The label of mental illness has long been recognized as one of the most powerful of all stigmas. The article presents the results of a study of scale structure and psychometric properties of a new instrument for evaluation of the self-stigma of mental illness, which was developed based on ...
The dependent variable was the number of symptoms reported on the 22-item Mental Health Inventory. A total of 128 male and female adult patients under treatment for mental illness were interviewed under procedures using all combinations of the five factors. Control of patient sex, age, ethnicity,...
Aim. The emotional reactions of the therapist in the treatment process constitute the core of therapeutic work, but they are poorly represented in research area. The article presents the results of work on the creation of a new tool - Questionnaire for the Perception of Psycho-therapy Process by...
Increasing evidence indicates that, in addition to poverty, maternal depression, and other well-established factors, unpredictability of maternal and environmental signals early in life influences trajectories of brain development, determining risk for subsequent mental illness. However, whereas most risk fac...
On the other hand, among patients the prevailing view was that psychiatric professionals who suffer from mental illness, can better understand the sick, because they are also suffering. This is in analogy with the Jungian theory of the "wounded healer" in the myth of the centaur Chiron. ...
The Illness Perception Questionnaire (IPQ) [6] is a widely used multifactorial pencil-and-paper questionnaire which assesses the five cognitive illness representations on a five-point Likert scale. A revised version of this scale, the Illness Perception Questionnaire–Revised (IPQ-R), extended the ...
Common Mental Disorders and Disability Across Cultures: Results From the WHO Collaborative Study on Psychological Problems in General Health Care OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of common mental illness on functional disability and the cross-cultural consistency of this relationship while controllin... ...
The General Health Questionnaire GHQ-12 measures both positive and negative mental health symptoms; however, the majority of research has focused on mental illness and it does not measure other important aspects of positive wellbeing [140–144]. Wellbeing Positive psychological wellbeing is another ...
The aim of the current study is to examine the validity and reliability of PHQ-9 in a sample of individuals living in Sweden, with self-reported current or past mental health problems. Understanding how the instrument functions for individuals with mental illness is an important step towards unde...
” Emotional abuse was defined as “verbal assaults on a child's sense of worth or well-being or any humiliating or demeaning behavior directed toward a child by an adult or older person.” Physical neglect was defined as “the failure of caretakers to provide for a child's basic physical...