Sentences with phrase «substance misuse disorders»

Despite extensive clinical assessments of the ex-clients and their parents, few factors assessed in mid-adolescence were associated with substance misuse disorders 5 years later.

In its function as a Community Partner, CCBC will play a primary role in meeting the physical, behavioral and long term care needs of members, including individuals with disabilities, mental illness, substance misuse disorders and co-occurring disorders.

Beyond Blue Beyond Blue works to increase community awareness of depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders.

Not exact matches

The first Surgeon General's Report on the prevention, treatment, and recovery of substance misuse and substance use disorders.

Previous studies show strong relationships between adult health conditions — anxiety, panic and psychiatric disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, substance misuse and others — and adversities experienced in childhood, such as abuse, witnessing violence, parental incarceration and others.

«College students who misuse stimulants more likely to have ADHD, substance - use disorder.»

Wilens explains, «Someone may report on a survey that they misused stimulants on «a handful of occasions» and have never been diagnosed with a substance - use disorder.

Mental health issues such as attention difficulties, delinquency, and substance misuse are associated with lower academic achievement and attainment.91 Likewise, trauma is associated with lower standardized test scores and an increased risk of being diagnosed with a learning disability or behavioral disorder.92 While mental health and traumatic events can be devastating to individual academic achievement, research indicates that traumatic events also affect the entire class.

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

Rates of adolescent depression appear to be rising1, 2 with the 1 - year prevalence suggested to be between 2 — 4 %.3, 4 Early treatment is important because adolescent depression has high levels of future morbidity including further emotional disorders, suicidality, physical health problems, substance misuse and problems in social functioning.4, 5

Our finding is supported by hospitalisation data showing that psychotic disorders are common and increasing in the Indigenous population of Far North Queensland.8 These disorders are associated with substance misuse and a surprisingly high rate of intellectual disability.

Future trials should include patients with comorbid substance misuse, depression, or anxiety disorders, where an alternative treatment to the stimulants could be of real benefit.2

High use of healthcare services was confounded by comorbid mental disorder and substance misuse.

It can also be assumed that a high extent of traumatic stress has a clinical impact on bodily complaints and on psychiatric disorders, for example, depressions and substance misuse.

Long - term effects of childhood sexual violence include substance misuse, early sexual debut, more sexual partners, trading sex for financial gain and less use of contraception, as well as interpersonal difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal behaviour.44 — 51 Our results imply that interventions to reduce peer - related violence among primary school children could be beneficial for mental health, as well as for sexual and reproductive health in this population.

Exclusion criteria were schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, substance misuse, mental impairment, or evidence of organic brain disorder.

Specialist treatment programmes should be holistic in approach, and should not concentrate solely on substance misuse issues but include the treatment of depression, anxiety, sexual disorders and adjustment disorders.

Thus the younger the child the more likely the child is to suffer residual and pervasive problems following traumatic experiences such as witnessing family violence or being abused or neglected.21 Exposure to such experiences can alter a developing child's brain in ways that can result in a range of inter-related psychological, emotional and social problems including: depression and anxiety; post traumatic stress disorder; problems with emotional regulation; substance misuse; relationship difficulties; and physical problems including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke.22

Other disorders covered included personality disorder, eating disorders, and substance misuse.

Attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects 3 % — 5 % of children and young people under 18 years old.1 The core symptoms include inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity leading to significant impairments in academic and social function and increased risk of substance misuse, unemployment, criminality and mental health problems.2 3 Early treatment is crucial to improve symptoms and reduce the burden on the family and wider social and healthcare systems.4 With the increasing rates of diagnosis of ADHD, spending on ADHD medication has increased sevenfold between 1998 and 2005,5 and expenditure on medication treatment costs in the UK is now estimated at # 78 million per year.5 6 This has placed increasing financial burden on health services and highlighted the need for more efficient and cost - effective services to diagnose and treat the condition.

There is a high frequency of substance abuse, including misuse of pain medications and alcoholism amongst BPD sufferers as well as eating disorders, gambling, and sex addiction.

Patients were excluded if they (a) were currently receiving psychotherapy or antidepressant drugs (unless they had been taking the same dose for at least three months without improvement); (b) were unwilling to accept randomisation or were unavailable for follow up; (c) met criteria for severe depression (melancholia) or had a history of bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, or substance misuse (as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised (DSM - III - R) 18); or (d) were at significant risk of suicide or in need of urgent psychiatric treatment.

Predictably, comorbid substance misuse predicts non-adherence, and is associated with a worse outcome13 and an increased risk of suicidality.2 A recent trial of a 12 - session, group - based cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) program for people with bipolar disorder and comorbid substance misuse showed promising trends in reducing substance misuse and bipolar relapse compared with group - based counselling for substance misuse alone.14

As an Allied Health worker at Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of people from all backgrounds experiencing a range of mental illness and disorders and substance misuse concerns.

As a nurse with Metro South Addiction and Mental Health Services you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of people from all backgrounds experiencing a range of mental illness and disorders and substance misuse concerns.

These are usually local initiatives, rather than coordinated services.17 Most described programmes primarily target parents, with a focus often on specific conditions, such as substance misuse.18 Other family or child centred programmes have been developed in deprived communities, targeting school exclusion, 19 conduct disorders, 20 or parenting difficulties.21, 22

She has worked with clients with a variety of issues including anxiety, depression, stress, relationship difficulties, panic attacks, brain injury, schizophrenia, personality disorders and substance misuse.

In order to identify those at risk for developing a mental illness, this study will target personality risk factors, including hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity and sensation seeking, which have been shown to reliably predict substance misuse, anxiety, emotional and behavioural disorders in young people.23 24 It is hypothesised that the intervention cognitive training programme (focusing on executive functioning) will be more effective than the active control cognitive training programme (focusing on cognitive abilities other than executive functioning) in reducing psychopathology.

These have included prison and school settings, substance misuse day programs, primary / secondary care and specialist services including those for clients with personality, eating disorders and adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse and / or rape.

Mirek's specialises in working with severe trauma, refugees and asylum seekers, substance misuse, domestic abuse, mental health, homeless, ex-offenders and personality disorders.

Previous studies have shown that substance misuse in adolescence is associated with increased risks of hospitalizations for mental and physical disorders, convictions for crimes, poverty, and premature death from age 21 to 50.

Trauma, psychiatric disorders or substance misuse will negatively impact our ability to mentalize, possibly leading to a distorted view of self and undermining our ability to understand another's experience.

It may be that family and individual factors in early life promote the mental disorders that precede adolescent substance misuse.

Participants were excluded if they had a diagnosis of an Axis II disorder, psychosis, current substance misuse or high levels of suicidality.

Young people with ADHD are by nature impulsive risk takers, and there is clear evidence that untreated ADHD — especially with concomitant conduct disorder — is associated with a three - to fourfold increase in the risk of substance misuse.47, 48 In contrast, patients medicated with stimulants have a similar risk of substance misuse to controls.49 These data therefore provide strong evidence in favour of careful treatment and support for young people with ADHD.

The same group then undertook a developmental group psychotherapy programme designed to focus on the multiple clinical problems typical in this population (depression, experience of abuse, behavioural disorder, substance misuse, poor self esteem and body image, and family conflict and disruption) and to combine effectively with other interventions (pharmacotherapy, individual and family therapies) using a group therapy format that was cost - effective of clinician time.

Transitions and Motivations for Substance Misuse in Prison Inmates With ADHD and Conduct Disorder: Validation of a New Instrument.