Alcoholism - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults.

7 Oct 2009 Only half of older adults with a mental disorder use mental health services, and little is known about the causes of perceived need for mental health care (MHC). We used logistic regression to examine relationships among depression, anxiety, chronic ... Read more...

[The characteristics of offenders abusing alcohol in view of forensic-psychiatric assessments]

30 Aug 2009 The relationship between alcohol consumption and crime appears to be unquestionable. However, the mechanisms that lead to violence and aggression under the influence of alcohol are not entirely understood. THE AIM OF THIS PAPER: To attempt answering ... Read more...

The effect of brief alcohol intervention on postpartum depression.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: To report on secondary results from the Healthy Moms Study, a clinical trial to test the efficacy of brief intervention on reducing alcohol use and alcohol-related harms in postpartum women. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS: Data from a randomized ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcoholism - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Unemployment and suicide: is alcohol the missing link? 8 Oct 2009
• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• [The characteristics of offenders abusing alcohol in view of forensic-psychiatric assessments] 30 Aug 2009
• The effect of brief alcohol intervention on postpartum depression. 30 Aug 2009
• [Determination of the concurrent validity of the CRAFT-d - a screening instrument for problematic alcohol consumption] 30 Aug 2009
• Longitudinal association between frequency of substance use and quality of life among adolescents receiving a brief outpatient intervention. 30 Aug 2009
• A new decisional balance measure of motivation to change among at-risk college drinkers. 30 Aug 2009
• Drinking to cope as a statistical mediator in the relationship between suicidal ideation and alcohol outcomes among underage college drinkers. 30 Aug 2009
• Reasons for abstaining or limiting drinking: a developmental perspective. 30 Aug 2009
• Alcohol abuse and dependence symptoms: a multidimensional model of common and specific etiology. 30 Aug 2009
• Selection and socialization of risky drinking during the college transition: The importance of microenvironments associated with specific living units. 30 Aug 2009
• How does sexual minority stigma "get under the skin"? A psychological mediation framework. 30 Aug 2009
• Bipolar spectrum-substance use co-occurrence: Behavioral approach system (BAS) sensitivity and impulsiveness as shared personality vulnerabilities. 30 Aug 2009
• Stigmatization of alcohol and other drug users by primary care providers in Southeast Brazil. 16 Aug 2009
• [Efficiency of outpatient and inpatient alcohol treatment - predictors of outcome] 10 Aug 2009
• Prospective relations between growth in drinking and familial stressors across adolescence. 30 Jul 2009
• [Illness caused by work--employees provide alarming figures] 30 Jul 2009
• Affective temperaments in alcoholic patients. 30 Jul 2009
• Letter to the Editor regarding 'Conceptualizing impulsivity and risk taking in bipolar disorder: importance of history of alcohol abuse'. 30 Jul 2009
• Targeted naltrexone for problem drinkers. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Alcoholism'

Definition: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4)

Descriptor UI: D000437

Alternative terms: Alcoholism; Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic; Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication; Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic; Alcohol Abuse; Abuse, Alcohol;

Related Mesh Headings: Alcohol Deterrents; Alcoholics Anonymous; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Psychoses, Alcoholic; Temperance;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739.100.250; F03.900.100.350;

Technical Notes: human & animal; do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE: alcoholism is presumed to be chronic; differentiate from ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION, being drunk, not chronic; acute alcoholic intox & binge drinking is ETHANOL /pois; /drug ther: consider also ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; consider also LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC & its specifics FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC & LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; also PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; also CARDIOMYOPATHY, ALCOHOLIC; PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC & FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; index other compl of alcoholism under ALCOHOLISM /compl (IM) + disease /etiol not /chem ind (IM); abstinence from alcohol in alcoholism: coord with TEMPERANCE (NIM); available is SKID ROW ALCOHOLICS see HOMELESS PERSONS but see note there