Treatment of first-episode psychosis must also address comorbid addiction, say the authors of this study, who found that people who have stopped misusing drugs or alcohol fare no worse than non-abusers after a first episode of psychosis. Persistent substance abusers, predictably, have far worse outcomes.
RESULT: Impact of persistent substance misuse on 1-year outcome in first-episode psychosis
The British Journal of Psychiatry | Sep 1, 2009
Not only do neurological soft signs such as poor motor coordination and sensory perception correlate with reductions in brain volume among adolescents with first-episode psychosis; they correspond with specific structural brain deficits.
RESULT: Brain morphology and neurological soft signs in adolescents with first-episode psychosis
The British Journal of Psychiatry | Sep 1, 2009
Search: first episode psychosis
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SEARCH TIP: What’s wrong with the Back button?
In many cases, clicking the Back button at the top left of the screen after reading an abstract no longer returns you to your previous results page on SearchMedica.
You need to double-click the Back button to see your results list again.Sometimes that won’t work either, unfortunately.
This is a bug that arose with the new release of SearchMedica’s saved searches function. Please bear with us; we’re working on it.
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OTHER RECENT SEARCHES ON SEARCHMEDICA
Search: transference
RESULT: A Different Perspective in Listening: Understanding Transference Interpretation and the Nature of Therapeutic Action in Dynamic Psychotherapy
American Journal of Psychiatry | Oct 1, 2009
The effect of therapy is more profound when clinicians try to understand the patient’s vantage point and its inherent legitimacy rather than actively trying to “correct” a perception, writes the author of this letter responding to a case report about transference anger. (There’s a link to full text of the original report at the end of the letter.)
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SEARCH TIP: Another good use for quotation marks
In addition to defining a phrase, quotation marks can limit a search to exactly the word you have typed. That would prove useful in this case.
This search includes many other results in which the term “regression” is highlighted in the blurb beneath the result, indicating that SearchMedica interprets it as a synonym for “transference.” In many of these results, “regression” is used in a physiological or statistical context, rather than as a term in psychology.
We know that “regression” is not exactly a synonym for “transference.” We’ll have this fixed.
In the meantime, when you encounter a situation like this, putting the word inside quotation marks will exclude the irrelevant results.
(In the case of words like “regression” that have more than one context, however, this would not work.)
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Search: traumatic grief
RESULT: Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric Validation of Criteria Proposed for DSM-V and ICD-11
PLoS Medicine | Aug 4, 2009
Persistent grief disorder is a clinically significant and distinct form of psychological distress associated with significant disability that should be included as a disorder in DSM-V, contend the 19 authors of this article. They used a structured interview (Inventory of Complicated Grief) to assess 317 bereaved individuals identified by an outreach program in Connecticut. Their report offers a diagnostic paradigm for the proposed disorder.
Search: enmeshment between mother and daughter
RESULT: Disturbed families, or families disturbed?
The British Journal of Psychiatry | March 1, 2004
Maternal control and disorganized mealtimes were strong contributors to development of eating disorders, in the study described in this 2004 editorial (the most recent result that appears with this very specific search term).
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SEARCH TIP: In a search term, less is sometimes more
In general, specific search terms produce more targeted results. But it’s possible to go too far with this strategy.
The person who tried the search above found only four results, then came back again with the simple query “enmeshment.” Removing mother and daughter offered a much richer set of options. For instance:
RESULT: Overparenting and the Narcissistic Pursuit of Attachment
Psychiatric Annals | April 2009
