BACKGROUND This article aims to provide an introduction to emerging evidence and debate about the relationship between climate change and mental health. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION The authors argue that:i) the direct impacts of climate change such as extreme weather events will have significant mental health implications;ii) climate change is already impacting on the social, economic and envir...

The use of social networking sites (SNSs) has proliferated throughout the last several years for all populations, but especially adolescents. Media reports have also identified several instances in which adolescents broadcast their suicidal behaviors via the Internet and/or SNSs. Despite the increase in the usage of SNSs, there has been little research conducted on how adolescents use SNSs to c...

applicable to a wider field. This book is divided into two parts. The first part provides a balanced description of the investigations that can be carried out in the fields of intelligence, brain damage, perception and personality to mention but a few of the areas covered. The second part gives a very useful account of the various psychological methods of treatment, including psychoanalytically...

Migration and integration are linked to depleted support networks. Although social support is a key determinant of health, newcomers’ appraisal of social support and its impact on health have not been adequately studied. This investigation focused on immigrants’ and refugees’ views of social support, its perceived influence on health and the use of health-related services. Individual in-depth i...

BACKGROUND A large group of patients of Ladek Zdrój spa consists of people with disabilities confirmed by objective tests performed under the pension prevention program of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS). The purpose of disability prevention is to improve the health conditions to the extent required to continue work. The aim of the study was to identify the differences in the assessment ...

This article undertakes textual analysis to examine some of the ways in which knowledge around sexuality-related youth suicide and its causes are produced and made available through news media discourses and news-making processes. Four categories of sexuality-related suicide discourses were identified in news stories and features over the past 20 years: statistical research that makes non-heter...

Here I present a medical narrative, as a catharsis, regarding Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus in an attempt to elude meaninglessness in my difficult everyday practice of critical care medicine. It is well documented that physicians who practice critical care medicine are subject to burnout. The sense of despair that occasionally overwhelms me prompted my rereading of Camus’s classic text an...

398 For humans, turning forty is almost a cause for despair, because it signals the end of youth as well as a less brilliant future. For a medical journal, however, 40 years of existence means that it has had a satisfactory history, and that, more importantly, it will have an increasingly bright future. The Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology (BJP), which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, stand...

Bach flower remedies are a unique form of energy medicine that has become increasingly popular among alternative healthcare professionals; they are classified as homeopathic remedies in the United States and are part of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States (HPUS). Discovered by the English physician Edward Bach during the 1930s, the 38 flower tinctures are believed to heal emotion...

BACKGROUND Hope is a psychosocial resource that is essential for the psychological, spiritual, and physical well-being of family members caring for persons with dementia. A significant positive relationship has been found between hope and well-being in family caregivers of persons with dementia living in the community. However, the hope experience of family caregivers of persons living with dem...