Search results for "Child Psychiatry"
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Childhood adversities and distress - The role of resilience in a representative sample.
2016
While adverse childhood experiences have been shown to contribute to adverse health outcomes in adulthood, specifically distress and somatic symptoms, few studies have examined their joint effects with resilient coping style on adult adjustment. Hence, we aim to determine the association between resilient coping and distress in participants with and without reported childhood adversities. A representative German community sample (N = 2508) between 14-92 years (1334 women; 1174 men) was examined by the short form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, the Brief Resilience Coping Scale, standardized scales of distress and somatoform symptoms. Childhood adversity was associated with reduced ad…
Disentangling the dynamics of social assistance: A linked survey—Register data cohort study of long-term social assistance recipients in Norway
2020
Social assistance is a means-tested benefit that is supposed to be a short-term, temporary economic support. Understanding why some individuals are in repeated or continuous need of social assistance is thus of obvious policy relevance, but the dynamics of social assistance receipt remain poorly understood. In 2005, a survey among long-term recipients of social assistance in Norway collected data on (a) childhood disadvantages, (b) health status, (c) health behaviors, (d) psychological resources, and (e) social ties, in addition to basic sociodemographic information. This rich survey data has been linked with tax register data from 2005–2013, enabling us to explore the detailed characterist…
Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30) among older people living at home
2012
Bjørg Dale, Ulrika Söderhamn, Olle SöderhamnCentre for Caring Research – Southern Norway, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Agder, Grimstad, NorwayIntroduction: The incidence and prevalence of mental problems among older people are difficult to map because the causes are often complex and the symptoms manifest in a range of ways. Therefore, there is a need for robust and useful instruments for screening mental problems in this group. One instrument used in Norway and around the world is the 30-item version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-30). Nevertheless, studies testing reliability and validity of the Norwegian version are …
Long-Term Behavioral Programming Induced by Peripuberty Stress in Rats Is Accompanied by GABAergic-Related Alterations in the Amygdala
2014
Stress during childhood and adolescence is a risk factor for psychopathology. Alterations in γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), the main inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain, have been found following stress exposure and fear experiences and are often implicated in anxiety and mood disorders. Abnormal amygdala functioning has also been detected following stress exposure and is also implicated in anxiety and social disorders. However, the amygdala is not a unitary structure; it includes several nuclei with different functions and little is known on the potential differences the impact of early life stress may have on this system within different amygdaloid nuclei. We aimed here to evaluate pote…
"Glemmer at de ikke er eget kjøtt og blod" : en kasusstudie om tilknytningsrelatert tilrettelegging ogveiledning når små barn flytter i fosterhjem /
2010
Masteroppgave i psykisk helsearbeid- Universitetet i Agder 2010 The purpose of this study was to find out if the child welfare system can get help in a practical method to guide fosterparents in a way that care could promote, and lead to secure attachment of children placed in foster care. The background for this study is based on the theory of attachment from Bowlby. The problem area was confined to the use of “Parent Attachment Diary” and its function as a tool to guide foster parents when they accept infants between the ages of 10 and 28 months.The study is carried out as a single case study based on a foster family without biological offspring, and their foster children, one of whom is …
Ungdom og "åpne samtaler i nettverk" : ungdom som har det vanskelig og nettverk som prøver å være til hjelp
2010
Masteroppgave i psykisk helsearbeid- Universitetet i Agder 2010 This study is based on the project "Prosjekt Felles utvikling," in Vest-Agder. This project was meant to improve the expertise of professionals in the health services and the schools in the youths’ communities, and thus contribute to the improvement of mental health. Support for young people with difficulties in various areas would be given by means of network meetings where one pursued dialogue through "open conversations." The purpose of this study was to collect experiences from youths who had received this method in Flekkefjord, and thereby evaluate and contribute to adjustments of the method. The study is based on qualitat…
Samtaler gir samhold- der tanker og følelser settes i sving : en kvalitativ studie av et psykisk helsefremmende tiltak i videregående skole
2010
Masteroppgave i psykisk helsearbeid- Universitetet i Agder 2010 This study is a qualitative study of a mental health promotion intervention in a secondary school in Vest Agder, Norway. In this intervention clinicians from Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health at Sørlandet sykehus visits ordinary school classes and facilitates an open dialogue on various topics of life. The aim of this study is to evaluate and describe this intervention through an exploring of the students experience and understanding of it. The data of the study has consisted of 59 texts written by students who participated. The data was analyzed through a phenomenological hermeneutical method with the purpose of…
"..Litt mer frem med brystkassa for helsesøstre og den jobben de gjør" : psykisk helsearbeid i skolen: læreres beskrivelser og erfaringer omkring hel…
2010
Masteroppgave i psykisk helsearbeid- Universitetet i Agder 2010 The background for this project is adolescent mental health and collaboration between school nurses and teachers. Surveys show challenges connected to this kind of work. The intention is to reveal knowledge aiming school nurses and leaders of public health service, for improving the quality of collaboration. The topic is: “How do school teachers describe and experience the school nurse’s acting and role, concerning student mental health service?” Data material is collected by semi-structured interviews of six teachers practicing in secondary classes. The conversations are digitally taped and systematic text condensation is used…
A brief version of the Pediatric Inventory for Parents (PIP) in Spanish population: Stress of main family carers of chronic paediatric patients.
2018
A chronic illness in childhood has a negative impact on the paediatric patient and on family functioning. Psychological stress in parents influences the level of adjustment to the illness of their children. The Pediatric Inventory for Parents (PIP) was designed to measure stress in parents whose child has a chronic illness or requires prolonged medical monitoring. The main objective of this study is to provide a brief version of the Spanish translation of the PIP, across a sample consisting of 465 main familial caregivers (85.2% female, n = 396) between 27 and 67 years old ([Formula: see text] = 44.13; SD = 5.35) of paediatric patients between 9 and 18 years old ([Formula: see text] = 12.10…
Post traumatic survival : a study of Cambodian resilience
2012
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Agder, Faculty of Humanities and Education - 2012 Among refugee survivors of war, torture and human rights abuses, the waiting lists for rehabilitation increase daily. How can war-refugees best be assisted? The experience of earlier refugee groups has remained a largely untapped resource in this work. This study sets out to discover what successful survivors of the Khmer Rouge have found instrumental for their survival and mental health. The aim is to make a contribution to the understanding of resilience, here understood as the ability to recover from misfortune or change, and to the psychosocial rehabilitation of survivors of war crimes and other traum…