Research Axes
Mental Health
Description
This axis focuses on mental health, psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry. Topics include studies related to diagnosis, screening, and treatment of mental diseases in addition to generating and validating mental health scales and scores.
Recommendations
01
Spread awareness among mental health professionals and researchers to use validated questionnaires (Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale – PANSS) to estimate the overall severity of schizophrenia among schizophrenic patients in Lebanon.
02
Spread awareness among mental health professionals and researchers to use validated questionnaires (Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale & Hamilton Depression Rating Scale) to estimate the overall severity of depression among depressive patients in Lebanon.
03
Inform and educate mental health professionals of prevalence of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in patients with Schizophrenia and help them to recognize that the existence of OCD may affect the social relationship quality of life and the memory functioning of these patients.
04
Inform mental health professionals that psychosis can be considered a severity index in bipolar disorder, with decreased severity and overall clinical improvement and remission taking place in response to pharmacotherapy.
05
Spread awareness among mental health professionals concerning factors affecting the Quality of Life (QOL) among patients with Addiction and inform them that strategic interventions are needed to manage the health-related QOL in those with substance abuse.
06
Help mental health professionals understand correlation factors and predict discriminatory attitudes to assist policy makers in addressing the problem of homophobia with evidence-based solutions.
07
Spread awareness among mental health professionals concerning the correlation between dysfunctional cognitive schemas, developed during childhood and adolescence, and the development of the Stockholm syndrome in female victims of beating into domestic violence.
08
Inform mental health professionals about the factors that influence the excessive use of cosmetics to hide underlying problems. These factors will then be taken into consideration in the psychotherapeutic care of patients who present themselves in therapy for dissatisfaction with the image of oneself.