Self-injury is a dangerous and pervasive behavior problem among adolescents. Clinical trials testing the effectiveness of psychological treatments for this behavior problem among adolescents are lacking; however, several treatments have shown promise, such as those focused on teaching emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. The authors provide a case illustration of th...

Sleep architecture and polysomnographic findings show that the majority of sleepwalking episodes occur during slow-wave sleep (SWS). Although genetics play an important role in the manifestation of sleepwalking, recent studies have shown that parasomnias are also associated with other sleep or mental disorders and psychological factors. Sleepwalking prevalence rates are higher in childhood than...

Studies on psychological problems such as stress, depression and anxiety among different groups of population have always been carried out. However, the results vary from group to group and various factors for the variable findings have been postulated. What probably is crystal clear is that problems do exist in all groups. In this issue we have research findings indicating stress among medical...

If you have schizophrenia or bipolar depression, you will generally get specialist help. But only about 1% of us have these terrible conditions. Very many more (15%) suffer from unipolar depression or anxiety disorders (at any one moment). If you have one of these, often crippling, conditions, you are unlikely to get any specialist help at all. You can see the GP, but the GP is unlikely to pres...

BACKGROUND Although most depressive disorders are treated in primary care and several studies have examined the effects of psychological treatment in primary care, hardly any meta-analytic research has been conducted in which the results of these studies are integrated. AIM To integrate the results of randomised controlled trials of psychological treatment of depression in adults in primary c...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of changes in body image psychological flexibility over the course of treatment on various outcome variables. METHOD Participants included 103 female, residential patients diagnosed with an eating disorder. Pretreatment and posttreatment data were collected that examined body image psychological flexibility, general psychological ...

Psychological comorbidity with medical illness is associated with poor health status, complicated medical management, and increased utilization and greater costs of medical services. Hypnosis practitioners in specialty psychological or psychiatric treatment settings infrequently treat such patients, since there is a greater likelihood of patients' psychological problems being treated solely in ...

Sofia Bergbom (2014): Matchmaking in pain practice. Challenges and possibilities. Örebro Studies in Psychology 29. All people experience pain and for some people, acute pain may over time develop into long-term disabling problems. Already at an early stage, it is possible to identify people at risk for long-term problems and psychologically oriented interventions have been shown to successfully...

acne vulgaris as a disfiguring disease which can induce either anxiety, depression and other psychological problems in specially young adults. these problems just like any other serious physical disease can disturb the quality of life of the affected patients. in the treatment approach to the acne, enough attention should be payed to the psychological aspects of the disease. without pointing ou...