Sökning: "development of psychiatry"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 117 avhandlingar innehållade orden development of psychiatry.
1. Screening Family Burden in Clinical Practice : The development of a new instrument and investigation of its correlates to psychotic disorders
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
2. Skapa rum. Ung femininitet, kroppslighet och psykisk ohälsa : genusmedveten hälsofrämjande intervention
Sammanfattning : Mental health problems among young people, girls and young women in particular, are a serious public health problem. Gendered patterns of mental illness are seen in conjunction with stress-related problems such as anxiety, depression, and psychosomatic complaints. LÄS MER
3. Violent offenders with schizophrenia : quantitative and qualitative studies focusing on the family of origin
Sammanfattning : The focus of the thesis is on violent offenders with schizophrenia and their relatives. The aims were to explore incidence of violent crimes, the extent to which family members were victims, to investigate individual background factors among violent offenders, and to identify psychotic symptoms and triggering factors associated with fatal violence. LÄS MER
4. The importance of being thin : perceived expectations from self and others and the effect on self-evaluation in girls with disordered eating
Sammanfattning : The overall aims of this thesis were to examine personal standards, self-evaluation and attitudes to eating and weight in the development of disturbed eating in adolescent girls, and to examine how adolescent girls with a clinical eating disorder reflect upon and deal with perceived expectations in daily life.Studies I and II were quantitative studies, conducted in a population-based longitudinal study. LÄS MER
5. Prognostic Factors in First-Episode Schizophrenia : Five-year Outcome of Symptoms, Function and Obesity
Sammanfattning : Our knowledge of prognostic factors and optimal treatment organisation in schizophrenia is incomplete. The disparity of outcome measures used has been a major obstacle for research. Increasing evidence has shown that schizophrenia is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality, development of obesity and autonomic nervous system imbalance. LÄS MER