scholarly journals Appraising the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual against Recovery philosophies in elderly dementia

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 22-30
Author(s):  
Robyn Aldrich
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gerontological Social Workers ◽  
Psychosocial Models ◽  
Practice Skills

This article looks at the history of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) classification system, its role and limitations, while making comparisons and contrasts to Recovery philosophies in relation to elderly dementia from a social work perspective. It was found that the clinician, caregiver and patient can all play a role in Recovery, and while not comparable the DSM complements psychosocial models of Recovery. It was also found that with the diversification and expansion of an increasing ageing population, gerontological social workers will need to modify and adapt practice skills and interventions as changes in evidence-based practices of Recovery and the DSM are disseminated at a faster rate.

Prevalence of Premenstrial Disphoric Disorder Associated Factors among Students of Tabor Secondary and Preparatory School in Hawassa City, Ethiopia Cross Sectional

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mulugeta Gobena Tadesse ◽  
Dereje Dirago Dire ◽  
Yacob Yacob Abraham
Keyword(s):  
Associated Factors ◽  
Depressive Disorders ◽  
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder ◽  
Emotional Symptoms ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
History Of ◽  
Menstruating Women

Abstract Background: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD)-is a severe and disabling form of premenstrual Syndrome affecting 3-8% of menstruating women. The disorder consists of a cluster of affective, behavioral and somatic symptoms that recur monthly during the luteal phase the menstrual cycle. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) was added to the list of depressive disorders in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders in 2013. The exact pathogenesis of the disorder is still unclear.Objective: To assess the prevalence of PMDD and its associated factors among students of Hawassa tabor secondary and preparatory school.Method: A cross sectional institutional based was conducted among 351 randomly selected female students of Hawassa tabor school. Data was collected by three students were facilitate the works with closed ended structured questionnaire and they was trained on how to collect the data. The collected data was entered, analyzed and cleaned by SPS.Results: prevalence of premenstrual dysphoric disorder in this study was 76.9%. Of each symptom is more than ninety present or 324 (92.3%) respondents can’t have experience unpleasant physical or emotional symptoms peculiar to the five days before the onset of menses & 27(7.7%) participants have show the symptoms. Among those 26 (7.4%) have present for the past ≥3 consecutive cycles. 46 (13.1%) have family history of such symptoms.Conclusions: These findings have implications for both women and medical providers, who should be aware that PMS symptoms are prevalent and often distressing, yet also understand that the severity of symptoms may remit over time.

Substance Use Disorders

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
F Gerard Moeller
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Channel Blockers ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
History Of ◽  
Abused Drugs ◽  
Nmda Receptor Channel

There is a consistent body of evidence showing that substance abuse and dependence can worsen preexisting medical conditions, can temporarily mimic medical and psychiatric disorders, and can themselves cause medical problems, including life-threatening overdose. Substance use disorders are common in young and middle-aged persons: the lifetime prevalence of these syndromes, including alcoholism, is over 20% for men and about 15% for women. This chapter discusses dependence, abuse, substance use disorder, and substance-induced disorders involving depressants, stimulants, opioids, cannabinoids, hallucinogens, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor channel blockers, and inhalants. Epidemiology, etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis (including clinical assessment and laboratory tests), and treatment are reviewed. Treatment of intoxication, overdose, withdrawal, and rehabilitation is discussed. A figure illustrates the neurocircuitry of addiction. Tables describe the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) diagnostic criteria for abuse and dependence; frequently misused drugs; neural effects of commonly abused drugs; the natural history of drug dependence; conditions affecting the outcome of urinary drug tests; and pharmacologic options for treatment of drug overdose. This chapter contains 1 figure , 6 tables and 112 references

Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorders in DSM-IV: Scientific Basis and Implications for Education

1993 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith McBurnett ◽  
Benjamin B. Lahey ◽  
Linda J. Pfiffner
Keyword(s):  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Field Trials ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
Symptom List

The category of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its diagnostic criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) have undergone numerous revisions. The history of these revisions is briefly presented, followed by a summary of results of the Field Trials for the forthcoming fourth edition, the DSM-IV, regarding ADHD. The revised symptom list and empirical determination of symptom cutpoints resulted in increased reliability and predictive validity for educational impairment, as operationalized by measures of academic productivity and accuracy, for the new criteria. Three subtypes emerged, including a new subtype of predominantly hyperactive. The relevance, functions, and limitations of DSM-IV diagnosis for educational assessment of ADHD are discussed.

History of the Personality Disorders Narcissism and Psychopathic Personality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Lunbeck
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Psychopathic Personality ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Run Up ◽  
National Decline

Psychopathic personality (a term that has been largely supplanted in psychologists’ and psychiatrists’ nosologies by anti-social personality disorder) and narcissism are venerable, widely used, and fiercely contested categories of personality disorder. Psychopathic personality was originally delineated in the early years of the 20th century to encompass behavior that was, in experts’ estimation, decidedly not normal but that fit none of the other categories of mental disease. Critics of the diagnosis claimed it was but another label for individuals’ non-conformity with social norms, used to punish the poor and marginal. Narcissism has had an even more tumultuous history than psychopathy. Referring simultaneously to traits considered pathological (grandiosity, exploitativeness, manipulativeness) and to traits thought desirable (high self-esteem, capacity for leadership and authority), narcissism has been at the center of debates over national decline and the character of the modal American for the past half-century. Both categories have also sparked controversy along the trait/ state, dimensional/ categorical divide that flared in the run-up to the publication of the 5th edition of psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 2013. Thousands of papers have attempted to resolve the ambiguities surrounding both diagnoses, but these ambiguities have proven productive (of research and new knowledge) and are unlikely to be resolved soon.

The Absence of Evidence-Based Practices (EBPs) in the Treatment of Sexual Abusers: Recommendations for Moving Toward the Use of a True EBP Model

Sexual Abuse ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 679-705
Author(s):  
Adam Deming ◽  
Jerry L. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Methodological Quality ◽  
Treatment Effectiveness ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Treatment Approaches ◽  
Professional Discipline ◽  
History Of

Despite a continued evolution of the field of sexual abuser treatment toward a distinct professional discipline with clinicians using an increasing variety of treatment approaches, there is no consensus regarding the strength of our various clinical interventions as evidence-based practices (EBPs). This article provides a brief history of the development and goals of EBPs in medicine and mental health, and a review of the earnest efforts of researchers within the field to establish treatment approaches with sexual abusers as evidence-based. An appraisal of the current status of EBP’s with sexual abusers is provided. Although there have been improvements in the methodological quality of treatment outcome research with sexual abusers, divergent opinions about treatment effectiveness remain, and the field has not yet agreed on a system or set of criteria for what constitutes “evidence.” We contend that clinical practice has been influenced as much, or more, by new paradigms that are intuitively meaningful and perceived as needed than it has by what has been determined to be scientifically efficacious. This trend and other processes in our field that seem to be slowing the development of EBPs with sexual abusers are discussed. Recommendations for conducting evidence-based reviews and moving the field of sexual abuser treatment toward the use of a true EBP model are provided.

Where Are the Social Workers? One Social Worker’s Road to Active Opposition to the New DSM

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Carney
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Interrater Reliability ◽  
Psychosocial Treatment ◽  
Biomedical Model ◽  
Treatment Interventions ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychoactive Medications

This article consists of a topical/historical compilation of events surrounding the protests that stalked the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DSM-5) prior to and since its publication in May 2013, including a national boycott launched in February of this year. To summarize, the new DSM has been challenged for its lack of construct validity and its poor interrater reliability; for its reliance on the biomedical model to explain causality, to the exclusion of environmental and psychosocial factors; for its medicalization of the disorders it proposes to include in the new DSM and its consequent reliance on psychoactive medications for treatment of these disorders, again to the virtual exclusion of other largely psychosocial treatment interventions; and, ultimately, for its continued pathologization of human behaviors ordinarily considered normative. This article concludes by questioning the hegemonic role assumed by psychiatry in determining the categorization of disordered behaviors with no input from other professions and mental health system stakeholders. Social workers and the organizations that represent them, particularly the National Association of Social Workers, are also challenged for their continued passive acceptance of a very flawed DSM.

Predictability of dropout in unipolar depressed outpatients

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
E Hoencamp ◽  
PMJ Haffmans ◽  
HJ Duivenvoorden
Keyword(s):  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Psychiatric History ◽  
Symptom Checklist ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Strategy Study ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
History Of

SummaryIn a three phase sequential treatment strategy study involving 119 depressed outpatients, a total of 31 patients (26.7%) stopped treatment prematurely due to side-effects (21/31), aggravation of symptoms (3/31), non-compliance (4/31), and non-treatment related events (3/31). At baseline, no significant differences were found on sociodemographic and psychiatric data between patients who did or did not drop out. As predictors of dropout eight domains of data concerning psychiatric history, premorbid history, symptomatology, personality, and social adjustment were used. Using a logistic linear regression analysis, only three variables were related to dropout. Patients with a history of alcohol use or poor social functioning according to axis V of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-III-R had a higher chance to drop out, while patients with a sleep disturbance according to the Symptom Checklist (SCL)-90 had a smaller chance to drop out.

scholarly journals The Need for Evidence-Based Practice in the Foster Care Field among Social Workers in Gulf Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Hassan Arab
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Gulf Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Field ◽  
Temporary Solution

The demand for Evidence-Based Practice "EBP" has been growing for a long-term and yet, there isn't a reply to this growth. Social Workers continue to rely on personal perspective, common sense, tradition when working with their clients in the foster care field as well as their personal beliefs in their assessment and intervention plans. Throughout a journey around the GCC countries to compare the adoption systems, and the social worker's work perspective in all the assessment stages, and tracing to intervention plans or treatment methods; it was noted that social workers still consume and revive an environment free of any evidence-based practices. In order to patch this glitch a sample of a practice sheet that consists of theoretical framework can be used as a temporary solution in order to provide an evidence-based practices in the foster care field.

Adolescents: Practice Interventions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Hussey
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Direct Practice ◽  
Community Needs

This chapter summarizes literature and research related to advances in direct practice work with adolescents. Social workers are on the forefront of developing and utilizing a variety of evidence-based practices to address complex client and community needs.

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