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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Deinstitutionalization"”.
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A State-Level Analysis of Deinstitutionalization and the Impact of Chlorpromazine
… date, studies of the role of antipsychotics in deinstitutionalization have been state specific, methodologically weak, inconsistent in their findings and fail to consider inter-state differences which could reveal previously unknown causal variables. This study used US Census data and pooled …
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Examining Predictors of Quality of Life of Adults with Intellectual Disabilities After Deinstitutionalization
This study examined if a person’s quality of life could be predicted by six relevant factors in a sample of 114 individuals with intellectual disability who had moved from institutional settings to community living settings within Ontario. Further, two aspects of self-efficacy were tested to see if …
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The head nurses’ perceptions of the impact of deinstitutionalization on the chronically mentally ill
… head nurses' perceptions of the impact of deinstitutionalization on persons with chronic mental illness. A phenomenological approach is the methodology used in this study. Data were collected by use of an in-depth semi-structured interview. The participants in the study were seven head …
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Facilitators and Barriers in the Community Placement Process for Developmentally Disabled Individuals Facing Deinstitutionalization
The process of placement of developmentally disabled individuals from Central Wisconsin Center (CWC), a Wisconsin state institution, into community residential alternatives over a recent three and one-half year period (December 1, 1977, to May 21, 1981) was examined. The purposes of the study were …
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Deinstitutionalization of public housing : a proposal for New Towne Court/Washington Elms in Cambridge
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning; and, (M. Arch. in Advances Studies)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1980.
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Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S.
… penal and prison abolition. The second site is deinstitutionalization- the move to close down institutions for people labeled "mentally retarded" (or intellectual/developmental disabilities) and "mental illness" (or psychiatric disabilities). My goals in this study are twofold and interrelated. …
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Deinstitutionalization and its Effects on Social Inclusion, Choice-Making, Adaptive and Maladaptive Behavior for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Case Studies Analysis
… were generated that can be applied to future deinstitutionalization endeavors.
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Transinstitutionalization : a case study of two residential care facilities in rural midwest North America
Since deinstitutionalization began during the 1950's in North America, thousands of individuals with a Severe and Persistent Mental Illness were forced out of large, state run, institutions. While society may have seen deinstitutionalization as a positive direction for society, the outcome of this …
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The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage and Family among the Academic Elite: The Marriage, Family, and Career Expectations of PhD Seeking Women and Men
Most sociological approaches to understanding work/family balance focus exclusively on behavior, examining how employed mothers negotiate marriage, family, and career obligations. Drawing on the socially constructed notion that these obligations are incompatible, much of this literature assumes …
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The Relationship Between Type of Residence and Community Engagement and Friendship for Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the State of Ohio
This study reviews the current state of deinstitutionalization for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) in Ohio. Current policy within the state of Ohio encourages greater levels of deinstitutionalization for individuals with I/DD. The purpose of this exploratory …
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The effects of vocational group counseling on adaptive behavior at work with moderately mentally retarded adults residing in group homes
… the handicapped has had as a theme the issue of deinstitutionalization. The purpose of deinstitutionalization of moderately mentally handicapped adults is to return them to a meaningful lifestyle complete with a range of career choices based on a thorough assessment of their vocational or …
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Understanding the History of Institutionalization: Making connections to De-institutionalization and the Olmstead Act for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in the State of Illinois
<p>What is the historical connection between deinstitutionalization and the Olmstead decision? The purpose of this study was to examine and analyze policy within a historical perspective the connections between institutional care, deinstitutionalization, the Olmstead decision, and the effect on …
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The Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill Adult Living in the Community: The Experience of Loneliness
… and county hospitals was 558, 992 individuals. Deinstitutionalization has allowed many people with severe and persistent mental disorders too live in community settings instead of locked in wards. This has had a both positive and negative outcome. One of the possible problems associated with …
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Treatment of the chronic mental patient: issues and implications
… legal and socio-cultural background to the deinstitutionalization movement, and the development of new models of caring for the chronic mental patient. Recent attempts to humanize mental health care are examined for guidelines to more successful planning in the future.
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Student Perceptions of Mentally Ill Offenders
<p>Since deinstitutionalization, the responsibility for mentally ill members of society has shifted to the criminal justice system in a process of trans-institutionalization or “criminalization of mental illness” (Slate & Johnson, 2008). Though various groups have been studied to ascertain their …
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American Ignominy: The Incarceration of the Mentally Ill
… of the twenty-first century. In the wake of deinstitutionalization, as mental healthcare transitioned to a community-based model, many patients with mental illness found themselves incarcerated rather than hospitalized. Strict drug laws combined with the current opioid epidemic are now …
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An exploration of the possible adoption and enforcement of gender equity policies in Nigeria to help deal with matters of sex discrimination in athletics
… activities. Using Oliver’s (1992) pressures for deinstitutionalization model as a theoretical framework, this study explored conditions under which Title IX’s athletic policy directives may be employed and outlined factors that may inhibit or encourage its adoption and adaption to deal with sex …
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