Sentences with phrase «with psychological illness»

Those with a psychological illness (21 %) or a learning disability (20 %) and those with multiple disabilities were particularly at risk.

I also knew that, when you are dealing with psychological illness, it can be challenging to recognize that you need help or to get the care that you need on your own.

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He became the suffering spouse of a crazy woman... only, he was the one with the verified mental illness and I through a thorough psychological assessment had nothing but «acute distress» from years of enduring gas lighting and physical and psychological abuse.

The crime would of course be psychological abuse with intent to cause mental illness, diminishing critical thinking and conspiracy to block a child's ent * itlement to a full and wonderful life.

Second, and closely related, television provides many people with important psychological compensation for a sense of alienation or frustration born of loneliness, poverty, illness, joblessness, loss of loved ones, divorce, and similar problems.

LifeWay Research asked three groups of Protestants — pastors, family members of people with acute mental illness (severe depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia), and those with such illnesses — when «psychological therapy» should be used.

Here, author Twomey, an official with Postpartum Support International, gives us insight into the psychological, personal, medical, legal, and historical perspectives on this little - understood mental illness, which is both preventable and treatable.

Bullying has reached epidemic proportions and, according to at least forty years of psychological, psychiatric, sport, and neuroscientific research, is directly correlated with addiction, low self - esteem, depression, failure to reach potential, self - harm, athletes quitting sports, eating disorders, chronic illness and suicide.

«This budget, if enacted, would jeopardize our nation's educational, scientific and health enterprises and limit access to critically needed mental and behavioral health services,» said Antonio E. Puente, president of the American Psychological Society (APS) in Washington, D.C. «These cuts would disproportionately affect people living in poverty, people with serious mental illness and other disabilities, women, children, people living with HIV / AIDS, older adults, ethnic and racial minorities, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ community.»

The study, published in Psychological Medicine, found that 40 % of women surveyed with severe mental illness had suffered rape or attempted rape in adulthood, of whom 53 % had attempted suicide as a result.

«In combination with findings from human studies, work with chimpanzees can provide enormous insights into core biobehavioral processes relevant to psychological illness and health,» said Robert Latzman, lead author of the study and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgia State.

Suspects in all three categories suffered with mental illness, but evidence showed that a greater percentage of loners — 40 percent, compared to 20 percent for lone wolves and only 3 percent for members of wolf packs — suffered some type of psychological disorder.

We will need to carry out further studies with larger sample sizes to confirm the current findings, but we hope that, used in conjunction with medication and current psychological therapies, this could help people with schizophrenia minimise the impact of their illness on everyday life.»

Studies also continue to show that Gulf War illness is not associated with psychological stressors during the war, the panel said.

The principal focus of The Journal is basic research on psychopathology from diverse scientific perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the correlates and causes of mental illness and psychological adjustment.

1/29/2008 Institute of Medicine Report Highlights UCSD Cancer Center Program Cancer care today can save and prolong many lives, but often fails to address the psychological and social problems associated with the illness.

Many individuals with MS, and their family members, also benefit from psychological and social support, which is helpful in managing the stress related to life with an unpredictable and disabling illness.

After reading the information and listening to the interviews on the Inner Fire website, we parents immediately knew that Inner Fire's philosophy and understanding of mental emotional suffering, struggles and illness is much more in alignment with our own understanding and thinking, than the conventional psychiatric / psychological paradigm and treatment approach.

Her research, clinical practice, teaching and writing emphasize the incorporation of empirically supported psychotherapy with yoga therapy and mindfulness practices to relieve the symptoms of stress, trauma, anxiety, depression and other psychological illnesses, and to promote healthy relationships.

Based on all of her findings, Dr. McBride created a diet, called the GAPS diet, with the purpose of building a healthy gut flora to heal the psychological and physical illnesses in these patients.

Here's a literary agent who's very specific about the kind of book she'd like to see in her inbox: «I love books with some kind of psychological element, like if the MC has a mental illness or if they can't trust their mind.»

Two people newly in love - Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years trying to find themselves and who eventually found each other - and a young man on a dangerous psychological descent: Isaiah Kalebu, age twenty - three, the son of a distant, authoritarian father and a mother with a family history of mental illness.

Edward's inability to with deal with flaws, whether unintentional (his mother's mental illness) or intentional (Florence's psychological repulsion of sexual intimacy), is at the heart of this novel.

Caring for those who suffer from dementia can inflict a considerable physical and psychological toll on family caregivers: Swift says up to 75 % will develop psychological illnesses and 15 to 32 % will be afflicted with depression.

Similar results were found through other research, such as a 2014 study by Washington University in St. Louis that indicated nearly half of all Americans couldn't come up with $ 2,000 within 30 days to cover a major illness or job layoff, leading to poor social, psychological and health outcomes for the entire household.

It also helps him / her find purpose and meaning in life, and improves confidence and self - efficacy, which all aid in recovery from mental illness,» says Dr Lim Boon Leng, psychiatrist with Dr BL Lim Centre for Psychological Wellness.

Neverending Nightmares is a psychological horror game inspired by the developer's actual battle with mental illness.

The game merges psychological illnesses with Norse mythology and follows an absolutely brutal heart - wrenching story of Senua's descent into madness.

Every aspect of the game reveals more about the psychological state of the main character, Adam, and ties back to the idea of creating the feelings I've struggled with as someone with mental illness.

A terrifying psychological horror game inspired by the developer's battle with mental illness.

Not everyone is familiar with the condition of Asperger Syndrome, or other psychological illnesses.

A Supreme Court of Canada ruling on the availability of damages for psychological injuries will help reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, says Toronto personal injury... Read more

The evidence is clear that persons are being exempted from criminal law protections in these jurisdictions based on «psychological suffering» arising from «weariness with living» «refusing to impose one's deterioration on others», [62] feelings of anger and distress which are «normal» for those who «incur or [are] diagnosed with incurable impairment or terminal illness», [63] «negative images of disability and dying» which are pervasive in our society, [64] and the difficulty of distinguishing psychological suffering from depression.

The Supreme Court said that a reliance on arbitrary requirements for people with psychological injuries (in that case, the requirement for expert diagnosis of a recognized psychiatric condition) was steeped in «dubious perceptions of, and postures towards, psychiatry and mental illness in general: that mental illness is «subjective» or otherwise easily feigned or exaggerated».

Our lawyers have assisted teachers in handing claims for illness such as fibromyalgia on its own; fibromyalgia with associated depression / anxiety, crohn's / collitis, cancer, heard disease, liver disease, and MS.. Our lawyers have also assisted a number of teachers with the long term disability claims for a combination of physical and psychological disabilities.

In the result, the judge declared the impugned provisions to be unconstitutional and of no force and effect to the extent they prohibited physician - assisted suicide in the case of a «fully - informed, non-ambivalent competent adult patient who: (a) is free from coercion and undue influence, is not clinically depressed, and who personally (not through a substitute decision - maker) requests physician - assisted death; and (b) is materially physically disabled or is soon to become so, has been diagnosed by a medical practitioner as having a serious illness, disease or disability... is in a state of advanced weakening capacities with no chance of improvement, has an illness as determined by reference treatment options acceptable to the person, and has an illness causing enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to that person and can not be alleviated by any medical treatment acceptable to that person».

Work with developmentally disabled adults and adults with mental illness with a variety of physical and psychological conditions

An accommodating and versatile individual with ability to plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospitals, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate those impaired because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.

In addition, students will recognize proper assessment and utilize basic skills in working with patients dealing with a terminal illness in addition to identifying the psychological states of death or dying.

Genetic factors often contribute to the manifestation of psychological disorders, since parents with a mental illness may pass it on to their offspring.

Psychotherapists are medical professionals who help treat mental illness and who assist individuals with a wide range of psychological issues.

I have had experience treating patients with anxiety, panic disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, physical and psychological trauma, strokes and brain injury, chronic illnesses, low self - esteem, attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder, and executive function issues.

With regard to future research, more research is needed that specifies the conditions under which children with chronic illnesses show elevated levels of psychological distress and that provides empirically supported explanations as to why some kinds of illness seem not to cause elevated levels of depressive symptWith regard to future research, more research is needed that specifies the conditions under which children with chronic illnesses show elevated levels of psychological distress and that provides empirically supported explanations as to why some kinds of illness seem not to cause elevated levels of depressive symptwith chronic illnesses show elevated levels of psychological distress and that provides empirically supported explanations as to why some kinds of illness seem not to cause elevated levels of depressive symptoms.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.

However, studies were excluded if they focused on young people with chronic illnesses that have been referred to psychological services due to depressive symptoms, or if sufficient information for computing effect sizes was not reported.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

Functional expectations of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden of care and responsibility.5 Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is high.6, 7 Levels of distress have also been shown to be higher than those reported by patients themselves.8

Conclusions Pediatricians and others working with children with chronic illnesses should screen children with chronic physical illness for symptoms of psychological distress and make appropriate referrals for mental health services, when needed.

Much of the available review evidence only addresses predetermined categories of interventions (eg, group, 10 psychological, 11 media15), and do not address other potentially important parent and family support functions such as social support, chronic illness education and skill development or support with relevant common parenting issues.

The review reported a significant mental health gap between Australia's Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, with higher levels of psychological distress, hospitalisation for mental illness and death from intentional self - harm.