Sentences with phrase «listed as mental disorders»
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.
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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.