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Behavioral Sciences*

Recently, the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association (KCNP) has been expanded greatly in the number of members as well as the qualities in the area of practice and research. There are also 23 affiliated academic societies : Korean Academy of Psychotherapists, Korean Society for Analytical Psychology, the Korean Psychoanalytic Society, the Korean Association for Clinical Art, Korean Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the Korean Association of Social Psychiatry, The Korean Society of Biological Therapies in Psychiatry, Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the Korean Society of Biological Psychiatry, Society of Korean Women Psychiatrists, the Korean Society of Clinical Hypnosis, the Society for Human Sexuality, Korean Society of Sleep Research, the Korean Society for Psychopathology and Psychiatric Classification, Korean Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Korean Psychosomatic Society, Korean Academy of Sleep Medicine, Korean Association for Geriatic Psychiatry, Korean Academy of Psychiatrists in Alcoholism & Addiction, Korean Academy of Adolescent Psychiatry, Korean Academy Schizophrenia, Korean Society for Depressive and Bipolar Disorders, and Korean Academy of Anxiety Disorders. To further encourage the progress of the KCNP affiliated academic societies, the KCNP planning committee has developed the proposed criteria for assessing the societies.
Adolescent ; Adolescent Psychiatry ; Alcoholism ; Anxiety Disorders ; Biological Psychiatry ; Biological Therapy ; Bipolar Disorder ; Child ; Classification ; Community Psychiatry ; Female ; Humans ; Hypnosis ; Jurisprudence ; Psychiatry ; Psychology ; Psychopathology ; Schizophrenia ; Sexuality

Last one quarter century has witnessed the enlightenment of social and behavioral science in medicine. The aims of incorporating social and behavioral science in medical education are to equip future physicians with nonbiomedical clinical competencies. The contents of this "soft science of medicine" include mind-body interactions in health and disease, patient behavior, physician role and behavior, physician-patient interactions, social and cultural issues in health care, helath policy and economics, etc. Up to now, the integration of social and behavioral science in medical school curriculum are of less than satifaction due to several barriers. By broadening the perspectives of various domains of social and behavioral science and by collaborating with the professionals from other fields of medicine, psychiatrists should potentially play important roles in educational leadership.
Behavioral Medicine* ; Behavioral Sciences ; Curriculum* ; Delivery of Health Care ; Education, Medical ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Leadership* ; Physician's Role ; Psychiatry* ; Schools, Medical

Last one quarter century has witnessed the enlightenment of social and behavioral science in medicine. The aims of incorporating social and behavioral science in medical education are to equip future physicians with nonbiomedical clinical competencies. The contents of this "soft science of medicine" include mind-body interactions in health and disease, patient behavior, physician role and behavior, physician-patient interactions, social and cultural issues in health care, helath policy and economics, etc. Up to now, the integration of social and behavioral science in medical school curriculum are of less than satifaction due to several barriers. By broadening the perspectives of various domains of social and behavioral science and by collaborating with the professionals from other fields of medicine, psychiatrists should potentially play important roles in educational leadership.
Behavioral Medicine* ; Behavioral Sciences ; Curriculum* ; Delivery of Health Care ; Education, Medical ; Humans ; Interpersonal Relations ; Leadership* ; Physician's Role ; Psychiatry* ; Schools, Medical

BACKGROUND: The family medicine residency program consists mainly of clinical rotations in other specialties and the family medicine-specific training. We conducted this study to investigate how family medicine residents evaluated their training program that include family-oriented medicine, clinical preventive medicine, behavioral science and research in primary care. METHODS: In 2009, third-year residents of 129 training hospitals in Korea were surveyed to investigate the current state and their expectation of the residency program. The contents of questionnaires included training periods, conferences, procedures, interview techniques, outpatient and inpatient consultations, and written thesis. RESULTS: Total 133 out of 142 residents (93.7%) responded that 3 years of training is ideal or pertinent. Residents responded that the types of conference that they need most are journal review (81%), staff lecture (73.2%), and clinical topic review (73.2%), in that order. Procedures and interview techniques that the residents want to learn most were gastroscopy (72.5%), abdominal ultrasonography (65.2%), and pain management (46.4%). Hospitals where family medicine residents do not see hospitalized patients or patients in the outpatient clinic were 7.9% and 6.5%, respectively, whereas hospitals that maintain continuous family medicine outpatient clinics were only 40.8%. Education in outpatient clinic and articlewriting seminars was done less frequently in the secondary hospitals than in the tertiary hospitals. CONCLUSION: Evaluation and quality improvement of family medicine training program as well as specialty rotations should be considered in order to foster better family physicians. The efforts have to be made to minimize the difference in quality of each family medicine residency program.
Ambulatory Care Facilities ; Behavioral Sciences ; Clinical Medicine ; Congresses as Topic ; Family Practice ; Gastroscopy ; Humans ; Inpatients ; Internship and Residency ; Korea ; Outpatients ; Pain Management ; Physicians, Family ; Preventive Medicine ; Quality Improvement ; Referral and Consultation

OBJECTIVE: To determine the changes in dental anxiety, state anxiety, and trait anxiety levels of patients and their parents after 3 months of active orthodontic treatment. METHODS: We evaluated 120 patients and one parent of each patient. State Anxiety (STAI-S), Trait Anxiety (STAI-T), and Corah's Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) were administered before orthodontic treatment (T1) and after 3 months of treatment (T2). Differences in scores between T1 and T2 were compared using paired-sample t-tests and the relationship between the scores of the DAS and the STAI were analyzed using a bivariate two-tailed Pearson correlation test. RESULTS: Dental anxiety and state anxiety levels decreased among the patients after adjustment to orthodontic treatment (p < 0.001). However, 3 months of treatment was not sufficient to decrease the anxiety levels of parents (p > 0.05). Patient trait anxiety affected patient state anxiety and dental anxiety (p < 0.01). Additionally, a significant correlation was found between patient dental anxiety and parent dental anxiety (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Dental anxiety and state anxiety levels decrease after patients become familiar with their orthodontist and they became accustomed to orthodontic treatment. However, 3 months is not a sufficient length of time to decrease parental anxiety levels.
4-Acetamido-4'-isothiocyanatostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic Acid ; Anxiety ; Behavioral Sciences ; Compliance ; Dental Anxiety ; Humans ; Parents

The meaning of the study is in the following points. The first is to find the linguistic development of children through IQ test. The second is to find the family fostering factor for the linguistic development. For these meaning tills study will have the following aims. 1) To judge the similarly agreement between the children lexical ability with the teachers evaluation to the children. 2) To compare the gender differences if lexical abilities between the urban with the rural. 3) To find the family fostering factors for the children linguistic development. The collection data has been from April 13, 1999 to April 27. The subjects for this study were two grade of elementary school, which is located in Kcity and Orural a chosen students (273). teachers(5). parents (176). The instruments used for this study were IQ test by Korea Behavioral Science institute and family fostering environment 25 items. Teachers linguistic evaluation. The data analysis was done using Pearson's Correlation Coefficient, t-test, ANOVA using SPSS/pc program, This study found following results. 1) The similarly agreement degree between children lexical abilities with teachers comprehending evaluation male r=.745, female r=0.809 The similarly agreement degree between children lexical abilities with teachers expressing evaluation, male r= .657, female r=797(p .0l) 2) In comparing of the gender difference of urban, the femail is a little high than male (t = .5065), but the especial point is more large difference in male than in female. In comparing of the gender difference of rural. the female is especial high than the male(t= -4.411),(p .0l) 3) The higher factor of influencing the linguistic development is the breast-feeding(r=-.3279) in all the gender(p .01). So that the brast-feeding better than cow's milk, mother better than the other family members in feeding, 6~8months better than one or two years in feeding term.
Behavioral Sciences ; Child ; Female ; Foster Home Care* ; Humans ; Korea ; Linguistics* ; Male ; Milk ; Mothers ; Parents ; Statistics as Topic

OBJECTIVES: The in-training examination (Performance Examination, PE) for psychiatric residents in Korea was launched 5 years ago by the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association (KNPA). This article analyzes 5-year accumulated data on the PE, and tries to make some suggestions for further development of the PE. METHODS: The 5-year data, previously utilized for the generation of formal annual reports were reanalyzed, with an emphasis on longitudinal trends. RESULTS: The analyses indicated the following; 1) Higher-year residents earned definitely higher scores than their lower-year colleagues on the PE. This trend was especially prominent in the area of psychopharmacology-biological psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, and the emergency-organic psychiatry. There was no year-related performance difference in the area of psychoses. 2) In the area of anxiety-somatization disorder, psychophysiological disorder, and geriatric psychiatry, the residents in the university-affiliated hospitals outperformed those in the specialized psychiatric hospitals. 3) Through analyzing multiple-times examinees, it was found that their first-and second-time performances were moderately correlated, and that their ranks tended to improve, demonstrating a continuously improving performance according to the training year. CONCLUSION: These result suggested that the KNPA PE is a feasible measure for the estimation of an individual resident's performance as well as the adequacy of the environment provided by the training institutes.
Academies and Institutes ; Adolescent ; Adolescent Psychiatry ; Child ; Child Psychiatry ; Geriatric Psychiatry ; Hospitals, Psychiatric ; Humans ; Korea ; Psychophysiologic Disorders ; Psychotic Disorders

Geriatric Psychiatry has a potential to develop as a subspecialty as Child Psychiatry, for the period of old age encompasses unique developmental tasks. For the future development of Geriatric Psychiatry, a sound theory of Geriatrics is essential; a new perspective beyond biological views on aging which the health care professionals are deeply embedded. Such prejudice, old people are bound to become deteriorated physically and mentally after a long period of degenerative process, has been enhanced by biological and sociological views of discrimination and isolation. A few sociological theories on Geriatrics that have developed along with social changes are reviewed here. The Modernization Theory, Discrimination Theory, Conflict Theory, and Activity Theories are a few discussed. The current view is to see the period of old age a stage of Self Transformation when elderly people have different perception of time and become eager to rediscover themselves with a new meaning in life. They not only seek unrecognized potentials in themselves to actualize but to reach out beyond their limits, a world unknown to them. This meaning-making process and self transformation characterize old age as an important phase of life to be creative. Geriatric Psychiatry must be based on the developmental view on aging; understand elderly people who are proactive. A disorder oriented, categorical, and symptom removal practice with drugs are the stereotypes that should be minimized when it comes to the care of elderly.
Aged ; Aging ; Child ; Child Psychiatry ; Creativity* ; Delivery of Health Care ; Discrimination (Psychology) ; Geriatric Psychiatry ; Geriatrics ; Humans ; Prejudice ; Social Change

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the different kinds of controversial cases of mental disability after brain damage, to analysis the problems in the first appraisal, and to explore solutions of the problems. METHODS: The reappraisals of mental disorders after traumatic brain damage were collected from 2007-2011 in Shanghai forensic center, and the first appraisal and reappraisal cases were analyzed and compared. RESULTS: The changes of conclusion in reappraisal cases showed the following major reasons: inappropriate appraisal time, not comprehensive and object investigation of mental state of patients in first appraisal, misunderstanding the standards, etc. CONCLUSION The quality improvement of appraisal should adopt the following measures: regulating the practice, improvement of the professional skills of experts, choosing appropriate appraisal time, improvement of appraisal standards, etc.
Accidents, Traffic ; Activities of Daily Living ; Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Brain Concussion/diagnosis* ; Brain Injuries/complications* ; Child ; Disability Evaluation ; Female ; Forensic Psychiatry ; Humans ; Intellectual Disability/psychology* ; Male ; Mental Disorders/psychology* ; Middle Aged ; Retrospective Studies ; Severity of Illness Index ; Time Factors ; Young Adult