the tower of babel

... irrational activity In that lull, the therapist proposes that there is indeed a better method to become sure of the mother's intentions, one way or the other, and of others' in the future Engagement in ... provide guidance for the further development of these pilot instruments According to the theory of the Cape Cod Model, the core dysfunction consists of repetitively regressive testing of someone's trustworthiness ... mislearn from their private experiments faster than they make progress in therapy with analysis of the transference and of scenarios of old betrayals The crisis intervention of the Cape Cod Model...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... when the presence of psychotic symptoms necessitates the use of anti-psychotic medication In addition to the demonstrated efficacy of selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a range of ... (RCT) of anti-psychotics for the treatment of PTSD However case reports, small RCTs and open-label studies have demonstrated the beneficial effect of this pharmacotherapy (add-on and monotherapy) ... significant improvement of their PTSD symptoms and high treatment satisfaction [25] Besides the psychopharmacological therapy, our patient could benefit from one of these psychotherapeutic programs...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... Consequently, the main aim of the current study was to explore the course of mental health status over a followup period of three years in the women that participated in the previous study The second ... whether the pattern of mental recovery and the contributing factors to it identified here are generally applicable The short follow-up time is another limitation of the study Conclusions These ... highest prevalence of depression and PTSD [29,32] On the other hand, the few studies that have assessed the influence of psychological IPV alone highlight the strong deterioration of mental health...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... awareness of the burden of disease resulting of the deleterious effects of violence on the mental health The primary aim of this survey is to study the exposure to urban violence and the effects of ... Based on the characteristics of the of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, it is hypothesized that the prevalence rates of exposure to traumatic events will be expressive, and that most of the population ... step of the fieldwork was followed by one of the authors (WSR), who had open access to the team engaged in the project Training: Two of the authors (MIQ and WR) were responsible for training the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... functioning [45] The aim of another study was to increase the efficacy of exposure therapy through the implementation of virtual reality (VR) and to investigate how realistic the VRE portrayal of Iraq ... in their home countries Therefore, the present review summarizes recently published data on the association of psychotrauma with different psychological treatment concepts The objective of the ... scenarios set in their region of deployment These animations emulate realistic situations that soldiers may experience in the field and allow them to train their responses or revive their memories...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... in the educational structure of sub-samples (Table 1) The analysis of the dimensions of quality of life survey in the four investigated groups indicated the presence of strong differences in the ... of these results indicates that regardless on the mechanism that led to the PTSD diagnosis, the reduction of the quality of life was evident in these patients The results of this study extend the ... participants had the best indices of quality of life, which seemed to be the least affected by the presence of physical pain only (LBP); quality of life diminished more in the presence of psychological...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... differing rates of PTSD between the K-SADS and the CATS (using a cut-off 27 on the CATS), suggests that this cut-off may be too high in our setting The ROC analysis yielded a cut-off of 15 on the CATS ... specificity With a cut-off of 15, 22 participants had scores indicative of PTSD on the CATS However, the difference between the number of participants diagnosed with PTSD on the KSADS and the CATS remained ... to carry out the study was obtained from the Western Cape Department of Education and the Ethics Committees of the Universities of Stellenbosch and Cape Town Consent from the heads of schools,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... When the different items of the CSS were entered into the regression analysis together, only the experience of being let down gained significance (p ≤ 0.0005) However, at the final level of analysis ... 46.71) of the PTSD variance compared to the 60% explained by the original model Stabbing incident At months after the stabbing incident 28 students (9.5%; 1.8% of the men and 14.2% of the women) ... than was the case following the stabbing incident It is possible that the differences in trauma types have affected some of the discrepancies in the findings of the two studies Second, the explosion...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... further information about the prevalence of PTSD Among the male participants the prevalence of PTSD was highest from their mid 40s to their mid 50s, whereas, the female participants showed the ... important for the perception of the trauma and coping strategies The inclusion of the age extremities beyond the age of 54 seems otherwise relevant especially with an increasing tendency for the average ... (59.2%) women The age distribution of the participants ranged from 13 to 80 years of age The frequency of the 13 to 15 year olds was low in the trauma sample For both the total sample and the trauma...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... extreme fear of train travel — no doubt symptoms of PTSD stemming from the terrifying experiences they survived The cause of these symptoms, the doctors said, was the incredibly fast speed of the newfangled ... part Part I: The Basics of PTSD In Chapter 1, you find a quick overview of the history of PTSD, the major causes of this disorder, and the numbers of people it affects Chapter gives you the lowdown ... for cancer develop some degree of PTSD and that more than half of the fathers and threequarters of the mothers of these children develop moderate-to-severe PTSD PTSD often affects people for years...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2014, 23:34

... throughout the unit could contribute to the low frequency of PTSD symptoms The fact that most of the staff is "still in the trenches" could also explain the low presence of PTSD symptoms They have ... in the central and northern parts of Norway with about 1.1 million inhabitants The unit consists of wards with a total number of 21 beds One of the wards (ward F) is specialised to serve offenders ... rate the extent to which they had been bothered in the past month by 17 symptoms of post traumatic stress based on the DSM-IV symptom clusters: reexperiencing, avoidance/numbing, and arousal Weathers...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... heal thyself!’, and the attempts of these two authors to run the gamut of therapies offered on all sides is one of the most interesting aspects of their work It will certainly be of considerable ... part of the class that mattered most in a rural community and cut across all other categories: the respectable The children of the village discussed their summer holidays and these were used as the ... time The haunting sound of the A4 cowwhistle was echoing through the tunnel and we could see the light on the front of the engine I was trembling with excitement Here was the perfect synthesis:...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:21

... to provide ml of venous blood for the study, and the study was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Institute of Molecular Biology Page of Collection of blood and preparation of serum Practically ... associated with dysfunction of the complement system, and reveals the altered chains of the complement cascade The results obtained provide further evidence on the involvement of the inflammatory component ... and to medical personnel of the Stress Center Author details Institute of Molecular Biology of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia 2Stress Centre of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... to improve the outcome of patients OCD In the 1950s, with the rise of behavioral therapy, the learning theories that had proved to be helpful in the conceptualization and treatment of phobic disorders ... 22 and 35 In a small number of cases the onset of the disorder occurs at age of 50 or more [2] Usually, the earlier the age of onset, the worse the course of OCD and OCRDs; by contrast, no specific ... described in the psychiatric literature by Esquirol in 1838, and, by the end of the 19th century, they were generally regarded as manifestations of melancholy or depression By the beginning of the 20th...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... and the other two completed without supervision All required exercise equipment will be supplied to participants for the duration of the study The exercise protocol consists of a series of progressive ... examined the effectiveness of exercise as an adjunct to other PTSD treatments At the time of writing, no randomised controlled trial (RCTs) had been conducted investigating the effects of an individualized ... using the SPSS and Stata software packages Discussion The REAP study has been designed to fill a gap in the current scientific literature regarding the role of exercise augmentation for the treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... (score = 10) of the scale indicating the highest intensity of a feeling of a symptom of PTSD, while the other end (score = 0) indicated the lowest intensity of feeling for the same symptom There was ... calculated by measuring the distance in millimeters from the left of the analog scale (where the left end of the scale corresponded to ‘0’ and the right Page of 10 end to ‘10’) All the analog scales ... effect of the session [27] A possible reason for the increased anxiety in the control group may be the fact that the survivors were not receiving the kind of assistance they needed with the necessary...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... prognosis [2] The development of treatments for PTSD is challenging due to the complexity of the symptoms and psychiatric comorbidities Psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy are the two main classes of PTSD ... the SSRIs Furthermore, medication was superior to placebo in reducing the severity of the three symptom clusters of PTSD, as well as alleviating the symptoms of depression, and in improving the ... promising in the management of patients with PTSD Aims of the Study 1) To compare the efficacy of topiramate with placebo in the treatment of PTSD Clinical response will be considered when there are...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... recurring and intrusive nature of traumatic memories There are several further limitations of the present study One of the limitations is that the sample size of the groups was relatively small; ... carried out the study, participated in the sequence alignment and drafted the manuscript LL participated in the design of the study, conceived of the study BX and JL participated in the sequence ... considered that the hippocampal formation consists of two components: the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex[65,66] The entorhinal cortex is the major source of cortical projections to the hippocampus...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... one of the nine departments of the Faculty of Education and visited this department during the first two days of the week All of the students who attended class on these days were included in the ... respectively) Therefore, only students' own economic situation and the education level of the mother were included in the model The independent variables included in the LRA model were the class ... male The parents of 288 (35.8%) of the participants lived in Adana (the city in which the university is located); the remaining students' parents (64.2%) dwelled in other Turkish cities The education...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20