffective collaboration between hospital case managers and these clinical on-site liaisons can lead to serious lapses in care and services for patients, families, and the health care team when transitioning from hospital to home care.

Stressors and self-care challenges faced by adolescents living with type 1 diabetes.

The American Diabetes Association currently recommends that all youth with type 1 diabetes over the age of 7 years follow a plan of intensive management. The purpose of this study was to describe stressors and self-care challenges reported by adolescents with type 1 diabetes who were undergoing initiation of intensive management. Subjects described initiation of intensive management as complicating the dilemmas they faced.