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Classification of Anxiety Disorders
Muir-Cochrane (2003) suggests that the most common anxiety disorders are classified as follows: • generalised anxiety disorder • phobias • obsessive-compulsive disorder • post-traumatic stress • panic disorder. However, Muir-Cochrane states that ‘anxiety is one of the most common treatable mental disorders’. Anxiety can also be present in some other mental disorders such as depression; high […]
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Three Phases of Stress Response
Stress is ‘a specific kind of biological reaction, which can be expressed emotionally’(Barker 1993). Problems occur when exposure to stress is extended over an interval of time and when that stress is allowed to attain excessive levels. This can weaken the person’s capacity to cope with their everyday problems and, in turn, could lead to […]
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PHYSIOLOGY ASSOCIATED WITH ANXIETY
Fundamental to understanding anxiety and how it affects the person are the endocrine and nervous systems in the body. These are the body’s main regulatory systems – the nervous system relays impulses to and from the brain via sensory receptors; the endocrine system governs the pituitary gland, which is linked to the hypothalamus in the […]
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Mental illness in refugee families
Mental illness in refugee families: Understanding children’s Vulnerability Children in refugee families are especially vulnerable to parental mental illness (see Thomas & Lau, 2001, who review much of the literature in this section). They are more likely to have parents with a psychological disorder than the general community and to suffer froman increased incidence of […]
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Children adopting the views of their mentally ill parent
Children may believe that their mentally ill parent’s view is correct even though they recognise it as different from others’ beliefs. This is not a culture specific issue; however, in families which have more recently settled in a new country, it can be more prominent because of a child’s strong attachment to his or her […]
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Parental mental illness for children of refugee and immigrant families
The consequences of parental mental illness for children of refugee and immigrant families A child’s understanding of a parent’s mental illness is obviously age-related and an amalgam of idiosyncratic ideas, egocentric versions of family specific and culturally based belief, and learning from outside the family. Our experience is that children, even of early primary school […]
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Cultural dimensions of children’s experience of their mentally ill parent
In culturally diverse societies such as Australia, the cultural norms that inform clinicians’ approaches to mental illness, and clients’ understanding of their illness, are often markedly divergent. While cultural difference is anever-present reality, mutual misunderstanding need not be. We commence our discussion with a case example involving a Chinese–Australian family.An examination of this case illustrates […]
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Permanent care for children of parents with mental illness
Ideally, children grow up in a stable, predictable environment in which they experience a friendly and safe world. They need and are entitled to stability,consistency, safety and security in their upbringing. In situations in which the parents are unable to provide care to a ‘good enough’ level, it is appropriate that the child be placed […]
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Positive cognitive processing of negative experiences
It was almost 20 years before Alan was able to make sense of his carer’s roleand appreciate just what a wonderful impact he may have had on his father,his siblings and his mother. Putting that together with his (now openly acknowledged needs) to live through his sons has (if anything) improved his enjoyment of where […]
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How to assess someone who refuses to talk
Sometimes you may be faced with people who refuse to talk. This could be for many reasons.They may be angry for having been brought to the clinic. They may be scared that talking to a health worker might mean they will be labelled a ‘mental case’. They may be suspicious of your motives. The general […]
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