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It's not the real you
- Author:
- CAMPBELL Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Open Mind, 111, September 2001, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- MIND
'It's not the real you' is a phrase often uttered to people with a mental illness diagnosis. Asks what it really means.
Negative and supportive social interaction and quality of life among persons diagnosed with severe mental illness
- Authors:
- YANOS Philip T, ROSENFIELD Sarah, HORWITZ Allan V.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Mental Health Journal, 37(5), October 2001, pp.405-419.
- Publisher:
- Springer
Examines the relative importance of negative and supportive social interactions in predicting different aspects of quality of life (QOL) in a sample of persons diagnosed with severe mental illness in the USA. Results found that negative social interactions were significantly related to lower QOL in three subjective domains, while supportive social interactions were related to higher QOL in four objective domains and one subjective domain. Discuss the implications of the present findings for the study of the link between social relationships and QOL among persons with mental illness.
Adolescents' self-reported problems as predictors or psychopathology in adulthood: 10-year follow-up study
- Authors:
- HOFSTRA Marijke B., VAN DER ENDE Jan, VERHULST Frank C.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 179, September 2001, pp.203-209.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Knowledge of the course of psychopathology from adolescence into adulthood is needed to answer questions concerning origins and prognosis of psychopathology across a wide age range. This article investigates the 10-year course and predictive value of self-reported problems in adolescence in relation to psychopathology in adulthood. Subjects from the general population in the Netherlands aged 11-19 years, were assessed with the Youth Self-Report (YSR) at initial assessment, and with the Young Adult Self-Report (YASR), the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and three sections of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) 10 years later. Of the subjects with deviant YSR total problem scores, 23% (males) and 22% (females) had deviant YASR total problem scores at follow-up. Subjects with initial deviant YSR total problem, internalising and externalising scores had higher prevalences of DSM-IV diagnoses at follow-up. Concludes that adolescent problems tended to persist into adulthood to a moderate degree. High rates of problems during adolescence are risk factors for psychiatric disorders in adulthood.
Age of discontent
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.3.01, 2001, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that health and social services are not well equipped to help with depression among older people.
Prescriptive psychotherapy: alternatives to diagnosis
- Author:
- BEDI Robinder Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Psychotherapy in Independent Practice, 2(2), 2001, pp.39-60.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The purpose of this paper is to introcuce uninformed mental health professionals to traditional prescriptive psychotherapy and to highlight potential client factors which can guide the selection of particiular interventions, relational stances, approaches, and orientations. Although some would be quick to point out that almost all mental health professionals advocate tailoring interventions to fit the client, true prescriptive psychotherapists employ direct empirical evidence in tailoring and do not limit themselves to one or just a few orientations. To aid in this endeavour, the three most prominent and theoretically devloped systems of prescriptive psychotherapy (Multimodal psychotherapy, systematic treatment selection and stage-based psychotherapy), and two particularly useful categories of idiographic factrs (the therapeutic relationship and the client's worldview) are introduced and discussed.
Understanding the excess of psychosis among the African-Caribbean population in England: review of current hypotheses
- Authors:
- SHARPLEY Mandy, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 178(Supplement 40), April 2001, pp.60-68.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Increased rates of schizophrenia continue to be reported among the African-Caribbean population in England. This article aims to evaluate the competing biological, psychological and social explanations that have been proposed. A literature review, reveals that African-Caribbean population in England is at increased risk of both schizophrenia and mania; the higher rates remain when operational diagnostic criteria are used. The excess of the two psychotic disorders are probably linked: African-Caribbean patients with schizophrenia show more affective symptoms, and more relapsing course with greater social disruption but fewer chronic negative symptoms, than White patients. No simple hypothesis explains these findings. Concludes that more complex hypotheses are needed. One such links cultural variation in symptom reporting, the use of phenomenological constructs by psychiatrists and social disadvantage.
Care of older people: mental health problems
- Authors:
- BURNS Alistair, DENING Tom, BLADWIN Robert
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 31.3.01, 2001, pp.789-791.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Outlines the current evidence of benefit in four areas: services currently available; interventions that have been shown to be effective; rating scales recommended to clinicians for detecting common mental health problem; and the needs of carers.
Deliberate self-harm: the impact of a specialist DSH team on assessment quality
- Authors:
- WHYTE Sean, BLEWETT Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 25(3), March 2001, pp.98-101.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
This research was a repetition after 5 years of a prospective case note audit, looking at the impact of a recently established deliberate self-harm (DSH) assessment team on the quality of DSH assessments at Kettering general hospital. Results showed that a specialist DSH team achieved improvement in the quality of psychiatric assessments for the majority of patients who harmed themselves. Assessments of mental state by accident and emergency (A&E) and medical staff before referral to the psychiatric team remain problematic. Setting up a specialist team to assess patients who harm themselves can improve the quality of the psychiatric care they receive, but emphasis must still be placed on an adequate assessment of mental state by medical and nursing staff in A & E and on medical wards.
Diagnosis and drugs: help or hindrance when people with learning disabilities have psychological problems?
- Authors:
- KROESE Biza Stenfert, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 29(1), March 2001, pp.26-33.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In this article, the authors question how useful psychiatric diagnosis and psychotropic medication are in alleviating psychological problems experienced by people with learning disabilities, and put forward the view that a functional analysis of the problems and psychosocial and environmental interventions are more appropriate.
The effectiveness of very short scales for depression screening in elderly medical patients
- Authors:
- POMEROY Ian M., CLARK Christopher R., PHILP Ian
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 16(3), March 2001, pp.321-326.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study examines the effectiveness of very short scales in screening for depression in older rehabilitation patients. Eighty-seven patients over the age of 60 who were admitted to rehabilitation wards or were attending a day rehabilitation facility at a British teaching hospital were screened for depression using the 1-item mental health inventory, and the 4-item, 15-item and 30-item geriatric depression scales. The sensitivity, specificity, and areas under receiver operating characteristic curves were compared, with the diagnostic criteria for research of ICD-10 providing the criterion diagnosis of depressive episode. All the scales had comparable sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive values. Comparison of receiver operating characteristic curves for each scale showed no statistically significant difference between them. Finds that the very short scales performed just as well as the widely used longer screening scales in this population. Concludes that they are worthy of further examination in elderly populations at risk of depression, and may be particularly suitable for older adults due to their brevity and ease of use.