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Open AccessA Transformative Trip? Experiences of Psychedelic Use
Psychedelic experiences are often compared to “transformative experiences” due to their potential to change how people think and behave. This study empirically examines whether psychedelic experiences constitu...
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Predictors of successful extubation from volume-targeted ventilation in extremely preterm neonates
To identify variables associated with extubation success in extremely preterm neonates extubated from invasive volume-targeted ventilation.
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Automatic Cognitive Processes and Youth Substance Use: Risks and Prevention
This review will explore the accumulating evidence that social learning and substance use lead to automatic cognitive biases associated with increased risk of future substance use. Spontaneous cognitive and be...
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Open AccessThe environmental fate of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in western Taiwan and coastal waters: evaluation with a fugacity-based model
The environmental fate of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a group of flame retardants that are considered to be persistent organic pollutants (POPs), around the Zhuoshui River and Changhua County regio...
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Introduction
If you happen to mention to someone who has never studied psychology that you are taking the subject as part of your nursing studies, you are likely to be met with two responses. The first is ‘Psychology, eh? ...
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Making decisions and solving problems
A nurse on night duty is checking the patients on the ward when she in interrupted by a call from Mr Matthews who is a patient in a different part of the ward. She decides to respond immediately and goes to fi...
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Changing attitudes and behaviour
❏ A female patient has chronic emphysema yet continues to smoke two packets of cigarettes a day. You have told her that she has to give up smoking because her he...
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Adolescence, adulthood and ageing
❏ Barbara: aged 16, looks anorexic, seems to get on well with her parents, has no boyfriend but two reasonably close friends, exams imminent, took a bottle of pa...
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Life events, transitions and crises
An almost inescapable part of modern life is change and the need to adapt to it. During the course of each individual’s life many events will occur. Some of these will seem rather trivial, others will be of hu...
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Interpersonal skills
What makes a good nurse? If a representative sample of the population were asked to answer this question, one of the most common responses would be something like ‘Well, a nurse has to be able to care for his ...
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Child health development
In the previous chapters it has been assumed that the patients in our investigations have been adults; however, much of nursing is concerned with the care of children. The question arises as to whether there a...
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The effect of groups on behaviour
❏ Anne Roberts is a schoolteacher who has recently been admitted to hospital. During the drug round she notices that none of the other patients ask any questions...
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Learning, memory and social influence
❏ Mary has a phobia about spiders, and cannot enter a room unless someone has checked to make sure there are no spiders. She has been having therapy because of t...
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Pain and stress: a biopsychosocial approach
The title of this chapter indicates that both pain and stress have multidimensional components. This means that one cannot investigate the psychology of pain and stress in isolation from biological and social ...
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The hospital and the community
Hospitals have not always existed. The ancient Roman army was one of the first groups of people to provide ‘hospitals’, in the form of separate barracks for their ill or wounded soldiers. From about AD 542 Chr...
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Making judgements about others
❏ Imagine that it is the first day of term of a new course. The course tutor comes into the room and spends a few minutes making some introductory remarks and th...
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What lies behind our behaviour?
❏ In 1966 Charles Whitman got up, shot his wife and his mother, and then went out and shot a further 14 people. There have been many instances of such bizarre, v...
