Results: 58

Correlates of psychosexual issues in the Jamaican population

West Indian med. j; 62 (5), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between the psychopathological correlates of psychosexual phenomena in post-colonial Jamaica. METHODS: A total of 1506 adult individuals were sampled from 2150 households using a stratified sampling method and assessed with the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory...

Studying personality and personality disorders among people in the Caribbean advocating for an emic-etic approach

West Indian med. j; 62 (5), 2013
This article discusses issues relevant to the examination of personality and personality disorder in contexts, such as the Caribbean, which are under-represented in this scholarship. The article argues that because normal personality is the standard against which definitions of non-normality (and at the ...

Prevalence and correlates of personality disorder in the Jamaican population

West Indian med. j; 62 (5), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalence and correlates of personality disorder in a representative sample of the Jamaican population using the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI). METHOD: A four-stage stratified random sampling method was used to obtain a representative population sample consisti...

The prevalence of personality disorder in a psychiatric and substance abuse population in Jamaica

West Indian med. j; 62 (5), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of personality disorders in patients admitted to the psychiatric wards of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). METHOD: Patients (n = 100) sequentially admitted to the psychiatric wards of the UHWI were assessed for personality disorder using the gold s...

The prevalence of personality disorder in a general medical hospital population in Jamaica

West Indian med. j; 62 (5), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of personality disorders in patients admitted to the general medical wards of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). METHOD: Patients (n = 100) sequentially admitted to the general medical wards of the UHWI were assessed for the diagnosis of personality ...

The creation and validation of the Jamaica personality disorder inventory

West Indian med. j; 62 (5), 2013
OBJECTIVE: To describe the creation and validation of the Jamaica Personality Disorder Inventory (JPDI) screening questionnaire. METHOD: Using the phenomenological triad of power management, dependency and psychosexual issues, drafts of the JPDI were piloted on patients from psychiatric and medical wards...

Efectos de un programa de diplomación en psicoterapia Gestalt integrativa en la autoactualización medida con el inventario de actualización personal
Effects of a diplomation programme in integrative Gestalt psychotherapy in the self actualization, measured with the personal actualization inventory

La capacitación en psicoterapia Gestalt pretende lograr en los entrenados una mayor capacidad para vivir en el presente, para orientarse y guiarse por principios internos, desarrollar una actitud responsable, flexible y creativa en la relación con la realidad y los otros seres humanos, y para desarroll...

Ansiedad, Obsesión-Compulsión y Cólera-Hostilidad en pacientes con Depresión
Anxiety, Obsession-Compulsion and Anger-Hostility in patients with depression

Aplicando una parte de la Lista de Registro de Síntomas-90 (Symptom Checklist-90 o SCL-90) de DEROGATIS y col. a 20 pacientes con depresión, se encontraron niveles promedios uniformemente elevados no sólo de depresión sino también de ansiedad, somatización (sintomatología somática de la ansiedad)...