Mental Disorders - 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...

Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy.

29 Sep 2009 Violence committed by acute psychiatric inpatients represents an important and challenging problem in clinical practice. Sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment information were collected for 1324 patients (677 men and 647 women) admitted to ... Read more...

African American women's beliefs about mental illness, stigma, and preferred coping behaviors.

29 Sep 2009 We examined African American women's representations/beliefs about mental illness, preferred coping behaviors if faced with mental illness, whether perceived stigma was associated with treatment-seeking, and if so, whether it was related to beliefs ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• New models of collaboration between criminal justice and mental health systems. 30 Oct 2009
• Identifying neighborhood stressors in assessment of drug treatment continuity and relapse. 30 Oct 2009
• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy. 29 Sep 2009
• Toxic sequelae of childhood sexual abuse. 29 Sep 2009
• African American women's beliefs about mental illness, stigma, and preferred coping behaviors. 29 Sep 2009
• Familial aggregation of suicide explained by cluster B traits: a three-group family study of suicide controlling for major depressive disorder. 13 Sep 2009
• Understanding and addressing psychological and social problems: the mediating psychological processes model. 30 Aug 2009
• [Social participation and vocational integration as an objective of child and adolescent psychiatric rehabilitation] 30 Aug 2009
• [Psycho-oncological aspects of malignant melanoma. A systematic review from 1990-2008] 30 Aug 2009
• The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the Bergen Child Study: a conceptually and methodically motivated structural analysis. 30 Aug 2009
• The Child Behavior Scale (CBS) revisited: a longitudinal evaluation of CBS subscales with children, preadolescents, and adolescents. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosocial functioning in the context of diagnosis: assessment and theoretical issues. 30 Aug 2009
• On categorical diagnoses in DSM-V: cutting dimensions at useful points? 30 Aug 2009
• On the value of homogeneous constructs for construct validation, theory testing, and the description of psychopathology. 30 Aug 2009
• [An experience of psychological support at home for aged and dependent people and their families. Assesment of the PsyAdom programme] 30 Aug 2009
• [Ethnopsychiatry in the elderly] 30 Aug 2009
• [Empathy, a just milieu between clinical and daily ethics] 30 Aug 2009
• [The therapeutic bar, a social space for rehabilitation] 30 Aug 2009
• [Occupational therapy, a place of encounters and discovery] 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Mental Disorders'

Definition: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.

Descriptor UI: D001523

Alternative terms: Mental Disorders; Disorder, Mental; Disorders, Mental; Mental Disorder; Diagnosis, Psychiatric; Psychiatric Diagnosis; Behavior Disorders; Disorders, Behavior;

Related Mesh Headings: Mentally Ill Persons;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; 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: F03;

Online Note: pre-explosion = MENTAL DISORDERS (PX)

History Note: use pre-explosion 1974-97