This review will provide a concise description of mental health problems in parents of children with a (non-syndromic) congenital heart disease (CHD) during different stressful periods. Predictors of these problems and also implications for clinical practice will be mentioned. Having a child with CHD can be very stressful for parents, who have to face overwhelming emotions and also extra physic...

BACKGROUND Substance users being admitted to inpatient treatment experience a high level of mental distress. In this study we explored changes in mental distress during treatment. METHODS Mental distress, as measured by the HSCL-10, was registered at admission and at discharge among 164 substance users in inpatient treatment in Northern Norway. Predictors of reduction in mental distress were ...

A 3-year-old male child presented with a gradually increasing tongue size since birth. The child had difficulty in chewing and swallowing solid food with impairment of speech. He had no obvious signs of surface bleeding, paroxysms of lesion expansion, or repeated respiratory infections or respiratory distress. On examination, an enlarged, dry, fissured tongue occupied the entire oral cavity imp...

BACKGROUND Unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) have high levels of psychiatric symptoms, and concerns for their access to mental health services have been raised. From the mid-2000s, an increasing number of asylum-seeking URMs, mainly adolescent boys from Afghanistan, have been referred to the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry emergency unit in Malmö, Sweden. The aim of the study was to compare inp...

BACKGROUND Treatment services to patients with substance use disorders (SUDs), including those mandated to treatment, needs to be evaluated and evidence based. The Norwegian Municipal Health Care Act (NMHCA) calls for compulsory treatment for persons with "severe and life-threatening substance use disorder" if these individuals are not otherwise willing to be voluntarily treated and consequentl...

OBJECTIVES Women who combine formal and informal caregiving roles represent a unique, understudied population. In the literature, healthcare employees who simultaneously provide unpaid elder care at home have been referred to as double-duty caregivers. The present study broadens this perspective by examining the psychosocial implications of double-duty child care (child care only), double-duty ...

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Eating Disorder Service provides secondary and tertiary level care to inpatients and outpatients. The inpatient program focuses on medical stabilisation, re-establishing eating, and containing eating disorder behaviours as well as assessing and managing comorbid problems such as anxiety, depression or risk behaviours. Being in hospital and being faced with a ...