A5040347117- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Temporomandibular Joint Disorders
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Columbia University
2007-2022
New York State Psychiatric Institute
1987-2019
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
1993-2019
Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center
2006
University of Verona
2000
Ferrari (Italy)
1999-2000
Consulintel (Spain)
1996-2000
Città di Castello Hospital
1999
Sartorius (Germany)
1999
Apple (Israel)
1996
Critics of labeling theory vigorously dispute Scheff's (1966) provocative etiological hypothesis and downplay the importance factors such as stigma stereotyping. We propose a modified perspective which claims that even if does not directly produce mental disorder, it can lead to negative outcomes. Our approach asserts socialization leads individuals develop set beliefs about how most people treat patients. When enter treatment, these take on new meaning. The more patients believe they will...
Are inverse relations between psychiatric disorders and socioeconomic status due more to social causation (adversity stress) or selection (downward mobility of genetically predisposed)? This classical epidemiological issue is tested by focusing on ethnic in relation status. Ethnic cannot be an effect disorder because it present at birth whereas depends educational occupational attainment. A cohort sample 4914 young, Israel-born adults European North African background was selected from the...
This paper challenges several arguments for rejecting the rationale of Holmes' and Rahe's Social Readjustment Rating Scale proposes procedural improvements three aspects life-event scale construction: construction a list, selection judges, tests whether judges agree on their ratings. The proposed procedures are illustrated with Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Interview (PERI) Life Events Scale. list 102 events was developed basis surveys actually experienced in various populations. Ratings...
Relative to non-Latino Whites, Latinos have a worse socioeconomic profile but lower mortality rate, finding that presents an epidemiologic paradox. This study tested the salmon bias hypothesis engage in return migration their country of origin and are thereby rendered "statistically immortal" alternative selection healthier migrants United States accounts for paradox.National Longitudinal Mortality Study data were used examine rates following groups whom is not feasible: Cubans, who face...
This interview study investigated nonspecific psychological distress in the general population. A probability sample of 200 adults was drawn from heterogenous sex, class, and ethnic groups New York City. Twenty-five scales were developed. Eight reflect a single dimension (eg, Poor Self-esteem, Sadness, Perceived Physical Health) 17 are distinct these each other False Beliefs Perceptions, Manic Characteristics, Insomnia, Antisocial History, illness-linked Somatic Problems). Both sets have...
In 1988, the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS) of a representative sample 1200 veterans estimated that 30.9% had developed posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during their lifetimes and 15.2% were currently suffering from PTSD. The study also found strong dose-response relationship: As retrospective reports combat exposure increased, PTSD occurrence increased. Skeptics have argued these results are inflated by recall bias other flaws. We used military records to construct...
Three lines of research--studies extreme situations, epidemiological investigations relations between socioeconomic status (SES) and psychiatric disorders, a quasi-experimental test the social causation-social selection issue raised by findings--provide strong evidence that environmental adversity is important in occurrence not only post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but also other types psychopathology, including major depression, alcoholism, substance use antisocial personality...
Since the turn of century, over 80 studies designed to count both untreated and treated cases psychiatric disorder have been carried out in different parts world; majority these, data were reported for males females separately. The procedures results these epidemiological "true" prevalence are analyzed with respect several questions: Are total rates all types functional higher among or females? Which more prevalent which How do sex differences overall vary time? What implications findings...
This paper is concerned with the kind of work that needed in order to provide a more solid scientific foundation for belief life stress causes illness. Although indirect evidence from controlled laboratory studies and extreme situations provides strong indications general relationship between illness, concerning effects naturally occurring ordinary stressful events less clear. we have body research indicating are associated wide range disorders distress, it does not clear picture nature...
This article proposes a social causation explanation for the association between SES and depression/distress. The model links SES, occupational direction, control, planning (DCP), personality factors, depression/distress in causal sequence. data to test against alternative, selection models are derived from samples of psychiatric patients community residents Washington Heights, New York City. key factor DCP is operationalized using ratings Dictionary Occupational Titles. results support...
Social causation theory and social selection have been put forth to explain the finding that low socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with risk for psychiatric disorders. The predictions of both theories were investigated using data from a community-based longitudinal study. Psychosocial interviews administered 736 families 2 counties in New York State 1975, 1983, 1985-1986, 1991-1993. Results indicated (a) family SES was offspring anxiety, depressive, disruptive, personality disorders...