Lawyers Intentionally Inflicting Emotional Distress

The Emotional Distress Syndrome1

I am deeply conscious of the great honour that is bestowed by the Indian Psychiatric Society in selecting me to deliver the D. L. N. Mur t i Rao Orat ion. I t is in the nature of giants to take giant strides where lesser mortals proceed in a pedestrian way. So it was that Dr. D. L. N. Murti Rao who strode through the beginning of Indian Psychiatry and the breath and vision of his personality is...

1 Emotional Distress in Tort

Immigrant Preadolescents and Risk of Emotional Distress

Background: The question of whether immigrants have more emotional problems than their non-immigrant peers has yielded mixed results. In Norway, there has been a tendency toward immigrant youth reporting higher rates of emotional problems. In addition to studying levels of emotional problems across those with immigrant backgrounds, there is a need to investigate whether the phenomenology of the...

Interpersonal relationships and emotional distress in adolescence.

The aim of this study was to examine positive and negative qualities in adolescents' interpersonal relationships and their relative importance in predicting emotional distress. Participants were 260 students from three schools in the Dublin area (119 girls; 141 boys), aged 12-18 years (M = 15.32, SD = 1.91). Students completed questionnaires assessing qualities in important interpersonal relati...

Predictors of emotional distress after stroke.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The aim of this prospective longitudinal study was to identify factors relating to emotional distress in the first 6 months after stroke in a sample including patients with aphasia. METHODS One hundred patients who were in hospital at 1 month after stroke were recruited and assessed on measures of communication impairment (Sheffield Screening Test), personal activities ...