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The Arab Journal of Psychiatry (2015) Vol. 26 No. 2

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� Mosey AC. Occupational therapy. Configuration of a profession. New York: Raven Press, 1981.

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تحیاتي واحترامي، یصدر العدد الجدید ویصلكم من خالل الموقع اإللكتروني للمجلة والشبكة العربیة للعلوم النفسیة واما النسخ الورقیة فقد أصبحت محدودة وتصل

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البحث العلمي ھو ردنا على كل تأخر یصیب االمھ.

امنیاتي لكم بالخیر والتوفیق

لید سرحانو

2015تشرین ثاني/نوفمبر -عمان

The Arab Journal of Psychiatry (2015) Vol. 26 No.2

Editorial

• The dilemma of Polypharmacy in Psychiatry

Ahmed Okasha ……………………………………………………………….................................................100

Review articles

• Exposure to War-Related Traumata among Arab Children and Adolescents: A Review

Lynn Itani, Doris Jaalouk, John Fayyad, Jessica Toress Garcia, Fouad Chidiac, Elie Karam …………….... 107

• PTSD among Children and Adolescents in the Arab World Charles Baddoura, Mahmoud Merhi …………………………………………………………………..……. 129

Learning disability

• Vitamin D level in people with intellectual disability in long – stay hospital wards in Bahrain

Shubbar Qaheri,Haitham Jahrami, Noora Bahzad, Mohsen Toraif, Anwaar Yousuf, Amer Kamal Al-Ansari,

Abdulnabi Derbas ……………………………………………………………………….…………………. 137

• Challenging behavior and psychiatric symptoms among adults with intellectual disability:

epidemiological aspects and family burden

Ramadan A. Hussein, Hanan Elsayed, Hiame F. Elsaied …………………………………………………. 145

Psychology

• Perceived Parenting Styles and Their Relation to Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction, Mental Health

and Flourishing in a Sample of Lebanese College Youth

Alia Olivia A. Saleh and Shahé S. Kazarian …………………………………………………………………155

Original papers

• Frequency, Severity and Types of Aggressive Behavior among Patients with Schizophrenia at

Psychiatry Outpatients Clinic in Comparison to Normal Controls

Nawal Refaat, MagdaFahmy, Wafaa El-Leithy, Haydy Hassan, Khaled Abd El-Moez ………..……………164

• Metacognitive Functions in a Sample of Egyptian Patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Mohammad A. Seleem, Sameh A. Saada …………………………………………………………………….172

Child psychiatry

• A pilot study on the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among Saudi children and adolescents: A

sample from a selected community in Riyadh City

Omar Al-Modayfer, Yousra Alatiq …………………………………………………………………………..184

Forensic psychiatry

• Substance abuse among inmates of prison in Erbil city/ Iraq

Sirwan K. Ali ……………………………………………………………………………………………… 193