[Some practical aspects of the "new Italian psychiatry" demonstrated with Trieste as an example (author's transl)].

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Estimates for the proportion of involuntary admissions and coercive measures applied in general mental health care and in residential care for the elderly were developed. Sector-specific rates and quotas for Germany as a whole and for the sixteen Federal States were calculated, and the change of these indicat...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Salize HJ,Spengler A,Dressing H

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Based on the Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS) we developed and validated the Mannheimer Craving Scale (MaCS) for quantitative measurements of craving across different substances and suitable for multiple substance abuse. METHODS:The MaCS questionnaire measures obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the c...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Nakovics H,Diehl A,Geiselhart H,Mann K

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a questionnaire the therapists of the Psychiatric Hospital in Ravensburg Weissenau were requested for information on the suicidality and symptomato-logy of their patients. This was done to assess the acute and chronic suicidality prevalent in a psychiatric hospital. The number of acute and chronic suicidal patie...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmölzer C,Wolfersdorf M,Hole G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the conditional factors underlying a premature termination of vocational rehabilitation programs. METHODS:123 rehabilitation participants were assessed prospectively regarding sociodemographic and psychopathological variables, level of functioning, subjective health, intellectual and work capaci...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Watzke S,Galvao A,Gawlik B,Hühne M,Brieger P

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHO and WPA recently inaugurated worldwide "anti-stigma-campaigns". On this background the exploration discrimination of against the mentally ill of the term stigma and its meaning is useful. Stigma dates from ancient Greece and was meant to be a visible sign of disgrace. Today stigma and stigma management are sociolo...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Finzen A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Contrary to in-patient psychiatric care, quality assurance in the area of psychiatrists in outpatient practice is hardly in use. METHODS:Neuroleptic therapy regarding the following quality criteria was examined for 6 months in an outpatient psychiatric practice: choice of neuroleptics, dosage and combination o...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Haberfellner EM,Rittmannsberger H

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In the context of the current discussion of integrating rehabilitative elements into the (acute) treatment of patients with mental disorders, it is investigated what rehabilitative elements actually are and whether these elements are considered in existing guidelines. METHODS/RESULTS:An expert-based consensu...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Watzke B,Büscher C,Koch U,Schulz H

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kufs' disease is a very rare type of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. A case of a 52 year old man with dementia is described. The cause for patient's dementia was the adult type (Kufs' disease) of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. The diagnosis based on the histopathological post mortem-examination of the brain-tissue. A...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Kozian R,Kiszka T,Peter K

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Diagnoses-related clinical case grouping for an estimation of resource consumption for psychiatric inpatients analogue to the somatic medicine till now did not lead to sufficient prediction of costs. However, this is required when regarding increasing health costs from the economic perspective. METHOD:We inv...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Herwig U,Warnke I,Rössler W

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is unfortunate that mental patients with long-term hospitalisation patterns are still necessarily scheduled for long-term stay in mental hospitals and institutions designed for the care and treatment of psychiatric cases, since such institutions are characterized by a rather sterile, low-stimulation atmosphere unde...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schmidt-Michel PO,Konrad M,Heiter-Metzger B,Schiele G

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:Changes in the provision of psychiatric services within the last decennials are probably best understood if the impact of national socialism on clinical psychiatry is regarded. Many psychiatrists took part in the "Aktion T4" the organised killing of their patients, at least they did not resist campaigns directed to ki...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schaub R

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:According to the increasing number of foreign psychiatric patients in the German society, the influence of their linguistic integration on treatment characteristics is to be investigated. METHODS:With criteria of nationality and German language skills, data of 6151 in-patients was collected and statistically...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Künzler N,Garcia-Brand E,Schmauss M,Messer T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The planning of health care is primarily an administrative task. Service research supports the health administration in this task by supplying empirical data to objectify the need for care and ways to cater for that need. In this, service research on the one hand draws on descriptive and analytical data of epidemiolog...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Rössler W

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A therapeutic dwelling community (TDC) which has been in existence for more than 3 years, is described in respect to its history of origin and development outside existing psychiatric institutions or facilities. After having been confronted with the unsatisfactory follow-up care of a group of relatively young, in most...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Engelke W,Haselbeck H

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study aims to investigate organized and ritual child sexual abuse (i. e. networking perpetrator groups with ideological frameworks). METHODS:A qualitative content analysis was conducted on 33 reports by victims and contemporary witnesses. Inductive categories were formed with regard to the question, whic...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Schröder J,Behrendt P,Nick S,Briken P

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In comparison to metabolic syndrome, edema seems to be a rare occurrence in antipsychotic treatment. METHOD:In this paper, we report on two subjects with psychotic disorders who were found to have peripheral edema during olanzapine therapy. DISCUSSION:The theoretical background and the relevance of this obs...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wustmann T,Fiedler T,Gutmann P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The situation of persons with mental illness, who work in workshops for the handicapped, and the problems they have to deal with, are discussed. Concepts of the psychology of work, which nearly have not been recognized in the field of vocational rehabilitation are described. In a study in several workshops the relatio...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Sonnentag S

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE AND METHOD:In this paper we report about the situation of psychotherapeutic inpatient treatment in Bavarian state mental hospitals, based on data coming from surveys in those hospitals. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:22 State mental hospitals in Bavaria have 1217 beds for acute psychotherapy, proofed on the basis of...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Wolfersdorf M,Klein HE,Dose M

更新日期：2004-11-01 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：:On the basis of the rules of the Hamburg Law on Aid and Protective Measures in Mental Diseases, a psychiatric emergency service operates at night and on weekends. This emergency service is called upon to decide on the need for compulsory hospitalization and to prevent the same, if possible, via therapeutic alternative...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Spengler A,Strege W,Dörner K,Hagenah R,Meyberg U

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective Personal recovery as a key concept in mental health requests that people with severe mental illness need support in taking positive risks, especially from mental health nurses as key players in this context. In German-speaking countries, studies regarding positive risk-taking seem scarce. Attitude as a conce...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Burr C,Richter D

更新日期：2017-09-01 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: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：:13 patients with major depressive disorder, who responded well to the reversible MAO-A-inhibitor moclobemide after unsuccessful initial treatment with tri- or tetracyclic antidepressants were monitored under naturalistic outpatient therapy conditions with moclobemide plasma level control for an average of 7.4 months. ...

journal_title：Psychiatrische Praxis

authors： Carl G,Laux G

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：: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：: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