Psychoeducation an Effective Tool as Treatment Modality in  Mental Health

Psychoeducation is an adjunctive approach which has the immense potentialities to reduce the relapse as well as rehospitalization rates and mental health costs in relapsing psychiatric disorders. Psychoeducation is understood as systematic, structured, didactic information on the illness and its treatment options and psychoeducation aims to enable patients as well as family members to cope with the illness. This paper shows that how psycho education is an effective tool as treatment modality in mental health. Psycho education has very important place in treatment and rehabilitation of patients with psychiatric disorders. Psychoeducation give directions to individuals with mental disorders and their family member about nature, course and prognosis about illness.

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Psychologists call for closer look at poverty's mental health costs

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e309182005-026 ◽

2004 ◽

Author(s):

L. Winerman

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Costs ◽

Mental Health Costs

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Equalizing coverage for mental health and physical health would substantially reduce consumers' share of mental health costs

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e556742006-020 ◽

2001 ◽

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Physical Health ◽

Health Costs ◽

Mental Health Costs

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Editorial: ‘ No pain ‐ No gain ’ – Towards the inclusion of mental health costs in balanced "lockdown" decision‐making during health pandemics

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry ◽

10.1111/jcpp.13435 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Edmund J.S. Sonuga‐Barke

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Decision Making ◽

Health Costs ◽

Mental Health Costs

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Evolution of psychosocial burden and psychiatric symptoms in patients with psychiatric disorders during the Covid-19 pandemic

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience ◽

10.1007/s00406-021-01268-6 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Belz ◽

Philipp Hessmann ◽

Jonathan Vogelgsang ◽

Ulrike Schmidt ◽

Mirjana Ruhleder ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Disorders ◽

Psychiatric Disorders ◽

Stress Responses ◽

Psychiatric Symptoms ◽

High Stress ◽

Specific Treatment ◽

Time Range ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Psychosocial Burden

AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic highly impacts mental health worldwide. Patients with psychiatric disorders are a vulnerable risk population for worsening of their condition and relapse of symptoms. This study investigates the pandemic-related course of psychosocial burden in patients with pre-existing mental disorders. With the newly developed Goettingen psychosocial Burden and Symptom Inventory (Goe-BSI) psychosocial burden has been traced retrospectively (1) before the pandemic (beginning of 2020), (2) at its beginning under maximum lockdown conditions (March 2020), and (3) for the current state after maximum lockdown conditions (April/May 2020). The Goe-BSI also integrates the Adjustment Disorder New Module (ADNM-20), assesses general psychiatric symptoms, and resilience. A total of 213 patients covering all major psychiatric disorders (ICD-10 F0-F9) were interviewed once in the time range from April, 24th until May 11th, 2020. Across all diagnoses patients exhibited a distinct pattern with an initial rise followed by a decline of psychosocial burden (p < 0.001, partial η2 = 0.09; Bonferroni-corrected pairwise comparisons between all three time-points: p < 0.05 to 0.001). Female gender and high ADNM-20 scores were identified as risk factors for higher levels and an unfavorable course of psychosocial burden over time. Most psychiatric symptoms remained unchanged. Trajectories of psychosocial burden vary in parallel to local lockdown restrictions and seem to reflect an adaptive stress response. For female patients with pre-existing mental disorders and patients with high-stress responses, timely and specific treatment should be scheduled. With the continuation of the pandemic, monitoring of long-term effects is of major importance, especially when long incubation times for the development of mental health issues are considered.

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Mental Health Costs

JAMA ◽

10.1001/jama.2009.1317 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 302 (11) ◽

pp. 1162

Author(s):

Bridget M. Kuehn

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Costs ◽

Mental Health Costs

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Study of Mental Health Status of the Family Members of Disappeared Persons of Kashmir

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0301.118 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Suhail Ahmad Bhat ◽

Dr. Shawkat Ahmad Shah

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Family Member ◽

Family Members ◽

Family Type ◽

Emotional Control ◽

Normal Person ◽

Frequency Method ◽

Significant Difference ◽

The Family ◽

Anxiety Depression

While trying to portray the picture of mayhem and woes of family members of those who disappeared, it fails to fully convey the agony of the survivors. Their emotions are so intense that a normal person can hardly help his emotional shutters. Even a single experience with a family member of a disappeared person makes one to ponder that how unbearable it is to be a mother, father, wife or son of disappeared person. Their search for the disappeared family member along with hardships of daily life, social stigmas, economic and educational needs have left their mental health par below average level. One finds the words of depression, stress, anxiety, sleeplessness and melancholy in their everyday lexicon. With such a despondent picture of family members of disappeared persons in mind, the present attempt was made to study the nature of their mental health. To achieve this objective, data was collected from 217 family members of disappeared persons of Kashmir. The frequency method and t-test were used to obtain the results. The results of the study showed that majority of the family members scored high in negative dimensions of mental health namely, anxiety, depression and loss of behavioral and emotional control and low in positive dimensions of mental health namely, general positive affect, emotional ties and life satisfaction. A significant difference was found in mental health on the basis of gender, age and family type.

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What place should mental health costs play in the evaluation of public health interventions such as lockdown? In Conversation Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke

10.13056/acamh.15894 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Mental Health ◽

Developmental Psychology ◽

Child Psychology ◽

Health Interventions ◽

Health Costs ◽

Public Health Interventions ◽

King's College ◽

Mental Health Costs

In this podcast we talk to Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Professor of Developmental Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience at King’s College London, and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (JCPP).

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