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Having the last word
- Authors:
- DAVIS Eric, COUPLAND Keith
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Reports on how the terror caused by auditory hallucinations can be alleviated using cognitive techniques.
Injunctions and mental disorder
- Author:
- ASHTON Gordon
- Journal article citation:
- Family Law, 30, January 2000, pp.39-42.
- Publisher:
- Jordan
Discusses issues that may arise in family law proceedings when inappropriate behaviour is the result of a mental disorder. Uses a domestic violence case when the abuser has mental health problems as an example.
Gender differences in risk factors for suicide in Denmark
- Authors:
- QIN Ping, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, December 2000, pp.546-550.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Gender is one of the most frequently replicated predictors for suicide. This Danish study aims to identify risk factors for suicide among males and females and to investigate whether risk factors for suicide differ by gender. A history of hospitalised mental illness was the most marked risk factor for suicide for both genders. Unemployment, retirement, being single and sickness absence were significant risk factors for men, whereas having a child 2 years old was significantly protective for women. The relative risks for suicide differed significantly between genders according to psychiatric admission status and being the parent of a child 2 years. However, adjustment for these factors did not eliminate the gender difference in suicide risk.
The effectiveness of solution-focused therapy with child behaviour problems: a preliminary report
- Authors:
- CORCORAN Jacqueline, STEPHENSON Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 81(5), September 2000, pp.468-474.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Reports on preliminary findings on the effectiveness of solution-focused therapy with children who have been referred from the school system for behaviour problems. Results found significant improvements between pretest and posttest scores on the Conner's Parent Rating Scale (Conners, 1990) for the following subscales: conduct problems, learning problems, psychosomatic problems, impulsivity-hyperactivity, and the hyperactivity index. On the Feelings, Attitudes, and Behaviours Scale for Children (Beitchman, 1996), child respondents reported positive improvements on self-image between pretest and posttest but negative changes for the conduct-problems subscale. Implications for solution-focused practice and the treatment of child behaviour problems are discussed.
Breaking the cycle of disadvantage: young people, social exclusion and mental health
- Authors:
- PRITCHARD Colin, MASON Tom
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.14-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Social exclusion begins in childhood, with poor parenting, truancy and disrupted education. The effects can be catastrophic, for the individual and society, and are not infrequently implicated in mental illness in adulthood. Reports the findings of three linked research projects into the social and financial costs of social exclusion among young people. The studies show that rates of crime, suicide and unexpected death are highest among the most excluded, but that the cycle of disadvantage can be broken by practical, school-based preventive intervention.
Experience of caregiving: relatives of people experiencing a first episode of psychosis
- Authors:
- TENNAKOON Lakshika, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, December 2000, pp.529-533.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
There has been relatively little research on caregivers of people experiencing their first episode of psychosis. This study investigates dimensions of caregiving and morbidity in caregivers of people with first-episode psychosis. Caregivers of 40 people with first-episode psychosis were interviewed at home about their experience of caregiving, coping strategies and distress. Findings showed that at first-episode psychosis, caregivers are already having to cope with a wide range of problems and are developing coping strategies. Caregivers worried most about difficult behaviours and negative symptoms in participants.
Effects of behavioural family management on family communication and patient outcomes in schizophrenia
- Authors:
- BELLACK Alan S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, November 2000, pp.434-439.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Family interventions for schizophrenia have proved to be highly effective in preventing relapse, but it is not clear how they work or how they should be structured. This study examines the effects of a behavioural family intervention and a family support programme on communication, problem solving and outcome in order to determine the impact of structured communication training. The data suggest that intensive behavioural family interventions may not be cost effective.
Emotion recognition ability in mothers at high and low risk for child physical abuse
- Authors:
- BALGE Kristi A., MILNER Joel S.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(10), October 2000, pp.1289-1298.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
The study sought to determine if high-risk, compared to low-risk, mothers make more emotion recognition errors when they attempt to recognize emotions in children and adults. High-risk, compared to low-risk, mothers showed a tendency to make more errors on the visual and auditory emotion recognition tasks, with a trend toward more errors on the low-intensity, visual stimuli. However, the observed trends were not significant. Only a post-hoc test of error rates across all stimuli indicated that high-risk, compared to low-risk mothers made significantly more emotion recognition errors only trends and a significant post hoc finding of more overall emotion recognition errors in high-risk mothers were observed, additional research is needed to determine if high-risk mothers have emotion recognition deficits that may impact parent -child interactions.
Child maltreatment related injuries: incidence, hospital charges, and correlates of hospitalization
- Author:
- FORJUOH Samuel N.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(8), August 2000, pp.1019-1025.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This American study was undertaken to determine the incidence, hospital charges, and correlates associated with inpatient treatment of child maltreatment related injuries. The findings indicate that injury from child maltreatment is a major cause of hospitalisation of young children 5 years and younger and represents a significant cost to publicly financed health care. While hospital discharge data can be used for population-based surveillance of child maltreatment related trauma, there is need for improvement in the surveillance of these injuries.
The veridicality of punitive childhood experiences reported by adolescents and young adults
- Authors:
- PRESCOTT Alison, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 24(3), March 2000, pp.411-423.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This American research aims to determine whether retrospective reports of childhood disciplinary experiences and perceptions of that discipline correspond to actual childhood events and whether the accuracy of that report was influenced by the affective state of the respondent. Adolescents completed a retrospective measure of physical child maltreatment, naturalistically in their homes interacting with their parents an average of ten years earlier. Analyses were consistent with the hypothesis that both current mood and actual observations of parent-child interactions during childhood predict self-reported recollections of childhood maltreatment by one's parents. Further the veridicality of such recollections appears to depend upon the objective specificity versus the perceptive nature of the question used to elicit the recollections. The findings suggest that assessment instruments suitable for obtaining information regarding earlier childhood victimisation must utilise behaviourally, specific items. Thus, items that are either global or intimate a normative comparison should be avoided.