Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders (eBook, PDF)

New Perspectives on Research and Treatment
Redaktion: Awad, A. George

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating and worthy text that presents new insights into a hugely important area of mental health. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) impairment is a core domain of prevalent mental disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective, mood and anxiety disorders. The authors present a new conceptual framework for this field by explaining how HRQL impairment arises from interactions between various multidimensional factors. They suggest several ways in which further research could enhance our understanding of HRQL impairment, its biological basis, and its relevance to psychopathology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402057793
• Artikelnr.: 37339172

Autorenporträt

Michael S. Ritsner, Israel Institute of Technology and Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Haifa, Israel / A. George Awad, University of Toronto and Humber River Regional Hospital, Toronto, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Key Methodological Issues.- The Distress/Protection Vulnerability Model of Quality of Life Impairment Syndrome.- Role of Dopamine in Pleasure, Reward and Subjective Responses to Drugs.- Neuroendocrine functions, mood and quality of life.- In the mind of the Beholder Neuronal mediators for the effect of emotional experience on~quality of life.- Cross-cultural Quality of Life Research in Mental Health.- Measuring the value of health-related quality of life.- Comparison of instruments for measuring the quality of life impairment syndrome in severe mental disorders.- Integrative bottom-up approach to HRQOL measurement.- Quality of Life Impairment Syndrome in Severe Mental Disorders.- Health Related Quality of Life in Subjects at Risk for a First Episode Of Psychosis.- Quality of life impairment syndrome in schizophrenia.- Insight and quality of life in chizophrenia spectrum disorders.- Quality of Life and Major Depression.- Quality of life impairment in bipolar disorder.- Quality of Life Impairment in Anxiety Disorders.- Quality of Life in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.- Treatment and Rehabilitation Issues.- Antipsychotic Medications, Schizophrenia and the Issue of Quality of Life.- Quality of life outcomes of ECT.- Quality of Life in Mental Health Services.- Subjective Quality of Life in Relation to Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Daily Life.- Cost-Utility Analysis.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is certainly a construct with legs. ... The editors are very successful in covering a broad scope of information, allowing readers ... to fill in the gaps of their understanding about HRQOL concepts and methodology. This may be the greatest contribution of this book ... . There are a number of wonderful chapters that many researchers will find quite useful. ... I'm glad to have this resource in my library and will recommend it to my colleagues." (Charles E. Drebing, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 53 (13), 2008)

"The best cumulative work on the topic of health-related quality of life (HRQL) with regard to severe mental health diagnoses. ... This collaborative text adds to the knowledge about HRQL and encourages the reader to consider quality of life as a measurement of success. ... Technically, the book is well written and edited as well as attractively printed. ... it will be useful for all researchers of quality-of-life issues and particularly so for specialists in behavioral health." (Mark H. Fleisher, JAMA, Vol. 300 (4), July, 2008)