An improvement in reflection skills was also found when descriptions of professional situations (vignettes) were used as a tool to encourage reflection (Boenink 2006).
Irrespective of that, across all four vignettes professional help was recommended more frequently if respondents defined depressive symptoms as indication of mental illness than if they did not.
Interventions: Each professional received a vignette case history of an amputation patient who varied in age (36yr, 76yr), gender (male, female), and patient behavior (ideal, depressed, noncompliant).
I have created a project website (www.stanfordCHIPAO.com) and professional videos of several vignettes we use as educational materials, as well as coordinated live performances at local high schools and Junior high schools using my scholarly concentration time.
In their native Norway, they used to sing children's music; on "Shades of Purple," they wrote their own songs (in English) with some professional help, and their vignettes of puppy love hint at real junior-high-school ups and downs.
For descriptive purposes, the percent rating each strategy as helpful and as harmful was calculated by vignette and professional group.
Vignettes were matched to the gender of youth participants, whereas professionals received only male vignettes due to the smaller sample size and the fact that previous research had shown that gender of the vignette had very little effect on responses [ 20].
After being presented with the vignette, professionals were asked a series of questions to assess their recognition of the disorder in the vignette, beliefs about first aid, interventions, and prevention, and sociodemographic characteristics.
Take a collaboration by Dr. John Castaldo and Dr. Lawrence Levitt, two neurologists in Allentown, Pa., who have stitched together a loose collection of vignettes about their professional lives.
(Over 80% of each professional group diagnosed the psychosis vignette with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorder, the depression vignette with a mood disorder and the social phobia vignette with an anxiety disorder. However, diagnosis of comorbid substance-related disorder was lower, ranging from 26% up to 60% depending on the professional group and the age of the person in the vignette [ 19]).
