November 2009

Support groups for HIV positive mentally ill patients

  The aim of this study was to describe the demographics, clinical characteristics and expectations of the members of a newly established support group for HIV positive mentally ill patients. The factors associated with disclosure of status and expectations of the group, were also to be determined. All mental health care users, aged 18 years and older, with HIV and admitted to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital...

Author(s):   M. Y. H. Moosa, G. Jonsson, F. Y. Jeenah, J. Michael and L. De Wee    

November 2009

Risk starvation contributes to dementias and depressions: Whiffs of danger are the antidote

This paper’s objective is to use SKAT, the author’s Stages of Knowledge Ahead Theory of risk, to shed fresh light on the treatment and prevention of mental disorders. SKAT employs a broad definition of risk that allows for nice – not merely nasty – possibilities. SKAT is here shown to solve eight epidemiological puzzles left unexplained by our current theories and associated treatments for the...

Author(s):   Robin Pope