The science of geography, also literally called in Arabic "faces and slices of earth", involves a kind of land survey which emerged into Islam. There were several factors contributing to geography such as command of Islam to learning, Quran geographical themes, pilgrimage routes and wide-range Muslim conquests. This article attempted to examine two major schools of geography in the Isl...

Aim/object: The aim of this survey was to identify psycho-oncological and psycho-social need in the routine patient care of oncological patients. Material and Methods: A total of 200 oncological patients underwent the paper-based Hornheider questionnaire, a validated instrument to identify the need of psycho-oncological and psycho-social care at first contact. Hornheider sum-scores ≥4 were cons...

background: psycho-education is now considered as part of the integrated treatment for bipolar disorder. this study aimed to determine the efficacy of group psycho-education on medication adherence and global functioning of patients with bipolar disorder type i. methods: 45 patients with bipolar disorder type i were allocated one of the three groups of psycho-education plus pharmacotherapy, pha...

BACKGROUND Psycho-education is now considered as part of the integrated treatment for bipolar disorder. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of group psycho-education on medication adherence and global functioning of patients with bipolar disorder type I. METHODS 45 patients with bipolar disorder type I were allocated one of the three groups of psycho-education plus pharmacotherapy, pha...

Introduction: Unplanned pregnancy has been associated with postpartum depression but there is little information about other psycho-emotional disorders. Objective: We aimed to determine the presence of psycho-emotional disorders in women with unplanned pregnancy. Methods: Six-hundred and four women were recruited and divided into two groups: One consisting of 302 women with unplanned pregnancie...

AIM The aim of the study was to examine the efficiency of psycho-education of candidates for the IVF in stress, anxiety and depression decreasing, and the impact of the psycho educative techniques on the successfulness of the treatment. METHOD A random sample of 64 candidates for IVF treatment is divided in two groups: control group without psycho-education (32 candidates) and intervention gr...

Australia has a thriving Psycho-Oncology research and clinical community. In this article, the Australian health system in which Psycho-Oncology is embedded is described. Clinical Psycho-Oncology services are outlined, in terms of their composition, processes and reach. The development of the internationally ground-breaking Australian Psychosocial guidelines for the care of adults with cancer i...

These two books dealing with psychotherapy are in sharp contrast. The first, by a P^Iosopher, was written fifty years ago and is a small book, consisting of two .Prions taken from the large volume newly translated from the German under the 'le "General Psychopathology". The second is a contemporary work written by a Poetising psychoanalyst, who is concerned with the description of levels of psy...