Vilija Vainauskaitė, final Master‘s work „ Psychological problems of pacients who are treated from haemodialysis, role of nursing personnel“, Kaunas University of Medicine, Nursing Faculty, Rehabilitation Department, Kaunas, 2005 ( 50 pg). SUMMARY The purpose of this research - to examine psychological and communication problems of patients having terminal kidney insufficiency, who are dialysed at the centre of KMUC, emphasizing the role of staff personnel in the decision of these problems. Methodology - Method of research-anonymous, questionnairing inquest. After explaining the purpose of research, relevance, substantiality, questionnaires were distributed. Investigatives – KMUC Nephrological clinics, the department of dialysis, where the pacients having chronic insufficiency of kidney function are treated by dialysis were chosen for research. Two questionnaires were intended: · one is assigned for dialysed patients trying to compare psychological problems, communication problems of those who were haemodialysed long ago and not long ago. 76 patients participated. · other for general practices nurses, trying to ascertain personnel opinion about dialysed patients, their communication and psychological problems. 14 nurses participated in the research. Results Life of dialysed patients and their families changes very much. Very often dialysed person can‘t work, possibilities of social activity declines. Most of the patients very often are unstable, they are afraid of... [to full text]

The aim of this work is do determitine social and psychological problems of the eldery people. Tasks of concluding work: -To explore the approaches a questionaire; -Analyze social and psychosocial problems. Methods of questioning, communication, interviews and observation have been applied in the research. The analysis of literature sources has revealed the approaches of different authors to the person's maturity, psysiological chenges of obsolescence, social and psychological peculiarities of elderly people. In the research, social and psychosocial problems of elderly people of the job of social worker have been determined. The hypothesis that was laid the begining of the work proved itself - elderly people do have psychosocial and social problems, including loss of independence, health disorders, problems of adaptation, loneliness, lack of communication, loss of realations with relatives, isolation, fear of death, lack of money for medicines and means of hygiene ect.

Adolescents with health disorders experience an increased risk of psychological functioning problems. However, the lack of availability of psychological help and research on methods’ effectiveness in this group is still being extensively discussed worldwide. Theoretical assumptions of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), closely related to the ideas of constructivism and systems theory, indicate that therapeutic effect of the model can be viewed as not limited to changes in the problem presented for the therapy, but as having potential of spreading into other areas of psychological functioning. Thus the aim of the dissertation is to estimate the changes in the severity of psychological functioning problems during SFBT among in-patient and out-patient adolescents experiencing mental or physical health disorders. Participants were 12-18 year old out-patients of two primary mental health care centers and in-patients of a rehabilitation hospital (N=131). Treatment group consisted of 23 out-patients and 21 in-patients (control groups accordingly 23 and 28 adolescents). Changes in the severity of problems presented for the therapy were assessed by The Therapist’s Evaluation of Improvement and The Client’s Evaluation of Progress, while the severity of psychological functioning problems and its changes were assessed by Standardized Interview for the Evaluation of Adolescents’ Problems and Checklist of Adolescent Behavior Changes. Results of the study revealed that mental... [to full text] / Sveikatos sutrikimų turintys paaugliai susiduria su padidėjusia psichologinio funkcionavimo problemų rizika. Tačiau dažnai diskutuojama psichologinės pagalbos prieinamumo ir metodų efektyvumo tyrimų šioje grupėje trūkumo problema. Darbe tyrinėjamo į sprendimus sutelkto trumpalaikio konsultavimo (SSTK) prielaidos, kurios glaudžiai siejasi su konstruktyvizmo ir bendrosios sistemų teorijos idėjomis, leidžia galvoti, kad SSTK terapinis poveikis neapsiriboja tik konkrečios problemos sprendimu, bet turi galimybę išsiplėsti į kitas psichologinio funkcionavimo sritis. Tad šio tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti dėl psichikos ir somatinės sveikatos sutrikimų gydomų paauglių psichologinio funkcionavimo problemų laipsnio kitimą SSTK metu. Tyrime dalyvavo 131 vienoje reabilitacijos ligoninėje ir dviejuose pirminės psichikos sveikatos priežiūros centruose gydomas 12 – 18 m. paauglys. Poveikio grupę sudarė 23 PPSPC ir 21 reabilitacinės ligoninės pacientas (kontrolines grupes – atitinkamai 23 ir 28). Konsultavime sprendžiamų problemų sunkumo pokyčiams vertinti taikyti Kliento vertinamas problemos sprendimo progresas ir Konsultanto vertinamo problemos sprendimo progreso skalė, o psichologinio funkcionavimo problemų laipsniui ir jo kitimui vertinti – Standartizuotas interviu paauglių problemoms įvertinti ir Paauglio elgesio klausimynas. Tyrimo rezultatai atskleidė, kad psichikos sveikatos sutrikimas paauglių psichologinį funkcionavimą paveikia labiau nei somatinės sveikatos sutrikimas, tačiau savęs... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]