psychiatric illness
1Psychiatric Genetics — Since the eighteenth century, psychiatrists have suspected that family genetic history played something of a role in their patients’ illnesses. Articulated first as inheritance, then degeneration and eugenics, then finally after the Second… …
2Psychiatric and mental health nursing — Psychiatric nursing or mental health nursing is the specialty of nursing that cares for people of all ages with mental illness or mental distress, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis, depression or dementia. Nurses in this area… …
3Psychiatric epidemiology — is a field which seeks to measure the prevalence of mental illness in society. It is a subfield of the more general epidemiology. It is very difficult to accurately measure such a thing as mental illness prevalence, and current techniques are… …
4Illness — (sometimes referred to as ill health or ail) can be defined as a state of poor health. It is sometimes considered a synonym for disease. [DorlandsDict|four/000052397|illness] Others maintain that fine distinctions exist.cite journal |author=Emson …
5Psychiatric rehabilitation — Psychiatric rehabilitation, also known as psychosocial rehabilitation, is the process of restoration of community functioning and wellbeing of an individual who has a psychiatric disability (been diagnosed with a mental disorder). Rehabilitation… …
6psychiatric — [sī΄kē a′trik] adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or associated with psychiatry 2. affecting mental or emotional processes [psychiatric side effects] 3. affected by mental illness [psychiatric patients] psychiatrically adv …
7psychiatric — [sī΄kē a′trik] adj. 1. of, pertaining to, or associated with psychiatry 2. affecting mental or emotional processes [psychiatric side effects] 3. affected by mental illness [psychiatric patients] psychiatrically adv …
8Psychiatric assessment — A psychiatric assessment is a process of gathering information about a from a person within a mental health service, with the purpose of making a diagnosis. The assesment is usually the first stage of a treatment process, but psychiatric… …
9Psychiatric hospital — This article is about modern psychiatric hospitals. For historical lunatic asylums, see history of psychiatric institutions. Traverse City State Hospital, Traverse City, Michigan Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, are… …
10Psychiatric advance directive — A Psychiatric advance directive (PAD), also known as a mental health advance directive, is a written document that describes what a person wants to happen if at some time in the future they are judged to be suffering from a mental disorder in… …
