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One-half of the medical providers at the MTF have turned over since the kickoff conference for the low back pain guideline demonstration generic 40 mg benicar with visa, creating a large 138 Evaluation of the Low Back Pain Practice Guideline Implementation workload for efforts to educate newcomers on the low back pain guideline. They were educated on the low back pain guideline as part of a three-hour session integrated into a two-day orientation to the MTF held in August of 1999. By contrast, ancillary staff did not receive formal orientation to the low back pain guideline but were introduced to it only through some on-the-job training. This lack of attention to ancillary staff training may have contributed to their widespread unwillingness to integrate use of documentation form 695-R within their routine processing of patients. Use of documentation form 695-R was to be the primary vehicle through which the low back pain practice guideline would be followed and documented at the MTF. Although use of the form increased from 4 to 20 percent of patients between our first and second visits (based on chart audits), use remained low. According to providers participating in the site visit, at least part of this problem was because the form was not inserted into the patient chart or otherwise readily available to them, which frustrated those providers who wanted to use the form to document care. Unavailability of forms was widely attributed to lack of cooperation by the nursing and ancillary staff. Several reasons were given for this lack of cooperation: • Use of the form is additional work. Reports from the Final Round of Site Visits 139 The net effect of these issues was that no permanent changes in ad- ministrative procedures were implemented. There was a sense that providers did not feel comfortable placing demands on the ancillary staff, who they knew were overworked, and that command did not see the low back pain guideline as a priority. At least one provider reported having no problem with ancillary staff in requiring that the form be filled out by the patients and available with the chart during examination. Also, there were perceptions that contract providers were using the form more frequently because it helped them see more patients and, since they had higher ratios of support to provider staff, ancillary staff had time to process the forms. Simi- larly, there are no procedures to follow up on patients who fail to attend a back class after making an appointment.

While making the image the client struggled with where to place this wrap- per and initially wanted to place it on the lower third discount benicar 10 mg overnight delivery. Now hold your hand over the upper two thirds of the page and notice the linear quality. Green tissue paper trees look like explosions, especially directly above the bodiless head. Or it could be explored from a position of personal symbolism and the client’s free asso- ciations with the mortar and pestle, the bodiless man, and the affect gen- erated. Or, finally, it could be assessed from the point of view that the abuse, rather than having been explored and processed, was quietly and efficiently repressed, and any direct interpretation or questioning would produce a multiplicity of verbal statements, all designed to minimize the experience. Therefore, utiliz- ing the art as the product of transference, the therapist gently questioned her. Her response to how the mortar and pestle fit with the image was dis- missal; she didn’t know. She was not ready to allow this intensely personal symbol to be explored— not directly, at any rate. It is interesting to note that the client sat quietly after the question for quite some time, after which she stated, "Can we now please not do this any more and go back to your office and talk? The nonverbal language of symbols speaks to us on a multiplicity of levels and 30 In My Defense incorporates not simply one memory, object, or feeling but many, which are united through the unconscious process of creation. It is in this vein that we arrive at condensation, often classified as a minor ego defense. It is defined as a process by which "several concepts, ideas, or needs are condensed in their figurative repre- sentation so that a single symbol, object, or figure serves to stand for them.... Through the telescoping operation of Condensation one object, figure, or symbol can represent several" (Laughlin, 1970, p. In art therapy condensation takes on significance beyond its standing as an ego defense.

Another reaction of a similar nature is that of physicians who resist acknowledging the role of emotions—in cancer order benicar 40mg online, for example. They say it is cruel to suggest to patients that emotions may have contributed to the onset of the cancer; it makes them feel guilty and responsible. My answer to this is that it makes a world of difference how you introduce the subject to patients. You don’t bludgeon them with the information and make it sound as though they are emotionally defective. You explain that they are not responsible as described above, and talk to them about their lives, try to identify emotional factors that might have contributed to the cancer process, and then follow it up with concrete suggestions as 148 Healing Back Pain to how they can remedy and reverse the negative factors. I do not mean to suggest that there is a well worked out therapeutic process in existence based on such ideas. THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ART OF MIND-BODY MEDICINE Readers who are interested in an excellent review of where medicine is today vis-à-vis the mind-body connection should read The Healer Within by Steven Locke, M. Locke is in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has done an excellent job with his writer-collaborator describing the history and contemporary efforts to understand how the mind influences the body. However, I have the impression that the authors focus too heavily on the immune system and imply that the future of this field depends upon what they call the “science of psychoneuroimmunology. TMS is an example of a mind-body disorder mediated through the autonomic nervous system; the immune system is not involved. I suspect the immune system does not participate in the interaction of emotions and the cardiovascular system. Once more, one is intrigued by the fact that the brain crosses boundaries in responding to its psychological needs. Thus patients with the same Mind and Body 149 psychological diagnosis (though differing in severity) may develop TMS, autonomically mediated; allergic rhinitis, immune system mediated; or psychogenic regional pain, direct action on the sensorimotor system.