Attitude problems

Article Abstract:

Urinary incontinence management is hampered by denial on the part of the sufferer that there is a problem. In an average health district with about 250,000 residents, there are almost 11,000 urinary incontinents, but more than 77% are unknown to the services, according to the British Psychological Society. Denial is a defence against inner feelings of badness or weakness, suggest psychodynamic theorists, while social psychologists say denial is a way of protecting self-image. Cognitive psychologists suggest that the child relates continence with goodness, and the adult finds it hard to dissociate himself from this notion. A person with incontinence will go through the stages of denial, resentment and anger, depression or a sense of loss, before being able to accept that the change is definite. Nurses should help patients to accept a new image of themselves, and to see themselves as competent in other respects.

Methods, Urinary incontinence, Urological nursing

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Therapy with attitude

Article Abstract:

Women who traditionally may have been excluded from psychotherapy on the basis of their age, race, class, sexuality, language or disability are being assisted by the Shanti project, which was established in the late 1980s by West Lambeth Health Authority in London, England. It uses five therapists, and operates from a housing estate in Brixton. It runs groups for black women, for older women and for women who have been sexually abused, and its approach ensures that it is fully accessible for members of the community which it serves.

Minority women

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'Sensationalizing our drug and alcohol problems is failing public health'

Article Abstract:

The remarkable increase in excessive alcohol use in people is probably due to a large impact of the media coverage of alcohol and drug abuse of the role models or celebrities. In addition to this, an easy availability of alcohol has led to younger people being affected by chronic -alcohol related diseases.

United Kingdom, Youth, Teenagers, Drug use, Alcohol use

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