Distraction Techniques

Psychotherapies for PTSD include anxiety management (e.g., stress-inoculation training, relaxation training, biofeedback, distraction techniques), CBT, group therapy, hypnosis, psychodynamic therapies, and psychoeducation. Psychotherapy may be used in patients with mild symptoms, those who prefer not to use medications, or in conjunction with drugs in those with severe symptoms to improve response. 

This surgery causes intense throbbing pain, and distraction techniques could be used in conjunction with narcotics, but they could not be used alone. 

Distraction techniques would not be successful with this level of pain. 

The child is encouraged to stand or lie directly in front of the cassette with the arm resting at the side of the body. Distraction techniques may be used to encourage the child to look away from the side imaged. Initially one AP projection is imaged and if no fracture is seen the film is repeated using a 10° cranial angle. 

Miller AC, Hickman LC, Lemasters GK. A distraction technique for control of bum pain. J Bum Care RehabiUt 1992 13(5) 576-80. 

The basic premise of the SLIM technique is that the probability of error associated with a task, subtask, task step, or individual error is a function of the PIFs in the situation. As indicated in Chapter 3, an extremely large number of PIFs could potentially impact on the likelihood of error. Normally the PIFs that are considered in SLIM analyses are the direct influences on error such as levels of training, quality of procedures, distraction level, degree of feedback from the task, level of motivation, etc. However, in principle, there is no reason why higher level influences such as management policies should not also be incorporated in SLIM analyses. 

The advantage of this technique is that no assumptions need to be made about the type of distribution underlying the data and that many sets of observations can be visually compared without being distracted by the individual numbers. For further details, see Section 1.8. Note that the fraction of all... 

Rewrite the following wordy passages. Make them sufficiently concise so that they are appropriate for journal article Methods sections. Do not get distracted by the science you do not need to understand the science fully to improve the passages with the conciseness techniques presented in chapter 2. Hints and word-count goals are provided for each passage to focus your efforts. 

The literature on deconvolution is rich with the contributions of many investigators. These contributions are, however, scattered among journals devoted to numerous specialties. No single volume has been available that provides both an overview and the detail needed by a newcomer to this field. When a specific need arises, a recent journal article or the advice of a colleague often initiates a considerable, but not always successful, search. The lack of a suitable volume has fostered this understandable approach. Although it may be sorely needed, deconvolution is a distraction for the researcher in pursuit of personal scientific goals. The present work conveys an understanding of the field and presents under one cover a selection of the most effective, practical techniques. 

Changing the subject/creating a distraction - you deflect attention or potential criticism away from yourself. A more socially skilled version of going blank. The technique is much used by politicians, though not necessarily as an ego defence. 

To study effectively, you need to focus all your attention on the material, so the preparation time you have must be quality time. This section of the book will help you determine which study strategies are right for you. It also will provide you with techniques for overcoming the two most common roadblocks to successful studying anxiety and distraction. 

Concent rative meditation techniques basically instruct you to put all of your attention on some particular thing. This can be an external object that is looked at fixedly or some internal sensation such as the rise and fall of the belly in breathing. As in hypnotic induction, the meditater is told that if his mind wanders away from this focus he is to bring it back gentlyf51 to this focus, and not allow it to distracted. 

The symptoms of inattention, distractibility, and/or hyperactivity that define attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) improve when treated with the stimulant drug Ritalin. For long-term success, however, the behaviors associated with these symptoms can also addressed with different techniques, some of which have been described in Chapter 2. 

To illustrate the information that can be distracted from the neutron diffraction and muon spin rotation experiments, experimental data from both techniques are combined in fig. 10 for the compound U(Pto.99Pdo.oi)3- The lowest temperature data of the neutron diffraction results [20] extrapolate to... 

AP had not been used extensively in immunohistochemistry until publication of the unlabeled alkaline phosphatase-antialkaline phosphatase (APAAP) procedure (2, 3). The soluble immune complexes utilized in this procedure have molecular weights of approximately 560 kDa. The major advantage of the APAAP procedure compared to the earlier peroxidase techniques was the lack of interference posed by endogenous peroxidase activity. Because of the potential distraction of endogenous peroxidase activity, the alkaline phosphatase techniques were particularly recommended for use on blood and bone marrow smears. Endogenous alkaline phosphatase activity from bone, kidney, liver and some white cells can be inhibited by the addition of 1 mM levamisole to the substrate solution (4), although 5 mM has been found to be more effective (5). Intestinal alkaline phosphatases are not adequately inhibited by levamisole. 

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