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Assessment and treatment of obsessional harassment
- Author:
- ROSENFELD Barry
- Journal article citation:
- Aggression and Violent Behavior, 5(6), November 2000, pp.539-549.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article reviews the existing research on obsessional harassment/stalking, and offers a diagnostic typology of these offender based on the nature of the relationship with the victim and the motivation of the offender. Treatment modalities are then discussed with regard to each of the primary diagnoses that occur among obsessional harassment offenders. Finally, strategies for initiating treatment for unmotivated or unwilling offenders are discussed, along with clinical issues that arise in the evaluation and treatment process.
Measurement invariance of the Brief Symptom Inventory in survivors of torture and trauma
- Authors:
- RAGHAVAN Sumithra S., ROSENFELD Barry, RASMUSSEN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32(11), 2017, p.1708–1729.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The United States accepts more refugees than any other industrialised nation. As refugee populations grow, mental health professionals must implement culturally and ethnically appropriate strategies to assess and treat individuals from diverse backgrounds. Culture can exert a powerful and often misunderstood influence on psychological assessment, and few structured measures have been demonstrated to have adequate cross-cultural validity for use with diverse and vulnerable populations such as survivors of torture. This study examined the factor structure and equivalency of underlying construct(s) of psychological distress as measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) in three samples who had survived torture and other severe trauma from Tibet, West Africa and the Punjab region of India. Confirmatory factor analyses provided support for configural invariance of a two-factor model across the three samples, suggesting that the two latent factors of Complex Dysphoria and Somatic Distress were present in each subgroup. The data provide additional support for the strict invariance model in the West African–Tibetan dyad suggesting that scores are comparable across those two groups. Implications for research and treatment are discussed. (Publisher abstract)
Towards a new conceptualization of depression in older adult cancer patients: a review of the literature
- Authors:
- SARACINO Rebecca M., ROSENFELD Barry, NELSON Christian J.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 20(12), 2016, pp.1230-1242.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Objectives: This paper reviews the phenomenology of depression in older adults, and individuals diagnosed with cancer. Method: PsychInfo, PubMed, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases were searched for English-language studies addressing the phenomenology, symptoms, or assessment of depression in older adults and those with cancer. Results: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders (DSM) criteria that appear to be relevant to both older adults and cancer patients are anhedonia, concentration difficulties, sleep disturbances, psychomotor retardation/agitation, and loss of energy. Possible alternative criteria that may be important considerations included constructs such as loss of purpose, loneliness, and irritability in older adults. Among cancer patients, tearfulness, social withdrawal, and not participating in treatment despite ability to do so were identified as potentially important symptoms. Conclusions: Current DSM criteria may not adequately assess depression in older cancer patients and alternative criteria may be important to inform the understanding and identification of depression in this population. Enhancing diagnostic accuracy of depression is important as both the over-diagnosis and under-diagnosis is accompanied with significant costs. Thus, continued research exploring the phenomenology and identifying effective indicators of depression in older cancer patients is needed. (Edited publisher abstract)