Anxiety and mood disorders are prevalent in the Australian community and can be functionally disabling. Access to treatment for these disorders can be difficult, particularly in rural areas where there is limited availability of specialist mental health practitioners such as psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. One way to address this problem is to improve the skills of local mental health...

aim and background: the siblings of children with down syndrome are at risk for psychological disorders.therefore the aim of this study was to investigae the effectiveness of resiliencetraining on mental health in siblings of children with down syndrome.   methods and materials: in the present study a semi- experimental design with pretest-posttest and follow up design was utilized. the statist...

Critical thinking comprises the mental processes, strategies, and representations people use to solve problems, make decisions, and learn new concepts. The study of critical thinking combines the educational, philosophical, and psychological traditions of thought. R. Ennis offers a philosophical taxonomy suggesting that critical thinking results from the interaction of a set of dispositions tow...

Suppose we use the term ‘theory of mind’ in a neutral and inclusive way, so that having a theory of mind is simply having an ability to engage in our everyday folk psychological practices of attribution, interpretation, and prediction. This use of the term is noncommittal as to how the ability is to be explained. Perhaps the explanation is to be given in terms of possession of a substantive the...

Mental health problems during pregnancy affect around 20% of mothers and may have lasting impacts on children’s health, cognitive socio-emotional skills, educational attainment, future labour market outcomes. We identify the causal effect mothers’ prenatal mental a range child psychological, Our methodology exploits shocks to that are induced by illness mother’s friends or relatives, whilst acc...

Given the growing linguistic diversity in the United States, many practicing psychologists will work with foreign language interpreters. However, few clinicians receive formal training in providing interpreteraided psychological services. By federal law (88th Congress, 1964; PL-88-352), psychologists or their agencies are responsible for providing interpreter services. To maintain a patient-cen...

PURPOSE To examine the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction training (MBSR) on the mental health of medical students during clinical clerkships. METHOD Between February 2011 and May 2014, the authors conducted a cluster-randomized controlled trial of clerkships as usual (CAU) and clerkships with additional MBSR in medical students during their first year of clinical clerkships at a Du...