Mental health articles
OF mental health care and mentally ill
April, 2013
Mental health promotion – aetiology and demographic features
Health promotion is the focus of Chapter 1 of this book. As in many other psychiatric conditions, it is unlikely that there is one causal factor but rather a host of variables which interact to produce the eating disorder. Then, once the illness has emerged, an array of factors act to maintain the disorder. It […]
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Psychiatric disorders in adolescence
Psychiatric disorders in adolescence Although adolescence is often associated with a period of stress and turmoil, most adolescents manage the transition between childhood and adulthood without major problems. It is a period, however, during which there are major changes in body image, self-esteem, relationships with parents and mood. Awareness about sexual orientation and identity are […]
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Disorders of social functioning
Disorders of social functioning This category includes selective mutism, reactive attachment disorders of childhood and disinhibited attachment disorders of infancy. Selective mutism The main problem in this condition is the child’s refusal to talk in certain situations while conversing normally in others. Generally, normal speech is present while in a minority there are problems of […]
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Effective Treatments for PTSD
Approaches to Treating PTSD Psychosocial and neurobiological models of PTSD have influenced the development of clinical interventions for this disorder (Fairbank, Friedman, & Basoglu, in press; Southwick & Friedman, in press). Among the main approaches to treating PTSD that are conceptually linked to these models are cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, pharmacotherapy, and eye […]
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Risk Factors for PTSD
Epidemiologic studies are empirical sources of information about risk factors for PTSD—preexposure factors, exposure characteristics, and postexposure factors that are believed to be related to the probability of an individual developing PTSD following exposure to a potentially traumatic event. A small number of general population studies have examined risk factors for PTSD. General population studies […]
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Chemical Theories of Sleep
Even modern physiological chemistry has tried its hand in the interpretation of such a purely psychological mechanism as sleep. It supposes that poisons are elaborated during the day, as the result of muscular and nerve activity, that these poisons are narcotic (sleep producing) in action and when they reach a certain amount, drowsiness, and then […]
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Histological Theories of Sleep
Histological Theories of Sleep These are the theories which explain sleep as being produced by certain movements which the nerve cell prolongations are supposed to possess. These prolongations are technically known as the dendrites. All nerve cells possess dendrites which touch each other and by means of which nerve currents are supposed to be transmitted […]
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