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Showing 1 to 20 of 231 for “"Psychiatric and Mental Health"”.
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Social support: The experience of social support by acute-care psychiatric in-patients
… support experienced by acute-care, uncertified psychiatric in-patients. A focus group of in-patients was formed in a provincial psychiatric hospital. The group was co-facilitated by the researcher and a research assistant. The purpose of the focus group was to generate questions which were then …
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The relationship between family burden ratings and follow-up psychotic symptom levels in schizophrenia
… outcome for the patient are Expressed Emotion and Family Burden. In an early study, Family Burden was found to be a better predictor of relapse than Expressed Emotion. Family Burden is a measure of patient behaviours, not symptoms, and the degree to which they bother the relative. In that …
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A comparison of attention bias paradigms related to insomnia
… has been reported as a factor in initiating and maintaining sleep disturbance. In this study, three paradigms (Flicker, Posner, and Stroop) were used in comparison to further investigate the role of attentional biases in Primary Insomnia. Participants (n=117) were split into good sleepers and …
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A study in religious worldview and subjective well-being
… the relationship between religious worldview and multiple measures of subjective well-being, including: the Unconditional Self-Acceptance Questionnaire (Chamberlain & Haaga, 2001a), the Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire (Peterson, Park, & Seligman, 2005), the Subjective Happiness Scale …
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Proposing the mindful check-in: a brief mindfulness exercise
<p>This study investigated the effectiveness and adherence rate of the mindful check-in compared to a traditional mindfulness exercise. This study compared the effects of a traditional mindful breathing exercise and a no-treatment control condition to the mindful check-in on measures of …
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Sexism and how it mediates the relationship between gender and rape myth acceptance
Rape is a significant social and health problem in the United States with around 17.7 million women being forcibly raped at some time in their lives. While a rape-supportive culture and victim blame are concepts that aid in explaining rape, understanding societal held ideas about rape and …
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Can positive self-talk alter one's happiness?
… explore the possibilities of positive self-talk and the effect it can have on people and their happiness level. In this study there were a total of thirteen subjects who attended classes to exam their self-talk and develop skills in using positive self-talk. The subjects took a pretest to …
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Treatment of anxiety using manualized protocol: a case study
… female with comorbid Major Depressive Disorder and Social Phobia. The client voluntarily participated in outpatient individual psychotherapy offered in a private counseling facility. The client's psychosocial assessment is presented and the literature on empirical treatment and developing …
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The development and initial validation of the Glassboro Inventory for Twelve-Step (GIFTS)
… the GIFTS was positively correlated with the AAI and all four positive psychology measures. The GIFTS also appears to be particularly attuned to quality of life rather than time abstinent, as indicated by its predictive relationship with positive psychology constructs.
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Smoking cessation in those living with schizophrenia
… in Salem County where 6 people with severe mental illness reside. 4 of the 6 people are smokers and diagnosed with schizophrenia. The 4 people in the study all showed interest in quitting smoking. The subjects were given questionnaires weekly and were monitored daily to record the amount of …
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The effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdict: psychiatry versus psychology
… be a difference in the relative influence of MDs and PhD expert witnesses. Undergraduate and graduate students served as mock jurors and were presented with an insanity case which either (a) a PhD testified for the defense and a MD testified for the prosecution or (b) an MD testified for the …
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Early Maladaptive Schemas and negative life events in the prediction of depression and anxiety
… over the past 4 months, depressive symptoms, and anxious symptoms. We also replicated a design testing the ability of EMSs, negative life events, and their interaction to predict depressive and anxious symptoms and extended the design to include specific categories of negative life events …
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Reduction of anxiety in college students with Asperger's disorder using behavioral relaxation training
… a period of four weeks. Measurements of anxiety and relaxation were gathered during biweekly sessions and those results were graphed. Results showed that a) behavioral relaxation training was quickly learned by participants and b) anxiety levels decreased on some measures with the use of …
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Experiences of African American Male Veterans Accessing Mental Health Treatment
… than Non-Hispanic whites (National Center for Health Statistics, 2018). Previous studies found African Americans use mental health services less than other race/ethnicities. Additionally, African American males are less likely to seek help for mental health issues regardless of the severity and …
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Do mindfulness, rumination or social problem-solving factors predict distress?
Depression and anxiety continue to be prevalent concerns, with lifetime prevalence rates of 41% for depressive symptoms and 15% for anxious symptoms. Reputable studies confirm that high self-reported mindful awareness and social problem solving are both individually related to a lower severity of …
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Prevalence of secondary traumatic stress among disaster relief volunteers
… doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, and aid workers. The purpose of this study was to further understand the prevalence of STS in disaster relief volunteers. Thirty-five former and current volunteers for various disaster relief organizations filled out a survey about their experience, …
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Are your parents to blame? Disentangling temperament, parenting style, and schemas in the development of depressive symptoms
… Jeffrey Young's Schema Theory (1990; 2003) and its influence in understanding the etiological factors related to depressive symptoms. It was hypothesized that there would be significant interactions between parenting and temperament traits. It was also hypothesized that The Defectiveness and …
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