s: Thematic Session Disaster Psycho-Social Care and Management 1 THEMATIC SESSION E2: DISASTER PSYCHO-SOCIAL CARE MANAGEMENT Chairperson: Prof. K. Sekar National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bangalore PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE SURVIVORS OF DISASTERS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE K. Sekar Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bangalore Email: [email protected] Psychosocial ...

Objectives: Analysis of variations of nutritional status in relation to psycho-functional conditions in elderly patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by means of bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA). Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Alzheimer Center, SS. Trinità Hospital, Cagliari (Italy). Participants: 83 free-living patients (29 men, 54 women) with mild-mode...

This article explores the development of psychosocial competence in boys of color (BOC; 226 African Americans and 109 Latinos). Changes in competence were assessed over 2 years in cohorts of low-income BOC beginning in pre-K, kindergarten, or first grade. Psycho-social competence was assessed in terms of self-regulation, interpersonal skills, and positive relationships with peers and teachers. ...

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) showed efficacy for currently depressed patients. However, most of the available studies suffer from important methodological shortcomings, including the lack of adequate control groups. The present study aims to compare MBCT with a psycho-educational control group designed to be structurally equivalent to the MBCT program but excluding the main putati...

BACKGROUND In April 2011, a post election violent conflict in Northern Nigeria led to resettlement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in a camp in Kaduna, the worst affected state. We set out to determine prevalence and socio-demographic factors associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among IDPs. We also determined types of psycho-trauma experienced by the IDPs and their psych...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is mainly characterized by chronic psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and negative symptoms such as social withdrawal. These symptoms cause behavior problems, i.e. aggressive behavior violence, or social isolation that affect the patients' lives, and the health status and daily routine of caregivers or family members. Psychological distress or burden ...

BACKGROUND Although socio-economic factors have been identified as one of the most important groups of neighbourhood-level risks affecting birth outcomes, uncertainties still exist concerning the pathways through which they are transferred to individual risk factors. This poses a challenge for setting priorities and developing appropriate community-oriented public health interventions and plann...

Cultural producers, including screenwriters and film directors, create fictional and imagined spaces as the locations – and sometimes subjects – of the stories they tell. Through the depiction of characters interacting with fictional spaces, storytellers illuminate the significance of spatial relationships in the real world. An examination of spaces in fictional narratives can therefore reveal ...

Contemporary psycho-analysis owes a very great deal to the ideas formulated by Mrs. Klein. To mark the occasion of her seventieth birthday, the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis published a special edition containing a collection of essays written by her colleagues and pupils and dedicated to her. This collection, published in 1952, revised, augmented by several new essays including two ...