The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Model
A CASE ANALYSIS AND FORMULATION EXERCISE
Drs. Muhammad Arsyad Subu, MSN
Doctoral Student
School of Nursing
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
THE CASE:
NJ is a 30 year-old Indonesian woman and mother of a 2 year-old boy. She lives with her husband in South Street South Philadelphia. She is a physical therapist and has been working part-time in a fitness center in Camden New Jersey for 2 years. She migrated with her husband to Philadelphia from Jakarta Indonesia in 2002 in order to study physical therapy at Widener University at Chester PA.
After a year coming to Philadelphia, she felt helpless and experienced of excessive anxiety and worry about everything. These symptoms were often associated with muscle tension, feelings of weakness, fatigue, and sleep disturbance (physiological symptoms). She also always found difficulty to control these physical symptoms. In consequence, she started avoiding activities that required physical effort. She was thinking that all these symptoms would ruin her work efficiency and her value as a competent human being. She often felt helpless, with low self-esteem. Read more…
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HOW NURSES EXPRESS THEIR CARING BEHAVIOR TO PATIENS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS (RESEARCH REPORT)
The purpose of the research was to explore how nurses who work in the speccifik nursing care facilities express their caring behavior to patients with special needs. A descriptive axplorative research design was conducted, and Hemodialysis units in hospitals in Jakarta Metropolitan. The questions were derived from ten carrative factors of watson’s theory of caring (watson, 1994). One hundred sisty five questionnaires was distributed during a month data collection period, and only 102 questionnaires fulfiled the criteria. Among the findings showed that more than 75 % of respondents appreciated client as persons who have privacy and dignity.
The recommendations were directed to nursing outhority in the area of education that caring spirit should be grown since the early years of nursing education. In addition, the nursing managers should pay more attention to create conducive enviroment for nurses to build more cohesive-trust relationship with clients and families. Further research needs to be conducted to cover larger subjects, different area of nursing practice, and in a longitudinal abservation involving additional sub variables.
(JKI Volume 5, No. 1, Maret 2001)
writer : Elly Nurachmah
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IMPROVING NUTRITION STATUS THROUGH NURSING CARE FAMILY
Malnutrion for children under five years in Indonesia is one of health problem that has not solved yet. Monetary crisis since 1997 in Indonesia became the trigger of malnutrition case. One of TV media in February 2000 informed that more than 2000 children had poor nutrition status and sometimes become a cause of death. This situation will become danger for Indonesia society cause we may loose one generation. Family empowerment has not prepared optimally in giving family care. Because of that it was planned an implementation of family nursing care to solve malnutrition cases in the community.
This study is an example for solving malnutrition problem, which purposes to see whether there is an increasing level of children under five years nutritional status through family nursing care at RW.05. sub District Rawa Bunga District Jatinegara. The study shows an increasing nutritional status of under five years children to 13,98% after 4 months intervention regarding to wilcoxon statistical analysis.
Key word: Nutrional status, malnutrition, children under five years, family empowerment, nursing family
(JKI Volume 5, No. 2, September 2001)
Writer : Widyatuti
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