Sentences with phrase «other psychiatric diagnoses»

Fifty - five per cent of participants had cognitive impairment (dementia in 40 % and delirium in 15 %), 13 % had a depressive disorder, 2 % had alcohol misuse and 2 % had other psychiatric diagnoses.

The effects of PTSD on heart disease remained strong even after researchers accounted for lifestyle factors such as smoking, physical activity level, and drinking; and major depression and other psychiatric diagnoses.

Not exact matches

Addiction to alcohol, opiates, or other substances is a serious psychiatric illness, most often complicated by other mental health diagnoses such as depression and anxiety.

«American kids are now 10, 20, 50 or 90 times more likely to be on prescription psychiatric medications compared with kids in other countries (the rate varies depending on the diagnosis in question).

I devote a chapter of the book to the question of why American kids are now 10, 20, 50, or 90 times more likely to be on prescription psychiatric medications compared with kids in other countries (the rate varies depending on the diagnosis in question).

If I suspect a psychiatric or other medical diagnosis, I collaborate with your veterinarian.

(iv) A social worker: an individual with at least a bachelor's degree in human services or related field (social work, psychology, psychiatric rehabilitation, sociology, counseling, vocational rehabilitation, human services counseling or other degree deemed equivalent to those described) from an accredited college and with at least one year of clinical experience providing direct services to individuals with a diagnosis of mental illness.

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.

Social Worker — Duties & Responsibilities Successfully serve as a psychiatric social worker and practice manager for multiple institutions Perform crisis intervention, adult, geriatric, child, and adolescent case management and therapy Counsel patients facing depression, substance abuse, bipolar disorder, dementia, and schizophrenia Serve survivors of domestic violence, rape, robbery, child abuse, suicide, and other traumatic events Responsible for 24 hour on call crisis intervention for multiple hospital emergency rooms Complete psychosocial assessments to ensure appropriate patient diagnosis and care Design and implement treatment plans including medication and individual / group / family therapy sessions Attend weekly team meetings to assess patient progress and document in the DAP system Review psychometric and psychological reports and provide feedback to patients and families Provide clients and family members with guidance and referrals to community resources Maintain contact with family members and encouraged their involvement in patient treatment Performed discharge planning including nursing home placement, home health, medication needs, transportation and Passport screening, extended in - patient and out - patient mental health services Serve as public speaker, referral development committee member, and marketing / financial advisor

Among other points of critique, the DSM - IV Hypochondriasis diagnosis has been criticized for being poorly and arbitrarily defined overlapping with other somatoform and psychiatric disorders [1], [4], [5], [19], [20].

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is 1 of only 2 DSM - IV diagnoses for which suicidal behavior is a criterion.1 Borderline personality disorder is a severe and persistent mental disorder experience of severe emotional distress and behavioral dyscontrol.1 - 3 Among patients with BPD, 69 % to 80 % engage in suicidal behavior,4 - 9 with a suicide rate of up to 9 %.10 Forty percent of the highest users of inpatient psychiatric services receive a diagnosis of BPD.11, 12 Patients with BPD use more services than those with major depression13 and other personality disorders.14 Among patients with BPD seen for treatment, 72 % have had at least 1 psychiatric hospitalization and 97 % have received outpatient treatment from a mean of 6.1 previous therapists.15, 16 Despite this high - use pattern, patients with BPD have high rates of treatment failure.17, 18

Two - week test - retest reliability of CAPA diagnoses in children aged 10 to 18 years is comparable with that of other highly structured interviews (κs for individual disorders range from 0.6 - 1.0).39 To minimize recall bias, the time frame of both interviews for determining the presence of most psychiatric symptoms was the preceding 3 months.

Reliability and validity in inpatient and outpatient populations have been demonstrated, with high test - retest reliability and moderate to high correlations with discharge diagnoses.34 - 38 The Children's Interview for Psychiatric Syndromes was used because its psychometric properties mimic those of other structured interviews while offering pragmatic advantages, including shorter administration time, a detailed training manual, ease of administration, and a concise response booklet.39 These instruments were administered at baseline to document lifetime and current presence or absence of psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses.

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.

For nearly three decades he provided or supervised counseling and psychological services for people with a wide range of disabilities (chronic and severe psychiatric diagnoses, deafness, developmental disabilities, stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and other disabilities) across the lifespan.

to ensure the proper diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders using psychotherapy, psychoactive medication, and other psychiatric modalities.

Comorbidity of gender dysphoria and other major psychiatric diagnoses.

However, this significant association disappeared after adjusting for the following variables: mother's age at birth, country of origin, place of residence, parity, psychiatric diagnoses before delivery, other drug use during pregnancy, smoking status during pregnancy, employment status and level of education.

Baseline characteristics of the 87 patients were as follows: mean age 38.6 (SD 11.0) years; 69 men; 64 single; 24 lived alone, 17 lived with a partner, 31 lived with parents, and the remainder with others; 61 left school at 16 years; 76 were unemployed, five were in paid employment, six were in voluntary employment or similar, two had never worked; 64 were unskilled and 21 were skilled or professional; 78 had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, eight had schizoaffective psychosis, and two had delusional disorder; the median (range) duration of illness was 11 (1 - 42) years; median (range) number of admissions to hospital was 3 (0 - 20); 10 had a forensic psychiatric history; and 12 had a history of substance abuse.

Studies that select participants based on a diagnosis of psychiatric or other mental illness, cognitive or developmental disability will be excluded from the study.

A diagnosis of major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, panic disorder or other psychiatric disorder; caffeine, alcohol or drug addiction; or a subscale of either anxiety or depression in Hamilton Anxiety and Depression Scale score ≥ 11 points;

While these two parallel traditions of practice and research share an interest in intervening with families affected by mental illness, they have developed in relative isolation from each other and focus on different outcomes, family constellations and psychiatric diagnoses.

In Finland, the preventive and promotive work has extended to psychiatric patients with other than depression diagnosis, to parents with alcohol and drug abuse problems, to parents with severe somatic illness especially in cancer clinics, and to families with child protection needs.

Furthermore, a large proportion of comparison participants qualified for a lifetime psychiatric diagnosis (combining subthreshold and full diagnoses)(Table 4), sometimes exceeding population rates.40 It seems more compelling that differences at the mean age of 41 years between probands and comparison participants reflect differential development, especially because findings are highly consistent with other, briefer follow - up studies.

Whether your child has a formal psychiatric diagnosis or simply displays some mild symptoms of a learning problem, we will show you how video games and other digital technologies and tools can help improve her thinking and academic skills.

They communicate in manners that demonstrate healthcare literacy across multiple disciplines (e.g., medical - and psychological / psychiatric - terminology, disease - and / or diagnosis - specific nomenclatures), and regularly articulate the manners in which multiple BPSS dimensions interact with each other in the present, across the lifespan, and with consideration of cultural / spiritual beliefs and practices.

If one of the partners is adamant that the other is the problem even to the point of wanting their partner to have a psychiatric diagnosis.

Mothers who have used cocaine or other drugs during pregnancy appear more likely than nondrug - using mothers to have comorbid psychiatric diagnoses and to have experienced past traumatic events (Hans, 1999).

Inclusion criteria included diagnosis of type 1 diabetes for at least 1 year, 11.0 — 16.0 years of age, no other major chronic illness or psychiatric diagnosis, and able to read English.

Using baseline diagnoses, preschoolers were categorized into 1 of 3 hierarchical diagnostic groups: (1) the MDD group was composed of those who met criteria for MDD and had any other comorbidity (n = 75), (2) the psychiatric group was composed of those who met criteria for any anxiety and / or disruptive disorders but did not have MDD (n = 79)(anxiety disorders included separation anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder.