Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
After the British had re-established colonial rule in Singapore at the end of World War II, the first person appointed as a psychologist was V W Wilson. He was appointed to the colonial Medical Service on 11 September 1956 on contract from the United Kingdom to build up and incorporate a full psychological service within the mental health programme at Woodbridge. [3]
The Pacific Identity and Wellbeing Scale (PIWBS) is a self-report inventory with a Likert scale format, designed to assess five distinct dimensions of identity and subjective well-being among Pacific populations in New Zealand: Group Membership Evaluation; Pacific Connectedness and Belonging; Religious Centrality and Embeddedness; Perceived ...
The self-perceived quality-of-life scale [1] [2] is a psychological assessment instrument which is based on a comprehensive theory of the self-perceived quality of life (SPQL) [3] and provides a multi-faceted measurement of health-related and non-health-related aspects of well-being. [4] The scale has become an instrument of choice for ...
The Quality of Well-Being Scale (QWB) is a general health quality of life questionnaire which measures overall status and well-being over the previous three days in four areas: physical activities, social activities, mobility, and symptom/problem complexes. [1] It consists of 71 items and takes 20 minutes to complete. [2]
The subjective well-being index represents the overall satisfaction level as one number. Analysed data to create the index comes from UNESCO, the CIA, the New Economics Foundation, the WHO, the Veenhoven Database, the Latinbarometer, the Afrobarometer, and the UNHDR. These sources are analyzed to create a global projection of subjective well ...
The following diagnostic systems and rating scales are used in psychiatry and clinical psychology. This list is by no means exhaustive or complete. This list is by no means exhaustive or complete. For instance, in the category of depression, there are over two dozen depression rating scales that have been developed in the past eighty years.
Mental health in Singapore has its roots in the West. The first medical personnel in the field were mostly from Britain. The first medical personnel in the field were mostly from Britain. Medical education in the early years was almost exclusively for the British, until the establishment of King Edward VII College of Medicine on the island in 1907.
Daniel Fung Shuen Sheng (born 1966) is a Singaporean psychiatrist and researcher who is the current chief executive officer of the Institute of Mental Health (IMH). [1] [2] Fung was also the president of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions and of the College of Psychiatrists in Singapore.