The official battle over this issue began around 1970 when the American Psychiatric As sociation first began to consider whether ho mos3xuality should be
listed as a mental disorder.
Not exact matches
Just last month the American Psychiatric Association, voting on a recommendation from its board of trustees, dropped homosexuality
as such from its
list of
mental disorders.
It's a manual of
mental disorders... it
lists the known
mental disorders,
as decided by a group of licensed professionals.
The DSM - 5 now also
lists Caffeine Withdrawal
as a
mental disorder.
The new edition of the DSM (DSM - V), the handbook used by
mental health professionals, now
lists compulsive hoarding
as its own
disorder, rather than
as a subset of obsessive - compulsive
disorder.
Some providers exclude substance abuse from the
list of covered reasons — or place significant limits on reimbursement for withdrawals that occur
as the result of
mental health
disorders and illnesses.
A strength of the present study is that the effects of the intervention on alcohol use (
disorders), depression,
mental health symptoms and intervention satisfaction are assessed in comparison to a waiting
list control group,
as well
as explored relative to a comparable «alcohol - only» intervention regarding its differential effects.
Group parenting programmes have been shown to have a positive impact on the
mental health of children and parents in the short term.9 — 12 Positive results have been obtained from randomised controlled trials and other studies with parents of children with clinically defined behaviour
disorders, 9,13,14 children at high risk of behaviour problems, 9,15 and to a lesser extent with normal populations.16, 17 They have also been obtained in trials of interventions for parents and children of different ages.18, 19 The number of trials carried out in the UK is small.13, 15,20,21 A recent systematic review concluded that these programmes are effective in the long term, 12 but most of the trials on which this review was based used a waiting
list control design, and
as a result outcome data are not reported on the control groups beyond 6 months.