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Mental health
About: Mental health is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 183794 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4340463 citations. The topic is also known as: mental wellbeing.
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TL;DR: This article evaluates the efficacy, effectiveness, and clinical significance of empirically supported couple and family interventions for treating marital distress and individual adult disorders, including anxiety disorders, depression, sexual dysfunctions, alcoholism and problem drinking, and schizophrenia.
Abstract: This article evaluates the efficacy, effectiveness, and clinical significance of empirically supported couple and family interventions for treating marital distress and individual adult disorders, including anxiety disorders, depression, sexual dysfunctions, alcoholism and problem drinking, and schizophrenia. In addition to consideration of different theoretical approaches to treating these disorders, different ways of including a partner or family in treatment are highlighted: (a) partner-family-assisted interventions, (b) disorder-specific partner-family interventions, and (c) more general couple-family therapy. Findings across diagnostic groups and issues involved in applying efficacy criteria to these populations are discussed.
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TL;DR: Most international adoptees are well-adjusted although they are referred to mental health services more often than nonadopted controls, however, international adopts present fewer behavior problems and are less often referred tomental health services than domestic adoptee.
Abstract: ContextInternational adoption involves more than 40 000 children a year
moving among more than 100 countries. Before adoption, international adoptees
often experience insufficient medical care, malnutrition, maternal separation,
and neglect and abuse in orphanages.ObjectiveTo estimate the effects of international adoption on behavioral problems
and mental health referrals.Data SourcesWe searched MEDLINE, PsychLit, and ERIC from 1950 to January 2005 using
the terms adopt* combined with (behavior) problem, disorder, (mal)adjustment, (behavioral)
development, clinical or psychiatric (referral), or mental health;
conducted a manual search of the references of articles, books, book chapters,
and reports; and consulted experts for relevant studies. The search was not
limited to English-language publications.Study SelectionStudies that provided sufficient data to compute differences between
adoptees (in all age ranges) and nonadopted controls were selected, resulting
in 34 articles on mental health referrals and 64 articles on behavior problems.Data ExtractionData on international adoption, preadoption adversity, and other moderators
were extracted from each study and inserted in the program Comprehensive Meta-analysis
(CMA). Effect sizes (d) for the overall differences
between adoptees and controls regarding internalizing, externalizing, total
behavior problems, and use of mental health services were computed. Homogeneity
across studies was tested with the Q statistic.Data SynthesisAmong 25 281 cases and 80 260 controls, adoptees (both within
and between countries) presented more behavior problems, but effect sizes
were small (d, 0.16-0.24). Adoptees (5092 cases)
were overrepresented in mental health services and this effect size was large
(d, 0.72). Among 15 790 cases and 30 450
controls, international adoptees showed more behavior problems than nonadopted
controls, but effect sizes were small (d, 0.07-0.11).
International adoptees showed fewer total, externalizing and internalizing
behavior problems than domestic adoptees. Also, international adoptees were
less often referred to mental health services (d,
0.37) than domestic adoptees (d, 0.81). International
adoptees with preadoption adversity showed more total problems and externalizing
problems than international adoptees without evidence of extreme deprivation.ConclusionsMost international adoptees are well-adjusted although they are referred
to mental health services more often than nonadopted controls. However, international
adoptees present fewer behavior problems and are less often referred to mental
health services than domestic adoptees.
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TL;DR: Current conceptualizations of social support are described, and a distillation of empirical evidence on the relationships among stress, social support, and psychological disorder is presented.
Abstract: With the rapid growth in the literature on social support and psychological disorder, a review of the area is in order. The present article describes current conceptualizations of social support, and presents a distillation of empirical evidence on the relationships among stress, social support, and psychological disorder. The structure of support links and the quality of the relationships they provide appear to be associated with a range of mental health issues. Methodological problems with current research are assessed, and suggestions for appropriate design and conceptualization are offered.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review synthesized evidence on the influence of online social media on mental health problems in younger people, and found that social media is inextricable to our daily lives.
Abstract: While becoming inextricable to our daily lives, online social media are blamed for increasing mental health problems in younger people. This systematic review synthesized evidence on the influence ...
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TL;DR: Multiple logistic regression analysis found that not experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, being worried about being infected by COVID-19, being bothered by having not enough surgical masks andbeing bothered by not being able to work from home were associated with a poorer mental health status.
Abstract: It has been three months since the first confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hong Kong, and people now have a more complete picture of the extent of the pandemic. Therefore, it is time to evaluate the impacts of COVID-19 on mental health. The current population-based study aimed to evaluate the depression and anxiety of people in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents were randomly recruited and asked to complete a structured questionnaire, including the patient health questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), the generalized anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7), the global rating of change scale and items related to COVID-19. Of the 500 respondents included in the study, 19% had depression (PHQ-9 score ≥ 10) and 14% had anxiety (GAD score ≥ 10). In addition, 25.4% reported that their mental health had deteriorated since the pandemic. Multiple logistic regression analysis found that not experiencing the SARS outbreak in 2003, being worried about being infected by COVID-19, being bothered by having not enough surgical masks and being bothered by not being able to work from home were associated with a poorer mental health status. Psychological support, such as brief, home-based psychological interventions, should be provided to citizens during the pandemic.
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