UF study: Adolescent girls who set goals too high may risk anorexia
...ociated with considerable impairment in health and interpersonal adjustment, have high relapse rates and carry increased risk for death, according to the institute. The study's researchers interviewed 157 predominantly white, middle- to upper-middle-class girls who attended private schools in New York City. The g...National conference to address communication problems in health care (Oct. 22)
...chronic disease. The conference will address both interpersonal and health care system communication, as well as the critical and expanding role that technology plays in all aspects of health communications today. Leaders in health care, health care communication, and technology will offer visionary models, pote...Interpersonal psychotherapy effective in treating binge-eating disorder
CHICAGO Group interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) is equally as effective as gro... structured psychotherapy that explores social and interpersonal problems. Denise E. Wilfley, Ph.D., of San Diego State University and University of California, San ...Time, trust key to successful teen-doctor relationship
...cording to a new study. "Adolescents want a strong interpersonal relationship with their [health care] provider, a sense of emotional and physical safety, and a provider who offers counseling," says Kenneth R. Ginsburg, M.D., M.S.Ed., of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Teens in the study also explained t...USC researchers develop new way to measure cultural adaptation of youth
...ex process may lead to identity confusion, stress, interpersonal conflict and, for adolescents, rebelliousness against parents who are slower to acculturate. Teens experiencing these stresses are more susceptible to behaviors such as smoking, alcohol and other drug use; violence; suicide; eating disorders; and ri...A computer-based, self-help system for the space age
...ribute to more serious depression, such as work or interpersonal issues. The program will help users identify the problem, possible solutions, pros and cons for each solution and specific steps to take. It will also help the user develop a personalized plan for solving the problem. The user can then go back to ...Behavior plays key role in disease development and control, according to 10-year prospective review
...ned specifically to control disordered eating, and interpersonal therapy, originally intended for depression, has been shown to significantly reduce binge episodes. Although research in the past decade has shown that genetic influences predispose some people to obesity, it is becoming clear that the main reason ob...Family history of hypertension is related to maladaptive behavioral responses
...al arithmetic task, a mirror tracing task, and two interpersonal role-plays to mimic stressful mental activities. B...tive verbal and nonverbal behavior during both the interpersonal and non-interpersonal laboratory-induced stress tasks than the PH participants. The nonverbal behav...Medicalising sex damages relationships
...ly medical approaches to sex ignore the social and interpersonal dynamics of relationships, argue researchers in th...al approach to sexual behaviour is that social and interpersonal dynamics may be ignored, say the authors. The last century saw a considerable increase in acceptance...Elderly expectations of medical care easy to satisfy but complicated
...action, but may not be essential if the provider's interpersonal and technical skills meet expectations. Health care providers need to treat their elderly patients with respect and take time to address their concerns, the researchers say....New medical school model sets out to create more competent, caring doctors
...ce in typically overlooked areas such as teamwork, interpersonal skills, clinical reasoning, and managing ambiguous clinical situations a necessary real-world skill that traditional schooling doesnt teach. For patients, its not enough to know that their doctor scored well on a multiple-choice test, says principal...Personality influences psychological adjustment and recovery from stroke
...oke. They were asked questions about the patients interpersonal style, degree of extroversion or introversion, openness to new experiences and how they coped with stress. The test was given a few days after the stroke and again one year later. Researchers found that people whose families described them as h...Drug-psychotherapy combo found highly effective in depression study
... problem-solving approach to address problematic interpersonal difficulties. The results for either of the single treatments in the study, Serzone or CBASP were similar to those found for antidepressants in previous studies of patients with chronic forms of major depression. ...Popular notions about breast cancer-psychology link challenged
...eforeadvocating the popular position that a simple interpersonal or social lifestylechange can have a significant impact on the development of cancer." The researchers did find modest associations between breast cancer and fourother psychosocial factors. Significant support was found for the hypothesesthat breas...As many as 10 million children witness acts of interpersonal violence each year.Such experiences can have lasting effects on a child's development and be astraumatic as being a victim of physical or sexual abuse, according to theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics. To address this major public health problem, whic...Stress common in AIDS victims who respond well to drug therapy
...llness, rather than a persondying from a disease); interpersonal relationships(having to deal long-term with people they thought they never would have to dealwith again, and feeling guilt for livinglonger than friends and loved ones); and changes in quality of life (having tocope with impediments to a normal life,...Hormone involved in reproduction may have role in the maintenance of relationships
... be associated with theability to maintain healthy interpersonal relationships and healthypsychological boundaries ...ere largely unaffected. "We decided to look at the interpersonal characteristics of individual women tosee if there was a correlation with changes in their oxytocin ......tidepressant (nortriptyline hydrochloride [NT]) or interpersonal psychotherapy[IPT] and level of depression over an...ure researchers should attempt todetermine whether interpersonal psychotherapy techniques should differ whentreating milder, compared with more severe, depressive ep......ationships with their partners and lower levels of interpersonal functioning and social adjustment than college wom...givers, adult attachment to partners, achievement, interpersonal functioning and adjustment. Of the women surveyed, 68 percent had no history of sexual abuse; 22 per...