Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is one of the most disabling mental disorders in world and there are different interventions treatment strategy for obsessive compulsive disorder. A recent technique that has been gaining ground within positive psychology Mindfulness, this shown promising results being used as a new resource adherence to OCD symptoms. The aim study was perform systematic review lit...

objective: this study aimed to detail the phenomenology and psychiatric comorbidities in patients with pathologic skin picking (psp). method: forty five subjects (30% males) with psp (mean s.d. =33.210.9) were assessed. subjects were assessed for psychiatric co morbidity using general health questionnaire (ghq). the yale-brown obsessive compulsive scale (y-bocs) was used to assess obsessive com...

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4 out of the 10 leading causes of disability in the US and other developed countries are mental disorders. Major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) are among the most common mental disorders that currently plague numerous countries and have varying incidence rates from 26 pe...

When considering the problems of the crosscultural applicability ofmental health questionnaires, the influence of cultural factors on the results is of central importance. Zola (1966) has suggested that there are at least two ways in which symptoms usually defined as indicating illness in one population may be ignored in others. First, the estimate of the prevalence of a condition may be mislea...

Premenstrual syndrome is a term that combines several disorders are different in pathogenesis and severity of treatment. Among them: the main premenstrual disorder, exacerbation another disease, others. dysphoric disorder actually separate requires mental health care. This review presents modern classification these disorders, provides detailed guidance on their diagnosis correction. Particular...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a frequent and distressing mental disorder, about which much remains to be learned. It is a heterogeneous disorder; the hyperarousal subtype (about 70% of occurrences and simply termed PTSD in this paper) is the topic of this article, but the dissociative subtype (about 30% of occurrences and likely involving quite different brain mechanisms) is outside i...

aim and background: complex nature of children`s affectionate problems requires assessment and usage of modern treatments. the present study aimed to investigate the effects of attachment-based therapy on depression symptoms in girl students of primary school who had attachment problems. methods and materials: this study was an empirical plan with pretest-posttest, follow up and control group. ...

Mental health clinicians engage in an important form of realworld categorization as they diagnose their patients with mental disorder diagnoses. How are clinicians affected by the context within which diagnostic criteria of a patient present when making diagnostic evaluations? The classification system clinicians are instructed to use is structured around a statistical approach to assessing dia...

General practitioners are tasked with determining the nature of patients' emotional distress and providing appropriate care. For patients whose symptoms appear to fall near the 'boundaries' of psychiatric disorder, this can be difficult with important implications for treatment. There is a lack of qualitative research among patients with symptoms severe enough to warrant consultation, but where...