Publications by authors named "R Selzer"
Potential promises and perils of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy -The AI Psychotherapist (APT).
Australas Psychiatry
September 2024
Article Synopsis
- People really want to use chatbots like ChatGPT as therapists, so we might see them used for actual therapy in the future.
- These AI therapists could help more people get therapy and interact in a realistic way, but there are worries about how good the therapy will be.
- If not carefully controlled and monitored, these AI therapists might actually do more harm than good, so it's important to have rules for using them.
Background: Hospital wards are a complex and dynamic environment that rely on optimal staff performance. However, there is little research evaluating group interventions to improve staff attention and teamwork.
Aims: To evaluate whether a regular, short and guided group mindfulness practice for staff in an acute general medicine team improves attention and teamwork.
Background: Healthcare professionals including psychiatry trainees experience high amounts of occupational stress. This pilot study aims to assess the impacts and feasibility of a mindfulness-based intervention program as an occupational intervention in a metropolitan hospital.
Method: Psychiatry trainees participated in an mindfulness-based intervention training program consisting of 1-h weekly sessions over 8 weeks.
The Critical Essay Question (CEQ) tests some of the key skills necessary for the practice of psychiatry. Many candidates find the CEQ a challenge but there are some basic rules of writing which can help.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Data suggest that estrogen-containing hormone therapy is associated with beneficial effects with regard to cardiovascular disease when the therapy is initiated temporally close to menopause but not when it is initiated later. However, the hypothesis that the cardiovascular effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy vary with the timing of therapy initiation (the hormone-timing hypothesis) has not been tested.
Methods: A total of 643 healthy postmenopausal women were stratified according to time since menopause (<6 years [early postmenopause] or ≥10 years [late postmenopause]) and were randomly assigned to receive either oral 17β-estradiol (1 mg per day, plus progesterone [45 mg] vaginal gel administered sequentially [i.