Stress, Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorders in Children
... When children are evaluated multiple times over several years, the diagnostic confusion can get worse. The clinical presen tation of trauma-related symptoms can evol ve. In the typical evaluation process, the evaluating clinical team or clinician rarely has the benefit of complete history about the ...
... When children are evaluated multiple times over several years, the diagnostic confusion can get worse. The clinical presen tation of trauma-related symptoms can evol ve. In the typical evaluation process, the evaluating clinical team or clinician rarely has the benefit of complete history about the ...
CHAPTER 10: Personality Disorders
... disorders is less than ideal. Moreover, most researchers agree that a dimensional approach for assessing personality disorders would be preferable to the more categorical approach taken by the DSM system. Difficulties in studying the causes of personality disorders occur because most people with one ...
... disorders is less than ideal. Moreover, most researchers agree that a dimensional approach for assessing personality disorders would be preferable to the more categorical approach taken by the DSM system. Difficulties in studying the causes of personality disorders occur because most people with one ...
Mental contamination in obsessive– compulsive disorder
... demonstrated significant levels of mental contamination. Almost 2/3rds of the sample reported feeling morally tainted, internally dirty and polluted, and these feelings could be reevoked by recalling memories and mental images of the assault. These feelings of mental contamination triggered excessiv ...
... demonstrated significant levels of mental contamination. Almost 2/3rds of the sample reported feeling morally tainted, internally dirty and polluted, and these feelings could be reevoked by recalling memories and mental images of the assault. These feelings of mental contamination triggered excessiv ...
Departament de Psicologia Clínica i de la Salut
... raised a genuine interest in the understanding of such phenomena. In parallel, clinical experience in leading schizophrenia social skills training groups and working with individual clients towards the improvement of their global functioning also implied reflecting on factors that contributed to the ...
... raised a genuine interest in the understanding of such phenomena. In parallel, clinical experience in leading schizophrenia social skills training groups and working with individual clients towards the improvement of their global functioning also implied reflecting on factors that contributed to the ...
PTSD: Clinical Treatment Protocols
... The Veterans Administration (VA) operates more than 140 specialized programs for the treatment of PTSD through VA Medical Centers and Clinics. In 2001, VA specialists treated more than 77,300 veterans for PTSD (American Psychological Association, 2003). Prevalence in Combat Veterans “The violent gue ...
... The Veterans Administration (VA) operates more than 140 specialized programs for the treatment of PTSD through VA Medical Centers and Clinics. In 2001, VA specialists treated more than 77,300 veterans for PTSD (American Psychological Association, 2003). Prevalence in Combat Veterans “The violent gue ...
SERIES ‘‘COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT OF END-STAGE COPD’’ Number 3 in this Series
... health professional via a structured clinical interview following the DSM. Treatment With the increasing awareness of the high prevalence and impact of anxiety-related symptoms in patients with COPD, it is interesting to note that psychological manifestations of COPD are treated in only a minority o ...
... health professional via a structured clinical interview following the DSM. Treatment With the increasing awareness of the high prevalence and impact of anxiety-related symptoms in patients with COPD, it is interesting to note that psychological manifestations of COPD are treated in only a minority o ...
Evidence-based guidelines for treating depressive disorders with antidepressants: A revision Guidelines
... and we have not routinely graded this evidence but, if appropriate, we have done so as outlined in Table 1. We have also included a category for standard of care (S) relating to good clinical practice. It is very important to emphasise that the strength of a recommendation reflects the quality of th ...
... and we have not routinely graded this evidence but, if appropriate, we have done so as outlined in Table 1. We have also included a category for standard of care (S) relating to good clinical practice. It is very important to emphasise that the strength of a recommendation reflects the quality of th ...
Diagnosis and Assessment of ADD in Postsecondary Students
... with ADD in high school is to show a high degree of variability in grades, between courses, and even within a single course. These students may show a pattern of high exam grades, but of mediocre final grades resulting from missing homework assignments and from papers or projects turned in late. Man ...
... with ADD in high school is to show a high degree of variability in grades, between courses, and even within a single course. These students may show a pattern of high exam grades, but of mediocre final grades resulting from missing homework assignments and from papers or projects turned in late. Man ...
–compulsive disorder: A meta-analysis Psychological treatment of obsessive ☆ ⁎
... Following the criteria of the Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures (1995), only exposure with response prevention (ERP) is considered to be an empirically-supported psychological treatment for OCD. Similarly, various metaanalyses (Abramowitz, 1996, 1998; Abramowitz, ...
... Following the criteria of the Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychological Procedures (1995), only exposure with response prevention (ERP) is considered to be an empirically-supported psychological treatment for OCD. Similarly, various metaanalyses (Abramowitz, 1996, 1998; Abramowitz, ...
Eating Disorders in Scotland
... with bulimia nervosa are caught in a cycle of eating large quantities of food (called ‘binge eating’), and then vomiting, taking laxatives and diuretics (called ‘purging’), or excessive exercising and fasting, in order to prevent gaining weight. This behaviour can dominate daily life, and lead to d ...
... with bulimia nervosa are caught in a cycle of eating large quantities of food (called ‘binge eating’), and then vomiting, taking laxatives and diuretics (called ‘purging’), or excessive exercising and fasting, in order to prevent gaining weight. This behaviour can dominate daily life, and lead to d ...
Interventional Therapies for Controlling Pelvic Pain: What is the Evidence?
... been studied, with mixed results and a suggestion that greater improvement in pain symptoms may be achieved with followup therapy. The 2004 Cochrane review on the topic concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support benefit of preor postoperative use of medical therapy for endometriosis [ ...
... been studied, with mixed results and a suggestion that greater improvement in pain symptoms may be achieved with followup therapy. The 2004 Cochrane review on the topic concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support benefit of preor postoperative use of medical therapy for endometriosis [ ...
Suicide risk in civilian PTSD patients
... levels of PTSD amongst the attempters group. For example, PTSD was found to be a risk factor in low-income inner-city women (Thompson et al. 1999). In those who have suffered trauma and subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), risk of suicide is also elevated. In war veterans, psychiatric d ...
... levels of PTSD amongst the attempters group. For example, PTSD was found to be a risk factor in low-income inner-city women (Thompson et al. 1999). In those who have suffered trauma and subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), risk of suicide is also elevated. In war veterans, psychiatric d ...
Background Paper 6.15 Depression
... with a physical illness have an increased risk for developing MDD.20,21 Surveys in general hospitals indicate that around 10-20% of internal medicine in- and outpatients suffer from so called ‘depressive illnesses’.21 Similar rates have been found in patients with a chronic physical disease.21, 22 , ...
... with a physical illness have an increased risk for developing MDD.20,21 Surveys in general hospitals indicate that around 10-20% of internal medicine in- and outpatients suffer from so called ‘depressive illnesses’.21 Similar rates have been found in patients with a chronic physical disease.21, 22 , ...
Consultation Papers | BPS - British Psychological Society
... community surveys regularly report much higher prevalence and incidence than would be expected. This problem – as well as threatening the validity of the approach – has significant implications. If community samples show high levels of ‘prevalence’, social factors are minimised, and the continuum wi ...
... community surveys regularly report much higher prevalence and incidence than would be expected. This problem – as well as threatening the validity of the approach – has significant implications. If community samples show high levels of ‘prevalence’, social factors are minimised, and the continuum wi ...
Impulsivity and Inhibitory Control in Normal Development and
... Differences in the efficiency of the inhibition process will affect the shape of the inhibition function. In general, the better the process, the higher and steeper the function. If the inhibition mechanism were never triggered in stop-signal trials, the probability of inhibition would be 0.0 at all ...
... Differences in the efficiency of the inhibition process will affect the shape of the inhibition function. In general, the better the process, the higher and steeper the function. If the inhibition mechanism were never triggered in stop-signal trials, the probability of inhibition would be 0.0 at all ...
Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment of Specific Phobias in
... Understanding the course of the disorder is useful for interpreting changes that occur in treatment. If the client’s symptoms have been persistent and stable since the onset of the disorder—provided that other variables have remained constant— changes in symptoms can confidently be attributed to the ...
... Understanding the course of the disorder is useful for interpreting changes that occur in treatment. If the client’s symptoms have been persistent and stable since the onset of the disorder—provided that other variables have remained constant— changes in symptoms can confidently be attributed to the ...
Page 25 - Australian Doctor
... specified, which includes individuals who have clear bipolar features but do not meet threshold criteria for diagnosis. This last group is sometimes described as being part of the bipolar spectrum. In this article we consider a simpler view with bipolar disorder divided into two subtypes — bipolar I ...
... specified, which includes individuals who have clear bipolar features but do not meet threshold criteria for diagnosis. This last group is sometimes described as being part of the bipolar spectrum. In this article we consider a simpler view with bipolar disorder divided into two subtypes — bipolar I ...
EATING DISORDER - Universitas Airlangga
... ◦ Effective parents accurately attend to a child’s biological and emotional needs ◦ Ineffective parents fail to attend to child’s internal needs; they feed when the child is anxious, comfort when the child is tired, etc. ...
... ◦ Effective parents accurately attend to a child’s biological and emotional needs ◦ Ineffective parents fail to attend to child’s internal needs; they feed when the child is anxious, comfort when the child is tired, etc. ...
Borderline personality disorder
... their healthcare professionals. If someone does not have the capacity to make decisions, healthcare professionals should follow the Department of Health guidelines – ‘Reference guide to consent for examination or treatment’ (2001; available from www.dh.gov.uk). Healthcare professionals should also f ...
... their healthcare professionals. If someone does not have the capacity to make decisions, healthcare professionals should follow the Department of Health guidelines – ‘Reference guide to consent for examination or treatment’ (2001; available from www.dh.gov.uk). Healthcare professionals should also f ...
Pharmacotherapy and Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A
... well-delineated, nationally recognized practice guidelines do not exist to direct the pharmacological management of children with ASD. Although conclusions regarding their efficacy are limited, there has been a substantial increase in the use of medications in this population, particularly in the Un ...
... well-delineated, nationally recognized practice guidelines do not exist to direct the pharmacological management of children with ASD. Although conclusions regarding their efficacy are limited, there has been a substantial increase in the use of medications in this population, particularly in the Un ...
Applying polygenic risk scores to postpartum
... use genome-wide SNP data to explore this hypothesis. Method: We assembled a total cohort of 1,420 self-report cases of PPD and 9,473 controls with genome-wide genotypes from Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. We estimated the total variance attributable to genotyped variants. ...
... use genome-wide SNP data to explore this hypothesis. Method: We assembled a total cohort of 1,420 self-report cases of PPD and 9,473 controls with genome-wide genotypes from Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. We estimated the total variance attributable to genotyped variants. ...
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D)
... different quality to it than the sadness I would feel if someone close to me died or left. My mood is sad, but this sadness is different from the type of sadness associated with grief or loss. ...
... different quality to it than the sadness I would feel if someone close to me died or left. My mood is sad, but this sadness is different from the type of sadness associated with grief or loss. ...
Guidelines for the Evaluation and Treatment of Dissociative
... our knowledge in this area, it is still important to have some guidelines in approaching dissociative symptomatology for the following reasons: 1. Treatment strategies aimed at increasing integration and reducing dissociation can be highly effective in treating some of the most seriously impaired ch ...
... our knowledge in this area, it is still important to have some guidelines in approaching dissociative symptomatology for the following reasons: 1. Treatment strategies aimed at increasing integration and reducing dissociation can be highly effective in treating some of the most seriously impaired ch ...
Unit 13, Therapies
... Auxiliary groups such as Al-Anon and Nar-Anon, for friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts, respectively, are part of a response to treating addiction as a disease that is enabled by family systems. ...
... Auxiliary groups such as Al-Anon and Nar-Anon, for friends and family members of alcoholics and addicts, respectively, are part of a response to treating addiction as a disease that is enabled by family systems. ...
Controversy surrounding psychiatry
Controversy has often surrounded psychiatry, and the term anti-psychiatry was coined by psychiatrist David Cooper in 1967. The general anti-psychiatry view is that psychiatric treatments are ultimately more damaging than helpful to patients, and psychiatry's history involves what may now be seen as dangerous treatments, such as electroconvulsive therapy and lobotomy. Some ex-patient groups have become anti-psychiatric, often referring to themselves as ""survivors"".