The focus of this Diploma Thesis is to discover the awareness of homeopathy. Previous experience of responders with this type of treatment. If they don't mistake homeopathy for other type of alternative medicine and whether their experience has been positive, neutral or even negative. Another important goal is to examine the consequences of homeopathic treatment from the particular homeopath or a qualified expert. The difference between the treatment and diagnosis of the certain homeopaths. And also, the course of the visit. Primarily, the effect of homeopathic preparations on the health of the individual. A combination of quantitative and qualitative research was chosen to process these goals. The quantitative research is evaluated using an anonymous poll in electronic form. The qualitative research is processed using a semi-structured interview. The goal of the theoretical part is a mere view of the issue. It contains chapters that outline the basics of homeopathy, its use, homeopathic preparations, their production and the limits of homeopathic treatment. The Diploma Thesis contains an objective view of homeopathic treatment and assessment of its influence on the health of the individual.

Orientador: Dagmar de Paula Queluz / Dissertação (mestrado profissional) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T07:43:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigues_Danilo_M.pdf: 933631 bytes, checksum: 12069295906092891897c457c333c9ed (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Trabalhos que exigem grande responsabilidade podem trazer sérios prejuízos ao organismo do indivíduo como o estresse. O estresse é um dos fatores desencadeantes de doenças, produzindo alterações sistêmicas e bucais em diferentes profissionais. O presente estudo propôs associar a presença de estresse emocional com as alterações sistêmicas e bucais em enfermeiros de um hospital público de referência na região de Piracicaba-SP. Foram convidados a participar todos os 60 enfermeiros de ambos os gêneros, de diferentes idades e etnias, com nível de formação superior. Os enfermeiros responderam ao questionário de Sintomas de Estresse (ISSL) e, junto a esse, responderam ao questionário de doenças/sintomas psicossomáticos. Em seguida passaram por avaliação estomatológica da cavidade bucal, de acordo com os critérios de Boraks (1996). A variável estresse foi associada com as variáveis psicossomáticas e bucais de maior destaque através de teste exato de Fisher para cálculo do valor de p (0,05). O nível de estresse nas fases II e III foi observado em 51,3% dos enfermeiros. Os sintomas de dor de cabeça e ter engordado ultimamente estiveram presente em 48,6% dos enfermeiros. Em relação às alterações bucais 32,4% relataram afta às vezes e 59,5% apresentaram mucosa mordiscada sempre. Não foi significativa a associação entre a variável estresse com as variáveis psicossomáticas e bucais. Baseado nos resultados desse estudo conclui-se que a profissão enfermagem pode levar ao estresse emocional, embora não encontrada associação significativa entre estresse e doenças/sintomas psicossomáticos e bucais. Estudos futuros deverão ser realizados para avaliar essa associação / Abstract: Jobs that require great responsibility can cause serious damage to the body of the individual as stress. Stress is one of the triggers of disease, producing the appearance of systemic and oral diseases in different professionals. This study aimed to associate the presence of emotional stress with the systemic and oral alterations on nurses in a public referral hospital in the Piracicaba-SP region. Were invited to attend all 60 nurses of both genders, of different ethnicity and ages with higher education. Nurses responded to Stress Symptoms (ISSL) questionnaire and, next to that, answered the questionnaire diseases/psychosomatic symptoms. Then passed through stomatological evaluation of oral cavity, according to the criteria Boraks (1996) . The variable stress was associated with psychosomatic and oral variables most outstanding through Fisher's exact test for calculating the p value (0.05). The level of stress in phase II and III was observed in 51.3% of the nurses. Symptoms of headache and have put on weight lately were present in 48.6% of the nurses. With regard to oral alterations 32.4% reported sore sometimes and 59.5% had nibbled mucosa always. There was no significant association between the variable stress with psychosomatic and oral variables. Based on the results of this study it is concluded that the nursing profession can lead to emotional stress, although no significant association between stress and disease / psychosomatic and oral symptoms. Future studies should be performed to evaluate this association / Mestrado / Odontologia em Saude Coletiva / Mestre em Odontologia em Saúde Coletiva

Abstract The sample consisted of 419 twins, born in 1965–1973, from Northern Finland who had been followed at ten-year intervals, at 2–10 years, 12–20 years and at 22–30 years of age. Data on psychosomatic symptoms, parent-twin and inter-twin relationships were elicited, and twins completed the Children's Depression Inventory modified for age. Middle adolescence appeared to be the most difficult phase of puberty for twins as far as depressive and psychosomatic/somatic symptoms were concerned. When different twin pairs were evaluated separately, the males of opposite-sex twin pairs seemed to be in the most favourable position, particularly in late adolescence, as they reported least depressive symptoms. Depressive and psychosomatic symptoms were evaluated in relation to parental preference among young adult twins. Parental preference was evaluated in two directions: which one of the parents was reported to feel as being closer to the twin – experienced parental preference evaluated by the twin, and which one of the parents the twin felt closer to – twin's own preference. Those males who were equally close to both parents (experienced parental preference) had least total depressiveness, while females in intermediate situation had the highest self-confidence and least anhedonia and nervousness. According to twins' own preference, twins who felt equally close to both parents had least total depressiveness and anhedonia. The intermediate position seems to be the best alternative, as these twins had the least symptoms. Psychosomatic and depressive symptoms were evaluated in relation to co-twin dependence in young adult twins. MZ twins, especially MZ females, reported most often co-twin dependence at all ages. There were no significant differences in depressive symptoms between dependent and independent twins. Twin's subjective experience about co-twin dependence appeared to be important for the twin's mental well-being, as dependence-independence imbalance within twin pair was associated with elevated levels of depressive symptom reporting, especially in twins who perceived themselves as dependent and the co-twin as independent. Dominance-submissiveness between co-twins and its relationship to mental health was assessed in young adulthood. Dominance-submissiveness in the twin relationships was assessed separately in three domains of life: physical and psychological dominance-submissiveness and the role of a spokesperson. Submissiveness in the psychological domain seemed to be associated with increased depressiveness, nervous complaints and psychosomatic symptoms in males of male-female twin pairs. Among females of same-sex twin pairs, submissiveness in the psychological domain was most clearly associated with depressive symptoms. We conclude that being submissive, especially in the psychological domain, to a female twin partner seems to be stressful, whereas it is easier, especially for females, to be submissive to a male twin partner. This was in contrast to co-twin dependency, which was experienced positively when occurring towards a twin sister.

Essential hypertension has a complex and multiple biological, psychological and social aetiology and remains one of the most serious physical disorders affecting the Black population of South Africa today. Pharmacological treatment has been the predominant approach to blood pressure reduction, but considering that the greater part of essential hypertension has its origin in biobehavioural and cognitive functioning a non-pharmacological treatment approach to essential hypertension is receiving extensive interest both in research and therapeutic practice. This study attempted to implement a specific cognitive-behavioural treatment "package' which was tailored to the emergent aetiology in an urban Xhosa woman suffering from Mild hypertension who was on antihypertensive medication and to evaluate the treatment using a single case-study methodology. A combination of relaxation training and cognitive-behavioural modification was provided over a fifteen week period and evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively. It was found that a combination of over-weight, occupational stress and anger could have contributed and/or caused the patient's hypertension. The results also show a significant reduction in blood pressure during the treatment phase as well as a reduction in weight, experienced anxiety and angry emotion, and by the end of the study the patient's blood pressure had been reduced to normal levels. Finally the feasibility of using such a treatment approach is discussed in relation to the South African context and the case study method is evaluated as a research tool in light of the findings.

The purpose of the study was to explore the use of Creative Visualization in the context of Family Therapy for treatment of a family of a child with allergies. Based on a single-case research design, the study included pre- and posttest measures; baseline, continuous, and follow-up self-report of symptoms; plus examination of physician's clinical records to determine the efficacy of the intervention. A further purpose of the study was to explore the possible usefulness of a test being developed on the basis of the Psychosomatic Family Model, the Leuven Family Assessment, as an outcome measure. The subject family was an intact family with one adolescent daughter whose most important allergic symptom was poorly controlled asthma, at least partially due to noncompliance with medical advice. The measures included the Leuven Family Assessment, a measure based on the Psychosomatic Family Model, which has been developed for use with families of children with eating disorders; the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale (FACES III), a measure based on the Circumplex Family Model, which is a well-accepted measure of family functioning; symptom self-report; and consultation with the child's physician to report hospital admissions and emergency room visits. The baseline period was two weeks, the intervention consisted of two weeks of Relaxation Training and eight weekly meetings for combined Family Therapy and Creative Visualization, and the follow-up consisted of telephone contact with the symptomatic adolescent beginning fourteen weeks after the last family therapy session and continuing for eight weeks. Post-therapy results show a trend toward expected changes in family structure and functioning and marked improvement in the asthmatic symptoms of the adolescent. Creative Visualization is an intervention tool well worth further exploration in the context of family therapy; and the Leuven Family Assessment merits further investigation and development as an outcome measure. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

In the present study we used an empirical validation approach to determine psychosocial variables related to adaptive management of diabetes in two samples of diabetic children and their families. Children from the Kansas University Medical Center (n = 31) and children from the Virginia Diabetes Association (n = 25) provided results of the glycosylated hemoglobin test (a measure of diabetic control); completed self-report measures on variables of anxiety, coping, family adjustment, and health locus of control; and underwent structured interviewing. Parents completed parallel self-report measures, as well as an assessment of child behavior. In addition, a subsample of parent-child dyads participated in a role-play measure of family interactions around the child’s diabetes. All demographic variables and psychosocial measures were not Significantly different across the Kansas and Virginia samples. Children in optimal control of diabetes had more structured and organized family environments, more frequently believed that ''powerful others'' were responsible for their health, and showed lower levels of negative coping with family problems than children in nonoptimal diabetic control. Surprisingly, children in optimal diabetic control showed poorer knowledge of diabetes and its management than children in nonoptimal control. Psychological interventions to promote adaptive diabetic control should incorporate findings related to family environment, locus of control, and the child’s style of coping with family problems. / Ph. D.

The Behavioral Medicine Questionnare (BMQ) is a 44- item instrument administered via a computer CRT display or pencil and paper. The BMQ was designed to help primary care physicians treating spinal disorders to screen for emotional factors which warrant further psychological evaluation. The test is composed of three scales: Anxiety, Depression, and Somatization. Concurrent validity for each scale was determined through comparisons with subject (n = 133) scores on clinician judgement ratings, pain drawings, and the MMPI. The psychometric properties of the test were supported through statistical analysis. Significant correlations were found between the BMQ, MMPI, and clinician ratings, with the latter showing relationships of lesser strength. The only significant correlation to subject generated pain drawings was to the BMQ depression scale. Analysis indicated the need for seperate norms for males and females. Further research is needed to facilitate measurement and interpretation of the BMQ.

The thesis deals with attributional styles and their research in patients with psychosomatic disorder. The text is divided into a theoretical part and an empirical part. The term psychosomatic disorder is defined in the theoretical part. The essential links between psychosomatic disorder, stress and cognitive processes are mentioned. Selected attribution theory and the concepts of attributional styles, then make up the majority theory. In the empirical part, there are hypotheses defined using three psychodiagnostic methods tested on a set of people with psychosomatic disorder and compared with the healthy population. Key words: attribution attribution theory attributional style psychosomatic disorder/psychosomatic illness somatoform disorders

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:28:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudia Mezzarano Faria.pdf: 515723 bytes, checksum: 0a4f508dfa9e9c03f903b1a3eb2bac59 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-02-24 / The aim of this study was to clarify Winnicott s understandings of the psychosomatic problems, especially those related to the genesis, dynamics and potential treatment, thus contributing to the development of his psychosomatic theory. Several cases and clinical vignettes with psychosomatic symptoms and references, scattered in his work, were gathered, organized and classified. Data analysis was based on these references in relation to the theory. Beginning with the notions of integration psyche-soma and personalization, Winnicott considers the real psychosomatic disorder related to primary (early) development processes. He assumes the commonly called psychosomatic disorder phenomenon is only the body-psyche connection (linkage). Furthermore, he assumes that in several cases, the physical manifestations of psycho-emotional difficulties are natural phenomenon of human life and part of the maturation process. The classification of cases and clinical vignettes was proposed as follows: False psychosomatic disorder versus True psychosomatic disorder , in order to distinguish the phenomenon that is routinely taken as a psychosomatic disorder, but that only indicates the psyche-soma intimate relationship, from the true psychosomatic disorder, in Winnicott?s concept, and the False psychosomatic disorder subcategories Natural reaction versus Pathological symptom , to separate natural physical manifestations of emotional difficulties from some kind of psychopathology, although not characterized as a real psychosomatic disorder. The genesis, dynamics and potential treatment of a psychosomatic symptom depends on the category it fits. By analyzing and systematizing the Winnicott material (work), we intended to contribute to deepening his theory and to solving the empiric-clinical problem of the psychosomatic phenomena. / Essa pesquisa objetivou explicitar a compreens?o que Winnicott teve dos problemas psicossom?ticos, principalmente em rela??o ? g?nese, din?mica e possibilidade de tratamento, contribuindo para o desenvolvimento de sua teoria psicossom?tica. Procurou-se reunir, organizar e classificar diversos casos e vinhetas cl?nicas, dispersos na obra de Winnicott, nos quais h? refer?ncia aos sintomas psicossom?ticos. A an?lise dos dados se deu a partir da rela??o desses com a teoria winnicottiana. A partir das no??es de Integra??o psiquesoma e Personaliza??o, Winnicott considera que o dist?rbio psicossom?tico verdadeiro est? relacionado com falhas em processos primitivos do desenvolvimento, e ressalta que o fen?meno que comumente ? chamado de dist?rbio psicossom?tico refere-se apenas ?s vincula??es entre o corpo e o psiquismo. Al?m disso, Winnicott afirma que, muitas vezes, as manifesta??es f?sicas advindas de dificuldades psicoemocionais s?o fen?menos naturais que fazem parte da vida e do processo de amadurecimento. Dessa forma, foram propostas as seguintes classifica??es para os casos e vinhetas cl?nicas: Falso dist?rbio psicossom?tico versus Verdadeiro dist?rbio psicossom?tico , com o intuito de diferenciar o fen?meno que corriqueiramente ? chamado de dist?rbio psicossom?tico, mas que apenas indica a ?ntima rela??o entre psique e soma, do dist?rbio psicossom?tico verdadeiro, na concep??o winnicottiana, e as subcategorias Rea??o natural versus Sintoma patol?gico , dentro da categoria Falso dist?rbio psicossom?tico , que indica que algumas manifesta??es f?sicas devem ser caracterizadas apenas como modos de se reagir ?s dificuldades inerentes ? vida, enquanto que outras indicam a presen?a de alguma psicopatologia, ainda que n?o se caracterize como um dist?rbio psicossom?tico verdadeiro. A g?nese, a din?mica e a forma de se tratar um problema psicossom?tico depende da categoria na qual ele se enquadre. Ao sistematizar e analisar esse material apresentado por Winnicott procurou-se contribuir para o aprofundamento de sua teoria e para a resolu??o do problema emp?rico-cl?nico dos fen?menos psicossom?ticos.

D.Litt. et Phil. (Psychology) / It has long been known that South Africans are a high risk population for the development of coronary heart disease. Cardiovascular diseases accounted for 8,7% of all deaths in this country in 1988. Despite this distressing situation, rehabilitation facilities for people who have suffered a myocardial infarction or heart attack are relatively scarce. The facilities that exist tend to focus on the biomedical aspects of cardiac rehabilitation such as exercise and diet, and tend to neglect the psychosocial factors. A review of the literature shows, however, that psychosocial factors, and in particular the Type A coronary-prone behaviour pattern are significantly related not only to the development of coronary heart disease, but also to the probability of sUffering and surviving a heart attack. In addition, Type A.behaviour has been shown to be predictive of the risk of a second infarction after an initial attack. For this reason, the proven technology of a treatment programme developed under the auspices of the Recurrent Coronary Prevention Project (Powell & Thoresen, 1986) was applied in an attempt to adapt the programme for the" South African context. The study was aimed at establishing whether the RCPP programme could successfully be employed in this country, and whether the duration could be shortened so as to be more economically viable given the limited economic resources that characterise health care in South Africa. The modified programme was administered to a group of 13 post-myocardial patients at a local cardiac rehabilitation centre. A second group of 11 patients at the same centre served as a no-treatment waiting list control group, but simultaneously underwent an aerobic exercise and cardiovascular counselling programme. Results of the study indicate that 'the modified programme is highly successful in modifying Type A behaviour and its components in South African sUbjects. Comparisons of the experimental and control groups after the intervention showed statistically significant differences on the majority of measures. It was therefore concluded that the modified programme can be used fruitfully in the local context, but it was cautioned that the present sample needs to be followed up over time to ensure that the treatment gains are maintained.