Quality of Life Impairment in Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders New Perspectives on Research and Treatment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ritsner, Michael S. (Editor), Awad, A. George (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Psychiatry.; Rehabilitation.; Social work.; Clinical psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Clinical Psychology.; Social Work.

Over the past few decades health-related quality of life (HRQL) has emerged as the new image of medicine viewed from a psychosocial perspective. The concept of Quality of Life has attracted a good deal of interest, not only from a clinical perspective but also from psychosocial, health economics as...

Table of Contents:

• 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.