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Showing 1 to 20 of 199 for “"Mentally ill"”.
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Student Perceptions of Mentally Ill Offenders
… 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
… 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 forcing the government to consider treatment over punishment, lest the prison populations continue to swell. It is …
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Effectiveness of stigma reduction strategies for the mentally ill
… stigma towards individuals diagnosed with mental illness may be reduced by exposing individuals to the truths about mental illness and by exposing individuals to a mentally ill person who by society's standards is a productive functioning adult. This study detemined whether the conditions shown to …
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Money management for the severe and persistently mentally ill
… men diagnosed with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness (SPMI) were recruited from a partial care program to participate in a study on the efficacy of teaching money management skills. The participants were also assessed on perceived stress, financial strain, and symptomology. The men were …
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Relationship of family involvement and functioning among mentally ill adults
… family/caregiver involvement in treatment of mentally ill adults that they care for and clients' overall Axis IV and V assessments. Support and education groups were held at Family Service in New Jersey over a six-month period. The population (n=12) came from the Hattie Tallie program at …
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Methamphetamine use and HIV risk among severely mentally ill inpatients
… of social, economic and behavioural factors, mentally ill patients are more likely to engage in high risk sexual behaviours. In turn, co-morbid substance use which is present in up to 75% of mentally ill patients is a leading risk factor for sexual risk behaviours. Worldwide methamphetamines …
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An exploration of the experience of caring for the mentally ill
… arduous task of attending to the needs of their mentally ill relatives and have become increasingly prominent in society following the Australian deinstitutionalisation movement. The discourse pertaining to the experiences of mental illness caregivers is particularly negative and is largely …
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The Impact of Drop-in Centers on the Long Term Mentally Ill
… individuals with serious and persistent mental illness offer a unique and perhaps under-recognized environment option for adjunct treatment. The current study examines and evaluates components thought to be a part of an enriched drop-in center experience that contribute to positive member …
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Coping, adjustment, and self-concept among siblings of the chronically mentally ill
… that having a sibling with a chronic mental illness has had on them. Specifically, this study examined the effects that problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, perceived social support, premorbid interpersonal closeness with the mentally ill sibling, subjective burden, time since …
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Relationship of direct casework services to length of hospitalization for mentally ill
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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Extending Our Promise: Providing Help to Mentally Ill Accused As Soon As Practicable
… state of the criminal law’s interaction with mentally ill persons, with a specific interest in this interaction during pre-trial phases such as arrest and bail. It argues that the current provisions in the Criminal Code of Canada that allow for limited instances of pre-trial mental health …
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It Takes Two to Tango: Explaining Caregiver Attitudes Toward Seriously Mentally Ill Persons
… demonstrated that the caregivers of seriously mentally ill (SMI) persons influence the course of illness and outcomes of SMI persons. This study examined the variation in caregiver attitudes and the specificity of those attitudes. In addition, the relationship between caregiver attitudes and …
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Family Members of the Mentally Ill and Their Experiences with Mental Health Professionals
… the relationships between primary caregivers of mentally ill individuals and mental health professionals from the perspective of the caregivers. It reports the stories told to me by family members of mentally ill loved ones who were receiving mental health services in order to raise awareness of …
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The head nurses’ perceptions of the impact of deinstitutionalization on the chronically mentally ill
… 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 nurses from a large psychiatric institution in Western …
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Mental health courts: The criminal justice response to the rise in mentally ill prisoners
… of the correctional population that is mentally ill is increasing significantly faster than the correctional population itself. From 1998 to 2005, while the overall correctional population increased 20.8 percent, the mentally ill correctional population increased 27.3 percent. This …
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The Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill Adult Living in the Community: The Experience of Loneliness
… is estimated that there are approximately forty million people in the United State with a mental disorder. In 1955 the population in the state and county hospitals was 558, 992 individuals. Deinstitutionalization has allowed many people with severe and persistent mental disorders too live in …
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More than "mentally-ill": Differentiating help-seeking from mental-illness stigma in a college population
… research exist: studies of the stigma of mental illness (e.g., Link et al., 1989) and studies of the self-stigma of seeking psychological help (e.g., Vogel, Wade, & Haake, 2006). While some researchers implicitly treat these two constructs as synonymous (e.g., Corrigan, Watson, & Barr, 2006), …
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