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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Mental institutions"”.
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“Of unsound mind”: a history of three Eastern Cape mental institutions, 1875-1910
… network of three publicly funded and regulated mental institutions in the colonial Eastern Cape, between the years 1875 to 1910. Fort England asylum in Grahamstown was established in 1875. Port Alfred asylum followed in 1889 and the Fort Beaufort institution was opened in 1894. Each asylum …
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Effects of Two Modes of Training Observers in the Systematic Assessment of Patient Functioning in Mental Institutions
The comparative effectiveness of two time-limited modes of training observers to code the behavior of clients in residential treatment programs on the Time-Sample Behavioral Checklist (TSBC) was evaluated. In addition, the susceptibility of training procedures to consensual observer drift and the …
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Effects of Two Modes of Training in the Systematic Observational Assessment of Staff-Resident Interactions in Mental Institutions
The comparative effectiveness of two time-limited modes of training observers to master the Staff-Resident Interaction Chronograph (SRIC) was examined. The SRIC is an observational instrument with demonstrated promise for the standardized assessment of staff-client interactions across a wide r
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The Eugenic Origins of Indiana's Muscatatuck Colony: 1920-2005
… socially. While the United States established mental institutions prior to the eugenics movement, many institutions, including ones in Indiana, were founded as eugenic tools to advance the agenda of achieving a “purer” society. Muscatatuck was one such state institution founded during this …
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The Social Exclusion of Homeless Menstruators within the Sanitary Dignity Framework and its Implementation
… for those who have access to state-funded institutions such as; quintile 1, 2, and 3 schools, mental institutions, hostels, places of care, and prisons. Street-based homeless menstruators are marginalized twofold; they reside on the streets and they menstruate. This dissertation discusses …
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Camille Claudel
… problems which eventually led her to mental institutions (Ville-Évrard and Montdevergues) where she spent thirty years until her death. Finally, this bachelor thesis explains the struggle of being a female artist at that time and how Camille Claudel had to endure her difficult position …
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‘Unsettled Minds’ in England and Wales, 1800-1834.
… experienced a constant state of flux in their mental well-being and moved across an experiential spectrum. This ranged from deeply embedded contentment with the self and their human situation, to confinement, usually in asylums, in mental institutions. The study is based upon close readings and …
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Fostering Homefulness
The mental health crisis is one of the many pandemics that the world is facing. For years it has been something that has been looked down upon as something that only people in mental institutions deal with, but in fact it is much more widespread than previously thought. The recent Covid-19 pandemic …
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Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S.
… at two main sites in which abolition of "total institutions" is enacted. The first site is activism around penal and prison abolition. The second site is deinstitutionalization- the move to close down institutions for people labeled "mentally retarded" (or intellectual/developmental …