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Dear [Firstname]
In this part of our series of newsletters for the year we felt it
important to address issues around trauma, stress and depression, the effects of which you may be seeing in your clinical practice given current events and economic climate.
We hope that through the newsletters, we can address topics of interest for both the general public as well as mental health practitioners. As always we attempt to feature articles based on current issues that create vast debates in the mental health arena and encourage our readers to actively participate in the process and express their own opinions.
If you would like to publish an article of your own within our newsletter, or offer feedback, please contact Nitha Prakash on pp@psychpress.com.au.
In this issue:
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* Trauma and resilience
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* Depression: The effects of the current economic crisis
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* Depression and work
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Article 1 - Trauma and Resilience
At some point during our lives we are faced with and must emotionally manage one or more traumatic event. Generally emotional trauma is related to bereavement. However, exposure to violence or a life threatening situation outside the range of normal human experience is common. A person's resilience to trauma is the capacity to sustain physical and psychological functioning with the absence of psychopathological symptoms.
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Article 2 - Depression: The effects of the current economic crisis
Currently, more than one million people in Australia experience depression, anxiety or related substance-abuse disorders each year, with depression affecting one in five people at some stage in their adult lives.
Given the current economic climate, the incidence rate of depression looks set to increase in the current financial year.
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Article 3 - Depression and Work
Depression is a ubiquitous disorder and one of the most prevalent throughout the Western world. It could thus be expected to have a significant impact on the profits of companies, who are likely to hold a number of employees suffering the illness.
A number of authors attest to the negative effects of depression such as impaired performance, increased absenteeism, and higher susceptibility to other physical illnesses. Severe costs - for individuals, companies, and government - are therefore associated with depressive illness.
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Multiscore Depression Inventory for Adolescents and Adults (MDI)
The Multiscore Depression Inventory (MDI) measures not only the severity but also the specific aspects of depression. In addition, this highly sensitive measure detects subtle variations in milder forms of depression.
Post-traumatic Stress Scale (PTSS)
Developed by Australian researchers and psychologists Wayne Scott M.Psych and Jagdish Dua PhD, the Post Traumatic Stress Scale (PTSS) is an efficient and reliable tool used not only for the accurate diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder but also to measure the intensity and severity of this disorder.
Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS)
The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) is a valuable tool that allows you to effectively measure three major types of coping styles in an individual, including Task-Oriented, Emotion-Oriented, and Avoidance Coping. Two types of Avoidance patterns, Distraction and Social Diversion, can also be identified.
Davidson Trauma Scale (DTS)
Providing a quick and accurate measure of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms, the DTS is a 17-item, self-rating scale that takes only 10 minutes to complete. Each of the items corresponds to a DSM-IV symptom of PTSD. Each symptom item is rated in terms of both frequency and severity.
Revised Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (RHRSD)
The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, widely used to evaluate depression in adult clinical populations, is available from Psych Press in a new time-saving and more flexible format.
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