Depersonalization - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Burnout symptoms in Austrian student nurses in their third year of training]

30 Jul 2009 Burnout is considered a major negative outcome of work related distress in social and health care services, especially in nursing. In the present study 179 student nurses in their third year of training and 47 registered nurses, all working in the ... Read more...

Alexithymia, absorption, and cognitive failures in depersonalization disorder: a comparison to posttraumatic stress disorder and healthy volunteers.

29 Jun 2009 Alexithymia, absorption, and cognitive failures are traits that have been implicated in dissociative psychopathology. Forty-six participants with depersonalization disorder (DPD), 21 with posttraumatic stress disorder, and 35 healthy controls ... Read more...

Prevalence, correlates, and predictors of depersonalization experiences in the German general population.

29 Jun 2009 The survey aimed to investigate the prevalence of depersonalization (DP) experiences, its sociodemographic characteristics and its associations with medical conditions, illness behavior, and potential etiologic factors. A representative face-to-face ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Depersonalization - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Burnout symptoms in Austrian student nurses in their third year of training] 30 Jul 2009
• Alexithymia, absorption, and cognitive failures in depersonalization disorder: a comparison to posttraumatic stress disorder and healthy volunteers. 29 Jun 2009
• Prevalence, correlates, and predictors of depersonalization experiences in the German general population. 29 Jun 2009
• Anomalous subjective experience and psychosis risk in young depressed patients. 14 May 2009
• [Sense of personal identity and focal brain lesions] 27 Feb 2009
• Relationship between job burnout and work performance in a sample of Iranian mental health staff. 30 Jan 2009
• [Near death experiences do not have a purely physiologic explanation] 27 Jan 2009
• [Correlation between job satisfaction and stress factors, burn-out and psychosocial well-being among nurses working in different healthcare settings] 30 Dec 2008
• [Depersonalisation/derealization - clinical picture, diagnostics and therapy] 30 Dec 2008
• Career orientation and burnout in French general practitioners. 29 Nov 2008
• Burnout development among dentists: a longitudinal study. 29 Nov 2008
• Examination of developmental models of occupational burnout using burnout profiles of nurses. 29 Nov 2008
• Injury and burnout in Australian athletes. 29 Nov 2008
• Balancing between being a person and being a patient-A qualitative study of wearing patient clothing. 14 Sep 2008
• Clinical correlates of depersonalization symptoms in patients with bipolar disorder. 9 Sep 2008
• Burnout in cancer professionals: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 30 Aug 2008
• Cerebral and autonomic responses to emotional facial expressions in depersonalisation disorder. 30 Aug 2008
• The senses grow skilled in their craving: thoughts on creativity and addiction. 30 Jul 2008
• [Depersonalization crisis: between acute anxiety and psychosis] 29 Jun 2008
• Prevalence of burnout among Swiss cancer clinicians, paediatricians and general practitioners: who are most at risk? 3 Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Depersonalization'

Definition: State in which an individual perceives or experiences a sensation of unreality concerning the self or the environment; it is seen in disorders such as schizophrenia, affection disorders, organic mental disorders, and personality disorders. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)

Descriptor UI: D003861

Alternative terms: Depersonalization; Depersonalizations; Derealization; Derealizations; Depersonalization Disorder; Depersonalization Disorders; Disorder, Depersonalization; Disorders, Depersonalization;

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

Tree Number: F01.145.126.300;

History Note: 98(63)