The Impact of Unresolved Parental Conflict on Patients with Psychiatric Problems: A Clinical Observation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lai‐Yin Chow ◽  
Wai‐Kwok Kam ◽  
Viviana Cheng ◽  
Wai‐Yung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Psychiatric Problems

Custodial Arrangements and Parental Conflict following Divorce: The Impact on Children's Adjustment

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Twaite ◽  
Anya K. Luchow
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Interparental Conflict ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Divorced Families ◽  
Individual Basis ◽  
Children's Adjustment ◽  
Children’S Adjustment ◽  
The Family ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Impact

This article presents a review of the substantial literature concerned with the question of how children from divorced families adjust under different custodial arrangements. Existing empirical research tends to be methodologically weak, and the results reported have been inconsistent. Moreover, the level of interparental conflict present in the family before and after the divorce appears to be a powerful mediating variable that affects children's adaptation to different custodial situations. It is concluded that custodial decisions should be made on an individual basis, with no presumption that custody should be awarded to either the mother or the father. It is clear that regardless of the decision regarding custody, parents should be educated regarding the importance of avoiding overt hostility and establishing a workable co-parenting relationship.

scholarly journals The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Social Stressor: Psychological and Psychiatric Risk Factors (Based on Foreign Studies)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Z.V. Lukovtseva
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Psychiatric Problems

Objective. Systematization of the main factors of psychological and psychiatric risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, identified in foreign studies. Background. The need to clarify ideas about the determination of psychological and psychiatric problems caused by the socially stressful impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is dictated primarily by the demands of practice. The relevance of actions in this direction is determined by the continuing instability of the epidemiological and socio-economic situation, the need for prompt and wide coverage of those in need with programs of psychological and psychiatric care, the fragmentation and inconsistency of existing information about the impact of the pandemic on the mental health of the population. Methodology. A theoretical analysis of literature sources describing foreign studies of psychological and psychiatric risk factors against the background of a pandemic was carried out; using a comparative analytical method, the meaning and degree of knowledge of situational and individual factors are determined. Conclusions. The general features of studies conducted by psychologists and psychiatrists from different countries against the background of the coronavirus threat were revealed (the predominance of the remote format, the reduction in the variety and volume of diagnostic tools, the use of large-scale samples). The main factors of psychological and psychiatric risk affecting the population in the context of the spread of coronavirus are divided into situational and individual. The factors of the first group are differentiated according to their degree of specificity for the COVID-19 pandemic, while in the second group, socio-demographic and medico-psychological factors are distinguished. It is shown that individual psychological characteristics that can determine the nature of a person’s response to a pandemic remain the least studied and clarification of their composition is an urgent scientific and practical task.

Impact of Parental Conflict and Emotional Abuse on Children and Families

Partner Abuse ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Sturge-Apple ◽  
Michael A. Skibo ◽  
Patrick T. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Family System ◽  
Family Stress ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Couple Conflict ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Impact

The goal of this review is to summarize empirical research conducted over the past several decades examining the impact of parental conflict and emotional abuse on children and families. Toward this goal, four different subtopics are categorized and reviewed. These include the impact of mutual couple conflict, verbal, and emotional abuse/control on children; the impact of father-perpetrated verbal and emotional abuse/control on children; the impact of mother-perpetrated verbal and emotional abuse/control on children; and the impact of partner abuse on the family system including consideration of family stress, boundaries, alliances, and family structure. A review of the literature revealed 105 empirical papers, which are referenced in tables. Overarching theoretical and conceptual frameworks proposed within the field of interparental conflict and child development are used to organize and distill the broad findings evident across these studies. Recommendations for future avenues of research are presented.

scholarly journals Platelet abnormalities in Huntington’s disease

2018 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélèna L Denis ◽  
Jérôme Lamontagne-Proulx ◽  
Isabelle St-Amour ◽  
Sarah L Mason ◽  
Jesse W Rowley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Huntington's Disease ◽  
Huntington’S Disease ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Vascular Abnormalities ◽  
Matched Healthy Control ◽  
Healthy Control ◽  
Multiple Cell ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Psychiatric Problems ◽  
Platelet Depletion

Huntington’s disease (HD) is a hereditary disorder that typically manifests in adulthood with a combination of motor, cognitive and psychiatric problems. The pathology is caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene which results in the production of an abnormal protein, mutant huntingtin (mHtt). This protein is ubiquitously expressed and known to confer toxicity to multiple cell types. We have recently reported that HD brains are also characterised by vascular abnormalities, which include changes in blood vessel density/diameter as well as increased blood–brain barrier (BBB) leakage.ObjectivesSeeking to elucidate the origin of these vascular and BBB abnormalities, we studied platelets that are known to play a role in maintaining the integrity of the vasculature and thrombotic pathways linked to this, given they surprisingly contain the highest concentration of mHtt of all blood cells.MethodsWe assessed the functional status of platelets by performing ELISA, western blot and RNA sequencing in a cohort of 71 patients and 68 age- and sex-matched healthy control subjects. We further performed haemostasis and platelet depletion tests in the R6/2 HD mouse model.ResultsOur findings indicate that the platelets in HD are dysfunctional with respect to the release of angiogenic factors and functions including thrombosis, angiogenesis and vascular haemostasis.ConclusionTaken together, our results provide a better understanding for the impact of mHtt on platelet function.

Epidemic Encephalitis: Some Psychical Sequeló

1924 ◽  
Vol 70 (288) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
New York State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Epidemic Encephalitis ◽  
After Effects ◽  
State Hospitals ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
Clinical Records ◽  
Psychiatric Problems

Numerous observations have lately been recorded in medical literature on the acute manifestations of epidemic encephalitis; but the late after-effects, especially those of a psychotic nature, have been seldom described. Kirby and Davis (1) have emphasized this, and have recorded 18 cases in their early and later stages. They remark that “a satisfactory solution of certain of the psychiatric problems presented by this disease will require a longer period for clinical observation of cases than has elapsed since the appearance of the epidemic of 1918–19.” The following series of 10 cases is offered as a contribution to the clinical records of the sequelae of the disease, especially from the psychiatric point of view. Eight of them originated in connection with the epidemic of 1918–20. The remaining two are of remoter origin, and are admitted on account of their close resemblance to the others, and of their special interest from the point of view of classification and prognosis. Five of them (3, 5, 6, 9 and 10) are, or have been, in mental hospitals. In this connection the only statistics available to me are those quoted by Kirby and Davis (loc. cit.) for the New York State Hospitals in the hospital year from July 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, when, out of 6,500 admissions, only 20 were considered to be probably cases of epidemic encephalitis. (But the epidemic was subsiding at that time.) The 5 cases mentioned should therefore be of considerable interest; and it is one of the purposes of this paper to show that a more thorough knowledge of the results of this protean disease would lead to its being diagnosed more frequently among the cases, even those of very long residence, in mental hospitals.

An Examination of the Developmental Impact of Continuing Destructive Parental Conflict on Young Adult Children

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Fozard ◽  
Peter Gubi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Role Reversal ◽  
Parental Conflict ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parent Child Relationships ◽  
Parent Child

This research investigates the impact of destructive parental conflict in continuously married parents, on young adult children. Four trainee or practicing counselors, who had personal experience of growing up in families in which there was continuing destructive parental conflict, were interviewed. The data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The findings resulted in four superordinate themes: feelings of loss, impact to family structure, trauma associated with the conflict, and impacts to personal and professional development, within which were 12 subordinate themes. Short-term impacts focused on mental health and self-esteem, and loss of security at home. Long-term impacts focused on future relationships, defensiveness, parent–child role-reversal, impacts to career, trauma, and parent–child relationships. The results demonstrate the necessity for support to be made available to children who are exposed to destructive parental conflict in parents who remain married, as well as to the adult children of continuing destructive parental conflict.

scholarly journals Psychiatric Problems of University Students

1966 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.M. Boyce ◽  
D.S. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
University Students ◽  
Clinical Observation ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Academic Competition ◽  
Questionnaire Method ◽  
The University ◽  
Psychiatric Problems

Student patients were investigated by use of the questionnaire method and clinical observation during the years 1962–4. Questionnaire results revealed that patients, significantly more often than a group of controls, had attended one or more universities prior to the University of Western Ontario, had no extra-curricular activity, had not fulfilled their father's wishes in regard to course, smoked, smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day, were not abstainers, had chronic or recurring illness, had changed courses, lived in a room or apartment, were either the first or last child, slept six hours or less, had changed in weight by 10 lb. in the preceding three months, and had no faith preference or affiliation. Depression was most commonly encountered. A relatively high number of students in English and post-graduate students were seen. Two groups of ill students who were friends or intimates to a degree were encountered and the presence of ill teachers or other leading figures as a focus in these groups was described. Increased academic competition served as a stress for some. Disturbed family inter-relationships and current social expectations were among factors which appeared to favour the development of illness.

scholarly journals Sexual Abuse and Sexual Risk Behavior: Beyond the Impact of Psychiatric Problems

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 473-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Houck ◽  
N. R. Nugent ◽  
C. M. Lescano ◽  
A. Peters ◽  
L. K. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Sexual Risk Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Psychiatric Problems
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