ABSTRACT
Depressive symptoms and suicidality were assessed in 114 children 6-12 years old, of whom 41 had been physically abused, 38 neglected, and 35 neither abused nor neglected. The physically abused children manifested significantly higher levels of depressive symptomatology and suicidality than did the other two groups. Implications for research and clinical practice are discussed.
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Child Abuse/psychology , Depression/psychology , Suicide/psychology , Aggression/psychology , Child , Depression/diagnosis , Female , Humans , Male , Personality Assessment , Personality Development , Reference Values , Suicide, Attempted/psychology , Suicide PreventionSubject(s)
Commitment of Mentally Ill/legislation & jurisprudence , Informed Consent/legislation & jurisprudence , Mental Competency/legislation & jurisprudence , Mentally Ill Persons , Psychotic Disorders/rehabilitation , Surveys and Questionnaires , Adult , Comprehension , Female , Government Regulation , Hospitalization , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Humans , Internationality , Israel , Male , Middle Aged , Patient Admission/legislation & jurisprudence , Psychotic Disorders/psychologySubject(s)
Legislation, Medical , Schizophrenia, Paranoid , Homicide/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , IsraelABSTRACT
Informed consent and insight are among the most important issues in medical treatment, especially for psychiatric patients. In this study, we examined the competence to consent to psychiatric hospitalization of 113 psychiatric patients who were voluntarily admitted to a mental hospital in various psychotic states and compared it with their insight. We found a significant correlation between the patients' competence and insight into their illnesses. There is a discussion of the problematic issues of informed consent, competence and psychosis and the importance of insight in the context of mental illness.
