Behavior Therapy - Conversion Disorder and Somatoform Disorder Not Otherwise Specified • Conversion and Somatoform Disorders Not Otherwise Specified • Sep 14 10 Behavioral modification is frequently used in the treatment of conversion, even when the therapist may not be deliberately or consciously employing it as a specific technique.… Double-Bind Interventions - Conversion Disorder and Somatoform Disorder Not Otherwise Specified • Conversion and Somatoform Disorders Not Otherwise Specified • Sep 14 10 Communications that place patients in a double bind about maintenance of conversion symptoms have been described. One such technique is to suggest to a patient who… Specific Therapeutic Modalities - Conversion Disorder and Somatoform Disorder Not Otherwise Specified • Conversion and Somatoform Disorders Not Otherwise Specified • Sep 14 10 Reassurance and Suggestion Reassurance and suggestion is one of the most important therapies provided by physicians (Kathol 1997). To be effective, it must be… Clinical Setting - Conversion Disorder and Somatoform Disorder Not Otherwise Specified • Conversion and Somatoform Disorders Not Otherwise Specified • Sep 14 10 Patients with acute conversion symptoms tend to present to emergency departments of hospitals. Rapid and accurate diagnosis of the disorder is important to effect symptom relief… Treatment Strategy - Conversion Disorder and Somatoform Disorder Not Otherwise Specified • Conversion and Somatoform Disorders Not Otherwise Specified • Sep 14 10 Effective diagnosis and treatment of conversion disorder require a range of clinical assessments and skills. Among these skills are techniques of obtaining historical information that are… Etiological Factors Associated With Conversion Symptoms • Conversion and Somatoform Disorders Not Otherwise Specified • Sep 14 10 The term conversion originates with Freud (1896/1946), who hypothesized that anxiety, via unconscious mechanisms, was converted into somatic symptoms. Sexual frustration and conflicts about sexual impulses were long believed to be… Conversion Disorder and Somatoform Disorder Not Otherwise Specified • Conversion and Somatoform Disorders Not Otherwise Specified • Sep 14 10 Introduction The phenomenology and treatment of conversion symptoms (hysteria) extend back at least 4,000 years (Veith 1965). In this chapter, I focus on treatment of conversion disorder; however, because… Mental maturity scan tracks brain development • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Sep 11 10 Five minutes in a scanner can reveal how far a child’s brain has come along the path from childhood to maturity and potentially shed light on a range of psychological and… Use of medication for insomnia or anxiety increases mortality risk by 36 percent • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Sep 09 10 Taking medications to treat insomnia and anxiety increases mortality risk by 36%, according to a study conducted by Geneviève Belleville, a professor at Université… Bipolar disorder does not increase risk of violent crime • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Sep 07 10 A new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet suggests that bipolar disorder - or manic-depressive disorder - does not increase the risk of committing violent crime. Instead, the over-representation… Combining medication and psychosocial treatments may benefit patients with early-stage schizophrenia • Schizophrenia News • Sep 07 10 Patients with early-stage schizophrenia who receive a combination of medication and a psychosocial intervention appear less likely to discontinue treatment or relapse—and may have improved insight,… Visual pattern preference may be indicator of autism in toddlers • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Sep 07 10 Using eye-tracking methods, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that toddlers with autism spend significantly more time visually examining dynamic… Parents at highest risk for depression in the first year after child’s birth • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Sep 07 10 More than one-third of mothers and about one-fifth of fathers in the United Kingdom appear to experience an episode of depression between their child’s… Hormones won’t cut older women’s depression risk • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Sep 06 10 Using hormone therapy won’t prevent women from becoming depressed after menopause, new research shows. But women who quit taking hormones may be more likely to begin having depressive symptoms, Dr.… Study Links Shorter Sleep Durations with Greater Risks of Mental Distress in Young Adults • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Sep 01 10 Young adults who get fewer than eight hours of sleep per night have greater risks of psychological distress, a combination of high levels… Antidepressant Helps Depression in Menopause • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Aug 17 10 An antidepressant can alleviate symptoms of major depression in women experiencing or about to experience menopause, according to a study released today led by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher. The research… Depression in the Elderly • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Aug 09 10 Maureen Duffy’s memories of her grandmother are cloudy. Not because of time, but by a condition that cast a shadow over the woman Duffy had visited as a child. “She was blue. Even… Eliminating diabetes and depression, and boosting education, most likely to ward off dementia • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Aug 06 10 Eliminating diabetes and depression, as well as increasing education and fruit and vegetable consumption, are likely to have the biggest impact on reducing levels… A blood test for depression? • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Jul 22 10 Blood tests have been extremely important tools aiding doctors in making medical diagnoses and in guiding the treatment of many diseases. However, psychiatry is one area of medicine where there are few… New links between cholesterol and depression in the elderly • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Jul 21 10 Most people know that high cholesterol levels place them at increased risk for heart disease and stroke. Prior research has shown that particular types of strokes contribute to… Why does everything look gray when you feel blue? • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Jul 20 10 Regardless of culture, language, era, or individual artist, the arts consistently depict depression using darkness. Scientific findings now lend empirical support to this representation of depression that everything… Researchers Find Dementia in Diabetics Differs from Dementia in Nondiabetics • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Jul 15 10 Researchers from Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus say that dementia in some diabetics appears to be caused often by vascular disease in the brain, and the dementia that… Depressed men with ED at risk for cardiovascular problems • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Jul 13 10 A new study in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that the presence of depressive symptoms in men with erectile dysfunction constitutes a risk factor for a major… Apathy and Depression Predict Progression from Mild Cognitive Impairment to Dementia • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Jul 12 10 A new Mayo Clinic study found that apathy and depression significantly predict an individual’s progression from mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a disorder of the brain that… Sexual Abuse Survivors Have Increased Lifetime Diagnoses of Psychiatric Disorders • Mental health and Psychiatry news • Jul 12 10 New research finds that a history of sexual abuse, regardless of the victim’s gender or age when the abuse occurred, correlates strongly with a lifetime diagnosis of… Page 57 of 148 pages « First < 55 56 57 58 59 > Last » << Back to main
