Mental Health

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Use of the mechanistic case diagramming technique to teach the biopsychosocial-cultural formulation to psychiatric clerks.

OBJECTIVE: Biopsychosocial-cultural formulation is an essential skill for medical students to become familiar with during their psychiatry clerkship. The authors describe their use of mechanistic case diagramming to demonstrate to students, in a single ...
Anthony P S Guerrero, Earl S Hishinuma, Alberto C Serrano, Iqbal Ahmed (Acad Psychiatry, 2003SUMMER)
mechanistic-case-diagramming-technique-teach-biopsychosocial-cultural.asp

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Dietary manganese intake and type of lipid do not affect clinical or neuropsychological measures in healthy young women.

Because manganese (Mn) is potentially toxic, and because dietary fat type may affect Mn absorption, the objectives of the current study were to determine whether diets containing very low or very high amounts of Mn and enriched in either saturated or ...
John W Finley, James G Penland, Ross E Pettit, Cindy D Davis (J Nutr, 200309)
dietary-manganese-intake-type-lipid-not-affect-clinical-or.asp

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Maternal psychological distress: adult sons and daughters mental health and educational attainment.

BACKGROUND: Offspring of depressed women have high rates of depressive symptoms and other psychopathology. The authors examined the relationship of mothers symptoms of depression and anxiety reported during their offsprings childhood and adolescence on ...
Margaret E Ensminger, Shannon G Hanson, Anne W Riley, Hee-Soon Juon (J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 200309)
maternal-psychological-distress-adult-sons-daughters-mental-health.asp

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Influence of environmental factors on mental health within prisons: focus group study.

OBJECTIVE: To increase understanding of how the prison environment influences the mental health of prisoners and prison staff. DESIGN: Qualitative study with focus groups. SETTING: A local prison in southern England. PARTICIPANTS: Prisoners and prison ...
Jo Nurse, Paul Woodcock, Jim Ormsby (BMJ, 200308)
influence-environmental-factors-mental-health-prisons-focus-group.asp

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Mental health.

OBJECTIVE: Only in the last 30 years has psychiatry begun to develop empirical approaches to conceptualizing and assessing positive mental health. Six models of mental health are reviewed here. METHOD: The author points out pitfalls in research on mental ...
George E Vaillant (Am J Psychiatry, 200308)
mental-health.asp

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When being alone might be better: neighborhood poverty, social capital, and child mental health.

Public health researchers have provided a growing body of evidence on the salutary effects of social capital for individual well being. The importance of these findings for social epidemiology, however, may have precluded so far a full examination of the ...
Margaret OBrien Caughy, Patricia J OCampo, Carles Muntaner (Soc Sci Med, 200307)
alone-better-neighborhood-poverty-social-capital-child-mental-health.asp

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The aftermath of a disaster. Recovery following the volcanic eruptions in Montserrat, West Indies.

The people of Montserrat have experienced serious volcanic eruptions since the middle of 1995. These resulted in the evacuation of the capital town Plymouth in 1997. An exclusion zone was declared and two-thirds of the original population of 10,324 ...
J G Avery (West Indian Med J, 200306)
aftermath-disaster-recovery-following-volcanic-eruptions-montserrat.asp

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Loneliness and depression in spousal caregivers of those with Alzheimers disease versus non-caregiving spouses.

Loneliness as a factor in the development of depression in Alzheimers disease (AD) spousal caregivers has been given little attention. In this sample, 49 AD caregiving spouses reported significantly higher levels of loneliness and depression than did 52 ...
Rose A Beeson (Arch Psychiatr Nurs, 200306)
loneliness-depression-spousal-caregivers-alzheimer-s-disease-versus.asp

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Mental health attitudes among Caucasian-American and Korean counseling students.

Attitudinal differences among 104 Korean and 107 Caucasian-American counseling students was investigated using the Mental Health Values Questionnaire (MHVQ). Caucasian-American students reported significantly greater attitudinal scores on the negative ...
Zvi D Gellis, Nam Soon Huh, Shinyoung Lee, Jeehoon Kim (Community Ment Health J, 200306)
mental-health-attitudes-caucasian-american-korean-counseling-students.asp

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For men only. A mental health prompt list in primary care.

BACKGROUND: Barriers to detecting symptoms of depression in male patients in primary care include patients reticence to self disclose and doctors failing to ask questions that tap into their patients emotional distress. Effective consultation is further ...
Suzanne Brownhill, Kay Wilhelm, Gregory Eliovson, Merilyn Waterhouse (Aust Fam Physician, 200306)
men-only-mental-health-prompt-list-primary-care.asp