This review is describing different models of case management, showing their similarities and differences with regards to the way they operate. Good relationship between patient and case manager, application of the biopsychosocial model, availability of psychosocial treatment methods and rehabilitation programs, and individual treatment plan are all important factors in case management's succes...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence that attitudes and beliefs are important in predicting adherence in depressive and bipolar disorders. However, such attitudes and beliefs on mood stabilizers have not been analysed by socio-demographic and clinical variables. METHODS The Mood Stabilizer Compliance Questionnaire (MSQC) was mailed to a large population of patients with depressive or bipol...

The success/ul incorporation of the private practice of psychiatry into a Sl'stem o/communitv mental health care was allributable to several/actors. They included an affluent catchment area; support from hospital administ~ation and staff, private mental health practitioners. and a state-county finan ce program; and allempts to eliminate schisms that ha ve traditionally separated private and pub...

Objective: First, to review the principles and practice of disaster psychiatry, in light recent global events. Second, identify opportunities for research. Method: A literature MEDLINE database, UpToDate Cochrane Library was conducted. Reference lists were also reviewed. Results: Psychiatrists are well-positioned contribute positive outcomes at all stages response. These contributions derive fr...

*Lieutenant Colonel, Medical Corps, US Army; Deputy Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Building 61, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20307 †Colonel, Medical Corps, US Army; Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Borden Pavilion, Room 2022, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20307; Psychia...

1 Editor-in-Chief Designate, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Ottawa, Ontario; Professor, Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta; Member, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta. Correspondence: 3rd Floor, TRW Building, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4Z6; [email protected]. E...

Traumatic Stress Studies Program, Department of Psychiatry (R.Y., S.R.B.), Department of Community and Preventive Medicine (S.M.E., G.S.B.), and Division of Biostatistics, Department of Psychiatry (S.M.M.), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bronx, New York 10471; and Molecular Medicine Centre, Western General Hospital (J.S.), University of Edinburgh, Edinbur...

To assess the attitude and knowledge of physicians and patients towards psychiatry, we asked 115 referring doctors and 188 referred patients to complete questionnaires. We examined the results along with the referral rates to try to identify factors that may affect a consultation-liaison psychiatry service. Generally, knowledge was poor and attitudes towards psychiatry negative in both groups. ...

Psychiatric epidemiology: dimensions and categories Jane M Murphy,* Stephen Gilman, and Ian Colman Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and Department of Epidemiology and ...

School of Social Work, University of Southern California Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Washington School of Community and Global Health, Claremont Graduate University Keck School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Keck School of Medi...