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The actresses (Geraldine Page and Therapy with Older Couples: Love Stories 87 Rebecca De Mornay) provide a memorable experience of putting lives in perspective and demonstrate the meaning of generativity generic antivert 25mg visa symptoms 6 days after iui. Erik Erikson’s (1982) work on life span challenge and growth antivert 25 mg free shipping treatment for shingles, also gives a rich model for "generativity," and each person’s personal trip to Bountiful. The two ladies in the movie on the bus to Bountiful show the value of hearing and affirming all of our experiences. Terms of Endearment (1983) is a movie about finding love in midlife, communication problems, dealing with an adult child’s death, and deceiv- ing someone you love. The couple and family interaction provide great examples of bad communica- tion and confusion about what people want (or think they want) in rela- tionships. Living in a love-hate relationship, a couple (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner) come to de- fine themselves by their possessions. Home for the Holidays (1995) is a frantic saga of a dysfunctional family and their Thanksgiving holiday reconnection. Addictions, denial, narcissism, and old-fashioned looniness all make an appearance. The movie provides many laughs, the healing power of recognition, and puts problems in per- spective. One couple this writer/therapist saw in therapy said, "This movie makesourconflictsseemminor... In Grumpy Old Men (1993), Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Ann- Margret provide laughs in a more enduring version of a buddy movie for boys who don’t grow up. Entertaining and also valuable in seeing exaggerated styles lampooned, so that even the most thick-headed male gets the message, the movie is close to vaudeville in its broad humor. Kramer (1979), a movie based on divorce and a custody war, captures the heartbreak of breaking up no matter when it happens. In Cocoon (1985), senior citizens discover a fountain of youth, but get some surprises when they meet the aliens who share the same source. The movie is entertaining, but it also shows the dynamics of one of the older 88 LIFE CYCLE STAGES men who (when sexually revitalized) returns to his philandering ways. In On Golden Pond (1981), Chelsea (Jane Fonda) has never been close to her father, Norman (Henry Fonda). Chelsea treads cautiously as she tries to make a connection with the man who never listened or praised. Chelsea’s mother Ethel (Katharine Hepburn) shows how she learned to connect with him, but that approach cannot work with the daughter. A combination of changes develop when Chelsea and her new beau (a dentist, whom Norman goads and insults) leave his son for Ethel and Norman to look after. In To Dance with the White Dog (1993), Robert Samuel Peek (Hume Cronyn) is a pecan grower who has been married to Cora (Jessica Tandy) for 57 years when she dies. Sam’s outlook veers to loneliness until he befriends a stray white dog that no one else can see. His dialogues have some insight into loss and preserving relationship memories and loyalty (what the psychodynamic therapists call object rela- tions). The movie shows a touching connection of personal hope in an un- usual example of mourning and preserving love. Moving on, an important perspective in looking at couples’ interactions may be the quote, "Some things are too important to be taken seriously. On the other hand, consider some humor on sex and love: It’s okay to laugh in the bedroom as long as you don’t point. Therapy with Older Couples: Love Stories 89 When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I’ve never tried before. Nancy Peske and Beverly West have written a funny and insightful book using popular movies to capture the ups and downs of relationships. A short sampling of their approach should open some minds and mouths with laughter.

Clinical practice for chronic cases has changed with the designation of a gatekeeper for referrals and coordinator for complicated cases discount antivert 25mg without prescription medications in checked baggage. According to the team members buy antivert 25mg symptoms of dehydration, "This has helped standardize the treatment of chronic care cases. Es- tablishment of the gatekeeper function is also credited with reducing the backlog in neurosurgery from three months to two weeks. Conclusions Site D is seeking to integrate the implementation of the low back pain guideline into the hospital’s new paradigm of care that places more emphasis on primary care and prevention. Having the percep- tion that conservative treatment was already being provided for acute low back pain cases, the MTF focused initially on the portion of the guideline addressing management of chronic cases. An emphasis was placed on designating one clinic as the gatekeeper to resolve ex- isting difficulties with inappropriate referrals of low back pain pa- tients to neurosurgery and inadequate coordination with the numer- ous relevant specialties available at the medical center. At the same time, the MTF sought to formally implement use of the guideline in its CTMC and other primary care clinics. There was substantial initial buy-in for the guideline recommendations, but turnover and other pressures reportedly led to a decline in compliance over time. MTF leadership at Site D believes that full compliance with the low back pain guideline, and eventually any guideline for primary care, cannot occur without increasing electronic applications related to the guideline, especially online documentation of care. To this end, the MTF developed its own computerized algorithm for management of low back pain that follows the guideline in steps and allows online checks of the examinations performed and treatment provided. This 152 Evaluation of the Low Back Pain Practice Guideline Implementation approach was being tested at the CTMC at the time of our final visit. An important issue, which is a chronic problem in MTFs, is that this automated system was created by one entrepreneurial, computer savvy military person, who left in the summer rotations, and his computer skills will be difficult to replicate. This issue speaks to the need for systemwide applications to institutionalize such systems. Appendix C MULTIVARIATE ANALYSES OF LOW BACK PAIN METRICS To test for effects of the introduction of the DoD/VA low back pain guideline on service utilization and prescription patterns, we fit a se- ries of regression models to predict each of the six measures of guideline effects during the treatment of acute low back pain. We calculated the following measures for activity within six weeks of the initial low back pain encounter: • whether a patient was referred to PT • the number of follow-up primary care visits • whether a patient was referred to specialty care • whether a patient was prescribed muscle relaxants • whether a patient was prescribed narcotics • whether an NSAID prescription was for a high-cost NSAID. The unit of analysis for the first five measures was the episode of care, so there was one record in the data file used for each episode of care with variables for the five measures. As described in Chapter Two, this study was limited to episodes of low back pain care for ac- tive duty Army personnel. The variables for PT referrals, specialty referrals, muscle relaxant prescriptions, and narcotic prescriptions were dichotomous variables (equal to one if one of these events had occurred). For these measures, we used logistic regression models to test the size and statistical significance of effects. Most pa- tients had zero or one follow-up primary care visit within six weeks of the initial low back pain encounter, and only 5 percent had two or more visits. Therefore, we defined a three-level outcome variable (0, 1, 2+ visits) for the ordered logit model to test for a guideline effect. The unit of analysis for the use of high-cost NSAIDs was the NSAID prescription, and the sample was all NSAID prescriptions for episodes of care included in the study. The predictor variables in the models included dummy variables for each quarter (with quarter 2 omitted as the referent variable), a dummy variable for the demonstration site, and variables to control for patient characteristics. Using SIDPERS data, we controlled for the patient characteristics of gender, rank (officer versus enlisted), and age categories. The referent age category in our models was 18–29 years, and the other two categories were 30–39 years and 40 years or older. We collapsed the two control groups into one group for all analyses because we found no difference in trends between them. Guideline effects were measured using interaction terms of the demonstration site by each of the three quarter dummy variables for the demonstration period (the third through fifth quarters). The co- efficient on each quarter variable estimated the difference in a mea- sure between demonstration and control sites relative to the baseline period, i.

THE UNFAVORABLE MARRIAGE MARKET Before discussing the next case example order antivert 25mg free shipping symptoms of mono, I present the cultural context for African American families generic 25 mg antivert with amex symptoms ptsd. During slavery, White slave owners routinely disrupted African American families by raping and impregnating slave women and by selling members of the same family separately. Similarly, during Reconstruction and continuing to the present, White middle-class men have controlled local economic and labor systems, severely limiting employment opportunities for African American men (Burton & Snyder, 1998). Contemporary under investment in inner city neighborhoods has resulted in impoverished cultural institutions, poor educational and job opportunities, especially for men, and social problems such as the drug culture with its ensuing high rates of incarceration and homicide. Given the under investment in these neighborhoods, large numbers of African American men have difficulty finding and maintaining jobs (Jarrett, Roy, & Burton, 2002). All kinds of economic studies, including time series and cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses find that poor male job opportunities are associ- ated with low marriage and high nonmarital fertility (Sigle-Rushton & Garfinkel, 2002). Employment for African American women has remained Bowen Family Systems Theory as Feminist Therapy 115 stable because low-paying domestic positions, such as babysitter or house- hold worker, have remained plentiful. From a woman’s perspective, this gender difference in economic viability renders the available pool of African American men unattractive as marriage partners. Other factors contributing to the low numbers of marriageable men are the high rates of incarceration and death among young African American men. Without an adequate education, many African American men have few employment choices. Many ultimately become involved in the alterna- tive economy of drugs or gambling. Thus, the ratio of desir- able men to women gives African American men a decided advantage. The operational sex ratio (OSR) influences the bargaining position of each sex, and thus the mating (marriage) market (Marlowe, 2002). With many attrac- tive women to choose from, many men refuse to make the long-term com- mitment of marriage, preferring serial cohabitation. Within relationships, this unfavorable ratio provides men with a significant degree of power, be- cause both partners know that if he is dissatisfied, he has many available al- ternatives, whereas she has few. CASE STUDY Linda and Lance are an example of how these socioeconomic forces play out in the context of personal relationships. She was "rescued" by Richard, who married her and accepted responsibility for her son. Richard was frequently unemployed, used cocaine, was involved with other women, and was abusive to Linda. Throughout this period, Linda worked continuously as a bank teller, went to community college at night, and managed the household and the children. For several years, her mother lived with them, providing some measure of childcare, although she abused alcohol and suffered from serious depressive episodes. When her second child was 3, Linda came into therapy, feeling depressed and discouraged about her marriage. She worked on her relationship with her father, her mother, and many of her siblings and stepsiblings. She made a great deal of progress improving her relationships with family members, entered col- lege, and completed her associate’s degree. However, although she complained about her marriage, she was unsuc- cessful in either improving it or leaving it. He would spend several weeks at his mother’s house, or with another woman, but would always come back to Linda. Although she "knew 116 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON WORKING WITH COUPLES she shouldn’t," she would always take him back. Linda felt that having him around was better than being a single mother, as her mother had been. When her youngest daughter was 10 years old, Linda became involved in an extramarital affair with an older man. She saw him for about a year and finally moved in with him, taking her youngest child with her. Richard moved to Florida, taking the two older children, and the couple got a divorce. For the first time in her life, Linda had a man who was emotionally sup- portive and financially responsible. After her abandonment by her first partner and her years of instabil- ity with Richard, she wanted the commitment of a marriage.

About 10% of MS worsens right from the start and is called: • Primary progressive discount antivert 25mg without prescription treatment kidney disease. The disease shows progression of dis- ability from its onset generic 25 mg antivert fast delivery moroccanoil treatment, without plateaus or remissions or with occasional plateaus and temporary minor improve- ments. This pattern of MS shows progression from the onset but without clear acute relapses that may or may not have some recovery or remissions. First, more than two thirds of all people who have MS are walking 20 years after diagnosis. The idea that MS is a progressive disease that inevitably leads to wheel- chair use does not fit the most common scenario. Second, even those who have "progressive" disease usually stop progressing at some point. Many MS experts fear the potential progression of the disease so much they often overlook the fact that the disease is not always progressive. Just why this occurs is not known despite lengthy inquiries into diet, lifestyle, and other factors. The MS Society has continued to estimate about 300,000 to 350,000 cases with MS in the United States. This estimate is undoubtedly low, because this number has not been altered in 15 to 20 years, despite thte fact that new cases develop, and the death rate is not high—most people with MS will live to a normal age. POSSIBLE CAUSES OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Although a specific cause of MS has not yet been determined, sev- eral theories are plausible. MS generally is considered to be an autoimmune disease in which—for unknown reasons—the body’s own immune system begins to attack normal body tissue. In the case of MS, the cells that make myelin, the myelin itself, and/or the axons are attacked. The Immune System The nervous system is not the only system in the body that "talks" to other systems and to itself. This is especially true for the immune system, which is responsible for destroying foreign substances such as viruses and bacteria. Most people know about the immune system because they are familiar with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), in which a virus attacks the immune system and makes it inactive. In MS the picture is different in that the immune system appears to be too active. It sends out "messengers" in the form of specific types of white blood cells that attack myelin as if it were a foreign substance. The immune system is made up of many different cells that function to protect the body. These cells are made and stored in dif- ferent parts of the body and make a large number of immunomod- ulating substances. The combinations of cells and substances that may be formed are essentially unlimited, which adds to the com- plexity of the immune system. Some cells are made in other parts of the body such as the thymus gland (over the heart) and in the ton- sils (in the throat); these T cells also communicate with and regulate each other. Some cells that suppress reactions are called T suppres- sor cells; some cells that help reactions along are called T helper cells. Cells in the immune system that target foreign bodies for destruction are called macrophages. Each of these cells has an important individual function; together they create the immune 9 PART I • The Disease and Its Management reaction. These reactions usually are beneficial and often life-sav- ing, but sometimes the system malfunctions and produces an autoimmune problem. This is what appears to happen in MS, which therefore often is referred to as an autoimmune disease. Other autoimmune diseases include systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis. All autoimmune disease involve the faulty regulation of the immune system, which appears to be overaggres- sive and may need to be suppressed.

Because concepts of disease and health are partly metaphorical 25mg antivert sale medicine bobblehead fallout 4, graded in centrality buy antivert 25mg line treatment lower back pain, overlapping with cognitive neighbors, value-charged, ambiguous, disputed and ever-changing, they cannot be handled in a rigorous or mechanical fashion. But this does not mean that we cannot reason about them at all: it merely requires a broader view of what means/ends deliberation is all about. THIRD LINE OF ARGUMENT: DEWEY’S BROAD VIEW OF MEANS AND ENDS DELIBERATION The work of John Dewey already provides many insights into alternate relations of means and ends. His portrayal, in contrast to economic rationality, better accommo- dates the realities of clinical care. His concept of means and ends allows a broader representation of and response to people’s troubles. I will draw heavily on his work in trying to construct a comprehensive theory which does justice to the complexity of real care and thus promotes effective function, while denying that "effective" and "efficient" are the same thing. A small group of pragmatically oriented medical ethicists including Micah Hester, John Moreno and Griffin Trotter have described the applicability of Dewey’s idea of intelligent inquiry to the assessment and resolution of clinical problems. Certain general themes of his work on which his more focused discussion of means and ends depends are set forth in this chapter. His contention that values arise in nature, not from divine edict or as a consequence of reason turned in on itself. His refusal to organize values in a hierarchy which privileges any one of them as foundational. His idea that values interact despite and because of being qualitatively different, and therefore involve mutual support. His contention that rationality is much more than deduction, calculation and the application of rules. The specifics of a Deweyan theory of means and ends, as best I can synthesize it from his various works, occupy Chapter Four. Dewey delineates a view of the situations which become problematic and require inquiry and the application of intel- ligence/judgment, as opposed to those more generic and less problematic encounters adequately handled through habit (or recipe). He then points out that resolution of a genuinely problematic situation involves creating unity and determinacy out of true indeterminancy. It follows that actual engagement in the process of inquiry and action is often necessary before a satisfactory outcome can be known. Therefore, values are partly created and are at least reinterpreted through engagement, not BROAD CONSIDERATIONS IN THE RELATION 5 simply given at the outset. The operational ends-in-view which are part of a developing plan, drawing us on in the process of diagnosis and treatment, are actually in part means, are malleable and are often to be distinguished from final ends or outcomes. Some final ends cannot be aimed at directly, and are achieved only as byproducts of other activity. He indicates that the value of an endeavor is spread out over its course and not only realized at the end. In assessing the prospects of any action or in evaluating it in retrospect, Dewey would have us look impartially at all of the consequences, not arbitrarily considering only specified ones. Among the consequences of action frequently ignored are effects on the character and relationships of the agents themselves. These "feedback" effects on character are salient to debates about abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, surrogate motherhood and live donor organ transplants today. And they are particularly important to the alteration of character which may occur during medical education and training. However, after reviewing Dewey’s work, although it has been my primary inspi- ration, I have found gaps and deficiencies. Some of these result from the fact that no complete or final theory of means and ends reasoning was ever articulated by him systematically in one place. Chapter Four ends with a presentation of problems in Dewey’s theory and areas needing further work. He defines "objective" in a new and complex way, but then seems to trade off the traditional connotations of the word.