[Suicide date and rates in a comparison of Germany, Bavaria and Upper Frankonia].

abstract：:Huntington's disease is a hereditary and progressive disease of the central nervous system. Sudden and irregular hyperkinesias are prominent. Psychopathological findings are very frequent and often proceed the decline of motor functions for years. Almost all the patients develop a dementia in later stages of the illne...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Weimer E,Ries S,Tost H,Braus DF

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The application of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors seems to be constrained in the German health care system. We investigate the cost-effectiveness of the AChE inhibitor Galantamine for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) in a German context. METHOD:A Markov model as the decision theoretic framework...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Happich M,Schweikert B,Mühlbacher A

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patients from opioid maintenance treatment (OMT) may taper off from opioids during rehab treatment. It is investigated whether this option improves treatment outcomes in particular for those patients who are affected by psychiatric or somatic comorbidity, or by social problems. METHODS:Multicenter study with...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kuhlmann T,Specka M,Rhode A,Post Y,Pietras M,Funke W,Feugmann K,Scherbaum N

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was the establishing of associations of parents and friends of mentally handicapped persons that started, above all in the 50's and 60's, in many countries direct and intensive endeavours for the improvement of their social situation. In this context the major goals are the normalisation of their living conditions ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mutters T

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germany, in comparison to other countries, provides a good quality of services to distinct groups of patients. But as far as total expenditure for mental health services is concerned, it belongs to the top European states. The differentiation of services since the Expert Commission to the parliament (1975) was associa...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kunze H,Schepker R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Factitious disorders have been reported in 0.5 - 1 % of general hospital patients. It often takes several years until the disorder is detected. During this period, enormous health care cost can arise not least out of iatrogenic self-induced mutilations and related secondary somatic complications. Apart from surgeons a...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rothenhäusler HB,Kapfhammer HP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the highest rates of suicide occur in German-speaking countries and particularly in Saxonia. There are grounds for the assumption that the fact has been caused by a careful recording of suicides in this country since 1829. The paper describes the development of rates of suicide and the changes of the suicidal m...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Müller E,Bach O

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychotherapy is an essential part of treating people with mental illness. However, the implementation of psychotherapeutic interventions in the field of inpatient psychiatric treatment remains well behind demand. At the same time, the use of psychotherapeutic interventions by other professional groups - suc...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wabnitz P,Löhr M,Schulz M,Nienaber A,Oppermann G,Sauter D,Schreiber W,Gouzoulis-Mayfrank E,Claus S,Hohl-Radke F,Jordan W,Pollmächer T

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Interdisciplinary analysis of the consequences of laws and legal practice for mental health conditions of asylum seekers and psychiatric care. METHODS:Based on the case study of a Kurdish woman with complex trauma-related psychiatric disorder, who had been in psychiatric hospital care for 25 months, the lega...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hanewald B,Gieseking J,Vogelbusch O,Markus I,Gallhofer B,Knipper M

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In January 1980 a Psychiatric Department was established at the General Hospital for decentralised psychiatric treatment of inpatients. The article describes the preparatory planning which went into the concept of the Department. First of all, the Hospital is scheduled to look after a district with a population of 110...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lorenzen H

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:A comprehensive review of the present state and new approaches of patient participation in German psychiatry was conducted. METHODS:Literature search. RESULTS:Most psychiatric patients wish to be informed about their disease and treatment options and express a desire for participation in medical decisions. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Reichhart T,Kissling W,Scheuring E,Hamann J

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 48-year-old female whom we examined for legal culpability. The proband was taking the dopamine agonist pramipexole as a treatment for Parkinson's disease. In temporal association, she had committed numerous shoplifting offences.While pathological gambling, excessive shopping and hypersexuality ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Clemm von Hohenberg C,Dreßing H

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is a lack of a psychometrically sound screening questionnaire that assesses important dimensions of traumatic experiences during childhood and adolescence in a time-efficient way. Based on the German version of the "Childhood Trauma Questionnaire" (CTQ, 28 items) we developed a five-item self-report chi...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Grabe HJ,Schulz A,Schmidt CO,Appel K,Driessen M,Wingenfeld K,Barnow S,Spitzer C,John U,Berger K,Wersching H,Freyberger HJ

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within a controlled intervention study with schizophrenic outpatients we investigated the question of whether regular attendance at psychoeducational training for medication management has an influence on patients' illness-related behavior. The patients in the treatment group show better outcome of compliance and some...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hornung WP,Franzen U,Lemke R,Wiesemann C,Buchkremer G

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a standardized assessment-procedure for the so-called "Gemeindepsychiatrische Verbünde" in Germany (GPV-Documentation), which are regional combines of community-based mental health care services. It is the first procedure in Germany which puts data on psychiatric care offers, needs for care and se...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Salize HJ,Bullenkamp J,Alscher I,Wolf I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Philippe Pinel is generally regarded as the leading con-founder of scientific psychiatry. His "chain liberation" of the insane is in this context often seen as breakbrough to an human conception of psychiatry. This article describes in two parts the historical backgrounds of Pinels activities and analyses the discipli...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kohl F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To date, to our knowledge there are no studies regarding attitudes and experiences of outpatient medical personnel during a pandemic. This study's aim was to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 on German psychiatrists and neurologists. METHODS:An e-mail and fax-based short survey of 2,072 pr...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Bohlken J,Schömig F,Seehagen T,Köhler S,Gehring K,Roth-Sackenheim C,Matschinger H,Riedel-Heller SG

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mobile child and youth psychiatric service is presented that concerned with the mental health care of a county with a population of 239,000 inhabitants. This kind of service was conceived especially to meet the demands of rural regions which are high, as empirical investigations about administrative and real prevale...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Remschmidt H,Walter R,Warnke A

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Evaluating the establishment of social psychiatry services (SPS) in Saxony was part of a public health research project. METHOD:One of the variables in a specifically designed assessment instrument--used in 8 SPS during the period 08/95-01/97--was the retrospective statement concerning changes in the client's ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kallert TW,Leisse M

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:There is some evidence that the treatment with new ("atypical") neuroleptics is associated with a higher frequency of hyperlipidemia. AIM:In this study the serum lipid levels of patients with chronic schizophrenia were investigated. METHODS:The serum lipid levels of 177 consecutively admitted schizophrenic ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wetterling T,Schneider B,Weber B

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although depression and symptoms of depression belong to the most common disorders in private practice, affected patients are not always diagnosed as early as possible in Germany and often not sufficiently treated. In order to improve the care for persons with depression it is necessary that family doctors are prepare...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Goesmann C,Bühren A,Neuy-Bartmann A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borderline-patients compose a group of severe problem-patients on psychiatric inpatient units. Among other topics this concerns the difficult differential diagnosis, attitudes of demandingness and entitlement, feelings of depressive despair, acting out and impulsive behavior. Using a process oriented diagnostical appr...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lohmer M

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the controversy about severely chronic mental patients, who still reside in the psychiatric hospital after decades of deinstitutionalization, their quality of life (QoL) has become a main topic. On the basis of a critique of the dominant, mere standardized approach to QoL this method is compared with a qualitative ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Franz M,Meyer T,Gallhofer B

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study reports on the evaluation of the Bern Job Coach Placement program, a supported employment intervention, in the routine operation. METHODS:Administrative data of participants from the years 2005 to 2016 were analysed in terms of integration into the general labour market and in terms of achieving a...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Richter D,Hunziker M,Hoffmann H

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten years ago an extensive behaviour therapy programme for the treatment of young opiate addicts was developed and tested, and shown through follow-ups extending over a period of two years to be successful. Some of the most important behaviour therapy procedures are introduced. A distinction is made between traditiona...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Vollmer H

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to clarify whether the mediation of homeless persons identified as mentally ill into the sociopsychiatric or the help-seeking system can be facilitated by a short-term intervention. METHOD:Probands with at least one psychiatric diagnosis according to ICD-10 (73 % of the sampl...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Längle G,Egerter B,Petrasch M,Albrecht-Dürr F

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author tries to convey an idea of the process which takes place during art therapy, quoting examples from her own work with mentally diseased patients. She considers the visual message resulting from the work of art created by the patient, as a process of communication which takes place between the patient and the...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wellendorf E

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Providing information about the disease and the way of coping with it has a central position in therapeutic interventions with families. By giving basic knowledge about schizophrenia to relatives we developed the practical conception of the psychoeducative relatives' group (information-group), a structured program, wh...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Scherrmann TE,Seizer HU,Rutow R,Vieten C

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Part II of this study will explore more accurately, how caregivers of schizophrenic patients perceive the financial burdens of the disease. METHOD:42 In-depth-interviews with parents and spouses of schizophrenic patients were analysed using a qualitative-interpretative technique. RESULTS:When talking about ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jungbauer J,Mory C,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In Germany, outpatient care is provided exclusively by physicians in private practice. This privilege is very strictly observed, with only a few exceptions. While psychiatric hospitals are routinely permitted to establish outpatient clinics, psychiatric departments of general hospitals, even if they serve a c...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Böcker FM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00