The study found that youth with psychiatric disorders currently receiving inpatient services reported lower self-concept<\/strong>, particularly global self-worth, compared to those receiving outpatient services.<\/p>\n “This was the first study that examined youth with psychiatric disorder by comparing what type of service they were receiving and whether that was associated with self-concept,” said Mark Ferro, the Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Waterloo. “We know that global self-worth is lower in the inpatient group<\/strong> and we know from other research that lower self-concept is a precursor to other more serious mental health problems<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n The study examined 47 youth aged 8-17 years who were receiving inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services at McMaster’s Children Hospital in Hamilton. The participants’ self-concept was measured using the Self-Perception Profile for Children and Adolescents.<\/p>\n Self-concept might be an important aspect to consider when implementing treatment programs to improve the mental health of youth who are hospitalized<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “Because youths who are in the inpatient service have a lower self-concept, therapies within their overall treatment program aiming to improve self-worth might be worthwhile,” Ferro said. “Interventions to improve an individual’s self-concept or self-perception would be complementary to some of the more pressing needs within child and youth inpatient psychiatric services.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the University of Waterloo press release: Improving how mental health patients perceive themselves could be critical in treating them, according to a study from the University of Waterloo. The… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[526],"tags":[49,12,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26053,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26047\/revisions\/26053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/winter-blues-SAD.jpg\")
Improving how mental health patients perceive themselves could be critical in treating them<\/strong>, according to a study from the University of Waterloo.<\/p>\n