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Shifts in Mental Health Needs in Portugal during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Do...

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Risco de Suicídio e Síndrome de Desmoralização no Doente Oncológico

Introdução: Uma doença crónica ou debilitante da saúde física constitui um fator de risco de suicídio. Assim, o diagnóstico de uma doença oncológica pode estar associado a um aumento do risco de suicídio, na medida em que se constitui como um importante fator de stress, causador de sofrimento físico e psicológico. Objetivos e Métodos: Foi realizada revisão clássica da literatura com pesquisa nas bases de dados ...

Negative symptoms mediate the relationship between social cognition and functio...

In spite of significant advances in pharmacological and psychological treatments, schizophrenia still ranks among the leading causes of disability worldwide. People suffering from schizophrenia have significant impairment in major areas of everyday life, such as interpersonal relationships, work or school and even self-care. Enhancing the understanding of factors that hinder real-life functioning is therefore c...

Distress e Perturbações de Adaptação

Perfectionism in obsessive-compulsive and eating disorders

Objective: The main aims of this article are twofold. First, to assess perfectionism dimensions in obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders in comparison with psychiatric control (depression/anxiety) and non-clinical control groups. Second, to examine if perfectionism is specifically related to these different clinical conditions. Method: Thirty-nine outpatients with obsessive-compulsive disorder, 24 ...

Psychiatric disease in primary health care

It’s consensually assumed both the high prevalence of psychiatric pathology in the Primary Care and the fact that the General Practitioner is the best positioned agent to carry out a correct diagnostic and therapeutic approach to these problems.Accordingly, it is suggested that the General Practitioner evaluate and treat the majority of these patients, referring a minority, really needed, to specialized care. I...