[Interactive Health Literacy, Sociodemographic Characteristics and the Uptake of Psychotherapeutic or Pharmacological Interventions - are there Social Inequalities in the Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder?]

abstract：:The authors report their three years experience with treating addicts (both alcoholics and users of prescription and illegal drugs) in a specialized unit employing a low-threshold admission policy. Difficulties as well as advantages of the concept are discussed. For the common treatment of patients addicted to differe...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Grischke-Silber J,Kling U,Rave-Schwank M

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Rates of admission, duration of hospitalization, chances of discharge and legal basis of admissions are analyzed with reference to the distances between the patients' domiciles and the hospital, basing on the figures which apply to the district hospitals Gabersee in Upper Bavaria. More patients from nearby are admitte...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Weyerer S,Dilling H

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy of flupentixol and risperidone were compared in a randomized double-blind study in 153 chronic schizophrenic patients. Flupentixol showed to be not inferior to risperidone concerning schizophrenic negative symptoms at week 8, 16 and 24. Positive symptoms and general psychopathology improved comparably, to...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Philipp M,Lesch OM,Schmauss M,Dose M,Glaser T

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aggression management trainings for staff have been implemented in many organizations of mental health care and disability care. The efficacy of such programmes has rarely been analysed. METHODS:A systematic review was conducted which contains all published evaluation studies on aggression management traini...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Richter D,Needham I

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:We present the theoretical basis and results of a comprehensive research project concerning the psychotherapeutic treatment of sexual offenders in an ambulant setting. The therapeutic sample (n = 86) consists of patients with the following symptoms: exhibitionism, child molestation and sexual aggressive acts towards w...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lohse H,Hauch M

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Little is known about the effectiveness and the cost of care for patients treated in vocational rehabilitation programs,although vocational therapy is an essential part of inpatient treatment and community care of patients with schizophrenia. METHODS:As a part of a randomised controlled trial in 5 centres, t...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Salize HJ,Schuh C,Reichenbacher M,Stamm K,Längle G,KN-Schizophrenie-Projektgruppe Arbeitsrehabilitation.

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since community mental health care started public attitudes towards mentally ill and mental health care had been development to an important influencing factor in planning mental health care and in rehabilitation of patients. This paper describes the historical development of research in public attitudes in psychiatry...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rössler W,Salize HJ

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manic disorders and bipolar psychoses have long been underdiagnosed in child and adolescent psychiatry. Scientific research has been rare as well. In particular in adolescence and young adulthood bipolar disorders are not easy to diagnose. Therefore these disorders should be included in differential diagnosis as resea...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Braun-Scharm H,Bilke O

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the development of an 9-year therapeutic relationship with a patient suffering from epilepsy and a severe personality disorder. Despite serious doubts in the beginning the patient gained an unexpected degree of independence. The development of the case indicates that it was decisive to prevent discontinuati...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schlicht F

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epileptic and diabetic patients with suicidal tendency are compared in a retrospective study, both types of patients being characterized by chronic disease and social handicaps. Both these groups are predominantly preoccupied with self-intoxication by tranquilisers and/or alcohol, whereas in the group of epileptics ex...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Möller A,Backmund H

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:Qualitative research methods give an opportunity to investigate the everyday reality of dealing with and understanding of chronic mental illness as a social reality in local context. By the reconstruction of the perspective of the mentally ill, their relatives and their professional caregivers we analyze the cultural ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Zaumseil M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rehabilitation programme at the University Clinic of Social Psychiatry, Berne, is described. The facility includes a half-way house and sheltered home in a suburb, where 20 psychiatric long-stay patients are trained for an independent life in the community. In a follow-up study 80 patients, mostly chronic schizophre...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hubschmid T,Pfister F,Spalinger J

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1939, Robert Faris and Warren Dunham published their pioneering work on "Mental disorders in urban areas". They investigated the distribution of mental disorders in Chicago. In the following decades, a number of studies using a similar design were carried out in various cities in the United States and in Europe, wh...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Riedel-Heller SG,Angermeyer MC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reflects the labour-situation of 67 DSM-III schizophrenic outpatients in an 8-year follow-up. About 50% of the patients had less than 20 hours of work a week on the average--most of them in work therapy or sheltered work-places. Many of them changed their location of work. Patients with an initially good pr...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Mönking HS,Buchkremer G,Hornung WP

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess and compare the validity of the German 15-item version and shortened versions of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) for early detection of depression in nursing home residents with mild to moderate cognitive impairment (MMSE ≥ 15). METHODS:Data from 92 patients were analysed. The Structural Clini...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Allgaier AK,Kramer D,Mergl R,Fejtkova S,Hegerl U

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polish psychiatry was since its origin deeply influenced by German (Austrian) and Russian psychiatry. After the German assault Polish psychiatric patients were the first victims of mass executions, and the first to be killed by new developed "gassing" technology. Especially cruel was the fate of Jewish patients. Germa...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Leidinger F

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there were multiple initiatives to modify course and outcome of schizophrenia by optimizing present psychopharmacologic strategies many unsolved problems still exist. There is no doubt that first generation antipsychotics reduce positive symptoms of psychosis but the impact on negative symptoms or disturbance...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Messer T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When founded about 1800, psychiatry was liable to both, philosophy and medicine, at least its liability to anthropological philosophy was accepted. After 150 years of increasingly unilateral medicalization with its fatal consequences for many patients the post war generation of psychiatrists were the first to re-estab...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Dörner K

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide information about occurrence and patterns of geriatric morbidity and need for long-term care in patients newly diagnosed with dementia compared to controls without dementia. METHODS:An analysis of administrative data was conducted to compare the geriatric outpatient diagnoses and the patterns of c...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Beekmann M,van den Bussche H,Glaeske G,Hoffmann F

更新日期：2012-07-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Delirium tremens and withdrawal seizures are serious complications of an alcohol withdrawal syndrome. This review presents the diagnostic procedures required in case of the occurrence of a withdrawal seizure and delirium tremens as well as possible treatment options including prophylactic medication regime...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Lutz UC,Batra A

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:High utilisers of psychiatric services are defined as a group of patients showing a great amount of service use, especially inpatient care, consequently causing immense costs. There is a lack of studies investigating differences between East and West Germany. METHODS:Service use and psychopathology were exam...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： von Rad K,Puschner B,Spießl H,Grempler J,Janssen B,Becker T,Freyberger H

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article reports on a catamnestic examination of patients of a crisis intervention center at a general hospital, conducted during the period from 1.5.1977 to 31.5.1978. A total of 560 admissions was recorded comprising 492 patients. Examination was carried out via an open questionnaire, plus data taken from the hos...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Hauck P,Wegener B

更新日期：1980-08-01 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：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：: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：:Anxiety, depressive and somatoform disorders are highly prevalent in primary care. Managing these disorders is time-consuming and requires strong commitment on behalf of the general practitioners (GPs). Furthermore, the resources for the management of these patients are limited by the increasing workload in primary ca...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Zimmermann T,Puschmann E,Porzelt S,Ebersbach M,Ernst A,Thomsen P,Scherer M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00