Sentences with phrase «diagnosed psychiatric problems»

A team led by David Abramson of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University, in collaboration with the Children's Health Fund, surveyed residents of FEMA - provided trailers and hotels in Louisiana and reported widespread clinically diagnosed psychiatric problems.

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Growing evidence suggests that repetitive concussions — or even sub-concussions, mild brain injuries that can't be diagnosed clinically — can occasionally produce long - term problems with thinking, behavior, and psychiatric problems.

A research team, led by Brendan Depue, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for Neuroscience, trained 16 subjects — none of whom were previously diagnosed with any psychiatric problems — to recognize 40 pairs of visual stimuli.

A calculation made by Dr Jensen — based on a 33 % overall increased risk of psychiatric disorders in children born to women with fertility problems and on the proportion of children born in Denmark following fertility treatment — suggests that 1.9 % of all diagnosed psychiatric disorders in Denmark are associated with the mother's infertility.

Charted and recorded information in client files.Tracked client movement on and off the unit by documenting times and destinations of clients.Checked facility for open windows, locked doors, malfunctioning smoke detectors and other safety hazards.Quickly responded to crisis situations when severe mental health and behavioral issues arose.Efficiently gathered information from families and social services agencies to inform development of treatment plans.Documented all patient information including service plans, treatment reports and progress notes.Collaborated closely with treatment team to appropriately coordinate client care services.Developed comprehensive treatment plans that focused on accurate diagnosis and behavioral treatment of problems.Consulted with psychiatrists about client medication changes, issues with medicine compliance and efficacy of medications.Organized treatment projects that focused on problem solving skills and creative thinking.Referred clients to other programs and community agencies to enhance treatment processes.Created and reviewed master treatment and discharge plans for each client.Guided clients in understanding illnesses and treatment plans.Developed appropriate policies for the identification of medically - related social and emotional needs of clients.Assisted clients in scheduling home visits and phone calls and monitored effectiveness of these activities.Evaluated patients for psychiatric services and psychotropic medications.Monitored patients prescribed psychotropic medications to assess the medications» effectiveness and side effects.Evaluated patients to determine potential need to transfer to specialized inpatient mental health facilities.Administered medication to patients presenting serious risk of danger to themselves and others.Conducted psychiatric evaluations and executed medication management for both inpatient and outpatient facilities.Led patients in individual, family, group and marital therapy sessions.Diagnosed mental health, emotional and substance abuse disorders.Recorded comprehensive patient histories and coordinated treatment plans with multi-disciplinary team members.Consulted with and developed appropriate treatment and rehabilitation plans for dually diagnosed patients.Referenced and used various therapy techniques, including psychodynamic, family systems, cognitive behavioral and lifespan integration psychotherapy.

A review of twenty studies on the adult lives of antisocial adolescent girls found higher mortality rates, a variety of psychiatric problems, dysfunctional and violent relationships, poor educational achievement, and less stable work histories than among non-delinquent girls.23 Chronic problem behavior during childhood has been linked with alcohol and drug abuse in adulthood, as well as with other mental health problems and disorders, such as emotional disturbance and depression.24 David Hawkins, Richard Catalano, and Janet Miller have shown a similar link between conduct disorder among girls and adult substance abuse.25 Terrie Moffitt and several colleagues found that girls diagnosed with conduct disorder were more likely as adults to suffer from a wide variety of problems than girls without such a diagnosis.26 Among the problems were poorer physical health and more symptoms of mental illness, reliance on social assistance, and victimization by, as well as violence toward, partners.

Tuohy doesn't believe we are over-subscribing Ritalin — child psychiatrist Emeritus Professor John Werry says we are under - diagnosing and under - prescribing psychiatric drugs for children — but for children who have behaviour problems there are good, non-drug treatments available.

DUALLY DIAGNOSED A person who has both an alcohol or drug problem and an emotional / psychiatric problem is said to have a dual diagnosis.