Essential Notes in Psychiatry

589 Pages·2012·16.08 MB·English

by  Victor Olisah

ESSENTIAL NOTES
IN PSYCHIATRY
Edited by Victor Olisah
ESSENTIAL NOTES
IN PSYCHIATRY

Edited by Victor Olisah
Essential Notes in Psychiatry
Edited by Victor Olisah

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Essential Notes in Psychiatry, Edited by Victor Olisah
p. cm.
ISBN 978-953-51-0574-9

Contents

Section 1 Organizational Stress and Mental Health 1
Chapter 1 Mobbing at Workplaces and
the Mental Health Effects on Employees 3
Hülya Gül
Chapter 2 The Relationship Between Workplace
Civility Level and the Experience
of Burnout Syndrome Among Helping Professionals 13
Zuzana Havrdová and Iva Šolcová
Chapter 3 Reducing Stress in Mental Health
Practitioners - Becoming Change Agents
in Practice Through Action Research 37
Eileen Petrie
Chapter 4 Effort-Reward Imbalance and Quality of Life
Among Female Nurses at a General Hospital in Japan 73
Yoko Kikuchi, Makoto Nakaya, Miki Ikeda,
Kyoko Narita, Mihoko Takeda and Miyoko Nishi
Section 2 Emotional and Trauma Related Conditions 85
Chapter 5 Anxiety Disorder and Its Types 87
M. Shiri, S. Akhavan and N. Geramian
Chapter 6 Mental Health, Trauma and Trauma Related Disorders 117
Sevgi Guney
Chapter 7 PTSD in Primary Care: A Physician’s
Guide to Dealing with War-Induced PTSD 125
Jeffrey S. Yarvis and Grace D. Landers
Chapter 8 Posttraumatic Growth and Recovery
from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder 143
Megan Walter and Glen Bates
VI Contents

Chapter 9 Depression in Women
Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence 187
J.Y.H. Wong, D.Y.T. Fong and A. Tiwari
Chapter 10 Adolescent Cigarette Use in
the Americas: The Link with Depression 199
Cristina B. Bares, Jorge Delva, Marya Hynes and Ninive Sanchez
Chapter 11 Violence in the Nursing Homes:
Understandings, Management, Documentation
and Impact of Resident to Resident Aggression 221
Stephen Soreff
Section 3 Effectiveness of Selected
Mental Health Therapies and Interventions 243
Chapter 12 Effectiveness of Participative Community
Singing Intervention Program on Promoting
Resilience and Mental Health of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander People in Australia 245
Jing Sun and Nicholas Buys
Chapter 13 Antipsychotics Versus Cholinesterase
Inhibitors for the Treatment
of Psychosis in Alzheimer’s : A Critical Review 253
Emmanuelle Lévy, Howard C Margolese and Serge Gauthier
Chapter 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 269
Ahmed M. Hassan
Chapter 15 Home Visits to Mothers with Children Between
the Ages 0 to 4 Years: A Mental Health
Intervention Strategy in Emerging Countries 295
Marcela Aracena, Consuelo Undurraga, Esteban Gómez,
Loreto Leiva, Ariela Simonsohn and Pilar Navarro
Chapter 16 Inter-Professional and Inter-Cultural Competence
Training as a Preventive Strategy to Promote
Collaboration in Encountering New-Coming
Refugees in the Reception Programme – A Case Study 313
Solvig Ekblad and David Forsström
Chapter 17 Development and Implementation
of Suicide Prevention Activities – Report from Slovenia 333
Saška Roškar, Alenka Tančič Grum and Vita Poštuvan
Contents VII

Chapter 18 Factors Contributing to Enrollment
in Treatment Programs for Adults 355
Joanne M. Cannavo and Thomas H. Nochajski
Section 4 Psychosocial Factors in
the Development of Mental Disorders in Children 373
Chapter 19 Maternal Depression,
Mothering and Child Development 375
Douglas M. Teti, Bo-Ram Kim, Gail Mayer,
Brian Crosby and Nissa Towe-Goodman
Chapter 20 Developmental Aspects
of Parental Mental Health
and Child Development 399
For-Wey Lung and Bih-Ching Shu
Chapter 21 Children’s Mental Health in the Era
of Globalisation: Neo-Liberalism, Commodification,
McDonaldisation, and the New Challenges They Pose 413
Sami Timimi
Chapter 22 Mental Health of Children from
a Chronobiological and Epidemiological Point of View 439
Tetsuo Harada, Miyo Nakade, Kai Wada, Aska Kondo,
Mari Maeda, Teruki Noji and Hitomi Takeuchi
Section 5 Inter-Relationship Between Personality,
Mental Health and Mental Disorders 459
Chapter 23 Personality and Mental Health 461
Mohammad Ali Salehinezhad
Chapter 24 Factors Associated with Positive Mental Health in
a Portuguese Community Sample: A Look Through
the Lens of Ryff's Psychological Well-Being Model 495
Helder Miguel Fernandes, José Vasconcelos-Raposo
and Robert Brustad
Chapter 25 Towards a Paradigmatic
Shift in Mental Health Care? 515
Ragnfrid E. Kogstad
Section 6 Mental Health and Medicine 533
Chapter 26 Depression in the Context
of Chronic and Multiple Chronic Illnesses 535
Melinda Stanners and Christopher Barton
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Chapter 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 551
Lars Rönnbäck and Birgitta Johansson
Chapter 28 Physiological Response as Biomarkers of Adverse
Effects of the Psychosocial Work Environment 565
Åse Marie Hansen, Annie Hogh and Eva Gemzøe Mikkelsen

Section 1
Organizational Stress and Mental Health