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The American Journal of Clinical... Apr 2023Sleep disturbances take many forms. Negative health consequences are associated with nearly all of them. Insomnia, the most common sleep disturbance, can present as an...
Sleep disturbances take many forms. Negative health consequences are associated with nearly all of them. Insomnia, the most common sleep disturbance, can present as an inability to initiate sleep or to maintain sleep such that the restorative benefits of sleep are limited. This case report describes a client in her 60s who sought treatment for early morning awakening that persisted for four years despite the use of sleep-inducing medications. Her successful course of treatment utilized hypnotic suggestions and interactions that targeted distinctive features of the sleep cycle as well as her daily transition from wakefulness to sleep to early morning reawakening. The article highlights the coordination of neurophysiological features of sleep, psychological dynamics at play while awake and in her dream sleep, and how attention to their interplay utilizing hypnosis enabled the client to reestablish restorative sleep patterns in a treatment process spanning less than a dozen treatment sessions.
PubMed: 37105567
DOI: 10.1080/00029157.2023.2193231 -
Psychiatria Danubina 2023
Topics: Humans; Child; Adolescent; Psychodrama; Foster Home Care
PubMed: 37060611
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International Journal of Urology :... Jul 2023This research was carried out to reduce the fear, anxiety and pain of 4-6 age circumcised children with therapeutic play and video animation interventions. (Randomized Controlled Trial)
Randomized Controlled Trial
The effect of nursing interventions with therapeutic play and video animations prepared with psychodrama technique in reducing fear, anxiety, and pain of children at male circumcision: A randomized controlled study.
OBJECTIVE
This research was carried out to reduce the fear, anxiety and pain of 4-6 age circumcised children with therapeutic play and video animation interventions.
METHODS
This research was conducted as a randomized controlled study between November 2019 and April 2021. Using block randomization, 30 (n = 30) children were assigned to the control group, 30 (n = 30) to the therapeutic puppet group and 30 (n = 30) to the video animation group. Before the circumcision surgery, therapeutic puppet and video animation interventions were applied to children with scenario prepared with psychodrama technique. Fear, anxiety, and pain findings of children before and after surgery were determined.
RESULTS
The fear and anxiety scores of the children were similar before the nursing intervention in all groups, and that the fear and anxiety scores of therapeutic puppet play and video animation intervention groups had statistically lower than the control group after nursing intervention. The pain scores of the children from the therapeutic puppet play and video animation groups had lower pain scores than the control group after surgery (F = 5.24, p = 0.007).
CONCLUSIONS
Therapeutic play and video animation intervention can be effective in reducing fear and anxiety of children aged 4-6 before and after circumcision surgery.
Topics: Humans; Male; Child; Circumcision, Male; Anxiety; Fear; Pain; Psychodrama
PubMed: 36999456
DOI: 10.1111/iju.15184 -
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) Mar 2023As a creative form of psychotherapy, drama appears to assist individuals in the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic period in altering crisis conditions and challenging... (Review)
Review
Effectiveness of Drama-Based Intervention in Improving Mental Health and Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Period.
As a creative form of psychotherapy, drama appears to assist individuals in the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic period in altering crisis conditions and challenging negative perspectives. Drama-based intervention is presented as an option for addressing mental health issues in clinical and general populations by utilising various multidisciplinary sources, such as psychodrama and role playing. In this study, a systematic review and meta-analysis were employed to assess the impact of drama on mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic. Four electronic databases (PubMed, Cochrane, Web of Science, and ScienceDirect) were extensively searched from December 2019 to October 2022. Quality assessment and Risk of Bias tool of the Cochrane Collaboration were performed. Using a random effect model, standardised mean difference (SMD) values and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated. In the final analysis, 25 studies involving 797 participants were included. The study revealed that drama-based interventions have the potential to improve mental health (e.g., trauma-related disorders) and well-being (e.g., psychological well-being), which could position drama as an adjunctive method of mental health care. This original review offered the newer, more comprehensive recommendations for drama-based intervention based on evidence.
PubMed: 36981496
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare11060839 -
Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland) Feb 2023The present study investigated the effects of a hybrid online course on a group of Italian Master's degree students involved in a European Erasmus+ project. The course...
The present study investigated the effects of a hybrid online course on a group of Italian Master's degree students involved in a European Erasmus+ project. The course was composed of nine modules about death education, palliative psychology and the use of creative arts therapies-such as psychodrama, intermodal psychodrama and photovoice-in the end-of-life-field. The project involved 64 students in the experimental group (who attended the course) and 56 students as the control group. Both groups completed an online questionnaire before and after the delivery of the course and 10 students from the experimental group participated in a focus group at the end of the course. The quantitative analysis revealed that the experimental group students showed lesser levels of perception of death as annihilation, fear of the death and death avoidance, while they increased their levels of death acceptance, creative self-efficacy and attitude toward the care of the dying. Qualitative analysis identified three main themes: the positive impact of the course on death education and end-of-life care; the role of art therapies on death and end-of-life care; and the unhelpful facets of the course. Overall, this intervention changed the perception and the feelings of the students regarding the themes of death and palliative psychology and increased their creative self-efficacy and their interest in working in an end-of-life field.
PubMed: 36829411
DOI: 10.3390/bs13020182 -
Clinical Gerontologist 2023This paper explores a field training project of tele-drama therapy with community-dwelling older adults during COVID19. It merges three perspectives: the older...
OBJECTIVES
This paper explores a field training project of tele-drama therapy with community-dwelling older adults during COVID19. It merges three perspectives: the older participants' perspective, the students engaged in the field training, who conducted this remote therapy, and social workers.
METHODS
Interviews were conducted with 19 older adults. Focus groups were conducted with 10 drama therapy students and 4 social workers. The data were thematically analyzed.
RESULTS
Three themes emerged: the role of drama therapy methods in the therapeutic process, attitudes toward psychotherapy for older adults, and the phone as a therapeutic setting. These themes coalesced into a triangular model associating dramatherapy, tele-psychotherapy and psychotherapy with the older population. A number of obstacles were identified.
CONCLUSIONS
The field training project made a dual contribution to the older participants and the students. In addition, it promoted more positive attitudes among the students toward psychotherapy with the older population.
CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS
Tele-drama therapy methods appear to promote the therapeutic process with older adults. However, the phone session should be planned in advance in terms of time and place to ensure the participants' privacy. Field training of mental health students with older adults can promote more positive attitudes toward working with the older population.
Topics: Humans; Aged; Psychotherapy; Independent Living; Telemedicine; COVID-19; Psychodrama
PubMed: 36794366
DOI: 10.1080/07317115.2023.2178353 -
International Journal of Community... Jan 2023
Topics: Pregnancy; Female; Humans; Parturition; Delivery, Obstetric; Fear; Psychodrama
PubMed: 36650849
DOI: 10.30476/IJCBNM.2022.97541.2190 -
BioMed Research International 2022While simulated patients (SPs) are considered a standard tool in communication skills training, there is no evidence thus far of their comparative benefit to the more...
The Use of Simulated Patients Is more Effective than Student Role Playing in Fostering Patient-Centred Attitudes during Communication Skills Training: A Mixed Method Study.
OBJECTIVE
While simulated patients (SPs) are considered a standard tool in communication skills training, there is no evidence thus far of their comparative benefit to the more cost-effective option of student role playing. We compared the effectiveness of both approaches in developing patient-centred attitudes in students.
METHODS
We retrospectively compared students who participated in the clinical communication course (CCC), based on student role playing (CCCsp-, = 160), to students who participated in the CCC with SPs (CCCsp+, = 146), and students with no formal CCC (CCC-, = 122). We used validated questionnaires to assess patient centredness. We also conducted focus group interviews (FGI) to better understand the impact of CCC with sp.
RESULTS
Students after the CCC with simulated patients achieved a significantly higher score in the patient-practitioner orientation scale than other groups ( < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS
There is a strong positive correlation between the implementation of simulated patients and patient-centred attitudes among students. Data from the FGI revealed that students perceived training with SP as more realistic, safe, and engaging than student role playing. . Our research provides evidence to justify costs and resources invested in simulated patient programs.
Topics: Humans; Retrospective Studies; Role Playing; Patient-Centered Care; Students, Medical; Communication; Clinical Competence; Patient Simulation
PubMed: 36573197
DOI: 10.1155/2022/1498692 -
Arts & Health Feb 2024Psychodrama is an experiential group psychotherapy that is used to enhance adolescents' wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the adaptation of this method to an...
BACKGROUND
Psychodrama is an experiential group psychotherapy that is used to enhance adolescents' wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the adaptation of this method to an online setting.
OBJECTIVE
This qualitative study investigated whether and how tele-psychodrama provides psychological support to adolescents, in order to better understand its strengths and weaknesses.
PARTICIPANTS
14 adolescents from Northern and Central Italy.
METHOD
14 interviews were conducted at the end of group tele-psychodrama treatment and were analysed with qualitative thematic analysis.
RESULTS
Three themes were identified: (1) contribution of tele-psychodrama to adolescents' well-being; (2) implementation of psychodrama to the online setting; and (3) (the) shortcomings of tele-psychodrama.
CONCLUSIONS
Despite the differences between online and in-person psychodrama, all the participants expressed their appreciation of group tele-psychodrama, which contributed to their overall psychological wellbeing and helped them process difficulties that emerged during the lockdowns.
Topics: Humans; Adolescent; Pandemics; COVID-19; Communicable Disease Control; Psychodrama; Perception
PubMed: 36472222
DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2022.2154942 -
Clinical Psychology in Europe Dec 2021[This corrects the article e2693 in vol. 2.][This corrects the article e2693 in vol. 2.].
Correction of Abeditehrani, H., Dijk, C., Sahragard Toghchi, M., & Arntz, A. (2020). Integrating Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy and Psychodrama for Social Anxiety Disorder: An Intervention Description and an Uncontrolled Pilot Trial.
[This corrects the article e2693 in vol. 2.][This corrects the article e2693 in vol. 2.].
PubMed: 36398288
DOI: 10.32872/cpe.7727