Preventive psychiatry.

Preventive Psychiatry in Late Life: Studies on Depression and Dementia from the Singapore Gerontology Research Programme

This overview summarizes the research results on depression and dementia in ethnic Chinese elderly conducted by the Gerontology Research Programme of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Health policies are dependent on information of evidence-based studies and it is of utmost importance to encourage research on preventive psychiatry. Interventional strategies ...

Prevention in Psychiatry: Where are we?

Prevention in psychiatry is still at a nascent state. Exact etiology of most of the psychiatric disorders is still not known, limiting the development of preventive strategies. Difficulties in delineating the exact time of onset of the psychiatric illness further adds to the problem. Prevention in psychiatry is currently directed at acting on risk and protective factors, developing strategies t...

Categorising preventive interventions The Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders recommended in 1994 that prevention in psychiatry

The Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders recommended in 1994 that prevention in psychiatry should be referred to as ‘preventive intervention’, defined as an intervention before the patient receives a diagnosis. Preventive interventions, furthermore, were categorised as ‘indicated’ (i.e. treating high-risk individuals with premorbid signs or symptoms), ‘selective’ (i...

Preventive Psychiatry in Industry

ture of morale and on the science of selection?putting the right men in the right jobs. This work naturally raised some antagonism?like other psychiatric researches?and it was perhaps not surprising that after the war there was a return in the Services to previous arrangements, and less use was made of psychiatrists. There were in any case fewer in the Services to be used, for the majority had ...

Preventive psychiatry.