category: mental illness

Lange Q & A.: Psychiatry

The most comprehensive Q&A Review of Psychiatry! With OVER 950 exam-type questions, this question & answer review book, is ideal for course review as well as for USMLE Step 2 preparation.

Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World: Media and Research Update

... read . Newsweek , pp . 54–64 . Winkleby , M. A. , Kramer , H. C. , Ahn , D. K. , & Varady , A. N. ( 1998 ) . Ethnic ... Nervous & Mental Disease , 179 , 188–193 . Winston , A. , et al . ( 1994 ) . Short - term psychotherapy of ...

Congreso sobre Diagnóstico en Psiquiatria

... social , funcionamiento adaptativo , etc. , como factores a considerar tanto para el diagnóstico como para el ... diagnóstica de acuerdo tanto al sistema clasificatorio DSM - III como al de la ICD IX . c ) Secciones del Formato de ...

Approaching Neverland: A Memoir of Epic Tragedy & Happily Ever After

... Neverland - just like Peter Pan . But while the children knew it was all pretend , Barbara believed it to be all too true . Approaching Neverland recounts Peggy and her family's attempts to deal with their mother's mental illness during ...

Handbook of Psychological Assessment, Case Conceptualization, and Treatment: Children and adolescents

... techniques is the scheduling of reinforcement delivery . In general , the ... self - injurious behavior , failure of less restrictive treatment options ... spanking ) is generally regarded as having the most potential for harm to the ...

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

For use in schools and libraries only. The searing story of a teenager's descent into a delusional world, and her arduous journey back to sanity.

Manual of Psychiatric Nursing Care Plans: Diagnoses, Clinical Tools, and Psychopharmacology

... care personnel and others . Four common phenomena and nursing diagnoses are presented here : Risk for Self - Mutilation ( scratching , burn- ing , cutting ) , Chronic Low Self - Esteem , Impaired Social Interaction , and Ineffective Coping ...

Nursing Diagnoses in Psychiatric Nursing: Care Plans and Psychotropic Medications

-- Each chapter covers a specific group of DSM IV disorders including: definition, predisposing factors, and symptomatology -- Each nursing diagnosis includes the definition, possible etiologies, defining characteristics, goals/objectives, ...

Mental Health Bulletin

... death due to freezing while waiting for prosperity just around the corner ... music , what sounds more sweetly to the farmer's ear in these hard times ... sheet in hot water to restore it to a liquid . ( We are sorry we have no recent report ...

The Clinician's Handbook: Integrated Diagnostics, Assessment, and Intervention in Adult and Adolescent Psychopathology

... faking - bad within an essen- tially normal population ( using raw scores ) 1. Use a K cutoff score of 18 on F , with those faking - bad being higher 2. Use an F - K score of 17 for men and 12 for women ; with higher scores indicating ...

Violent Offenders: Appraising and Managing Risk

... normal or neutral instructions , and in the second and third sessions ... faking sessions to the extent that they could fake interest in children and ... faking sessions involved the audiotape , and the other did not . Participants were ...

Basic Psychiatric Concepts in Nursing

... therapy can take place . Of these , perhaps the most important is termed " attitude ther- apy . A rather detailed example , showing the effects of both a thera- peutic and an incorrect attitude , was given in the course of the dis ...

Clinical Psychiatry for Medical Students

... Annotated Bibliography ) . Obesity Obesity virtually always has its onset in childhood . An estimated 10 to 20 % of American children and adolescents are overweight . The majority of obese children over the age of 10 become persistently ...

Psychiatry Today: Accomplishments and Promises : Abstracts

... Tai Ann Cheng , M.D. , Ph.D. ( London ) Department of Psychiatry , National ... Schedule . Results have shown a female excess of neurosis in women in the ... training of mental health professionals , institute on - going research . 985 ...

Comparative Epidemiology of the Mental Disorders: The Proceedings of the Forty-ninth Annual Meeting of the American Psychopathological Association, Held in New York City, February 1959

... sheets of tabulation . The Biometrics divi- sion of the National Institute ... incidence of mental disease , there are others that give good and therefore ... formula presented by Dr. Kramer , showing the relation between the rate of ...

Abnormal Psychology

... depressed mood can reach painful and overwhelming proportions . Andrew Solomon ( 2001 ) , whose book , The Noonday Demon : An Atlas of Depression , won the National Book Award , has described the pro- gression from sadness to severe ...

Treatment of Mental Disorders

... ( High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs , 1978 ) . Tobacco played a central role in North American tribal life . Many varieties were available ; several were mixed together for flavor , and certain kinds were specific to ...

Report of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Government Hospital for the Insane: With Hearings May 4-December 13, 1906, and Digest of the Testimony

... BLACKBURN . I think it might be possible ; but from my own standpoint , I think it would be a great loss to medicine . Every autopsy , I think , is valuable . Mr. WALLACE . This means before the autopsy . You do not think it would be a ...

Mind and Its Disorders: a Text-book for Students and Practitioners

... chess blindfold ? Explain fully how far your procedure in these cases depends on the use of visual images . 3. Think of the National Anthem ... music easily ? Do you " make up tunes in your head " when you are thinking ... sheet of yellow paper ...

Study Guide, Abnormal Psychology, 4th Edition, Thomas F. Oltmanns, Robert E. Emery

... crossword puzzle to reinforce your understanding of this chapter's key terms and concepts : ACROSS DOWN MULTIPLE CHOICE Answers ... circulatory system 13. sleep disorders where difficulty in sleeping is the principle complaint MATCHING III 1.

Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences, Clinical Psychiatry

... occupational problem that is apparently not due to a mental disorder . " Examples include job dissatisfaction and uncertainty about career choices . People are particularly vulnerable to occupational prob- lems at several points in ...

Letters from Jenny

This is a collection of documents long famous among psychologists: the letters of a mature woman written to two remote friends over twelve years, mostly about her estranged son.

Mind Matters: How Mind and Brain Interact to Create Our Conscious Lives

Describes how research is showing how the mind and the body affect each other and how each individual can better manage their bodies and lives.

Annual Report

... old , intemperate and syphilitic , had a partial aphasia with confusion of ... year before for the same trouble and got much better but went home too soon and relapsed . Case 2. - A man 24 years old , previously healthy ... woman 26 years old ...

Borderland of psychiatry

... 4 : 149 Milieu , objektiv - soziologisches und psycho - biologisches 3 : 4ff . Model Psychoses v . Psychoses Musik ... Persona s . Persönlichkeit Persönlichkeit - Aufbau , biologisch - anthropologischer ( Ewald ) 3 : 127 f . -- Schichtschema ...

Transactions of the Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American Medical Association at the ... Annual Session ...

... tenderness . 4 , 06 married , unmarried . 16 Fifteen cases of dorsal and ... book is so interesting that one is tempted to write more about facts and ... book . Shortly after this Marshall Hall ( 1841 ) published his work establishing the ...

The Hierarchical Nature of Personal Illness

... Depression , both of which are platykurtic . Since the great majority of ... depressed mood , but may be distinguishable from the more pathologically de ... Catcher in the Rye " syndrome , Fish ( 1962 ) highlighted the psychiatric ...

Current Psychotherapies

Raymond J. Corsini. A LONELINESS EGOGRAM Figure 10.9 P P P P STIMULUS A A A A A. specific complaints and problems these people express . An egogram with an ex- cessively high CP , a high A , a high AC , a low NP , and a low FC is ...

Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life

... the tell - tale symptoms . Apparently the brain can accommodate it- self to slowly expanding tumors for some period of time . Here the first symptoms , psy- chiatric or organic , may follow some severe emotional trauma ( Sandler , 1960 ) ...

Basic Notes in Psychiatry

Junior hospital psychiatrists, general practitioners and medical students will find this book a valuable study aid, as will psychiatric nurses, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric occupational therapists and clinical psychologists.

Encyclopedia of Clinical Assessment

... What un- known threats face us in this uncertain future , and ... most closely associated with the theme of developmental tasks , and he believes that his perspective ... projective tests ( for in- stance , human figure drawings , the Rorschach ...

Mental Health Concepts Applied to Nursing

... might be used to make the transition from talking about the fictional character to a more personal discussion . Example " The Kid Nobody Could Handle , " by Kurt Vonnegut , Jr. In this story , the central character , Jim Donnini , is a ...

Psychiatry

... lysergic acid diethylamide are the best known and the most exhaustively ... say consciousness remains unchanged.They are characterized by hallucinations pre ... pronounce on the value to psychiatry of the drugs discussed above . This ...

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