In the aftermath of the war in Bosnia Herzegovina, a task group of Swedish experts organised and supported training of community psychiatry and social work as part of the mental health reform. Among the basic principles of the programme were a close cooperation with the Ministry of Health, personal continuity, exchange of knowledge and long term engagement. With the support of the programme, co...

Integration of the psychiatry in primary care is beneficial for the early detection of mental disorder, better outcome of mental disorder and reduction of stigma. Psychiatry is a leading profession in organisation of mental health services. General practitioners (GPs) in Europe deal with mental disorders in their everyday practice, so the same is expected in Croatia. Graduate and postgraduate e...

Over the last few years, psychiatry has had to deal more in depth with the mutation of social frames and of problems expressed by the community, which has changed itself, in particular at a cultural level. The historical attitude of psychiatry, which is to combine a scientific approach with recognizing the rights of all individuals involved in the healing system, can be very helpful in keeping ...

The authors obtained opinions of forensic psychiatry in a community survey following the not guilty by reason of insanity verdict in the Hinckley trial. A majority of respondents expressed little or no confidence in the specific psychiatric testimony in the Hinckley trial and only modest faith in the general ability of psychiatrists to determine legal insanity. Respondents' general and specific...

Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montreal, QC, Canada Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. Centre de Recherche Fernand Seguin, Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC Canada Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of ...

In 1960, with the action of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the profession of child psychiatry achieved the status of an accredited subspecialty of psychiatry. As a consequence, a major shift emerged in the base of influence on the academic functions of child psychiatry and the source of fiscal and professional support for child psychiatrists working within academic settings (Al...

Address: 1The University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Psychiatry and Community Health Sciences, 330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary Alberta T2N 4N1, Canada, 2Calgary Health Region, Richmond Road Diagnostic Center, Room 4502, 1820 Richmond Road SW, Calgary Alberta T2T 5C7, Canada, 3The University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Cal...

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds series (course number MGR18074) seeks to promote excellence and quality in clinical care; introduce clinicians to recent advances in medical care; provide updates on scientific advances that affect the practice of medicine; and provide a forum for discussion of topics that strengthen the relationship of psychiatry to the broader community. Events a...

The objective of this study was to review outcomes of acute service delivery in old age psychiatry. Sources of data included Medline, PsycINFO and Cochrane Collaboration databases of English language papers to 1998 on service delivery evaluation in 'old age psychiatry', 'psychogeriatrics' and 'geriatric psychiatry', supplemented by a manual search of references from relevant literature. All con...