Sentences with phrase «psychiatric problem resulting»

A mental disability or psychiatric problem resulting from daily stress (such as that experienced by a policeman)

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For our purposes, the medical and psychiatric therapies may be divided into three categories according to their purpose: (1) those therapies that aid in the physical rehabilitation of the person suffering from the effects of an acute binge and / or prolonged excessive drinking over many years; (2) those that help to keep the addictive cycle broken and thus maintain sobriety for sufficient time to allow other therapies to take effect; (3) those that aim at lessening the alcoholic's personality problems — both those that contributed to the causation of his addiction and those resulting from the interpersonal chaos of progressive alcoholism.

Linda has a reputation for empathy when dealing with difficulty clients, whether that difficulty is as a result of psychological or psychiatric problems or the distress of court proceedings.

To test the main hypothesis, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was performed on the 39 SCQ items and the results were compared with a previous factor analysis of the SCQ in a sample of children with ASD and other psychiatric problems (Berument et al. 1999).

However, our results linking early - learning problems to homelessness, mental illness and substance use are consistent with a growing body of research indicating that adverse childhood events are potent risk factors for a number of psychiatric and substance use disorders.6

Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36

Poor self - esteem can result in a cascade of diminishing self - appreciation, creating self - defeating attitudes, psychiatric vulnerability, social problems or risk behaviors.

Results Short - term psychodynamic psychotherapy yielded significant and large pretreatment - posttreatment effect sizes for target problems (1.39), general psychiatric symptoms (0.90), and social functioning (0.80).

Results indicated that families who received either treatment showed decreased parental psychiatric symptomology, reduced overall stress, and a reduction in the severity of identified problems.