ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFICULTIES IN DEVISING A CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL DISORDERS IS THE LACK OF AGREEMENT AMONG PSYCHIATRISTS REGARDING THE CONCEPTS UPON WHICH IT SHOULD BE BASED: diagnoses can rarely be verified objectively and the same or similar conditions are described under a confusing variety of names. This situation militates against the ready exchange of ideas and experiences and ha...

(WHO) estimates, approximately 814 000 people died by suicide in the year 2000 (World Health Organization, 2001a). In the past 45 years suicide rates have increased by 60% in some countries and suicide is now one of the three leading causes of death among those aged 15–34 years worldwide. These data clearly indicate that suicide is a serious public health problem. The association of suicide and...

general population surveys often report that only a small proportion of individuals with common mental disorders seek mental health treatment, suggesting a high level of unmet need for mental health care in the community. in recent years, however, the number of adults in industrialized countries who are treated with antidepressant medications has dramatically increased. this paper reviews the p...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents in Australia, and the severity and impact of those mental disorders. METHOD Seven mental disorders were assessed using the parent- or carer-completed version of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children Version IV, and major depressive disorder was also assessed using the youth self-report version of the...

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/onk Fax +49 761 4 52 07 14 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com of research has been neglected. Head and neck cancer is commonly considered a self-inflicted disease. In contrast to many other fields of oncology, very few patient support groups or associations of patients with head and neck cancer have been established. Male predominance, speech diffic...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review examines recent evidence on the comorbidity between literacy problems and psychiatric disorder in childhood and discusses possible contributory factors. RECENT FINDINGS Recent studies confirm the substantial overlap of literacy problems with a range of emotional/behavioural difficulties in childhood. Literacy problems and inattention may share genetic influences,...

BACKGROUND The aggregation of mental disorders in couples, as reported by prior research, indicates the effect of familial environments and warrants attention. However, the concordant categories of mental disorders in couples remain unclear. This study investigated spousal concordance for the category of mental disorders among couples throughout Taiwan by using factors associated with such diso...

Common mental disorders are a group of distress states manifesting with anxiety, depressive and unexplained somatic symptoms typically encountered in community and primary care settings. Risk factors for these disorders are mainly lower socio-economic status, psychological illnesses, poor reproductive health, gender disadvantage and physical ill-health. WHO has recommended that treatment of all...

Millbank Memorial Fund, New York, 1961. pp. 382. U.S. $3.50. Readers who have waded through the proceedings of conferences and emerged Pondering why anyone attends them at all, should not be deterred by the origin of this book in a meeting, for it is lucid, authoritative and stimulating. This can be attributed to the design of the meeting which was convened by the Millbank Memorial Fund in 1959...

According to world health report (2001), 25% of the population, at sometime during their life are affected by mental and behavioral disorders. These disorders have great economic impact on societies and the quality of life of individuals and families. These problems are present at any point in time in about 10% of the adult population. Twenty percent of all patients seen by primary health care ...