Good clinical practice

The healthcare industry’s perennial reliance on pharmaceuticals, from giants like Roche or Pfizer, while bolstering the quality of life for well-developed nations, often overshadows upcoming advances or developments in therapeutic treatment. A rather niche approach, bioelectronic medicine, is particularly attractive to the field of biomedical engineering, relying less on biochemistry than an integration of device and neurology. Georgina Casey, nursing lecturer at Auckland University of…

reveals ethical concerns that warrant attention. For instance, marketing priorities and practices of pharmaceutical companies have been scrutinized heavily for several years. There appears that pharmaceutical companies are emphasizing more on the drugs fitting scare mongering, as well as problems that are over medicalized. Thorough testing and clinical trials are essential to have medical drugs that are good, but it seems there are several shortcuts that comprise of pressuring to have results…

of theory for clinical social work practice in Botswana and the African Ms T Kole 5/6/2015 Critically appraise the relevance of theory for clinical social work practice in Botswana and the African context INTRODUCTION According to Dorfman (2013) Clinical social work practice is the professional application of social work theory and methods to the treatment and prevention of psychosocial dysfunction disability or impairment including emotional and mental disorders. Clinical Social…

My perception of a counselor role when I first entered the mental health counseling program at Touro back in 2013 was with a supporter of the mental illness came the awareness of the importance of counseling as a practice of treatment. During my journey, I discovered that counseling may be challenging as it needs to be individual detailed. What works for one individual may or may not work for another. Whereas “finding counseling” has felt like a very lengthy progression already, I know that the…

to payscale.com is a mental health counselor. Since I wanted more options I did a little more digging and found that in order to really have a good set of options I would have to achieve my Doctorate Degree (PHD). There are two degrees I am interested in and am still trying to decide which I want to do, or if I want to do both. There is the PHD in clinical psychology and the PHD in Counseling…

attendant. Moreover, it encourages me to know my strengths and areas of improvement. According to Somevilla & Keeling (2004) “Reflective practice is important for everyone and nurses in particular for a number of reasons. First, nurses are responsible for providing care to the best of their ability to patients and their families”. I use to here that “Practice makes man perfect” and “experience is the best teacher”. Though it needs a lot of hard work to be a perfect and best in our profession.…

The main purpose of research is to know the truth and to benefit the subject and the society In addition, research aims to generate knowledge and differentiate between good and bad. Scientific misconduct provides a week scientific foundation for clinical work, creates inconsistencies, inefficiencies, endangers the medical practice, and creates endless idiosyncrasies (Neema,…

key part of meditation. Mindfulness sees all experiences as equal, all thoughts as equal, and all feelings as equal. Nothing is suppressed. Nothing is repressed. Mindfulness does not play favorites. It is both the cure and the preventive measure. Practice of Mindfulness will lead us to the welfare of individual as well as the whole mankind. Mindfulness has become very popular for Psychotherapy…

Once merely seen as a hoax of random differences in alternating clinical trials, the Placebo Effect is now seen as scientifically measurable,1 as it is the study of the environmental context of the patient that affects them through psychological mechanisms.2 Most commonly the research surrounding this complex anomaly have been around neurobiological mechanisms of pain and analgesia.2 “Overall, the placebo effect appears to be a very good model to understand how a complex mental activity, such as…

American Psychological Association [APA] (2010) emphasizes the importance of considerations for diversity in clinical practice. Their ethical standards note that assessing psychologist must use an instrument with established validity and reliability with members of the population the client belongs/identifies. Considering the fact that the population in this country (the US) is becoming more diverse than ever before (APA, 2003), it is critical that an assessment instrument to be the valid test…