Exposure to secondhand smoke appears to be associated with psychological distress and the risk of future psychiatric hospitalization among healthy adults, according to a report posted online that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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February 18, 2010
Growth Needs Sadness
It appears that few people consciously intend to make meaning out of trauma or to benefit from it. Posttraumatic Growth is most likely a consequence of attempts at psychological survival. Tedeschi and Calhoun, Posttraumatic Growth 1After a traumatic event, what then? The trauma itself causes significant psychological distress and need for psychological adjustment to alleviate the distress. Wit
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January 21, 2010
Lost in frustration
New Scientist has a piece on culture and psychological distress by Ethan Watters, the same chap who wrote the recent and widely discussed New York Times article on the 'globalisation of mental illness'. This new article looks at similar territory but also pulls out some examples of where concepts and symptoms don't translate well between different societies.The meaning matters as much as the even
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November 27, 2009
U.S. Army Special Forces Operators Reluctant To Seek Treatment For Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
According to a University of the Rockies study, more than half (54.4 percent) of U.S. Army Special Forces Operators exposed to combat would not seek treatment while serving in the Army, even if they were experiencing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms or psychological distress. The 18-month study, which included 68 U.S. Army Special Forces Operators who had been deployed to comb
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November 17, 2009
Motor Vehicle Crashes More Common Among Young Drivers Who Engage In Self-harm Behaviors
Drivers who engaged in self-harm were at increased risk of motor vehicle crashes, even after controlling for psychological distress and substance abuse, found a study of 18 871 Australian drivers published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)).
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July 9, 2009
Mothers Of Children With Autism Have Higher Parental Stress, Psychological Distress
Mothers of children with autism had higher levels of parenting-related stress and psychological distress than mothers of children with developmental delay. Children's problem behavior was associated with increases in both parenting-related stress and distress in both groups, but this relationship was stronger in mothers of children with autism. The research also found no link between a child's de
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