Exhibits: Merging the Physical with Digital

Vanderbilt University\u27s Central Library in Nashville, Tennessee has recently had a major (and much needed) building renovation. With that, the library has implemented a new exhibits program, which includes both traditional displays as well as digital interactive displays utilizing our unique local resources. Molly Poremski, who comes from a cataloging and Special Collections background, has recently joined the Exhibits Team, and will discuss the programs used in creating a variety of digital exhibits, and the successes and the bumps in the road that are inevitable with creating a new exhibition program

Changes in the nature and intensity of stress following employment among people with severe mental illness receiving individual placement and support services: an exploratory qualitative study.

Most people with severe mental illness (SMI) want to work. Individual placement and support (IPS) programs have proven effective in helping them obtain and keep competitive jobs. Yet, practitioners often fear that competitive jobs might be too stressful. To explore how the nature and intensity of stress experienced by IPS clients changed after the transition from looking for work to being employed. Semi-structured interviews explored the experiences of 16 clients of an IPS program who had recently been competitively employed. Grounded theory was used to structure the analysis. Most participants reported that their stress level decreased once they found work. Stress following work was associated with fear of failure, pressure to perform and uncertainty. The support that people perceived in their return-to-work project, and where they were on their recovery journey, modulated their perception of stress. Many cited IPS as a source of support. Competitive work changed the nature of stress and was mostly associated with a decrease in stress level. Adjunctive interventions aiming to buffer self-stigma or help participants use more adaptive coping mechanisms may merit investigation

The impact of stakeholder preferences on service user adherence to treatments for schizophrenia and metabolic comorbidities

10.1371/journal.pone.0166171PLoS ONE1111e016617

Moving from 'personal communication' to 'available online at': Preprint servers enhance the timeliness of scientific exchange

10.1186/s13034-019-0301-4Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health1314

The Impact of Stakeholder Preferences on Service User Adherence to Treatments for Schizophrenia and Metabolic Comorbidities

<div><p>Objective</p><p>To determine how stakeholder opinions of treatments influence service user decisions to adhere to courses of actions necessary to treat metabolic conditions.</p><p>Methods</p><p>Qualitative open-ended interviews were conducted with 20 service providers, 25 service users, and 9 caregivers. Grounded theory was used to generate an understanding that linked preferences of care with adherence to follow-up treatments.</p><p>Results</p><p>Participants spoke about several considerations when discussing adherence: Resource limitations were the predominant consideration. Social considerations such as stigma and support surfaced in caregiver and service-user interviews. The influence of symptoms, especially their absence could reduce adherence, and organizational considerations related to the opinions they had about the qualifications of professionals.</p><p>Discussion</p><p>A rational patient model partially organizes our findings, but emotional components related to stigma and the opinion of service providers do not fit well into such a model. If service providers do not consider components of the decision making process which fall outside of the rational patient model, they may incorrectly be leveraging suboptimal values to bring about adherence to treatment plans. Being sensitive to the values of service users and their caregivers may allow service providers to better act on points that may bring about change in non-compliant service users with schizophrenia and metabolic comorbidities.</p></div