OBJECTIVE To review the literature on the effects of parental divorce over the psychological maladjustment and physical health problems in children of divorced parents, thus contributing to the integration of existing scientific knowledge based on the biopsychosocial model of the impact of divorce on children's physical health as proposed by Troxel and Matthews (2004). SOURCES Review of the l...

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is associated with a range of physical and psychological symptoms that at times are perplexing for young people and their families to understand. For clinicians and patients, understanding the patient’s psychological impairment can impact treatment engagement and outcome. The aim of this study was to explore the psychological profile of adolescent females with AN, includin...

The purpose of this study was to explore the motivations for entry into the sex industry. The narratives of four Japanese female psychiatric patients with a past experience of sex work were used for analysis. I identified not only practical factors such as financial difficulties or lack of job skills, but also various psycho-social factors, namely: weak emotional ties with their mothers since i...

aPpears to score highly above many uncouth labourers outside the colony. His behaviour and appearance are, however, deceiving and he very likely turns out to be an illiterate and to have in the vast majority of cases subnormal niental capacity. However, neither his illiteracy nor his low mental efficiency would justify his detention in an institution were it not for his apparent inability to lo...

The causal factors of mental disorder or maladjustment are either in the individual himself, or environmental. It is with this later case that the author chiefly deals, and calls to our attention some of the factors in our social organization which touch upon the problem of the formation of habits of adjustment, and which determine the nature of the environment to which the individual must adju...

BACKGROUND Blindness can cause psychosocial distress leading to maladjustment if not mitigated. Maladjustment is a secondary burden that further reduces quality of life of the blind. Adjustment is often personalized and depends on nature and quality of prevailing psychosocial support and rehabilitation opportunities. This study was aimed at identifying the pattern of psychosocial adjustment in ...

The current study compared the relative importance of proactive coping and preventive coping in the adjustment to university life among 403 freshmen at a Chinese university and evaluated the function of proactive coping in the stress process. Participants completed the Future-Oriented Coping Inventory (Gan, Yang, Zhou, & Zhang, 2007), the Student-Life Stress Inventory (Gadzella, 1994), and the ...

From the development of the psychiatric concept of psychopathy, we can at this juncture only state that it no longer coincides at all with that of the delinquent and that we nevertheless find psychopaths among all kinds of criminals. Latent criminals, analogous to the latent misfits of Aichhorn, are frequently psychopaths. Social maladjustment may be however, far from being psychopathic, even i...