Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 50(10) and outdated somatic/psychiatric dichotomy (Amad et al., 2016). Finally, as patients with high risk of poor adherence should be detected to avoid poor outcomes, the RANZCP guidelines promote specific interventions on adherence such as cognitive-behavioural therapy and/or psychoeducation. Progress in the management of patients with mood diso...

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) remains one of the most prevalent mental health diagnoses identified in school-age children. Affected children show an increased risk for school failure, social difficulties, and the development of psychiatric comorbidities. Despite the availability of evidence-based behavioral protocols for managing ADHD-related impairments, school psychologists ...

BACKGROUND Patients attending an accident and emergency department may exhibit psychological disturbances post-injury. Early interventions have been suggested to reduce the risk of post-injury disorder, including psychoeducation. AIMS We assessed the efficacy of providing such self-help information. METHOD Patients who had experienced trauma were randomised to two groups: those given (n=75)...

This research was conducted as an controlled experimental study which aimed to determine the effectiveness of individual psychoeducation program on recurrence rate during 1year follow up period. The study included eighty-two patients who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. There were no hospitalizations in intervention group, while 7.3% of control patients experienced hospitalizations; re...

Exposure to potentially traumatic events is a common occurrence. Most individuals exposed to such an event are resilient or recover rapidly, although some individuals develop psychological problems that warrant treatment. However, a small percentage of individuals seek traditional treatment, thereby calling for novel approaches or methodologies of treatment. The present paper provides a compreh...

We report the results of a randomized controlled trial that compared the efficacy of an internet-based self-help treatment for paediatric headache including chat communication (cognitive-behavioural treatment, CBT) with an internet-based psychoeducation intervention (EDU). In the CBT group, significant preto post-treatment decreases were found for headache frequency and pain catastrophizing, bu...

Writing in 1957 Carl Rogers, a pioneer of person-centred therapy, identified an empowering client-therapist relationship as the essence of a therapeutic process and proposed that an empowering relationship could, in and of itself, create the necessary and sufficient conditions for successful outcomes in mental health settings [17]. Whilst modern psychological theories no longer favour an exclus...

Child Talks+ is a preventive intervention developed with the aim to assist mental health professionals in offering support children of parents problems and/ or addiction problems. This brief report presents intervention, which can be adopted by workers, social workers and other healthcare who are contact patients parents. Parents their entitled receive psychoeducation about parents’ Interventio...

OBJECTIVE A phobic behavior pattern is learned by classical and operant conditioning mechanisms. The present article reviews the main determinants of choking phobia etiology and describes the behavior therapy of an adult patient. METHOD Psychoeducation, functional analysis, and graded exposure to aversive stimuli were used to treat the patient, after extensive psychiatric and psychological as...

Eating disorders are considered an increasing public health problem, also in China. They comprise a broad spectrum of medical conditions such as anorexia nervosa, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, bulimia and binge eating, which often go hand with considerable mental physiological issues obesity metabolic syndrome. Scientific research clinical experience suggest distinct therapeutic in...