Nostalgia in UX Design (10min) https://uxpsychology.substack.com/p/nostalgia-in-ux-design
Nostalgia explained through the prism of psychology, and how we can embrace it in our designs. It needs to be user-centric, innovative (no limitative), coherent, and inclusive.
By Dr Maria Panagiotidi #Psychology
TITLE: Suicide Most Common Cause of Death in People w/
Schizophrenia—"Need for Continuous Suicide-Prevention Efforts for People
w/ Schizophrenia"
Thank you Dr. Pope
-- Forwarded --
The American Psychiatric Association issued the following news release:
Suicide Most Common Cause of Death in People With Schizophrenia, Study Finds
Suicide is the most common cause of death in patients who have
schizophrenia spectrum disorders, a study in Schizophrenia Bulletin has
found.
Marie Stefanie Kejser Starzer, M.D., of Copenhagen University Hospital
and colleagues analyzed data from the OPUS I study, a randomized
controlled trial of 578 patients experiencing their first episode of
psychosis. Patients enrolled in the study between January 1, 1998, and
December 31, 2000. When the patients enrolled, they were between 18 and
45 years old; had received first-time treatment for a diagnosis of
schizophrenia, schizotypal disorder, delusional disorder, acute or
transient psychosis, schizoaffective disorder, or nonspecific nonorganic
psychosis; and had not received antipsychotic medication for more than
12 weeks. They were randomized to receive treatment as usual or a
specialized early intervention that consisted of two years of assertive
community treatment (including family involvement, social skills
training, and psychoeducation) by a multidisciplinary team. Patients
were then assessed multiple times over a 20-year period.
By the end of 2021, 14.2% of the patients had died. Of those, 48.6% died
of external causes (for example, suicide or accidents) and 51.4% died of
medical conditions and diseases.
The most common cause of death was suicide, accounting for 27.8% of
deaths; followed by accidents at 13.9%; unspecified medical
abnormalities at 11.1%; and cardiovascular disease and cancer, both at 8.3%.
Death due to external causes, mostly suicide, occurred at a steady rate
throughout the study, whether the patients had received treatment as
usual or the specialized early intervention. Starzer and colleagues
wrote that this indicates a need for continuous suicide-prevention
efforts for people with schizophrenia.
“Early intervention services alone cannot address this issue, as the
risk [was] present long after [the specialized early intervention]
ended,” they wrote. “Perhaps more regular screening for suicide risk in
aging patients with schizophrenia could help prevent some of these late
suicides.”
Patients with a history of substance use had a higher risk of both
all-cause mortality and death from medical conditions and diseases.
“This underlines the importance of proper treatment of comorbid
substance use at any time after patients are diagnosed,” the researchers
wrote. They noted that the treatment of mental illness and the treatment
of substance use are often managed by separate entities. “Lack of
integrated treatment could be leading to suboptimal care for
dual-diagnosis patients, and a more multidimensional and non-categorical
treatment approach is needed.”
A therapist on another list asked if anyone had experience with hipaalink.net televideo service.
This looks like a promising small company with some neat features at only $9.95 per month. See below first however. I really don’t like that Facebook Connect is being contacted from the client’s browser when they login!
I spent a lot of time fighting to sign-up (had to change my settings to see their Captcha challenges). More of a problem – there was a very basic malfunction in the password selection process. Some “special characters” (you have to have one in the password) would not work (+ and #). I eventually got “-” to work. I got an almost immediate call-back when I sent a message about trouble picking a password (bug in our system, thank you for finding it, our programmers are fixing “special characters” this evening).
Did eventually set-up a 30-day free trial. So I can further tests later if I want to.
I noticed that https://hipaalink.net/<mysite> works, but https://www.hipaalink.net/<mysite> does not – another simple thing for their programming team to fix. (Older people are very used to “www” in front of everything, so this redirect should function.)
I kinda feel like I ought to be charging for debugging services.
I have not actually tried out video sessions yet. I’ve just run Privacy Badger and Ghostery browser plug-ins in both Opera and Firefox. Results:
CLIENT LOGIN PAGE: Privacy Badger: www.googletagmanager.com – cookies blocked fonts.gstatic.com – cookies blocked
Ghostery: Facebook Connect – BLOCKED! Google Tag Manager – allowed
CLIENT IN-SESSION: Privacy Badger: www.googletagmanager.com – cookies blocked fonts.gstatic.com – cookies blocked
Ghostery: Facebook Connect – BLOCKED! Google Tag Manager – allowed
Ghostery: Google Analytics – “tracking not detected” it says Google Tag Manager – allowed Google APIs – allowed Google Static – allowed
THERAPIST IN-SESSION: (The same) Privacy Badger: www.googletagmanager.com – cookies blocked fonts.gstatic.co – cookies blocked
Ghostery:
Google Analytics – “tracking not detected” it says Google Tag Manager – allowed Google APIs – allowed Google Static – allowed
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
It’s necessary for some cookies and tracking to the functioning of a website. Privacy Badger and Ghostery are both detecting some of this from Google libraries which they choose to allow. I don’t have enough security engineering knowledge to know if these are harmless or not. I do know they are very common on most websites. Yet – Privacy Badger says they are blocking some cookies…
Facebook should not be contacted on the client side! I don’t know what Ghostery is blocking from being sent to Facebook, but this should not be on a HIPAA site. The connection between therapist and client seemed at first glance to work fine with Facebook blocked. I will discuss this with Hipaalink.net before I test it with actual clients. For now I give them the benefit of the doubt. I am told by a computer engineer that Facebook supplies some code libraries (like Google) which websites can use – maybe this is not intentional tracking, just their developers needing to fix this?
There is more tracking taking place on the home page and more public sections of the website than inside the login and televideo areas. So some effort to decrease tracking has been made for actual clients. I see different trackers on the public areas of the website today than I did when I first checked on 7/24/23.
It’s a maybe… But at $9.95 per month hipaalink.net could be a nice option if they clean up minor tracking concerns. Again, I have not tested the video yet.
To Err is to Play: Human Error and Game Design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyuR2fKvQ20
Most of the time, with interface, you want to prevent users from making errors. But, in video games, you actually want the players to make mistakes. That’s part of the challenge! Ben explains how cognition works, how to prevent or use potential errors as part #GameDesign#Psychology
We now have Lemmy & Mastodon instances up and operational for mental health professionals. Members are vetted by admin staff to be broadly employed in a mental health field. PSEUDONYMS ALLOWED IN PROFILES! Full name, credentials, and location encouraged in profiles. (For a fuller discussion on pseudonyms, vetting, and privacy please see https://lem.clinicians-exchange.org/post/24291 or email me off-list.)
The changes from our last announcement are an upgraded server, longer Mastodon post limits, broader membership criteria, and allowing pseudonyms -- which many professionals requested to feel safe participating online.
These are worldwide forums and do not replace local resources in any way. They lack the privacy of invite-only email lists so don't replace them either.
Lemmy is to Reddit as Mastodon is to Twitter. Lemmy is like a BBS (bulletin board system) that can also connect to other bulletin board systems world-wide (allowing communities and enduring threads of conversation). Mastodon works like Twitter -- and all the Mastodon server instances communicate too.
Be aware that Lemmy is being updated frequently and remains somewhat buggy!
The 4 Types of Introvert:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNKQYjsxgPU
Introversion is a spectrum, from social introverts (yup) to thinking introvert, anxious introverts (shy introvert) and restrained introverts. Also, I’ve never heard the word “ambivert”, I’ll need to search more about that to check if it’s an actual thing or yet again pseudo psychology. #Behavior#Psychology
In this systematic review, we examined quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies on loneliness in autistic
adults. A total of 1460 articles were identified, and 34 of these met inclusion criteria.