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Adjustment Disorders (0):
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Adjustment Disorders
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Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is characterized by seizures, port-wine birthmarks, vascular malformations, and rarely studied psychobehavioral features. This study describes a small group of outpatients (N = 16, age, 3-34 years) with Sturge-Weber syndrome seeking medical services (due to seizures, opht...
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PMID: 21135644
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We aimed to construct the picture of developmental epidemiology for psychosocial aspects in families of β-thalassaemia major patients attending a tertiary care hospital in north India.
The accelerated longitudinal design was used. The sample consisted of 100 children with β-thalassaemia and their...
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PMID: 20966522
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Australasian Psychiatry (18)4 2010
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The Psychiatric Emergency Care Centre (PECC) is a relatively recent service development that aims to improve emergency care of psychiatric patients. The goal of this paper was to report on the characteristics of admissions to a recently established PECC.
Several key characteristics of admissions to...
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PMID: 20645898
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As a follow-up to an earlier cross-sectional study (Holmbeck et al., 2003), the current multimethod, multi-informant investigation examined individual growth in psychosocial adjustment across the adolescent transition in 2 samples: young adolescents with spina bifida (SB) and typically developing ad...
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PMID: 20658808
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The findings indicate that anxiety disorders are common in the setting of medical disease and are associated with several types of psychosomatic presentations. The links between agoraphobia without history of panic disorder and illness denial may provide an explanation for some discrepancies that ha...
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PMID: 20584526
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Psychiatria Danubina (22)2 2010
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Psycho-oncology is a broad approach to cancer therapy which treats the emotional, social, and spiritual distress which often accompanies cancer patients. The development of psycho-oncology began in the second part of the 20th century reflecting the increased interest in the study of cancer patients'...
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PMID: 20562751
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The analysis identifies three main causes of adjustment disorder. The first group of reasons is related to difficulties in the workplace, which represents 59% of all patients with the disorder described. In this group identifies three major stressful situations: bullying, job loss, unemployment. Ano...
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PMID: 20568403
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For the purpose of a clear classification of embitterment disorders, the new concept of adjustment disorders of Andreas Maercker and co-workers is introduced. Based on the criteria and their findings, the best and most viable possibility to classify embitterment disorders in accordance with the curr...
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PMID: 20148750
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Psychological Medicine (40)5 2010
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Pre-morbid adjustment patterns prior to onset of psychosis are associated with severity but not type of cognitive impairment. Patients in the stable-poor group are generally more impaired compared to the deteriorating group, who are, in turn, more impaired than the stable-good group....
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PMID: 19732482
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Psychological Medicine (40)5 2010
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Individuals who develop a full depressive syndrome in response to high-threat events do not have an appreciably lower liability to MD than those developing depression after exposure to low adversity and have much higher liability to depression than observed in their population cohort. These results...
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PMID: 19656430
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Psychological Medicine (40)5 2010
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Bullying victimization is a topic of concern for youths, parents, school staff and mental health practitioners. Children and adolescents who are victimized by bullies show signs of distress and adjustment problems. However, it is not clear whether bullying is the source of these difficulties. This p...
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PMID: 19785920
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We identified negative and positive parenting as environmental mechanisms that were related to the development of temperament profiles over time. These results support the notion that, in addition to having a genetic base, temperament is subject to maturation and experience over time....
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PMID: 20058064
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The development of children's emotion-related self-regulation appears to be related to, and likely involved in, many aspects of children's development. In this review, the distinction between effortful self-regulatory processes and those that are somewhat less voluntary is discussed, and literature...
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PMID: 20192797
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This prospective study examined the role of experiential avoidance and catastrophic misinterpretations of grief reactions in emotional distress following the death of a loved one. Eighty-two bereaved individuals completed measures of experiential avoidance, catastrophic misinterpretations, and sympt...
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PMID: 20386253
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We examined with questionnaires 41 patients with adjustment disorder and 41 control persons with no diagnosed psychiatric disorder. Our results suggest that in adjustment disorder the danger of suicide is significant, nightmare and dreams with negative affect often occur. If these patients went thro...
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PMID: 20458133
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The prospect of utilizing memory plasticity (the constructive and transitory nature of memory) for therapeutic purposes has not been widely recognized. However, a number of theoretical and clinical venues throughout the last century have shown its potential application. Intensive research conducted...
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PMID: 20187338
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It seems that those children with functional abdominal pain who cannot adapt to the pain indeed run the risk of developing a somatoform adjustment disorder.
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PMID: 20051705
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Adjustment disorder was introduced into the psychiatric classification systems almost 30 years ago, although the concept was recognized for many years before that. In DSM-IV, six subtypes are described based on the predominant symptoms, but no further diagnostic criteria are offered to assist the cl...
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PMID: 19845414
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Psychotherapy Research (19)6 2009
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The shape of alliance processes over the course of psychotherapy has already been studied in several process-outcome studies on very brief psychotherapy. The present study applies the shape-of-change methodology to short-term dynamic psychotherapies and complements this method with hierarchical line...
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PMID: 19606388
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Psychiatria Danubina (21 Suppl 1) 2009
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When looking back in the history of psychiatry, the concept of reactivity had very variable impact on ethiological considerations. If classification of mental disorders is taken as a proxy, it seems that this impact is presently at the lowest that it has been in the last hundred years. The author gi...
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PMID: 19789481
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Death Studies (33)8 2009
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Severe grief symptoms, treatment receptivity, attitudes about grief, and stigmatization concerns were assessed in a community-based sample of 135 widowed participants in the Yale Bereavement Study. There was a statistically significant association between the severity of grief symptoms and reported...
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PMID: 19697482
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Adjustment disorder is a frequent disorder at least in medical settings. Many of these patients do not fulfill the criteria of a more specific diagnosis, but are still regarded as 'in need of treatment'. Clinicians appreciate the possibility of assigning adjustment disorders as 'wild card' diagnoses...
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PMID: 19436201
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The aim of this study was to examine the characteristics of transsexuals from Spain. A total of 252 consecutive applicants for sex reassignment were evaluated using a standardized semistructured clinical interview and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (Spanish Version 5.0.0) to recor...
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PMID: 18288600
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Psychiatria Danubina (21)2 2009
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Persons in whom some stress related disorders were diagnosed had a lower quality of life compared to persons who experienced stress but did not develop a disorder (p<0.01). CONCLUSION: Given the long-term stressogenic situation in our country, which is still ongoing, we think that comprehensive meas...
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PMID: 19556949
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Hospital doctors often assume that patients with advanced life-limiting illnesses will be depressed and that as depression is understandable treatment is not indicated. However, differentiating natural sadness from major depression has important therapeutic implications.
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PMID: 19357597
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This study examines longitudinal associations between adolescent adjustment and perceived parental support across the middle-school years (ages 11 to 13) in a diverse sample of 197 girls and 116 boys. Growth curve models revealed associations between the slope of change in perception...
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PMID: 19364213
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Psychiatrische Praxis (36)2 2009
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We investigated the congruent and criterion validity of the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC) in a clinical sample of toddlers seen over 1 year in Turkey. All consecutive patients (N=93), 14-43 months old (mean, 30.6 mos.), in a child psychiatry outpatient clinic were included. The ABC, Autism Behav...
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PMID: 18600444
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Death Studies (33)2 2009
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Item response theory modeling was applied to the data of 1,321 bereaved individuals who completed the Dutch version of the Inventory of Complicated Grief--Revised (ICG-R)--a 29-item self-report measure of complicated grief (CG). The authors aimed to examine the information that each of the ICG-R ite...
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PMID: 19143107
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The conceptual underpinnings of the diagnosis adjustment disorder is the subject of ongoing debate as is its differentiation from other psychiatric disorders such as depressive disorders. One group has proposed and tested a diagnostic model of adjustment disorder as a stress-response syndrome, relat...
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PMID: 19122535
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Adolescence (44)176 2009
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A sample of 192 university students who had experienced a recent breakup of a romantic relationship was divided into high versus low score groups based on the Breakup Distress Scale. Females had higher Breakup Distress Scale scores. The group who had high Breakup Distress Scale scores reported havin...
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PMID: 20432597
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This study describes an evaluation of the effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy provided in an outpatient community mental health clinic. The study used a single group pretest-posttest design involving 78 clients. Clinical outcomes included overall psychosocial functioning and quality of life...
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PMID: 20001199
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The risk of hospitalization for all mental disorders was increased for preterm SGA boys (OR 2.19, 95% CI 1.49-3.21); at-term SGA boys (OR 1.55, 95% CI 1.34-1.79); at-term SGA girls (OR 1.31, 95% CI 1.15-1.50). At-term SGA boys and girls suffered increased risk of anxiety and adjustment disorders (OR...
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PMID: 18822091
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GP consultations for domestic violence are frequent and involve considerable between-physician variability in care....
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PMID: 19288287
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The theory-guided evaluation of the ADNM questionnaire divided the whole sample into patients with elevated (49 %) and with normal (51 %) scores. A cluster analysis of patients with elevated scores showed two groups, so that a total of three groups were compared: patients with scores in a normal ran...
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PMID: 18092283
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Survival analysis showed no significant difference of suicidal acts between lithium and placebo-treated individuals (adjusted hazard ratio 0.517; 95% CI 0.18-1.43). However, post hoc analysis revealed that all completed suicides had occurred in the placebo group accounting for a significant differen...
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PMID: 18808400
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Psychiatrische Praxis (35)8 2008
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Oral dyskinesia decreased 20 % and no side effects were observed. Regarding psychopathology the patient was more interested in work and showed better concentration in therapies. CONCLUSION: Pramipexole could be a new promising add-on therapy in severe TD. Additionally, the low plasma binding and mil...
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PMID: 18504692
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Psychological Reports (103)2 2008
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The aim of this research was to compare the features of social problem-solving scripts across groups of students with different social problem-solving abilities, based on dynamic memory theory. 54 (32 girls/22 boys) educable intellectually disabled students, 58 (32 girls/26 boys) socially poorly ada...
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PMID: 19102487
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Students with active Crohn's and colitis adjust less well to college life. Physical and emotional factors likely contribute. More aggressive medical therapy and better emotional support before and during college may result in happier and healthier college students, leading to higher graduation rates...
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PMID: 18512247
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Psychiatria Danubina (20)3 2008
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The consultation rate increased by 0.61% from 2.69% in Survey A to 3.30% in Survey B. Internal medicine consistently accounted for almost 31% of all referrals in both surveys. In Survey A, the most common psychiatric diagnoses were adjustment disorders (21.4%), depressive disorders (18.5%), and deli...
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PMID: 18827755
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Adjustment disorder (AD) with depressive features is a common but under researched diagnosis. There are particular problems associated with the diagnosis of AD using structured interviews and screening schedules have yet to be successfully developed owing to the poor specificity of those that are cu...
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PMID: 18671664
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Based on reactions from the sample and consultations from competent psychiatrists, content validity was established The duration of interviews for the Stress and Adjustment Disorder section averaged 17.92 min (25.59 for patients with stress-related disorders and 6.41 for normal subjects). The respec...
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PMID: 18788701
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Psycho-Oncology (17)7 2008
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Compared with SCID, HADS was found to have acceptable levels of sensitivity and specificity in detecting psychiatric morbidity especially for MDD and HADS can be recommended with reservations as a screening tool for breast cancer patients.
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PMID: 17992701
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Psychiatrische Praxis (35)5 2008
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Professionals of the inpatient suicide treatment team should be more proactive in offering the bereaved relatives possibilities to talk to them. Furthermore, support should be offered repeatedly, not only once when the relatives pick up the belongings of their lost family member from the clinic....
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PMID: 18600601
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Psychiatrische Praxis (35)5 2008
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A psychopathological revision of the current nosological concept of adjustment disorders should be taken into consideration. Such a revision could lead either to an extension or to a narrowing of the diagnostic group "adjustment disorders"....
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PMID: 18683285
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UASC had experienced high levels of losses and war trauma, and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Predictors of high posttraumatic symptoms included low-support living arrangements, female gender and trauma events, and increasing age only amongst the UASC. High depressive scores were associated with fem...
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PMID: 18492037
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At 12-week termination, level of depressive symptoms had decreased by 50%; 13/14 girls showed a decrease in level of symptoms. STUDY 2 At 12-week termination, level of depressive symptoms had decreased by 40%; 10/11 girls showed decrease in level of symptoms and in DSM-IVR clinical diagnosis; treatm...
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PMID: 18492043
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Child Abuse & Neglect (32)7 2008
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Despite the relatively modest prevalence of childhood sexual contact among Chinese adults, the association with multiplex adult outcomes suggests that much as in the West early sexual contact is a significant issue. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: The findings underscore the importance of public education ab...
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PMID: 18614231
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Child Abuse & Neglect (32)7 2008
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Significant interactions indicated protective effects of religiosity. Child reports of the importance of faith were related to lower levels of internalizing symptomatology among maltreated girls (t=-2.81, p<.05). Child reports of attendance at religious services were associated with lower levels of...
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PMID: 18617264
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We provide a brief overview of thinking and research on bidirectionality and then highlight key themes and findings reported in these articles. We describe some of the challenges in research on bidirectional processes and offer some recommendations for future research in this area....
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PMID: 18473161
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Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie (87)6 2008
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We investigated the psychological consequences among 305 individuals (71 per cent female) residing in the settlements of Ano Liosia Municipality. Adaptability was difficult (63 per cent) due to limited space (50 per cent). Insecurity feelings were predictive of difficult adaptability (chi2= 29.8, p<...
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PMID: 18380855
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We used a flexible dose titration study designed to mimic clinical practice within the therapeutic dose range of fluvoxamine (25-200 mg/d). Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve was computed to determine the optimal fluvoxamine plasma concentration for remission using 269 concentration data...
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PMID: 18480690
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Child Abuse & Neglect (32)6 2008
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Good reliability such as internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) for the total scale .94 (ranging in the clinical scales .78-.83) and test-retest for the total scale r=.81 (ranging in the clinical scales .67-.81) were found. The confirmatory 6-factor analysis explained 50.7% of the variance. Other v...
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PMID: 18584867
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Child Abuse & Neglect (32)6 2008
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The TSCC and TSCYC display moderate convergent and discriminant validity with respect to one another, despite different information sources. Nevertheless, the relatively small association between relevant TSCC and TSCYC scales indicates that different symptom informants may have different perspectiv...
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PMID: 18584866
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Child Abuse & Neglect (32)6 2008
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Even in this high-risk, atypical sample, maltreatment experiences account for variation in levels of psychopathology. These results have implications for classifying multiple maltreatment and enhancing clinical care for atypical youth who have been maltreated. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Clinicians worki...
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PMID: 18582936
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Child Abuse & Neglect (32)6 2008
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Child Abuse & Neglect (32)6 2008
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Exposure to CSA was associated with consistent increases in risks of later mental health problems. Exposure to CPA had weaker and less consistent effects on later mental health. These findings suggest that much of the association between CPA and later mental health reflects the general family contex...
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PMID: 18565580
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Child Abuse & Neglect (32)6 2008
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