Social Psychiatry and Social Work

Social Psychiatry

Social Psychiatry

Although the re-actions of the individual psychiatric patient to groups have been noted and used for generations, curiously little attention has been paid to the possibilities of treatment in groups until the latter end of the war. At this time various experiments were carried out in Britain, in both military and civil hospitals. At the same time comparable work was going on in the United State...

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Purpose€€ To determine the prevalence of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in a representative sample of children and adolescents living in Santiago, Chile, as part of a national sample. Method€€ Subjects aged 4–18 were selected using a stratified multistage design. First, ten municipalities/comunas of Santiago were selected; then the blocks, homes, and child or adolescent to be interviewed were cho...

Psychiatry and social nutritional neuroscience.

Cacioppo et al (1) elegantly outline potential contributions of social neuroscience to psychiatry. Their interdisciplinary approach could be enhanced by incorporating a nutritional perspective. Indeed, although the human brain represents only about 2% of human body mass, it accounts for 20% of the total resting metabolic rate (2). As a consequence of the brain’s intense energy requirements, met...

Psychoanalysis and Social Work

to social work. The first part of the book consists of basic psychoanalytical theory with an emphasis on ego psychology. The rest of the book consists of ten chapters written by different psychoanalysts demonstrating how psychoanalytical knowledge can be applied usefully in various fields of social work. The theoretical part of the book gives a concise account of psychoanalytical theory and it ...