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Validation of the Hebrew and Arabic Versions of the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ-45).
CONCLUSIONS: Adequate psychometric properties of the Hebrew and Arabic OQ-45 suggest that they can serve as useful measures of mental health treatment in Israel.Further research is necessary to confirm norms, cut-off scores and sensitivity-to-change using a larger representative population and diverse types of treatment over a longer period of time. PMID: 25841108 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences)
Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences - June 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci Source Type: research

Social Anxiety Disorder Comorbid with Schizophrenia: The Importance of Screening for This Under recognized and Under treated Condition.
CONCLUSIONS: According to the results of our study, SAD as a comorbid condition is highly prevalent in schizophrenia and may be under-detected in the outpatient mental health care setting. Furthermore, the presence of SAD may lead to a decreased quality of life for patients with schizophrenia. Further studies should evaluate whether the diagnosis and treatment of comorbid SAD would improve the treatment and quality of life of patients with schizophrenia. PMID: 25841109 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences)
Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences - June 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci Source Type: research

Dissociative Reality and Dissociative Being in Therapy for Post traumatic Patients.
Authors: Guez J, Hertzanu-Lati M, Lev-Wiesel R, Rabin S Abstract Post traumatic patients experience a wide range of symptoms, some of them existential in nature which we term "dissociative being." Many varied psychotherapeutic approaches are available for the treatment of post traumatic patients. Nevertheless, in view of this disorder's complexity, therapists face shortcomings when employing each of these therapeutic interventions. In order to understand this, we posit the principle we call "dissociative reality" for the treatment of trauma survivors. Our proposed method "speaks the patient's own language,...
Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences - June 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci Source Type: research

Cognitive appraisal and psychological distress among patients with irritable bowel syndrome.
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings highlight the salience of cognitive appraisal and resilience in IBS psychological adjustment. It seems that IBS patients might benefit from psycho-educational interventions designed to assist them in reducing their helplessness appraisal and increasing the appraisal of their ability to cope with the symptoms of their illness. PMID: 25841111 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences)
Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences - June 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci Source Type: research

Assessing fears of preschool children with nighttime fears by a parent version of the fear survey schedule for preschool children.
CONCLUSIONS: This new version of the FSS-PC may provide clinicians with a novel and useful screening tool for early assessment of fear- and anxiety-related phenomena of preschool children. PMID: 25841112 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences)
Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences - June 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci Source Type: research

LSD-associated "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome"(AIWS): A Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder (HPPD) Case Report.
Authors: G Lerner A, Lev-Ran S Abstract A side effect associated with the use of LSD is the return of perceptual disturbances which anteriorly emerged during intoxication, despite absence of present use. Here we present the case of a patient with a previous history of sporadic and recreational cannabis, alcohol and LSD consumption who reported LSD associated "Alice in Wonderland Syndrome" (AIWS) or Todd's syndrome. AIWS is basically characterized by four frequent visual illusions: macropsia, micropsia, pelopsia and teleopsia. AIWS only appeared during LSD consumption and continued after LSD suspension, nam...
Source: Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences - June 4, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci Source Type: research