Social Psychiatry

Social Psychiatry

Social Psychiatry

Although the re-actions of the individual psychiatric patient to groups have been noted and used for generations, curiously little attention has been paid to the possibilities of treatment in groups until the latter end of the war. At this time various experiments were carried out in Britain, in both military and civil hospitals. At the same time comparable work was going on in the United State...

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Purpose€€ To determine the prevalence of DSM-IV psychiatric disorders in a representative sample of children and adolescents living in Santiago, Chile, as part of a national sample. Method€€ Subjects aged 4–18 were selected using a stratified multistage design. First, ten municipalities/comunas of Santiago were selected; then the blocks, homes, and child or adolescent to be interviewed were cho...

Social skills training in psychiatry

Communication skills are important to overall wellbeing, for creating positive interpersonal atmosphere and for solving interpersonal problems. Many patients suffering with various psychiatric disorders suffer from either a state-dependent decrease of social skills or lifelong deficits of such skills. Patients with social skills deficits such as problems with communication with others people, s...

Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry

Social behavior is defined as “how people interact with and think about others”. The area is related to converging research interest from ethology, anthropology, social psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral ecology. Studying the neurobiology of social behavior is of direct interest to mental health biologists. Apart from the epistemological perspective of understanding proximal and evolutionar...