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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Mental Healthcare"”.
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Making decisions in mental healthcare : a phenomenological study
… involved within the decision-making processes of mental healthcare understand and respond to distress in differing ways with important consequences for clinical practice. Within different knowledge systems, rational decision-making is thought to be impeded by biological, psychological or social …
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Designing Secure Mental Healthcare Chatbots for Older Adults
<p>The landscape of mental health support has evolved as a result of the rising demand for digital mental healthcare services. Users now have an opportunity to seek mental health support online due to the growth of digital platforms. For those looking for mental health treatments, chatbots have …
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Redefining mental illness: medicalization, mental healthcare, and Morita Therapy, 1868-1938
… a range of ailments. Anything from physical and mental fatigue, headaches, heart palpitations, insomnia, nausea, or even dizziness could be a symptom of shinkeishitsu. The treatment that Morita recommended for this disorder was a combination of what is now considered behavior modification …
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Democratic Approaches to Mental Healthcare in Which Therapeutic Relationships can Flourish
An alternative approach to mental healthcare for severe mental illness called ‘open dialogue’ (OD) is currently being trialled in the NHS. My research used a qualitative approach to develop understanding about the experiences of five families who had been using OD in the NHS. Each family was …
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Predictors of post-deployment mental healthcare utilization among active duty Marines
… signs of treatment need, research suggests that mental health services are underutilized by military personnel. Although several factors have been hypothesized to undermine service use in the military, research investigating the relationship between hypothesized treatment-barriers and mental …
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Mental Healthcare Providers' Personality and Its Relation to Preferences of Client Personality
… focused on client characteristics and traits, mental healthcare providers seem to demonstrate differing perspectives of clients as a function of both their own and their clients’ personalities. However, no prior literature has considered providers’ pretreatment preferences of clients. The …
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Navigating the Mental Healthcare Network through a Communication Complex Perspective: An Autoethnography
Mental illness is one of the largest health problems in the world and it has grown worse due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Every nation, across all demographic categories, has experienced growth in mental health issues. In many countries there is a serious shortage of mental health professionals to …
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Warriors versus experts : managing conflict between professional groups for US Army mental healthcare
… goal of fielding a mission-ready unit and mental health providers privileging their professional group's goal of providing rehabilitative mental healthcare to active-duty soldiers suffering from conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. All providers and commanders faced …
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Cultural Anxieties and Institutional Regulation: "Specialized" Mental Healthcare and "Immigrant Suffering" in Paris, France
<p>This dissertation looks at "specialized" mental healthcare expertise in France as a lens through which to address the institutional management and representations of cultural difference in France today. By "specialized" mental healthcare centers, I refer structures that provide …
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Living in the moment: Approaching Mental healthcare design through adaptive reuse and sensory stimulation
… space which is surplus and old into a holistic mental healthcare space. The world has never been the same since the pandemic and one of the major trends that have been seen post-pandemic is the work from home culture, Major companies have chosen this model and not planning to turn back, this has …
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Primary mental healthcare for older people in India: an analysis of policies and stakeholder interviews
#### Introduction The mental health of older people - especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with ageing populations - is of increasing concern to public health research and practice. Although primary mental healthcare (PMHC) approaches are particularly important for old …
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Bridging the Gaps Between Screens: Can telehealth bring mental healthcare to those who need it?
… the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for accessible mental healthcare continues to rise. While virtual care may seem like a simple solution to this access problem, resource, regulatory, and financial barriers can prevent those who most need care from connecting with mental health professionals. Via …
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A Defence of Szasz’s ‘The Myth of Mental Illness’ and Its Relevance to Modern Mental Healthcare
… the discussion of Szasz’s ideas regarding mental disorders from his publication ‘The Myth of Mental Illness’. Not only are these ideas relevant today due to the mind-brain problem in psychiatry not being resolved, leading to varying ideas about the best practice in mental psychiatry, but …
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How do mental health practitioners experience and understand resilience: The risk of death in mental healthcare
… and meaning are retained. The study explores how mental health practitioners understand and experience resilience in the face of potential and actual client deaths, being held to account, while having limited control. Seven semi-structured interviews were transcribed and analysed, following van …
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"Frontline in Mental Healthcare": A Discourse Analytic Clinical Ethnography of Crisis Intervention Team Trainings for Corrections
… meaning ‘to decide.’ The crisis in mental health in prisons involves deciding when to implement what “services” or “programming” for whom.</p> <p>In this discourse analytic clinical ethnographic study, I focus on the trans-disciplinary corrections and mental health professional …
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The Emancipatory Role of Technology in Mental Healthcare: The Case of Conversational Artificial Intelligence and Digital Platforms
The mental health crisis has been rapidly growing over the last few decades and was further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, turning it into a deadly global challenge that leads to the loss of 12 billion working days each year, accounts for more than 14% of all deaths, and will cost the …
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Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context.
Institutional reform in mental healthcare started in the eighteenth century with the construction of a small number of facilities in Dublin and Cork specifically for the treatment of mental illness. The 1800s witnessed the construction of an extensive network of district lunatic asylums in two …
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Development of a Dignity Experience Scale in Mental Healthcare. Co-creating Empirical Measures with Service Users and Healthcare Professionals
Dignity is enshrined in statute, healthcare professional (HCP) ethics and policy, yet worldwide, mental healthcare violates service user dignity. Dignity lacks empirical definition as an operational concept. The aim of this study is to operationalize dignity in mental healthcare service user …
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Constructing trust in acute inpatient mental healthcare facilities : the role of physical, social and symbolic environments of care in supporting therapeutic safety
… of therapeutic safety in acute inpatient mental healthcare facilities. The literature review indicated that trust is integral to therapeutic relationships but acts of trust were unlikely without manifest organisers and signifiers of trustworthiness. The Constructing Trust Model that …
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