[Negotiating the Space Between Openness and Rejection - Mental Health Nurses' Attitudes Towards Risk Behaviour of their Patients - A Qualitative Study].

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the non-cognitive symptoms in 153 consecutive dementia patients admitted to our psychiatric ward or seen at the gerontopsychiatric ambulance and Memory Clinic. METHODS:We used the Global Deterioration Scale, the Hachinski Ischaemia Score, the Hamilton Psychiatric Rating Scale for Depression, and th...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rainer M,Mucke HA,Masching A,Haushofer M

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:The interrelationship and predictive validity of certain outcome predictors were studied on 54 young schizophrenic patients. In the first year after outburst the illness shows a great variability and the course seems to be open. Neither the premorbid social adjustment nor the amount of negative symptoms seem to predic...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hubschmid T,Perrin N,Ciompi L

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study investigates the effects of probationary work for psychiatric patients in community-based small businesses during their inpatient or day care. METHODS:Patients were evaluated for working capacity, psychopathology, motivation for work and patient satisfaction (n = 69). RESULTS:The results confirm ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Längle G,Köster M,Mayenberger M,Günthner A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure and functioning of a group therapy comprising all patients of a psychiatric ward is described in terms of psychoanalytic and group dynamics, behaviour therapy and cognitive psychology. 34 acutely-ill patients with heterogenic diagnoses reported their experiences with this group technique at day of discharge....

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmidt LG

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions determining statutory offences as represented by indictable sex offences, have been amended and revised by the 4th Penal Reform Law of the Federal German Penal Code, in 1973, under the heading "Indictable Offences against Sexual Self-Determination". This heading, which is meant to convey a programme, ho...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rasch W,Sassenberg U

更新日期：1983-05-01 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:Assessing long-term effects of a family systems therapy approach (systems therapy methods in acute psychiatry, SYMPA) on occupational stress and interdisciplinary cooperation of team members in three German psychiatric hospitals. METHODS:Pre-post-follow-up survey using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Haun MW,Kordy H,Ochs M,Schweitzer J,Zwack J

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:This is the rare case of a woman first diagnosed with Huntington's disease at the age of 86. She was first seen at our hospital in 1999 for evaluation of dementia. Prior to her hospitalization, she had been treated with Melperone for restlessness. There was no essential psychopathology other than mild dementia (MMSE 2...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jähnel M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To relieve the burden on family caregivers of dementia patients, the utilisation of day hospitals should be increased. Therefore, the predictive variables for utilisation as well as family caregivers' views regarding the quality of day hospitals must be investigated. METHODS:The cross-sectional study was car...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Donath C,Bleich S,Grässel E

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In order to develop gender-sensitive services, there is a need to better understand coping among men with depression. The study aims to analyze the meaning of gender- and work-related roles for illness theories and coping among men with depression. METHODS:Based on a latent class analysis of three types of m...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Staiger T,Stiawa M,Mueller-Stierlin AS,Kilian R,Beschoner P,Gündel H,Becker T,Frasch K,Panzirsch M,Schmauß M,Krumm S

更新日期：2020-03-01 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：:In this paper criteria for the assessment of the ability of psychiatric patients to give an informed consent are presented. Legal and medical aspects including jurisdiction are discussed. Some elements for a judgement of an informed consent are proposed. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Neubauer H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The "Center of Epidemiologic Studies - Depression scale" (CES-D) is a well-known screening tool for depression. Until now the criterion validity of the German version of the CES-D was not investigated in a sample of the adult general population. METHODS:508 study participants of the Austrian general populati...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jahn R,Baumgartner JS,van den Nest M,Friedrich F,Alexandrowicz RW,Wancata J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Although English is medicine's lingua franca, practising physicians in Germany express the need for articles in German. This study aimed at surveying the number and characteristics of German-language psychiatric journals in Germany. METHODS:Journals were identified by the standard handbook "Fachmedien Gesund...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Heidenreich U,Baethge C

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All the different branches in forensic psychiatry have to face identical handicaps resulting from the difficulties in cooperation with the law-court. For the psychiatrist, his identity as a therapist is contradictory to his forensic tasks. The paper deals with the resulting dilemmata (partiality v. neutrality; diagnos...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Küchenhoff J

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Shared decision-making during the course of treatment is important for people with severe mental illness. However, there is still insufficient knowledge about how people with mental illness view decisions, what kind of decisions are made and how patients experience and perceive the process of participation in...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Loos S,Neumann P,Arnold K,Slade M,Fiorillo A,Krogsgaard Bording M,Ivanka T,Kawohl W,Puschner B

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In a cross-sectional study in 79 schizophrenic patients the quality of life (QOL) of a group of community-based patients under supervision of an outpatient unit (n = 47) and a group of long-stay patients in an inpatient rehabilitation centre in the same area (n = 32) was compared. METHODS:The patients' QOL w...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kemmler G,Meise U,Tasser A,Liensberger D,Schifferle I,Braitenberg M,Schwitzer J,Hinterhuber H

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:Migrants belong to the hard-to-reach group in health and preventive care. Essential criteria for the sustainable effectiveness of preventive and health promotion consist in the proper selection of target groups and successfully approaching them. The knowledge of possible barriers that make the access to preventive car...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Walter U,Salman R,Krauth C,Machleidt W

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：:The purpose of this study was to develop a behavioral rehabilitation program for patients with long-term nonspecific symptoms following craniocerebral trauma. In 47 patients we analyzed symptoms typical of "illness behavior" (e.g. complaining tendency, depression, irritability, psychosomatic pain, problems in job perf...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Legewie-Pertzborn H,Legewie H,Foit J,Brinkmann R

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the compelling evidence for a strong heritability of schizophrenia, the aetiology and genetic underpinnings of this disabling disease still remain unclear. Reasonable explanations for current problems in identifying candidate genes for schizophrenia are the complexity of its genetic background as well as the h...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Opgen-Rhein C,Neuhaus A,Urbanek C,Dettling M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:How can patients and staff participate in redesigning psychiatric procedures through survey research? METHODS:Using interviews with circular-hypothetical questioning, 58 patients and 30 staff members of a psychiatric department of a general hospital were interviewed about their preferences for change and con...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Scheidt P,Schweitzer J,Maischein L,Tebbe B,Hirschenberger N,Enssle M,Krause U,Voigtländer W

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:There are highly effective treatments either in inpatient or day hospital settings available for elderly with major depression. It is important to consider some specific needs of elderly people (e. g. higher somatic comorbidities). METHODS:On the base of a large routine data set (139 307 patients in hospital...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Godemann F,Seemüller F,Schneider A,Wolff-Menzler C

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the rare case of a 19-year old man, first diagnosed with schizophrenia but finally shown to have subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE). Initial symptoms were hallucinations and negative symptoms until the onset of a seizure. Changes in the CSF, MRI, EEG and increasing neurological symptoms led to the co...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Jähnel M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies [5,6] on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among migrants describe a higher rate of schizophrenic disorders. Other studies [2,3] as well as DSM-IV [1] point out that affective disorders with psychotic symptoms can be misdiagnosed as schizophrenic or schizoaffective disorders. We report on a patie...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lambert M,Haasen C,Halilovic H

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00