This study was designed to examine the effects of maternal rearing attitudes and depression on children’s compulsive-like behavior, mediated by children’s emotional traits. A questionnaire was completed by 116 mothers of 3 6-year-old children. There were no significant correlations between maternal factors and compulsive-like behavior in children. However, structural equation modeling using chi...

Overdiagnosis occurs when a true abnormality is discovered, but detection of that abnormality does not benefit the patient. It should be distinguished from misdiagnosis, in which the diagnosis is inaccurate, and it is not synonymous with overtreatment or overuse, in which excess medication or procedures are provided to patients for both correct and incorrect diagnoses. Overdiagnosis for adult c...

This article analyses and compares the development of activation policies for young people in Denmark and the UK from the mid-1990s. Despite their diverse welfare traditions and important differences in the organisation and delivery of benefits and services for the unemployed, both countries have recently introduced large-scale compulsory activation programmes for young people. These programmes...

This research has been conducted to compare purpose psychological symptoms post-traumatic stress in male and female patients. The sample of this study selected from two group PTSD male and female patients (each group 40 people) they were randomly chosen and matched groups by Age and IQ, when they completed WAIS-R. Also examined by Watson PTSD diagnostic interview (repetitious experience, avoida...

Abnormal Psychology It is the branch of psychology that deals with the disorders/deviations or the abnormal behavior of the mind. It is a broad subject and covers the study of depression, obsession, compulsion, sexual deviation, etc. The experts which are associated with the study of this field include psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and counselors. Read more on what is abnormal psycho...

OBJECTIVE Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is an illness that considerably influences the family, academic, occupational and social functioning of patients. In this study, we aimed to investigate the impact of psychopharmacological treatment on quality of life in patients with OCD. METHOD Using the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) and ...