O’Connor TEACHING‚ TRAINING and FURTHER EDUCATION Objective: The purpose of the present paper was to map the mental health workloads of general practitioners (GPs) ‚ and to determine GPs’ views of the adequacy of their undergraduate training in psychiatry. Methods: Twenty-nine GPs who had graduated since 1980 from an Australian medical school provided data on 339 consecutive adult patients with conspicuous psychological disorders. After listing their patients’ problems and management plans‚ doctors
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Peter Conrad Fall 2014 Department of Sociology Sociology 194a: Sociology of Mental Health and Illness This course examines sociological approaches to mental health and illness. The focus of the course will be more on the history‚ definitions‚ social responses and consequences of conceptualizations and treatment of mental illness than on the development of individual conditions we deem to be mental disorders. While there will be some discussion of social factors related to mental
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Cross-cultural psychiatry: A branch of psychiatry that works with the cultural and ethnic context of mental disorders and psychiatric services. Emergency psychiatry: The clinical application of psychiatry in emergency surroundings. Forensic psychiatry: The interface between law and psychiatry. Geriatric psychiatry: A branch of psychiatry dealing with the study‚ prevention‚ and treatment of mental disorders in humans with old age. Military psychiatry: Covers special aspects
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underlying deviation from normal function such as a pathogen‚ genetic or developmental abnormality‚ or injury.[2] The concept is used in fields such as medicine‚ nursing‚ health psychology and sociology‚ and particularly in more specialist fields such as psychiatry‚ health psychology‚ family therapy‚ chiropractic‚ clinical social work‚ and clinical psychology. The biopsychosocial paradigm is also a technical term for the popular concept of the "mind–body connection"‚ which addresses more philosophical arguments
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diagnostic criteria to establish presence or not of a specific psychiatric disorder.” (Holland‚ 2003‚ p.1938) After illiminating organic cause‚ by physical examination‚ the psychiatrist makes a diagnosis by classification of the symptoms. In todays psychiatry there are two systems used to more reliably identify a
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the anti-psychiatric approach 8 b. Criticisms to anti-psychiatry 9 3. Conclusion 9 Bibliography 12 In an attempt to cover and resume all the main points in which psychiatry is criticised by this approach and evaluate it‚ I have decided to divide the essay in three parts. First‚ a description of the anti-psychiatric approach and the way in which the criticism are made; second‚ an evaluation of the impact of these attacks to psychiatry; finally‚ a closing conclusion summing up all the information
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When you hear the phrase‚ psychiatric disorder‚ what does it mean to you? People separate the mental health problems or difficulties as psychiatric disorder by categories of disorder with diagnosis by psychiatrists. Especially‚ children who have mental health difficulties in early ages are diagnosed such as ODD‚ ADHD‚ and Bipolar disorder. However‚ there is a problem about how psychiatrists diagnose children because each psychiatrist has different view and diagnosis to label them. There is no clear
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Abstract It has been stated that nearly half of all Americans personally know someone with an eating disorder. This paper will show the danger and effects of Anorexia Nervosa. A study by the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders reported that ten percent of anorexics die within ten years after contracting the disease. Anorexia has four primary symptoms Resistance to maintaining body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height. Intense fear of weight
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Canadian Journal of Psychiatry‚ 45‚ 173-178. Hendricks‚ J. (2003). Slim to none. McGraw-Hill. Hester‚ J. (2003). Never say die. British Medical Journal‚ 326‚ 719. Kaplan‚ A. (2002). Psychological treatments for anorexia nervosa a review of published studies and promising new directions. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry‚ 47‚ 235-242. Kotler‚ L. A.‚ & Walsh‚ B. T. (2000). Eating disorders in children and adolescents: Pharmacological therapies. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry‚ 9‚ 108-116. Pike‚
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Should child beauty pageants be banned in the United States? What better “sport” for girls who are afraid to break a nail than Beauty Pageants? According to the “Journal of the American Academy of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry” in 2006‚ 40% of children who took part in beauty pageants have psychologic problems while the remaining 60% agree that they are unhappy during the pageant itself. With this statistic in mind do you believe that Child Beauty Pageants should be outlawed in the United
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