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PubMed2006

[Clinical features of cannabis psychosis in schizophrenia patients].

Available information regarding the clinical features of cannabis-induced psychoses among schizophrenia patients is rather odd and even discrepant. For thorough investigation psychopathology due to marijuana intoxication, we examine two groups of schizophrenia patients. I group--14 patients, who had long history of cannabis use before developing schizophrenia, and II group--schizophrenic patients, who already had schizophrenia and later became marijuana users. Clinical study allowed us to determine the general psychopathological symptoms due to acute intoxication on the one hand, reflecting duration and severity of intoxication, and let us to verify specific mental problems connected to the dynamics of schizophrenia, on the other hand. Peculiar properties of the data of the experimental-psychological tests TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) reflect personality changes generated by schizophrenia progression included the psychopathological phenomenon related to cannabis intoxication. Psychopharmacological treatment brought positive changes in structure and thematic features of the data. The patients used more words. The content and the volume of the stories increased. Trends to improvement were more common for recurrent rather than continuous duration of schizophrenia.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Adaptation of siblings to childhood malignancy.

To explore the impact of childhood cancer, school-aged patients and their healthy siblings from 71 families were given one or more of the following psychologic tests: the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale, the Bene-Anthony Family Relations Test, and the Thematic Apperception Test. The siblings showed even more distress than the patients in the areas of perceived social isolation, perception of their parents as overindulgent and overprotective of the sick child, fear of confronting family members with negative feelings, and concern with failure (older siblings only). In other areas, such as anxiety and vulnerability to illness and injury, the patients' and siblings' experience appeared very similar. These results indicate that siblings, like patients, experience severe stress when confronted with a chronic, life-threatening illness such as cancer. In recognizing and attending to their needs, one can practice primary prevention in pediatrics by facilitating their healthy adaptation to a very difficult situation.

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PubMed1998

Meta-analysis of studies assessing the efficacy of projective techniques in discriminating child sexual abuse.

OBJECTIVE: This meta-analysis of 12 studies assesses the efficacy of projective techniques to discriminate between sexually abused children and nonsexually abused children. METHOD: A literature search was conducted to identify published studies that used projective instruments with sexually abused children. Those studies that reported statistics that allowed for an effect size to be calculated, were then included in the meta-analysis. There were 12 studies that fit the criteria. The projectives reviewed include The Rorschach, The Hand Test, The Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), the Kinetic Family Drawings, Human Figure Drawings, Draw Your Favorite Kind of Day, The Rosebush: A Visualization Strategy, and The House-Tree-Person. RESULTS: The results of this analysis gave an over-all effect size of d = .81, which is a large effect. Six studies included only a norm group of nondistressed, nonabused children with the sexual abuse group. The average effect size was d = .87, which is impressive. Six studies did include a clinical group of distressed nonsexually abused subjects and the effect size lowered to d = .76, which is a medium to large effect. CONCLUSION: This indicates that projective instruments can discriminate distressed children from nondistressed subjects, quite well. In the studies that included a clinical group of distressed children who were not sexually abused, the lower effect size indicates that the instruments were less able to discriminate the type of distress. This meta-analysis gives evidence that projective techniques have the ability to discriminate between children who have been sexually abused and those who were not abused sexually. However, further research that is designed to include clinical groups of distressed children is needed in order to determine how well the projectives can discriminate the type of distress.

Adolescent↗
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[Obesity and mental disorders in childhood].

The aim of the present study was to establish the prevalence and the type of psychiatric disturbances in a group of 42 obese children (18 boys aged from 6.8 to 13.8 years and 24 girls aged from 2.8 to 15.4 years; weight excess mean +/- 1SD 146.7 +/- 17.4%) and to evaluate the efficacy of a psychological approach of obesity in childhood. The children were in a normal caloric diet and they were encouraged to reach a "target weight" in a given period of time. 22 children were randomly assigned the "analyzed" group (auxological, alimentary and psychological evaluation) and 20 to the "control" group (auxological and alimentary assessment). The psychological evaluation was performed in 20 children (the parents of two children refused to give their consent) by the following tests: creative drawing test; draw a man test (Machover); draw a tree test (Koch); draw a family test (Co-man); Rorschach's test; TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) or, in the younger, the Düss's tales. The results of these psychological tests have been communicated to the patients and or parents. The children were followed for a period of 7 months. We found in 8 children (40%) personality disturbances (which were severe in two cases) and a psychological support was started. The observed main types of disturbances were depression and anxiety. Both were due to a missing harmony between their parents, to a difficult relationship either with their mother or with other children, and to the bad child's opinion of himself. In 4 subjects a psychological support associated with diet promoted a slow, progressive and continuous weight loss.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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PubMed1987

Personality factors as predictors of compliance with and the outcome of supervised self-care program for patients with intermittent claudication.

Personality factors related to the outcome of supervised self-care treatment program were studied in 56 patients with intermittent claudication. Psychological methods used were: structured interviews, the Rorschach Test, the Thematic Apperception Test, Beck's Depression Inventory, the Beth Israel Hospital Inventory of alexithymic behavior and Sauri's Creativity Inventory of psychic flexibility and adaptability. The patients who had no apparent signs of psychic disorders and were also capable of coping with disease-related psychic problems showed the best recovery. Alexithymic patients with a low level of psychic adaptability were likely to find the supportive relationship rewarding, but optimal recovery was not achieved. The results indicated that paranoid tendencies may be obstacles to a satisfying doctor-patient relationship and should be controlled.

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