Zusammenfassung: Ein Mangel an sozialen Aktivitäten ist ein wesentlicher Risikofaktor für psychische Erkrankungen im Alter, insbesondere für Depressionen. Ältere psychisch Kranke haben krankheitsbedingt häufig ihre sozialen Beziehungen stark eingeschränkt ...Reconnecting the Torn Social Network of the Elderly Mentally Ill - Social Activation in German Psychogeriatric Day HospitalsAbstract: Lack of social activities increases the risk of mental disorders, especially depression in the elderly considerably. ...
Causal Attributions about Bodily Sensations in Somatoform DisordersSummary. It is a common assumption that somatoform disorders are associated with somatic causal attributions; and that these subjective attributions contribute to the maintenance of the ...
Dissociative Psychopathology in Somatoform DisordersSummary. This study investigates the association between dissociative symptoms and somatoform disorders. Psychiatric inpatients (n = 497) with affective disorders (F3), anxiety and adjustment disorders (...
Somatic Complaints in Patients with Mental Disorders: Systematization and Psychotherapeutic ImplicationsSummary. Hardly any systematization aids and psychotherapeutic treatment considerations regarding somatic complaints in patients with mental disorders ...
Psychodynamic Short-Term Outpatient Group Therapy with Patients Suffering from Somatoform DisordersAbstract. The effectiveness of short-term psychodynamic group therapy with patients with somatoform disorders is being demonstrated. Six groups over 20 ...
Somatoform disorders in childhood and adolescence: Prospects fort he DSM-VAbstract.The validity, reliability and clinical utility of the current DSM-IV-TR criteria for somatoform disorders are highly debated. The DSM-V workgroup therefore recommends ...
Does DSM-V provide the solution for classification problems with somatoform disorders?Abstract.Since its introduction as a new diagnostic category in DSM-III, that concept of somatoform disorders has been frequently criticized. In several countries, the ...
Clinical research on psychotherapeutic and psychosomatic careThis article provides the current state of knowledge of clinical research in psychotherapy and psychosomatic care. A standardized evidence-based approach in clinical practice seems to be ...
Chronic fatigue is a frequent complaint, but only leads to a medical consultation when consequences like sleep disturbance and reduced productivity become debilitating. Fear of a somatic disorder is usually prominent. However, the symptoms are usually ...
Psychosocial problems and learning difficultiesAbstract. The relationship between severe learning difficulties and psychosocial problems has been established by many different studies. The study at hand, drawing upon a sample of children whose families ...
Frequency and comorbidity of somatoform disorders in adolescents: Results of a study of adolescent in BremenAbstract. Using data from the Bremer Adolescents study, this article presents some findings on the frequency, comorbidity and psychosocial ...
Zusammenfassung. Die diagnostische Erfassung der Körperdysmorphen Störung (KDS) wird bislang durch unscharfe Diagnosekriterien und wenig ökonomische Messinstrumente erschwert. Ziel dieser Arbeit war es daher, ein anwendungsfreundliches Instrument zu ...
Imagined ugliness: Body dysmorphic disorder from a psychological viewAbstract.Background: Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by an excessive and distressful preoccupation with an imagined defect in physical appearance. Objective: The current ...
Terminologie und Konzepte der Dissoziation und Konversion sind seit über einem Jahrhundert in der tiefenpsychologischen Tradition verankert, während die empirisch ausgerichtete Klinische Psychologie und Kinderpsychologie deren Erforschung weitgehend ...
Konversionsstörungen umfassen nichtepileptische Anfälle sowie sensorische oder motorische Funktionsausfälle (Gangstörungen, Kraftverlust und Lähmung, Sprechstörungen) ohne organmedizinische Ursache. Sie nehmen in klassifikatorischer, ätiologischer und ...
Zusammenfassung. Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, einen Überblick über den bisherigen empirischen Forschungsstand zur Wirksamkeit der Sporttherapie bei somatoformen Beschwerden zu geben. Auf Grund des defizitären Forschungsstandes bei somatoformen ...
Cost-effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for somatising patients by the general practitionerAbstract.Background: Due to high utilization of medical services somatising patients cause high health care costs. Objective: Do psychosocial ...
Experience of Emotions and Somatic Symptoms: The Effects of Inducing Anger and Sadness on Somatic Symptom ReportsAbstract.Background: Current perception models of physical complaints assume that negative emotional states (e. g., anxiety and sadness) ...