• Thursday, March 28, 2024

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Self-esteem key to treating mental health patients

By: Keerthi Mohan

Improve a young mental health patient’s sense of self-worth and it can help immensely in treating them, a new study claims. The study involving youth with psychiatric disorder found that global self-worth was lower in the inpatient group compared to those receiving outpatient services. Results of the study were published in the Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and it revealed that improving the self-worth of patients benefited their overall treatment. The study was focused on a group of youth aged between 8-17 years who were receiving inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services. “Inpatients often minimize their…

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