Resilience and Burden Related to Clinical Assistance: a Clinical Psychological Study.

Background: The literature consistently highlights the significant burden faced by healthcare professionals, often describing caregivers as "invisible patients." Resilience is a critical factor in their well-being and quality of life. This study aimed to examine the presence of variables such as resilience and burden in caregivers, along with factors like age, gender, education, and work commitment, to understand the correlations among these independent and clinical variables.

Euthymia, Psychological Well-Being, and Professional Quality of Life in Health Care Workers.

Objective: Euthymia is a transdiagnostic construct characterized by the presence of positive mood states, psychological flexibility and resilience. These components contribute to psychological wellbeing and support mental functioning. Exposure to suffering and high levels of stress can lead to the onset of burnout and secondary traumatic stress, but also lack of compassion satisfaction.

Latent Inhibition in Schizophrenia and Schizotypy.

Background: The Salience Hypothesis posits that aberrations in the assignment of salience culminate in hallucinations and unusual beliefs, the "positive symptoms" of schizophrenia. Evidence for this comes from studies on latent inhibition (LI), referring to the phenomenon that prior exposure to a stimulus impedes learning about the relationship between that stimulus and an outcome.

Design: This article reviewed all published studies examining the relationship between LI and both schizophrenia and schizotypy.

Alexithymia, intolerance to uncertainty and mental health difficulties in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Background: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) represents a serious chronic condition affecting a wide number of people. Discussion of the physical issues associated with T1DM pervades the literature, however, there is less discussion of the psychological consequences. Mental health difficulties, alexithymia and uncertainty are present in this population, and known to be harmful for the onset, maintenance and worsening of T1DM.

Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, Psychopathology, Uncertainty and Alexithymia: A Clinical and Differential Exploratory Study.

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) represents a complex pathology affecting a large number of people. Research suggests that psychological factors influence coping with T1DM. This study aimed to investigate the presence and role of psychopathology, alexithymia and uncertainty in people affected by T1DM.

Body Image and Psychological Impact of Dental Appearance in Adolescents with Malocclusion: A Preliminary Exploratory Study.

Background: Body image and psychosocial functioning represent central challenges during adolescence and early adulthood. Malocclusion, defined as an irregularity in the alignment of the teeth, is known to negatively influence psychological outcomes. The current study aimed to elucidate the role of malocclusion, together with age, gender, and dental class, in body image and psychological functioning.

Elucidating the Cognitive Mechanisms Underpinning Behavioural Activation.

Depression represents a pervasive and devastating psychological difficulty. It affects over 21% of the population at some point in their lives and can have an unimaginable impact on both individuals and society. Behavioural activation represents a popular intervention for depression and is commonly used by psychologists internationally.

Improving awareness of the HCR-20 and risk assessment process.

Background: In 2011 Mrs A assaulted two people, one who died. In the hours prior to the attack she made multiple attempts to gain help including attending accident and emergency, contact with an inpatient service and the police. Subsequent investigation highlighted that her risk was not well documented or understood.

The spatial layout of doorways and environmental boundaries shape the content of event memories.

Physical boundaries in our environment have been observed to define separate events in episodic memory. To date, however, there is little evidence that the spatial properties of boundaries exert any control over event memories. To examine this possibility, we conducted four experiments that took manipulations involving boundaries that have been demonstrated to influence spatial representations, and adapted them for use in an episodic object memory paradigm.

The effects of spatial stability and cue type on spatial learning: Implications for theories of parallel memory systems.

Some theories of spatial learning predict that associative rules apply under only limited circumstances. For example, learning based on a boundary has been claimed to be immune to cue competition effects because boundary information is the basis for the formation of a cognitive map, whilst landmark learning does not involve cognitive mapping. This is referred to as the cue type hypothesis.