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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Psychiatric hospitals"”.
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Psychology interns' experiences of working with survivors of violence at psychiatric hospitals in Cape Town
… violence and many people who are treated within psychiatric hospitals have been exposed to interpersonal violence. However little has been documented about trauma interventions in the South African context. Twelve clinical psychology interns completing the second year of their clinical masters …
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MUSIC THERAPY PRACTICES FOR INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL (IST) PATIENTS IN FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS: CONTENT ANALYSIS
… methods and techniques employed within forensic psychiatric hospitals in the United States. A qualitative approach was utilized through interviews with music therapists working with IST-committed patients. Data were gathered on various aspects of clinical music therapy practices, including …
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Brief Heterogeneous Inpatient Groups: A Process-Oriented Psychoeducational Model
… we currently have an increase in admissions to psychiatric hospitals and a lack of research exploring inpatient group psychotherapy. Diagnostically homogeneous therapy groups outperform therapy groups with mixed symptoms, however, due to managed health care, psychiatric hospitals typically run …
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The likelihood of admission of elderly persons to a psychiatric hospital : a comparative study of elderly persons admitted for the first time to a psychiatric hospital and of elderly persons in the community, with special reference to the composition, organisation, and structural integration of their families
… number of admissions of elderly patients to psychiatric hospitals. This study has been prompted by similar concern in Cape Town. Although old people have always suffered from psychiatric illnesses, the problem becomes more acute as the numbers of elderly rise, especially in industrialised …
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Identity and multiple admissions to psychiatric hospital: a biographic narrative study of the experiences of patients.
… door' patients, are frequently readmitted to psychiatric hospitals. This study explores how these patients construct meaning and reality and how this enacted reality provides a context for shaping their identities. The study draws on mental health policy, political ideologies and the history …
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Nurses' responses to work-related aggression
… conducted in nursing speciality areas includuig psychiatric hospitals, emergency departments,nursing homes, intensive care units and operating theatres. These studies have focused primarily on psychological and emotional outcomes, ignoring professional outcomes and have not identified reporting …
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American Ignominy: The Incarceration of the Mentally Ill
Prisons and jails have become the de facto psychiatric hospitals 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 …
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Nursing on the edge: nursing identity in liminal spaces
… in the 1970s, the closure of the Victorian psychiatric hospitals in the 1990’s, the move of nursing from apprentice-style training into higher education in 1995, and the partial decoupling of nurse education from the NHS. Drawing on theories of liminality and Michael Lipsky’s Street Level …
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Life at a rural psychiatric hostel : The experience of a group of male residents
… of care of people with mental illness from large psychiatric hospitals to community based care and the consequent quality of life issues. A phenomenological approach was chosen as the most appropriate for the study, in order to understand the meaning of the residents' experience. Data was obtained …
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The Association Between Nurses' Perceptions and the Use of Physical Restraints in the Psychiatric Setting
… utilized as an intervention in the treatment of psychiatric patients. Viable alternatives exist to address patient behavior that is disruptive or presents a threat to the safety of the patient or others in the milieu. Restraint is the intervention most often chosen to control that behavior. The …
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Supportive psychotherapy : an exploratory study of expressed views, feelings, practices and problems
… this psychotherapy is particularly relevant to psychiatric hospitals which predominantly treat this category of patient. This study takes place at such a hospital. Problems which have implications for the practice and development of supportive psychotherapy, both at the hospital concerned and in …
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Evaluation of a Discharge Medication Assistance Program (DMAP) to Reduce Psychiatric Readmissions
… those with a mental illness are readmitted to a psychiatric hospital within 30 days. Hospital readmissions to inpatient psychiatric hospitals are costly, averaging $7,200 per readmission. Major challenges of inpatient psychiatric care are nonadherence to medication and transition of follow-up …
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A psychiatric service at a community hospital
… facilities of a general hospital with minimal psychiatric cover to deal with acute psychiatric conditions. This is in keeping with current psychiatric opinion in South Africa as expressed by Dr. C.W. Allwood and Dr G.A.D. Hart. This dissertation will examine the needs structure, difficulties …
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Η ΑΥΤΟΚΤΟΝΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΕΛΟΠΟΝΝΗΣΟ: ΕΠΙΔΗΜΙΟΛΟΓΙΑ, ΨΥΧΟΠΑΘΟΛΟΓΙΑ, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΙ ΠΑΡΑΓΟΝΤΕΣ
… THE PARASUICIDES AND THE SUICIDES WITH CHRONIC PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESSCONSTITUTE A HOMOGENEOUS GROUP, COMPOSED MAINLY OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEENTREATED OFTEN IN PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS. THE SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR OF THESE PEOPLESEEMS TO BE THE CONSEQUENCE OF CHRONIC PSYCHIATRIC DISORDER AND AS …
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CLINICAL DECISIONS OF MUSIC THERAPISTS IN THE TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH EATING DISORDERS
… therapists working in private practice, general hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, mental health facilities, and eating disorder recovery centers. Results of the survey found that majority of participants did not work full time with people with eating disorders and indicated that 1-5% of their …
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Shhhuicide Stories: A Crip Critical Analysis of Attempt Survivors' Narrations of Suicidality
… well as a set of "crip" critiques that implicate psychiatric hospitals and other biomedical care facilities as sites of oppression and abuse.</p>
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The effectiveness of the mobile crisis outreach model
… severe mental illness who were released from psychiatric hospitals without adequate support, communities have struggled to provide crisis interventions for people who would otherwise end up in emergency departments, jails, and hospitals. Mobile crisis outreach teams began to emerge in the …
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A toxicological survey of acute psychoses in Cape Coloured males with special reference to the cannabinoids
… psychiatrists, and particularly those working in psychiatric hospitals with Black and Coloured patients, have the firm clinical impression that in many of these patients acute psychotic illness is associated with the abuse of cannabis. Most of the previous work in this field had been done by …
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A descriptive study of the characteristics and discharge outcomes of acute psychiatric admissions at district and regional hospitals in the Cape Town Metropole region of South Africa
… characteristics and discharge outcomes of acute psychiatric admissions at district and regional hospitals in the Cape Town Metropolitan region of South Africa which serves an estimated population of 1.5 million people. Methods and Setting A retrospective descriptive cohort study was conducted, …
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A retrospective study of outcomes after referral to the early intervention in psychosis programme at Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital
… with psychotic disorders. Setting. Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital, Cape Town. The EISH Team is an outpatient service consisting of psychiatrists, a psychologist, an occupational therapist, psychiatric nurses and social workers. Methods. Retrospective cohort study. Hospitalisation during the …
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