Search for dissertations about: "schizophrenia on occupational performance"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words schizophrenia on occupational performance.

  2. 1. Social interaction and participation in activities of everyday life among persons with schizophrenia

    Author : Maria Yilmaz; Ann-Britt Ivarsson; Staffan Josephsson; Berth Danermark; Anita Björklund; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Social interaction; social processes; schizophrenia; everyday life; qualitative content analysis; narrative analysis; Occupational therapy; Arbetsterapi; Disability Research; handikappvetenskap;

    Abstract : Difficulties in social interaction frequently accompany a diagnosis of schizophrenia and are an obstacle for participation in everyday life. The overall aim of this licentiate thesis was to develop knowledge about participation in everyday life among persons with schizophrenia. READ MORE

  4. 2. Mental Health and Neurobehavioral Function in Young Adult Offspring of Women with a History of Psychosis and Control Offspring

    Author : Erland Schubert; Avdelningen för arbets- och miljömedicin; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Psychiatry; klinisk psykologi; Psykiatri; psykosomatik; clinical psychology; visual dysfunction; neuropsychological function; neurological abnormality; neurodevelopment; mental disturbance; high-risk; genetic; schizophrenia; affective psychosis; psychosomatics;

    Abstract : Schizophrenia is now generally considered to be a brain disease resulting from disturbed neurodevelopment, mediated by genetic and/or adverse events in utero and/or in early childhood. This process manifests itself in schizophrenia in young adulthood, when the brain completes its maturation. READ MORE

  5. 3. Occupational therapy assessment in general psychiatric care

    Author : Lena Haglund; Göran Eberhard; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to develop an Instrument to Investigate psychiatric patients' occupational performance In order to identify their need of occupational therapy service. A literature review and analysis of different concepts used to describe the patient's activity resulted In the construction of new concepts which subdivide the activity Into elementary parts; operations, single actions, generated actions, action sequences and simultaneous actions. READ MORE

  6. 4. Associations between stress and hearing problems : epidemiological and experimental findings

    Author : Martin Benka Wallén; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : It is well established that long-term stress without sufficient recovery can induce plastic changes in certain brain regions by suppressing neural growth or by retraction of dendrites 1-4. Many of these effects can be due to a dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis, which is the principal system controlling systemic stress response. READ MORE