Articles Tagged With: behavior
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A Guide to Change: Modifying Unhealthy Behaviors in Patients
Motivational interviewing is an evidence-based, empathic approach to the patient interview incorporating techniques that encourage patients to self-reflect and voice reasons for change, while recognizing underlying ambivalence. This article presents approaches recommended for use in a primary care office when the clinical interview indicates a need for behavioral change.
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Recognizing Personality Disorders in Patients Presenting to the Primary Care Provider
Often not well understood by the medical community and surrounded in stigma, patients with personality disorders frequently are labeled difficult. Understanding that the behaviors responsible for this label may be the result of a personality disorder allows the provider to adopt a more nuanced approach to treatment.
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Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Young Patients
This Danish randomized clinical trial compares a new form of cognitive behavioral therapy delivered in a community setting to “treatment as usual” for children and teens with emotional problems and shows advantages in multiple arenas, including parent-reported changes in child distress and impairment.
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Study Reveals Connection Between Condom Use and Sexual Stimuli Response
Researchers studied a population of young adult women at risk of sexually transmitted infections and HIV. They hypothesized that women with higher positive affective bias to sexual stimuli would report higher sexual risk behaviors. But the opposite proved to be true.
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Optimism Could Increase Odds of ‘Exceptional Longevity’
An analysis of 10-year follow-up data from the Nurses’ Health Study and 30-year follow-up data from the Veteran Affairs Normative Aging Study revealed a significant association between baseline levels of higher optimism and longevity, even when data were adjusted for health behaviors and psychosocial factors.
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Legislation Aims to Curb U.S. Suicide Rates
Millions of dollars would be allocated toward training emergency healthcare workers to recognize high-risk patients.
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Management of the Violent Patient in the Emergency Department
Violent patients in the emergency department present a complex problem for care providers. This article will help us to predict violence and provide some guidelines for the management.
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Good News Released on Teen Sexual Risk Behaviors
New data from the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey indicate the percentage of high school students who are currently sexually active has been decreasing since 1991, with it dropping from 38% in 1991 to 30% in 2015.
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Neurologic Disease and Criminal Behavior – A Medicolegal Conundrum
Patients with frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and Huntington’s disease exhibited antisocial and/or criminal behavior.