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Showing 1 to 20 of 799 for “"Mental illness"”.
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Preadolescents' attitudes toward mental illness
… preadolescents' current attitudes toward mental illness and to determine the effectiveness of an educational intervention on attitudes toward mental illness. The subjects were all sixth grade students in an integrated suburban intermediate school. All students in the study (n = 141) …
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Aroha mai: nurses, nursing and mental illness
… a nurse, doing nursing work, and experiencing a mental illness. Data is comprised of autoethnographical stories from 18 nurses. Drawing on Lyotard’s (1988) postmodern philosophy of ‘regimes of phrases’ and ‘genres of discourse,’ the nurses’ stories yielded three motifs: Nursing, Tangata Whaiora …
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Mental illness : negative perceptions of university students
… sought to document the negative perceptions of mental illness in a sample of university students across four faculties at the University of Cape Town.
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Living with mental illness: A descriptive study of individual adult experiences of living with mental illness in Zomba, Malawi
… of this study was to examine the experiences of mental illness in the adult Malawian context. Using the interpretive paradigm, content analysis was used to uncover the lived experiences of mental illness. This study was based on the philosophy that meaning of a phenomenon is best understood if …
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Human rights and mental illness : an investigation into the meaning and utility of rights for people diagnosed with mental illness
… of and made use of by people diagnosed with mental illness. This research sheds light on the processes involved in actualising rights in the lives of people diagnosed with mental illness. It focuses on the experiences of people diagnosed with mental illnesses living in the community.
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Evaluating public stigma towards mental illness in Windhoek
Public stigma towards mental illness is associated with various negative implications for those struggling with mental illness and plays a significant role in help seeking behaviour as well as treatment adherence. The aim of this study is to quantify the degree of public stigma that exists and to …
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How Schools Can Support Students with Mental Illness
… schools can increase support of students with mental illness with the goal of increasing student achievement and success and minimizing rates of suicide. Given that suicide is the third leading cause of death of people under the age of twenty-five and that mental illness is the common precursor …
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Molecular characterization of three mental illness susceptibility genes
… disorder and schizophrenia are devastating mental disorders which share an overlapping constellations of symptoms, most notably the presence of psychosis. Overlapping genetic factors are involved in their pathogenesis and recently, genome-wide linkage scans and association studies have …
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Nutrition interventions in people experiencing severe mental illness
People experiencing severe mental illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy of 15-years when compared to the general population, primarily driven by preventable cardiovascular disease and other cardiometabolic complications. There is a large body of literature describing poor physical health in …
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Stigma and mental illness: are there cultural differences?
… Not much is currently known about stigma towards mental illness in non-western cultures. Limited research has also been conducted with young people. Given that adolescence is a critical stage in the development of attitudes and identity formation, it seems an important time to investigate …
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School Shootings and Mental Illness: A Moral Panic
… media coverage influences the association of mental illness with acts of mass violence in schools. I explore the relationship between the rhetoric of moral entrepreneurs (such as victims' friends and family members, law enforcement agencies, criminal justice and mental health professionals, …
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College Transition Experiences of Students with Mental Illness
… than ever are coming to higher education with mental health challenges (Kadison & DiGeronimo, 2004; Soet & Sevig, 2006) but a thorough review of the literature reveals no literature on the transition experience of students that have been diagnosed with psychiatric illness. The purpose of this …
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The relationship between cognitive inhibition, mental illness, and creativity
… of an inverted U-shaped relationship between mental illness and creativity, and hierarchical regression models were conducted to examine the potential of cognitive inhibition as a moderating factor. Results indicated mixed relationships between psychopathology and creativity with some …
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TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS CO-OCCURRING WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
… that there have been several misdiagnosis of mental illness due to client’s delays in speech or introspection caused by an intellectual disability. It is believed that the intellectual disability is either interfering with the proper mental health diagnosis or a mental health diagnosis is …
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Supported Housing Experiences of People with Serious Mental Illness
… and experiences of people living with serious mental illness (SMI) receiving housing assistance. A qualitative method was used to interview five adults with SMI living in a supported housing model. An Ecological Systems Theory (EST) was used as the theoretical orientation for the study. The …
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Abandoned minds : the escalating crisis of geriatric mental illness
Older adults are susceptible to the same mental afflictions that affect other age groups; depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, and other illnesses affect all adult age groups to varying degrees. Yet despite recent improvements in the research attention given to mental disorders and …
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Mental illness in primary health care : a study to investigate nurse's knowledge of mental illness and attitudes of nurses toward the mentally ill
… this, few studies have investigated the level of mental health literacy among nurses and their attitudes to the mentally ill in South Africa.
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