Sentences with phrase «psychiatric intervention research»

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But new research presented at the American Diabetes Association's 74th Scientific Sessions ® shows that symptoms of depression in people with type 2 diabetes can be significantly reduced through interventions for «diabetes distress,» suggesting that much of what is being labeled as depression may not be a co-morbid psychiatric disorder after all, but rather a reaction to living with a stressful, complex disease that is often difficult to manage.

Most of us conduct research on basic processes of cognition and emotion with the goal of helping to guide the development of interventions that can improve functioning in both healthy people and those with psychiatric or neurodegenerative disease - or at least that's what we say in our grant applications!

We believe the life course trajectory of maltreated children can be improved through ongoing research efforts that span from neurobiology to social policy, identifying mechanisms responsible for the etiology of depression and other stress - related psychiatric disorders, and systematically testing interventions to improve the system of care for these children.

Dr. Brown's research publications have included: Self - cutting and sexual risk among adolescents in intesive psychiatric treatment; Promoting safer sex among HIV - positive youth with hemophilia: Theory, intervention, and outcome; Predictors of retention among HIV / hemophilia health care professionals; Impact of sexual abuse on the HIV - risk - related behavior of adolescents in intensive psychiatric treatment; Heroin use in adolescents and young adults admitted for drug detoxification; and Children and adolescents living with HIV and AIDS: A review

Research studies that use an experimental approach may clarify the precise nature of the stress response in high - risk children and its association with psychiatric disorders.1 Fisher et al20 suggest that a family - based intervention delivered to maltreated preschoolers might normalize perturbed diurnal cortisol patterns.

The recent trend in research funding at the National Institute of Mental Health indicates that there is interest in advancing adolescent mental health research that takes a developmental - systemic approach in a field that currently relies predominantly on outpatient, short - term, symptom - targeted psychiatric and psychopharmacological interventions (NIMH 2008).

Funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1995, her research has focused on developing and evaluating attachment - based parenting interventions for mothers with substance use and psychiatric disorders.

High expressed emotion (EE) refers to affective attitudes and behaviors toward patients characterized by critical comments, hostility, and emotional over involvement (EOI).3 The construct has traditionally been applied to the study of familial relationships, and it is well established that levels of familial EE are significant predictors of outcome across a range of psychiatric and physical health conditions.4 A substantial body of this research has been carried out with people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and there is strong evidence that those living in high EE environments have a much higher risk of relapse than those living in low EE environments.5 The success of family intervention studies aiming to reduce high EE and relapses add to the support for a causal relationship.6, 7