Anxiety in community-based AIDS caregivers before and after personal construct counseling

Article Abstract:

A study of the impact of personal construct counseling on community-based AIDS caregivers shows that the effect of counseling is short term. Analysis shows that immediately after the counseling the levels of anxiety are low in counseled subjects and are high in noncounseled subjects. After 3 months the level of anxiety are equal in both counseled and noncounseled subjects.

Influence, Counseling

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Changing health beliefs on causations of mental illness and their impacts on family burdens and the mental health of Chinese caregivers in Hong Kong

Article Abstract:

A study to explore the various health beliefs held by Chinese caregivers who had relatives suffering from serious mental illnesses. The relationships among Chinese health beliefs, family burdens, and the mental health of Chinese caregivers are examined.

Hong Kong, Psychotherapy patients

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Notes From Namibia: Assessing Mental Illness in a Multcultural Developing Country

Article Abstract:

The author examines the need for assessing cultural differences when providing psychiatric services in developing countries. Topics include belief systems, community standards, and local beliefs.

United States, Health aspects, Social aspects, Social policy, Developing countries, Mental illness, Mental disorders, Multiculturalism, Namibia

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