Myrna M Weissman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 196006 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Myrna M Weissman |
| PRENOMES | Myrna M |
| SOBRENOME | Weissman |
| ASSINATURA | WEISSMAN M M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3490-3075 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 94 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Community-informed perspectives of implementing interpersonal psychotherapy for couples to reduce situational intimate partner violence and improve common mental disorders in Mozambique
Stakeholders recommended multilevel involvement and inclusion of community-based programming. Task shifting and use of technology can help address these resource demands
Pre- and Post-Pandemic Religiosity and Mental Health Outcomes
Relatively few studies have prospectively examined the effects of known protective factors, such as religion, on pandemic-related outcomes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the pre- and post-pandemic trajectories and psychological effects of religious beliefs and religious attendance. Male and female adults ( N = 189) reported their beliefs in religious importance ( RI ) and their religious attendance ( RA ) both before ( T1 ) and after ( T2…
Time for united action on depression
Social connectedness as a determinant of mental health
Public health and epidemiologic research have established that social connectedness promotes overall health. Yet there have been no recent reviews of findings from research examining social connectedness as a determinant of mental health. The goal of this review was to evaluate recent longitudinal research probing the effects of social connectedness on depression and anxiety symptoms and diagnoses in the general population. A scoping review was p…
Potential Genetic Overlap Between Insomnia and Sleep Symptoms in Major Depressive Disorder
Background: The prevalence of insomnia and hypersomnia in depressed individuals is substantially higher than that found in the general population. Unfortunately, these concurrent sleep problems can have profound effects on the disease course. Although the full biology of sleep remains to be elucidated, a recent genome-wide association (GWAS) of insomnia, and other sleep traits in over 1 million individuals was recently published and provides many…
The role of religiosity in families at high-risk for depression
Brain regulation of emotional conflict predicts antidepressant treatment response for depression
Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression
Ministers’ Perceptions of Church-Based Programs to Provide Depression Care for African Americans
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990–2010
Disability-adjusted life years (Dalys) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010
Religiosity and Major Depression in Adults at High Risk
OBJECTIVE: Previously the authors found that personal importance of religion or spirituality was associated with a lower risk for major depression in a study of adults with and without a history of depression. Here the authors examine the association of personal importance of religion or spirituality with major depression in the adult offspring of the original sample using a 10-year prospective longitudinal design. METHOD: Participants were 114 a…
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010
Training in Structured Diagnostic Assessment Using DSM-IV Criteria
Objectives: Determining a patient’s psychiatric diagnosis is an important first step for the selection of empirically supported treatments and a critical component of evidence-based practice. Structured diagnostic assessment covers the range of psychiatric diagnoses and is usually more complete and accurate than unstructured assessment. Method: We conducted a national survey of training in empirically supported psychotherapy in which information …
Course and Severity of Maternal Depression
Empirically Supported Psychotherapy in Social Work Training Programs
Objectives: A national survey finds that 62% of social work programs do not require didactic and clinical supervision in any empirically supported psychotherapy (EST). The authors report the results of analysis of national survey data using two alternative classifications of EST to determine if the results are because of the definition of EST used in the national survey. Method: Psychotherapies in the national survey are classified by three defin…
Offspring of Depressed Parents
OBJECTIVE: This study was a 20-year follow-up of offspring of depressed and nondepressed parents to determine the magnitude and continuity of the risk of parental depression to the offspring. METHOD: The authors followed 151 offspring of moderately to severely depressed parents or nonpsychiatrically ill comparison subjects for about 20 years, to a mean age of 35 years. Four interviews and diagnostic assessments from childhood or adolescence to ad…
Depression in US Hispanics
US Hispanics, currently the largest minority group in the country, face disparities in the recognition and treatment of major depression. This article provides an evidence-based review of the prevalence, presentation, and management of major depression in primary care in this heterogeneous ethnic group. Under-recognition of depression in adult Hispanic Americans may be related to language differences, health literacy barriers, somatic presentatio…
Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Depression in Rural Uganda
CONTEXT: Despite the importance of mental illness in Africa, few controlled intervention trials related to this problem have been published. OBJECTIVES: To test the efficacy of group interpersonal psychotherapy in alleviating depression and dysfunction and to evaluate the feasibility of conducting controlled trials in Africa. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: For this cluster randomized, controlled clinical trial (February-June 2002), 30 village…
Neurological Soft Signs and Disruptive Behavior Among Children of Opiate Dependent Parents
Parental Depression, Child Mental Health Problems, and Health Care Utilization
BACKGROUND: Small controlled studies suggest that depression and other mental health problems are more common in children of parents with depression than in children of parents without depression. OBJECTIVES: This article examines relationships between parental depression and children's mental health problems and health care utilization in a nationally representative household sample of parents and their children. RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross sectional…
Depressed Adolescents Grown Up
CONTEXT: Major depressive disorder (MDD) that arises in adolescence impairs functioning and is associated with suicide risk, but little is known about its continuity into adulthood. OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical course of adolescent-onset MDD into adulthood. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: Prospective case-control study. Seventy-three subjects had onset of MDD based on systematic clinical assessment during adolescence (Tanner stage III-V) and 37 c…
Offspring of Depressed Parents
Background: There have been numerous studies that have shown that offspring of depressed parents are at a high risk for major depressive disorder (MDD) and impairment. None have followed up the offspring into adulthood to obtain more precise estimates of risk. Method: One hundred eighty-two offspring from 91 families, in which 1 or more parents had MDD (high risk) or in which neither parent was depressed (low risk), were blindly reassessed in the…
Cross-National Epidemiology of Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the rates and patterns of major depression and bipolar disorder based on cross-national epidemiologic surveys. DESIGN AND SETTING: Population-based epidemiologic studies using similar methods from 10 countries: the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, France, West Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Taiwan, Korea, and New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: Approximately 38000 community subjects. OUTCOME MEASURES: Rates, demographics, and age at on…
Screening for Depressive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
The utility of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC), a modified version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, was explored in a sample of children, adolescents, and young adults at high or low risk for depression according to their parents' diagnosis. Proband parents were participants in the Yale Family Study of Major Depression who had children between the ages of 6 and 23 years. Diagnos…
Family risk factors, parental depression, and psychopathology in offspring
Associations between parents' poor marital adjustment, parent-child discord, affectionless control, low family cohesion, and parental divorce and DSM-III diagnoses were explored in a study of 220 offspring of parents with and without major depression. Implications for the etiology of psychopathology and for analytic strategies are discussed
Advances in psychiatric epidemiology
Over the last decade there has been a marked increase in information on the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders, particularly major depression, in adults living in the community and in families. The ability to conduct large epidemiologic studies of psychiatric disorders is due to improvements in diagnostic precision and reliability in psychiatry and to the development of systematic methods for collecting information on signs and symptoms to mak…
Course and Severity of Maternal Depression
Empirically Supported Psychotherapy in Social Work Training Programs
Objectives: A national survey finds that 62% of social work programs do not require didactic and clinical supervision in any empirically supported psychotherapy (EST). The authors report the results of analysis of national survey data using two alternative classifications of EST to determine if the results are because of the definition of EST used in the national survey. Method: Psychotherapies in the national survey are classified by three defin…
Moving and depression in women
Ministers’ Perceptions of Church-Based Programs to Provide Depression Care for African Americans
The Weeping Wife
Marital functioning was examined in acutely depressed women and compared with a matched normal control group, using a semi-structured interview method. The depressed women as compared with normals were significantly more reticent and submissive, had an impaired sexual relationship, felt less affection and more guilt and resentment towards their spouse, and had considerably more interpersonal friction. Those depressed women with adaptive premorbid…
Training in Structured Diagnostic Assessment Using DSM-IV Criteria
Objectives: Determining a patient’s psychiatric diagnosis is an important first step for the selection of empirically supported treatments and a critical component of evidence-based practice. Structured diagnostic assessment covers the range of psychiatric diagnoses and is usually more complete and accurate than unstructured assessment. Method: We conducted a national survey of training in empirically supported psychotherapy in which information …
The social role performance of depressed women
A comparison of the social role performance of acutely depressed women with a matched non-symptomatic normal group, using a semi-structured interview, indicates that depressed women are significantly more impaired in all roles. The degree of the depressive's impairment in intimate interpersonal relations provides a significant context for understanding symptom formation and treatment processes
Moving and depression in women
The Weeping Wife
Marital functioning was examined in acutely depressed women and compared with a matched normal control group, using a semi-structured interview method. The depressed women as compared with normals were significantly more reticent and submissive, had an impaired sexual relationship, felt less affection and more guilt and resentment towards their spouse, and had considerably more interpersonal friction. Those depressed women with adaptive premorbid…
The educated housewife
The educational and work experiences and interests of educated married women who applied to a university career counseling center are described. Approximately one-third of the women suffered from mild to moderate depression related to career disruptions, lack of geographic stability, and role conflict. A moderately depressed cohort was followed for four months, at the end of which nearly all had made career plans. It is suggested that counseling …
The Depressed Woman
The Depressed Woman
Sex Differences and the Epidemiology of Depression
This article reviews the evidence for differing rates of depression between the sexes in the United States and elsewhere during the last 40 years, and then critically analyzes the various explanations offered. These explanations include the possibility that the trends are spurious because of artifacts produced by methods of reporting symptoms, or that they are real because of biological susceptibility (possibly genetic or female endocrine), psych…
Assessing Depressive Symptoms in Five Psychiatric Populations
Welssman, M. M. (Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Depression Research Unit, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT 06519), D. Sholomskas, M. Pottenger, B. A. Prusoff and B. Z. Locke. Assessing depressive symptoms in five psychiatric populations: A validation study. Am J Epidemiol 106:203–214, 1977. Data from five psychiatric populations and a community sample are presented on the CES-D, a 20-item self-report …
Social impairments four years after an acute depressive episode
Social functioning of 40 depressed women was studied four years following the acute episode, and compared with 40 normal community subjects. Results show that the social impairments of depressed patients persist well beyond the acute episode, particularly in marital and close interpersonal relations. Clinical and public health implications are discussed
Working wives and housewives
Matched groups of working wives and housewives drawn from a community sample did not differ on current and past psychiatric symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and social functioning. They did differ markedly on enjoyment in and satisfaction from their work. The working women derived considerably more satisfaction from their outside jobs than either they or the housewives did from their work in the home
Process of psychotherapy among depressed women with marital disputes
The melancholy marriage
Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials
Judith Richman, Myrna M. Weissman, Gerald L. Klerman, Carlos Neu, Brigitte A. Prusoff, Ethical Issues in Clinical Trials: Psychotherapy Research in Acute Depression, IRB: Ethics & Human Research, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Feb., 1980), pp. 1-4
Psychiatric Disorders and Their Treatment
This paper examines relationships between true and treated prevalence of mental illness in a community by examining the use of mental health and other professional services for emotional problems and the relationship of this use to the individual's diagnostic status. The results are based upon a third round of 515 interviews in a longitudinal community study in New Haven, Connecticut, and demonstrate the high use of nonpsychiatric physicians by p…
Chronic schizophrenics in the community
Deinstitutionalization of schizophrenic patients makes it imperative that we develop reliable and valid methods to assess social adjustment. This report focuses on data obtained from the administration of the Social Adjustment Scale II. High agreement was found between the reports of 56 schizophrenic patients and their significant others
Contact With Health Professionals for the Treatment of Psychiatric and Emotional Problems
This study focuses on predisposing, enabling, and need factors affecting contact with health professionals for the treatment of psychiatric and emotional problems during a 6-month period. Data are from the first wave of the Yale Epidemiologic Catchment Area (ECA) Project. The study confirms the important relationship of psychopathology to both the likelihood of using mental health related services and the quantity of service contacts. Sex, age, r…
Advances in psychiatric epidemiology
Over the last decade there has been a marked increase in information on the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders, particularly major depression, in adults living in the community and in families. The ability to conduct large epidemiologic studies of psychiatric disorders is due to improvements in diagnostic precision and reliability in psychiatry and to the development of systematic methods for collecting information on signs and symptoms to mak…
Efficacy of a Brief Psychosocial Intervention for Symptoms of Stress and Distress Among Patients in Primary Care
Psychosocial problems and symptoms of emotional distress play a prominent role in patients reporting to primary care settings. Interpersonal counseling (IPC) was developed as a brief psychosocial intervention for patients with stress and distress to be administered by nurse practitioners in a primary care setting. The results of a pilot study indicate more rapid reduction of symptoms and improvement in emotional symptoms and psychosocial function…
Factors Affecting the Utilization of Specialty and General Medical Mental Health Services
This study compares the extent to which need, predisposing, and enabling factors affect the use of mental health services in the specialty and general medical health sectors during a 6-month period. Data are drawn from the first wave of interviews of the Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) project at the Yale University site. The results indicate that 1) in the general population, factors affecting use of the two sectors differ; 2) among those u…
Community Surveys of Psychiatric Disorders
Screening for Depressive Disorder in Children and Adolescents
The utility of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC), a modified version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, was explored in a sample of children, adolescents, and young adults at high or low risk for depression according to their parents' diagnosis. Proband parents were participants in the Yale Family Study of Major Depression who had children between the ages of 6 and 23 years. Diagnos…
Family risk factors, parental depression, and psychopathology in offspring
Associations between parents' poor marital adjustment, parent-child discord, affectionless control, low family cohesion, and parental divorce and DSM-III diagnoses were explored in a study of 220 offspring of parents with and without major depression. Implications for the etiology of psychopathology and for analytic strategies are discussed
Cross-National Epidemiology of Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the rates and patterns of major depression and bipolar disorder based on cross-national epidemiologic surveys. DESIGN AND SETTING: Population-based epidemiologic studies using similar methods from 10 countries: the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, France, West Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Taiwan, Korea, and New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: Approximately 38000 community subjects. OUTCOME MEASURES: Rates, demographics, and age at on…
Offspring of Depressed Parents
Background: There have been numerous studies that have shown that offspring of depressed parents are at a high risk for major depressive disorder (MDD) and impairment. None have followed up the offspring into adulthood to obtain more precise estimates of risk. Method: One hundred eighty-two offspring from 91 families, in which 1 or more parents had MDD (high risk) or in which neither parent was depressed (low risk), were blindly reassessed in the…
Depressed Adolescents Grown Up
CONTEXT: Major depressive disorder (MDD) that arises in adolescence impairs functioning and is associated with suicide risk, but little is known about its continuity into adulthood. OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical course of adolescent-onset MDD into adulthood. DESIGN AND PARTICIPANTS: Prospective case-control study. Seventy-three subjects had onset of MDD based on systematic clinical assessment during adolescence (Tanner stage III-V) and 37 c…
Psychology (39 obras) · Medicine (34 obras) · Psychiatry (33 obras) · Clinical Psychology (22 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 obras) · Depression (economics) (16 obras) · Mental Health Treatment and Access (15 obras) · Mental health (13 obras) · Anxiety (9 obras) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (9 obras)