Dr. Leslie A. Zebrowitz is a social psychologist who studies the effects of the way people look on others’ attitudes towards them. Her research has shown conclusively that babyfaced and angularly faced individuals are viewed differently. Among the effects, babyfaced individuals are seen as physically weaker, more submissive and less competent.
Dr. Zebrowitz is a professor of psychology at Brandeis University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1970.
The Young Mania Rating Scale (abbreviated YMRS) is an eleven-item, multiple-choice diagnostic questionnaire which psychiatrists use to measure the severity of manic episodes in children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 17. It was first used in clinical practice in 1978.[1]
The scale was originally developed for use in the evaluation of adult patients who were suffering from bipolar disorder, but has since been modified for use in pediatric patients. A similar scale was then developed for to allow clinicians to interview parents about their children’s symptoms, in order to ascertain a better diagnosis of mania in children.[2] Clinical studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of the parent version of the scale.[3]
2008 Prevention and Promotion Conference, Australia
2009 World Congress of the WFMH, Greece
John Rawlings Rees - First president
Frank Fremont-Smith - Second president
Helmuth Ehrhardt - Executive board member
Werner Villinger - Educating the Public
Margaret Mead - President 1956-1957
Brock Chisholm - President 1957-1958
Tsung-yi Lin - Honorary President
The World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) is an international membership organization founded in 1948 to advance, among all peoples and nations, the prevention of mental and emotional disorders, the proper treatment and care of those with such disorders, and the promotion of mental health.
The mission of the World Federation for Mental Health is to promote the advancement of mental health awareness, prevention of mental disorders, advocacy, and best practice recovery focused interventions worldwide.
The Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4) is an achievement test which measures an individual’s ability to read words, comprehend sentences, spell, and compute solutions to math problems.[1] The test currently is in its fourth revision.[1]
The test is appropriate for individuals ages 5-94 years. The WRAT4 provides two equivalent forms (Blue and Green), which enables retesting within short periods of time without potential practice effects that occur from repeating the same items. The alternate forms also may be administered together in a single examination.[1]
The Wide Range Achievement Test 4 (WRAT4) is the latest offering in a test series first published in 1946. The various editions of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) have enjoyed widespread use in a variety of settings as a measure of the basic academic skills necessary for effective learning, communication, and thinking: reading and spelling words and performing basic mathematical calculations.
The WRAT4 is published by and available from Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.. A computerized scoring program and interpretive report are also available.
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Treatment-resistant depression or refractory depression is a term used in clinical psychiatry to describe cases of major depressive disorder that do not respond to at adequate courses of least two antidepressants.[1]
Treatment of refractory depression has traditionally most commonly involved electroconvulsive therapy and use of non-standard medications, but new technologies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation are being studied as a safer alternative. Treatment of refractory depression may also involve more invasive interventions, such as vagus nerve stimulation.
The term was first coined with the development of the concept in 1974.
Transpersonal psychiatry may be considered an application of the teachings of transpersonal psychology to medical matters. It is, therefore, closely allied to therapy which adopts a transpersonal perspective, a topic which has been written about by Boorstein (1980) and for which John Rowan has discussed different streams, such as the Jungian, psychosynthetic and neuro-linguistic approaches.
However, since psychiatrists must have had medical training, transpersonal psychiatrists can be said to differ from transpersonal psychologists and psychotherapists by possession of a medical degree. It still seems likely, however, that many questions which confront transpersonal psychology in a clinical context will also be of interest to transpersonal psychiatrists.
The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hahn ISBN 0-8070-1239-4
Skills Training Manual for Treating Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan ISBN 0-89862-034-1
Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha M. Linehan, 1993