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The mothers exhibited extraordinarily high levels of psychological disturbance on the Psychiatric Symptom Index (PSI).

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It's in this soft - core realm that the movie smashes into walls of physical and psychological disturbance that offer the audience graphic sexual consolation for a barrage of blood spurting and splattering that goes on.

New and recent works by Olivia Erlanger, Josh Kline, Jason Matthew Lee, Sam Lewitt, and Carissa Rodriguez touch upon the effects of physical and psychological disturbance, brought on by a general state of fragmentation and precarity that identifies the structural conditions of social and work relations.

Subsequently she had some community neurorehabilitation and on numerous occasions was referred for psychological support due to mood disturbances and prescribed antidepressants.

In 1997, Craig Haney and Mona Lynch surveyed the historical and contemporary literature on the experiences and effects of prisoner isolation, finding «strikingly similar negative psychological effects» in various confinement settings, including «anxiety, panic, rage, loss of control, appetite and sleep disturbances, [and] self - mutilations».

The grammatical and ordinary sense of the words used in s. 233 of the Criminal Code supports the conclusion the legislator did not intend to restrict the availability of infanticide to situations where the psychological health of the woman was substantially compromised or where a mental disorder was established; the statutory language also shows there is no requirement for a causal connection between the disturbance of the accused's mind and the act or omission causing the child's death; but there is, however, a required link between the disturbance and not having fully recovered from the effects of giving birth to the child or of the effect of lactation consequent on the child's birth ̶ in either case the disturbance must be «by reason thereof».

Investigators have used it as the criterion for diagnosis of behavior disturbance against which to gauge the validity of both screening instruments27 and psychological interview measures.28 The published Spanish version of the CBCL used in this study has been found to have good internal consistency and concurrent validity in Spanish - speaking populations.29 The CBCL was chosen as the standard of comparison to avoid basing the calculation of PSC validity on a small subset of the data as done in previous studies using structured interviews as the standard24,30 - 32 and because the CBCL has been widely used as the criterion standard in previous PSC research in both middle - class30, 33 - 35 and low - income minority populations.8

Cognitive - behavioral therapies are based on the premise that cognitions determine how people feel and act, and that faulty cognitions can contribute to psychological disturbance.

Because the literature showed that maternal psychological distress increases with child sleep and behavioral disturbance, it was hypothesized that mothers» attendance at the program would have a positive effect on their psychosocial well - being and parenting satisfaction, while mothers who were in the waitlist control group would experience no change in maternal distress over the waiting period.

American Psychological Association The APA is also a fountain of information and support on specific emotional disturbances.

For this symptomatological heterogeneity, the assessment of psychological disturbances in the postpartum period depends on factors such as time of assessment, definition of depression, instrument used to measure depression, and the cultural characteristics of the population studied.8

Sometimes, this process leads to psychological disturbances or psychopathological status like post partum depression (PPD) that has recently been studied both for increasing prevalence and for its effects on child development and health.2

General indices regarding mental health of mothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interactions.