Socio-Emotional Adaptation Theory: Charting the Emotional Process of Alzheimer's Disease.

Purpose Of The Study: The emotional reactions to the progression of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's disease (MCI/AD) oftentimes present as cognitive or behavioral changes, leading to misguided interventions by Formal Support (paid health care providers). Despite a rich body of literature identifying cognitive and behavioral staging of MCI/AD, the emotional changes that accompany these diagnoses have been largely ignored. The objective of this study was to develop a model of the emotional aspects of MCI/AD.

Older adult mental health: Teaching senior-level baccalaureate nursing students what they need to know.

Within the older adult population, certain idiosyncratic aspects of mental illness add to the challenges of helping clients manage these disorders. Older adults are more likely than younger populations to experience physiologically based comorbidities, a dynamic that further strains coping capacities. Barriers to the provision of comprehensive mental health nursing care for older adults include myths and stigmas about aging and mental health.

Using an associational trends framework to understand the meaning of obsessive reminiscence.

When the psychodynamics of simple reminiscence, the kind of reminiscence used to manage anxiety, are disrupted, individuals can become stuck on certain memories and begin to obsess or ruminate about them. Generally, obsessive reminiscence is identified as nonpurposive and dysfunctional. However, interpreting the content of obsessive reminiscence within an associational trends framework demonstrates that useful diagnostic information can be gleaned from obsessive reminiscence.

Graduate education in geropsychiatric nursing: findings from a national survey.

By 2030, the numbers of older adults with mental illness will strain our health care system. Sufficient advanced practice nurses (APNs) with specialized knowledge to provide care will be critical. All 339 graduate nursing programs in the US were surveyed regarding the extent and nature of geropsychiatric nursing (GPN) content in their curricula.

Cognitive therapy integrated with life review techniques: an eclectic treatment approach for affective symptoms in older adults.

Background: An important aspect of nursing theory development has been the adaptation of theory from other disciplines within the metaparadigm of nursing. This eclectic approach to theory development enhances the broad humanistic theory base on which effective, professional nursing practice is based.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this article is to describe the process of integrating two distinct psychotherapeutic approaches into one coherent mental health nursing intervention for the treatment of affective symptoms in older adults.

Using peer health education to enhance family life education.

This article describes an intervention known as the Peer Family Life Education Project that was designed as an alternate delivery method of an established family life education curriculum in an urban middle school setting. The factors contributing to sexual risk behaviors by urban adolescent populations are identified. A review of previous efforts at peer health education is presented.

Simple reminiscence: a stress-adaptation model of the phenomenon.

The phenomenon of Simple Reminiscence may play an important role in the individual's ability to adapt to anxiety-provoking stressors across the life span. However, a clearly articulated model of the underlying psychodynamics of the phenomenon has not been developed. In this paper, a proposed model of the phenomenon of Simple Reminiscence is presented.