Search for dissertations about: "social psychiatry"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 189 swedish dissertations containing the words social psychiatry.

  2. 16. Screening Family Burden in Clinical Practice : The development of a new instrument and investigation of its correlates to psychotic disorders

    Author : Fredrik Hjärthag; Torsten Norlander; Lars Helldin; Leif Lindström; Adrian Parker; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Family burden; Psychotic disorder; Schizophrenia; Psychometrics; Assessment; BIRP; Function; Cross-Sectional Remission; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychiatry; Psykiatri; Psykologi; Psychology;

    Abstract : The primary purpose of this thesis is to develop a short and user-friendly instrument for the assessment of family burden caused by psychotic disorders. A secondary purpose is to further investigate variables that might be linked to an increased burden. Of these variables, patients’ reduced functioning will be addressed in more detail. READ MORE

  4. 17. Hyperacusis : Clinical Studies and Effect of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

    Author : Linda Jüris; Lisa Ekselius; Gerhard Andersson; Hans Christian Larsen; Katja Boersma; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Hyperacusis; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; Randomized Controlled Trial; Personality; Psychiatric Disorders; Psychiatry; Psykiatri;

    Abstract : Hyperacusis is a type of decreased sound tolerance where the individual has decreased loudness discomfort levels (LDL), normal hearing thresholds and is sensitive to ordinary environmental sounds. Persons with hyperacusis frequently seek help at audiological departments as they are often affected by other audiological problems. READ MORE

  5. 18. Severely mentally ill individuals in the community: Needs for care, quality of life and social network

    Author : Anita Bengtsson Tops; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Psychiatry; sense of coherence; social network; needs for care; schizophrenia; quality of life; clinical psychology; psychosomatics; Psykiatri; klinisk psykologi; psykosomatik;

    Abstract : This 18-month follow-up study investigated needs for care and support, quality of life and social network in individuals with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder living in the community and in contact with psychiatric services. The validity of Antonovsky's sense of coherence (SOC) measure was also examined. READ MORE

  6. 19. Adolescents Selling Sex and Sex as Self-Injury

    Author : Cecilia Fredlund; Marie Wadsby; Carl Göran Svedin; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Adolescents; Selling sex; Sex as self-injury; Child sexual exploitation; Sexual abuse;

    Abstract : There are today only a few population-based studies in the world investigating the prevalence of and associated risk-factors with adolescents selling sex and so far no earlier population-based study has been found investigating adolescents motives for selling sex. Further, to use sex in means of self-injury (SASI) is a behaviour that has been highlighted in Sweden the last years but it is a new field of research and a behaviour in need of conceptualization. READ MORE

  7. 20. Supported housing in the community for persons with severe mental illness. Psychosocial environment, needs, quality of life and social network

    Author : David Brunt; Lund Psykiatri; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; psychosomatics; klinisk psykologi; psykosomatik; clinical psychology; Psychiatry; needs for care; social network; quality of life; psychosocial environment; Supported housing; severe mental illness; Psykiatri;

    Abstract : This study investigated psychosocial environment, needs, quality of life and social network for persons with severe mental illness in supported housing in the community. Eighty-three persons with severe mental illness living in three different types of housing setting accepted to participate in the interviews, which took place between December 1997 and April 2000. READ MORE