This book of psychiatry is concise and clearly written so that it is usable for doctors in training, students and clinicians dealing with psychiatric illness in everyday practice. The book is a primer for those beginning to learn about emotional disorders and psychosocial consequences of severe physical and psychological trauma; and violence. The book also highlights important causes of mental disorders in children.
Contents
Section 1 Organizational Stress and Mental Health
1 Mobbing at Workplaces and the Mental Health Effects on Employees
2 The Relationship Between Workplace Civility Level and the Experience of Burnout Syndrome Among Helping Professionals
3 Reducing Stress in Mental Health Practitioners - Becoming Change Agents in Practice Through Action Research
4 EfFort-Reward Imbalance and Quality of Life Among Female Nurses at a General Hospital in Japan
Section 2 Emotional and Trauma Related Conditions
5 Anxiety Disorder and Its Types
6 Mental Health, Trauma and Trauma Related DAΒ±sorders
7 PTSD in Primary Care: A Physician's Guide to Dealing with War-Induced PTSD
8 Posttraumatic Growth and Recovery from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
9 Depression in Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
10 Adolescent Cigarette Use in the Americas: The Link with Depression
11 Violence in the Nursing Homes: Understandings, Management, Documentation and Impact of Resident to Resident Aggression
Section 3 Effectiveness of Selected Mental Health Therapies and Interventions
12 Effectiveness of Participative Community Singing Intervention Program on Promoting Resilience and Mental Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in Australia
13 Antipsychotics Versus Cholinesterase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Psychosis in Alzheimer's : A Critical Review
14 The Relative Efficacy of Live Graded Exposure, Live Modeling, and Computer- Based Symbolic Modeling in the Treatment of Spider Phobia: A Perspective of Emotion
15 Home Visits to Mothers with Children Between the Ages 0 to 4 Years: A Mental Health Intervention Strategy in Emerging Countries
16 Inter-Professional and Inter-Cultural Competence Training as a Preventive Strategy to Promote Collaboration in Encountering New-Coming Refugees in the Reception Programme -ACase Study
17 Development and Implementation of Suicide Prevention Activities - Report from Slovenia
18 Factors Contributing to Enrollment in Treatment Programs for Adults
Section 4 Psychosocial Factors in the Development of Mental Disorders in Children
19 Maternal Depression. Mothering and Child Development
20 Developmental Aspects of Parental Mental Health and Child Development
21 Children's Mental Health in the Era of Globalisation: Neo-Liberalism. Commodification. McDonaldisation. and the New Challenges They Pose
22 Mental Health of Children from a Chronobiological and Epidemiological Point of View
Section 5 Inter-Relationship Between Personality, Mental Health and Mental Disorders
23 Personality and Mental Health
24 Factors Associated with Positive Mental Health in a Portuguese Community Sample: A Look Through the Lens of RyfFs Psychological Well-Being Model
25 Towards a Paradigmatic Shift in Mental Health Care?
Section 6 Mental Health and Medicine
26 Depression in the Context of Chronic and Multiple Chronic Illnesses
27 Long-Lasting Mental Fatigue After Recovery from Meningitis or Encephalitis - A Disabling Disorder Hypothetically Related to Dysfunction in the Supporting Systems of the Brain
28 Physiological Response as Biomarkers of Adverse Effects of the Psychosocial Work Environment