the purpose of this research is to find the relationship between mental health and job burnout among the iranian ministry of health and medical education headquarters personnel.the population under study was all the working personnel in the headquarter of above-men-tioned organization in 2007. the sample size, based on the scientific determination of sample size, was calculated to be 387 people...

stantly discovering new measures and medicaments for preventing and relieving many of the graver ills of the body, no like agency is successfully coping with the mentally disordered in public and private institutions for the insane and in the open life of the community. They realised that nearly every hospitalised patient means a disturbed and disorganised family and were conscious of the magni...

To assess the results of studies examining the effects of preventive interventions on the incidence of mental disorders, we conducted a systematic review. A literature search resulted in 13 high-quality randomized trials, six on depressive disorder (including postpartum depression), one on anxiety, one examining both anxiety and depression, three on posttraumatic stress disorders, one on psycho...

Due to several socio-political factors, to many psychiatrists only a strictly objective definition of mental disorder, free of value components, seems really acceptable. In this paper, I will explore a variant of such an objectivist approach to defining metal disorder, natural function objectivism. Proponents of this approach make recourse to the notion of natural function in order to reach a v...