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The mental health handbook
- Author:
- POWELL Trevor
- Publisher:
- Speechmark
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 186p.
- Place of publication:
- Bicester
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This edition of the Mental Health Handbook has now been republished with many additions to the original work. It contains an expanded treasury of successful handouts to photocopy covering many areas of mental health rehabilitation: Stress, depression, changing habits and behaviour, anxiety, assertion and caring for others
Health and ageing: guidelines for depression: report of a consensus group meeting held on 13th October 1999 at the Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
- Authors:
- RASNUSSEN Jill, et al
- Publisher:
- Health and Ageing
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Tthe numbers of older people with cognitive impairment and associated depression will rise significantly over the next 30 years. The implication is that there is a need to develop, and make widely available, better treatments to slow down the progressive decline .
Depression as a mediator: viewing caregiver well-being and straing in a different light
- Authors:
- BERG-WEGER Marla, RUBIO Doris McGartland, TEBB Susan S.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 81(2), March 2000, pp.162-173.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
This study examines the relationship between caregiver characteristics and caregiver well-being as comprised of two components, activities of living and basic needs. The role of depression in predicting caregiver well-being is explored using a sample of caregivers of family members with chronic illness. Using a path-analysis model, multivariate findings suggest that depression explains 56% of the variance in activities of living and 64% in basic needs. Path analysis further identifies depression as a mediator between stress and well-being. Implications for research and practice are highlighted.
Cheap and cheerful
- Author:
- MUNRO Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.1.00, 2000, p.16.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This report explores concerns that drugs are dominating treatment for depression at the expense of other therapies.
Surviving post-natal depression: at home, no one hears you scream
- Author:
- AIKEN Cara
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 146p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research indicates that at least one in ten new mothers experience post natal depression, yet there is little help available to sufferers. This book tells the stories of ten women and offers positive suggestions and practical advice, based on personal and professional experience, to sufferers.
Suicides in Japan reach a record high
- Author:
- LAMAR Joe
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 2.9.00, 2000, p.528.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
According to the National Police Agency figures, a record number of people committed suicide in Japan last year, largely as result of the nation's prolonged economic slump, government statistics revealed last month. The most notable trend was the sharp increase in suicides related to financial problems.
Determinants of satisfaction with care and emotional distress among informal carers of demented and non-demented elderly patients
- Authors:
- MAFULLUL Yakubu M., MORRISS Richard K.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(7), July 2000, pp.594-599.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In this study clinical, demographic, service and carer satisfaction variables were recorded to examine determinants of satisfaction in the caregiving role. The two variables found to be associated with greater dissatisfaction with the caregiving role were the carers overall rating of the difficulty in the caregiving role and the younger age of the carer. Results found that the caregiver's assessment of the difficulty in caregiving was associated with both carer dissatisfaction and emotional distress in the caregiving role. While emotional distress was associated with the perception that the patient could do more for themselves, carer dissatisfaction was associated with the younger age of the carer.
Some predictors of mortality in acutely medically ill elderly inpatients
- Authors:
- SHAH Ajit, HOXEY Katharina, MAYADUNNE Vidurah
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15(6), June 2000, pp.493-499.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The prevalence of depression and suicide ideation in acutely mentally ill elderly patients is high. Depression and suicide ideation are associated with increased mortality. Reports on a study to examine the hypothesis that suicidal ideation and functional disability may have a causal effect on mortality.
The effects of environmental context and personal resources on depressive symptomatology in older age: a test of the Lawton model
- Authors:
- KNIPSCHEER G.P.M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 20(2), March 2000, pp.183-202.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This study examines the environmental and psychosocial determinants of depression in older adults. Data were used from LASA (The Longitudinal Aging study Amsterdam), a national survey of the population between 55 and 85 years of age, stratified by age and sex. Empirical support was found for the extended Lawton model, including both environmental, efficacy and behavioural factors. It is concluded
'Psycho' headlines add to mental illness misery
- Author:
- MUNRO Robert
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 17.2.00, 2000, p.12.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The media's association of mental illness with violence and its knee-jerk use of cliched terms is making people with mental illness more depressed, according to a new survey. The article discusses the major findings.