Posts tagged with 'prevalence'
Complicated grief is worryingly common, poorly recognised & inadequately treated - what can we do about this?
4th May 2017
Complicated grief is ... More to follow ...
Sleep apnea - what is it, how common is it and how does it affect mortality & physical health?
12th April 2016
Sleep apnea is a common, but frequently unrecognised, contributor to psychological difficulties and to health problems more generally. I would like to look at a series of questions about this disorder - what is it, how common is it, why is it important, how do you recognise it, and what …
Health crisis for Britain's middle-aged
10th September 2011
Ouch, a very interesting international health survey, that has just been released, reports: "Middle-aged Britons are experiencing a mid-life health crisis, according to new research from Bupa, which shows that those aged 45-54 are more likely to be obese, more likely to smoke and more likely to suffer from depression …
"Sexual behavior, sexual attraction and sexual identity"
9th April 2011
(this blog post is downloadable both in Word doc and in PDF format). There's a helpful US National Health Statistics Report that's been published this month entitled "Sexual behavior, sexual attraction, and sexual identity in the United States: Data from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth." The authors write …
The spectrum of mental health: part 2 - moderate & full wellbeing
16th January 2011
(a slightly abbreviated version of this blog post is downloadable as both a Word doc & a PDF file) Mental illness & mental health: In "The spectrum of mental health: part 1", I wrote "As the diagram (below) illustrates, mental health is distributed as a spectrum across the population. The …
The spectrum of mental health: part 1 - full & partial syndrome disorders
9th January 2011
This blog post is downloadable as both a Word doc & a PDF file. Different degrees of "mental health": At any point in time, a proportion of people are suffering from some type of formally diagnosable mental disorder. Others are subsyndromal - struggling although not qualifying for the full criteria …
Recent research: 2 studies on child adversity-adult illness links, 2 on prevalence, & 2 on how adversity may lead to resilience
16th December 2010
Here are seven recent research studies - largely about the effects of early life adversity on adult psychological health (although I've slipped in one I find important on the prevalence & effects of subsyndromal/subclinical symptoms). The last two papers touch on the truth or falsity of Nietsche's famous saying "What …
Recent research: 2 on frequency of psychological disorder, and 5 on using books, phones & computers to deliver CBT
10th November 2010
Here are seven recent articles that caught my interest (abstracts & links are given further down the page). The first two revisit the "How common is troublesome psychological distress?" question. The title of Moffitt et al's paper is self-explanatory - "How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence …
Recent research: mindfulness (mechanisms & practice), prevalence (abuse & suicidality), health anxiety imagery & CBT for kids
29th September 2010
Here are half a dozen recent research studies - two on aspects of mindfulness, two on sobering prevalence rates, one on imagery in health anxiety, and one on CBT with children. Fuller details, links and abstracts for all studies are listed further down this page. Willem Kuyken and colleagues looked …
"One in five Britons has consulted a counsellor or psychotherapist"
19th September 2010
I was fascinated by this "One in five Britons ..." article in last month's Observer newspaper. I'm "in the business" and I was still surprised by the findings. Apparently the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) commissioned an independent polling organization to survey 1,400 British adults. The headline findings …