A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician's orders (e.g., medication administration).
The Sinclair Method. 1  The Sinclair Method (TSM) is a treatment for alcohol addiction that uses a technique called pharmacological extinctionâthe use of an opiate blocker to turn habit-forming behaviors into habit erasing behaviors. The effect returns a personâs craving for alcohol to its pre-addiction state.
Integrated psychosocial outpatient treatment programs and the ability to treat alcohol and depression simultaneously have reinforced the need to revisit the traditional management of comorbid major depression and alcohol dependence more formally.