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{"title":"Coping Strategies and Perceived Social Support in Wives of Persons with Alcohol Dependence Syndrome","authors":"Indrajeet Banerjee, D. Bora, S. Deuri","doi":"10.29120/IJPSW.V8I1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29120/IJPSW.V8I1.12","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In India alcohol is the most commonly used substance of abuse. The effect of alcoholism in husbands mostly leads to disturbances in marital life.These effects may directly or indirectly drain out caregivers of substance abusers. One of the most affected among caregivers is the marital partners. In other words it is the wives of substance abusing husband who are the victims. Coping mechanisms are used by the wives to handle the stressful situation has a vital role in reducing psychological difficulties. In case of wives with alcohol dependent husbands, the social support is a buffer for crisis periods. Aim of the study: The study is aimed to enquire the coping strategies and perceived social support of the wives of persons with alcohol dependence syndrome. Material and methods: A total 30 wives of persons with alcohol dependence syndrome according to ICD-10 were taken as the sample using purposive sample collection. Socio-demographic profile was assessed through semi-structured questionnaire while coping strategies was assessed through Ways of Coping Scale (1986) and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (1988) was applied to assess the perceived social support after taking their informed consent. Data analysis was done using SPSS for descriptive statistics. Results: The result shows that varied types of coping strategies were used by wives of persons with alcohol dependence. In contrast the previous studies suggest use of emotional focused or escape avoidance coping. This study suggests that adaptive copings such as positive reappraisal, seeking social support and problem solving were used in comparison to escape avoidance. In contrast to previous studies perceived social support was found to be high in this study group. Conclusion: It is well known fact that coping strategies plays a major role in dealing with stressful life situations and perceived social support also have positive impact over health. Finding from this study suggests that any psychosocial intervention designed for this group must consider these facts and findings. Eventually these findings from the study can be used to help in enhancing the wellbeing of wives of alcohol dependents. Keywords: Alcohol dependence, coping strategies, perceived social support","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"174 1","pages":"28-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83432634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Socio Demographic and Clinical Profile of Indoor Female Patients of RINPAS","authors":"R. Suri, Anshu Suri, N. Kumari, A. Singh, M. Kiran","doi":"10.29120/ijpsw.2017.v8.i1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29120/ijpsw.2017.v8.i1.13","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The role of women is very crucial in our society. She cares for her parents, partner, children and other relatives. She performs all types of duties in family and also in the society without any expectations. Because of playing many roles, women often face many challenges in their life including both physical and mental. Mental health problems affect women and men equally, but some problems are more common among women including both physical and mental health problems. Aim of the study The present study is aimed to describe and compare the clinical and socio-demographic correlates of female mentally ill patients. Methods and Materials: The study includes 180 female mentally ill patients based on cross sectional design and the sample for the study was drawn purposively. A semi structured socio-demographic data sheet was prepared to collect relevant information as per the need of the study. Result: The present study reveals that the socio-demographic factors contribute a vital role in mental illness. Findings also showed that majority of patients had mental problems in the age range of 20-30 have high rate. Illiterate and primary level of education and daily wage working women as well as low and middle socio-economic status women are more prone to have mental illness. Other factors like marital status, type of family and religion etc also important factors for mental illness.","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"70 1","pages":"33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78828740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychiatric Social Work Program in Rural Community: A multi- sectoral initiative","authors":"Arif Ali, Gobinda Majhi, I. Banerjee, S. Deuri, Athelrine Horo, N. Karim","doi":"10.29120/ijpsw.2017.v8.i1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29120/ijpsw.2017.v8.i1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Community based programmes with the combined focus on promotive and curative aspects are the planned objective of interventions and services organised by psychiatric social workers in a  rural community for identification and treatment linkage provision for mental health problems.  Aim of the Study: The aim of the survey is to find out the mental health related problems in the rural community and to provide psychiatric social work services in the rural community by providing linkages to community based psychiatric extension services. Methods:  This research cum intervention program used a survey method, with the universe of the study consisting of all the persons residing in Samardoloni village in Sootea Block, in Sonitpur district of Assam.  People, who are permanent members of their respective household of Samardoloni village, formed the sample for the present study. Household survey was done with data being collected through the semi-structured tool for socio-demographic data and clinical information. Psychiatric social work programme was conducted in the community for awareness' and de-stigmatization of mental illness. Results: In the survey, 271 households were assessed and  it was found that in the surveyed  village, forty-seven (47) persons were identified as having mental illness and other related problems; eleven (11) persons were having Epilepsy ,thirteen(13) persons had Psychosis, eight (8) persons had Somatization disorder  , five (5) persons had  Child related  psychiatric disorder  and ten(10) people were having substance related disorders. Awareness program on mental health and illness was conducted in the community at three levels. First, at the Community-level, sensitization for acceptance and de-stigmatizations of mental illness, secondly, at the School-level, addressing various problems of child and adolescents for teachers and children, and thirdly, at the group level, targeted knowledge and information was given to the persons identified with mental disorders during the survey and were further motivated to access treatment at the local PHC where psychiatric treatment was available. Conclusion : Psychiatric social worker services can address various mental health issues through inter-sectoral collaboration with local rural functionaries. Focused activities for various groups can be useful at community-level for identifications, acceptance, de-stigmatization of mental illness and providing psychosocial care in the community. The role of a psychiatric social worker as a networker for linkage building and coordinating is emphasized apart from being a researcher and as an interventionist in psychiatric social work.  Initiative resulted in treatment accession for 37 patients of the 47 identified. Community participation formed an integral component in mobilizing and utilizing community members and for early identification and linkage provision for treatment. The initiative impacted   inter-sectoral systems to plan, coor","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"71 1","pages":"1-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88104246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceived social support and burden of care of male and female caregivers of patient with schizophrenia","authors":"N. Singh, N. Goyal","doi":"10.29120/IJPSW.2017.V8.I1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29120/IJPSW.2017.V8.I1.7","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Schizophrenia is associated with a high familial, social and economic burden. Schizophrenia is also associated with a high level of disability which may create impediments on the social and economic areas of the patients as well as on their respective family networks. Families with schizophrenia may encounter problems such as impairment of health and well being of other family members, restriction of social activities of the family members and shrinking of support from the social network. Aims: The present study examined the difference in perceived social support and burden of care between the male and female caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study examining the difference in perceived social support and burden of care between the male and female caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. The sample consisted of 60 (30 male and 30 female) caregivers of the patients with the diagnosis of schizophrenia as per ICD-10-DCR. Results and Conclusion: This study revealed that male caregivers perceived more social support and less burden of care as compared to female caregivers. Key words : Gender, social support, burden","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"14 1","pages":"10-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81915235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Study of depression, anxiety and stress among school going adolescents","authors":"B. Preeti, Kuldeep Singh, Raj Kumar","doi":"10.29120/IJPSW.V8I1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29120/IJPSW.V8I1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Adolescents; the bright hope of the future are characterized by many physical, emotional and developmental changes. However, during this stage, some of adolescents, experience anxious feeling, overwhelming sense of fear, depression and academic stress. Adolescents can experience various life stresses ranging from catastrophic or traumatic life events, persistent strain and daily hassles. Thus Present study was carried out to check the depression, anxiety and stress in this population . Material and Method: It is a cross sectional study, in which 200 adolescents were taken; equally boy and girls using purposive sampling. Assessment was done using Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-DASS (Hindi Version). The statistical analysis was carried out using the SPSS Windows 16.0 software package. The analysis of the obtained data was done using various descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The scores of students in all three domains of Depression, anxiety, and Stress scale were found to be remarkably correlated. It was seen that depression was significantly more among the female students than the male students. Conclusion: Overall findings suggest that these adolescents are at high risk of developing depression and anxiety disorder. Adolescents with stress need to be identified early and interventions to reduce academic stress needs to be provided which are likely to affect the occurrence and severity of depression and anxiety. Key words: Adolescents, depression, anxiety, stress","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"42 1","pages":"6-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85583955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Current Drug Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders","authors":"A. K. Roy, N. Gujar, Arif Ali, U. Borah","doi":"10.29120/10.29120/IJPSW.2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29120/10.29120/IJPSW.2019","url":null,"abstract":"The first psycho-active drug chlorpromazine (Largactil) was introduced for treatment of psychoses in 1953 by a french worker, Courvosier. Since then, thousands of journal reports on drug treatment of psychiatric disorders ranging from naive to scientific have appeared making psycho-pharmacology confusing to doctors generally and indeed even to the most psychiatrist.","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"5 1","pages":"29-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73301459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parenting and Family Adjustment among Parents of children and adolescents with Intellectual Disability and functional psychosis: A Comparative Study","authors":"J. Singh, S. Nizamie, Narendra Singh","doi":"10.29120/IJPSW.2017.V8.I1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29120/IJPSW.2017.V8.I1.9","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Parenting, a wonderful and rewarding experience, are often accompanied by high levels of stress, because of the difficulties, frustrations, and challenges that parents face in everyday life. This study examined the profile of Parenting and Family Adjustment among Parents of children and adolescents with Intellectual Disability and functional psychosis. Methods: This study was a cross-sectional hospital based study. The study samples were selected through purposive sampling technique. The sample size was 40 parent among which 20 parents of children and adolescent with intellectual disability and 20 parents of children and adolescent with functional psychosis taken from Erna Hoch Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit and Charak Outpatient Department, of the Central Institute of Psychiatry, Kanke, Ranchi. Parenting and Family Adjustment Scale used for the data collection. Data were analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS- 21 version). Results and Conclusions: The results indicated that parents of children and adolescents with functional psychosis reported higher mean in the subscales of Parental consistency, Corrective parenting, Positive encouragement, Parent child-relationship, Family relationship and parents of children and adolescents with intellectual disability reported higher mean in the subscale of Parental teamwork. Key words : Parenting,  Family Adjustment, Psychosis, Intellectual Disability","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"67 1","pages":"14-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73898581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"At the outset â","authors":"K. Sahu","doi":"10.29120/IJPSW.2017.V8.I1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29120/IJPSW.2017.V8.I1.15","url":null,"abstract":"I feel a strong need for a journal on Psychiatric Social Work, I don't think I need to justify why? The strongest reason is current development in Psychiatric Social Work (PSW) teaching and training institutions and rapid growth in research and publication; where hundreds of journals are new coming up. I explored the various options and I was set to start a new the journal, but then the name of the 'Indian Journal of Psychiatric Social Work' came in my mind which was started by Dr. R.K. Upadhayay, then the head Department of Psychiatric Social Work and publishing from Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi. The first volume was published in 1972 and was in regular publication till 1978, volume VII was was last then discontinued many eminent faculty professionals have written paper for this journal and it was indexed in Psychological Abstracts, USA. Finally, I came into contact with Dr. R.K. Upadhayay which I was trying since two years and he graciously granted me permission to continue the Indian Journal of Psychiatric Social Work from next volume. So this is the story behind this journal which is now in your hand.","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88424758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Study of Anxiety in School Children as Related to Child-Rearing Attitude and Some Personality Traits of Parents","authors":"M. K. Hassan, Enayatullah, A. Khalique","doi":"10.29120/IJPSW.1977.V6.I1.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29120/IJPSW.1977.V6.I1.29","url":null,"abstract":"Examined the relationships of personality traits and childrearing attitudes of parents to the anxiety of their children. An anxiety scale was administered to 160 10th- and 11th-grade Hindu school children. 40 \"high\" scorers (HAs) and 40 \"low\" scorers\" (LAs) were selected. The Childrearing Attitude Scale, a scale of authoritarianism, the Rigidity Scale, and the anxiety scale were administered to the parents of both groups of Ss. Analysis of the data showed that the fathers of HAs were significantly more anxious, authoritarian, and rigid than the fathers of LAs or the mothers of HAs and that fathers of HAs had a significantly more favorable attitude toward strict discipline of the child. No significant differences were found on anxiety, rigidity, authoritarianism, or childrearing attitudes between the mothers of both groups or between the fathers and mothers of LAs. The anxiety, authoritarianism, and rigidity of the fathers but not the mothers showed significant positive relationships with their childrearing attitudes.","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"13 1","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90913841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of the social worker in private psychiatric practice.","authors":"P MASS","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":86089,"journal":{"name":"Journal of psychiatric social work","volume":"24 4","pages":"238-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1955-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22862421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}