Exploring the Effects of Major Depressive Disorder on Daily Occupations and the Impact of Psychotherapy: A Literature Review.

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent psychological mood disorder that can disrupt one's functioning and result in decreased engagement in daily activities. Psychotherapy, in different approaches, is a common approach for individuals experiencing MDD. Nevertheless, a literature review of the research supporting the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions in patients with MDD-impacted areas of their daily occupations, such as back to work, cognitive deficits, and well-being, has not been conducted.

Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life among Patients with Heart Failure.

Heart failure (HF) is characterized by a progressive clinical course marked by frequent exacerbations and repeated hospitalizations, leading to considerably high morbidity and mortality rates. Patients with HF present with a constellation of bothersome symptoms, which range from physical to psychological and mental manifestations. With the transition to more advanced HF stages, symptoms become increasingly more debilitating, interfere with activities of daily living and disrupt multiple domains of life, including physical functioning, psychological status, emotional state, cognitive function, intimate relationships, lifestyle status, usual role activities, social contact and support.

"But Who Knows What Autism Is?" Negotiating the Notion of Autism During Free Associative Narrative Interviews with Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists.

Background: Critically informed discursive research has rarely been used to capture the way psychoanalytic psychotherapists organize their talk with regards to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD).

Objective: To understand the language about autism in psychoanalytic talk in terms of i) interpretive repertoires, ii) subject positions and iii) autistic ways of being that circulate inside psychoanalysts' discourses.

Methods: This paper presents the data and findings of a critical discursive psychological research which analyzed the talk of eight experienced psychoanalysts.

Health-related Quality of Life in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Children with Down Syndrome.

Introduction: Measuring health- related quality of life (HRQoL) is very important for children with developmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and Down syndrome (DS). However, no HRQoL studies found in the literature for the differences between children with ASD and children with DS.

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine HRQoL in children with ASD and children with DS.