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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"RA790 Mental Health"”.
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Living with husbands with a label of dementia. The experience and meaning of Punjabi Sikh wives.
Dementia and caregiving have received increasing research, clinical and political attention over the past forty years. However, such attention has been particularly focused on understanding the biomedical markers and interventions for dementia within majority populations. Little attention has been …
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A discourse analysis of recovery stories
… has become a central guiding vision within mental health services. This thesis comprises two parts. The first part applies a genealogical method to conduct a genealogical analysis of the recovery approach through exploration of UK policy within the last decade. This explores the conditions …
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A Study of the Relationship between Borderline-dysregulated Personality and Treatment-resistant Depression in the Course of the TADS Randomised Controlled Trial
Aim: This research project explored the relationship between borderline personality disorder, difficult to treat depression and treatment outcome. Method: The study used data collected in the course of the Tavistock Adult Depression Study (TADS). The TADS was a randomised controlled trial comparing …
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Experiences of Living with a Partner with Depression: A Thematic Analysis
… is comparable to that of other serious mental health problems, such as schizophrenia or dementia. Furthermore, there is evidence that partners are most at risk of burden within the informal caregiving context. The meta-ethnography of existing research indicates that qualitative studies …
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Understandings and Experiences of Common Mental Health Difficulties of Turkish-Speaking People in the UK
… their understandings and experiences of common mental health difficulties. The study was conducted by a native Turkish-speaking researcher. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the understandings and experiences of common mental health difficulties of Turkish-speaking people in the UK. …
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"Getting together to play football" A participatory action research study with the Positive Mental Attitude Sports Academy
People with experience of mental distress have been identified as being less likely to participate in sport, in comparison to people in other groups characterised by an ongoing health or disability issue. Meanwhile, discourses about the positive effects of engaging in sport and physical activity …
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The association between work-related potential stressors, self-compassion and perceived stress in IAPT therapists.
… interventions to people with mild to moderate mental health difficulties in often high-volume environments (Department of Health [DOH], 2008c). Emerging research has suggested that working as an IAPT therapist can be a demanding and stressful role (Walket & Percy, 2014 ; Westwood, Morison, …
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Burnout and Social Connectedness: Predictors of PTSD and Well-Being in the Police
In their day-to-day tasks, police officers are repeatedly subjected to stressful and traumatic events and as such are at significant risk of developing post - traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There is a wealth of literature exploring risk and protective factors, however there is still a need to …
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Experiences of adults from a Black Minority Ethnic (BME) background who have been detained as inpatients under the Mental Health Act (1983).
… background detained as inpatients under the Mental Health Act (1983; 2007). Background: Significantly more people from a BME background are detained under the Mental Health Act (1983; 2007) than people from White ethnic backgrounds, and this has been consistent for decades. Research has …
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Flipping between cultural worlds: a qualitative exploration of stigma experiences of British Asian people using an Early Intervention in Psychosis Service.
… higher levels of stigma compared to any other mental health diagnosis. Therefore their experiences of stigma are more likely to have detrimental personal consequences. Mental health stigma is also a pervasive issue within South Asian communities. It was recently found that second-generation …
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How beneficial is work-related activity for one’s mental health? A thematic analysis of experiences of conditionality in receiving employment and support allowance among disabled people placed in the work-related activity group.
… It highlights the link between work and mental health. This is considered through a psychological lens, by discussing the debate between Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial model versus the social model of disability and how ideas from community and liberation psychology can be applied …
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Intergenerational Psychosocial Effects of Nakbah on Internally Displaced Palestinians in Israel: Narratives of trauma and resilience.
… intervention and prevention in the field of mental health among Palestinians in Israel. On the collective level, such a comprehensive approach may produce new insights on Palestinian national identity and its connections with experiences of victimhood and resilience due to past and present …
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Violence, Aggression and Therapeutic Relationships: Understanding the Lived Experiences of Females within Low and Medium Secure Forensic Mental Health Units.
Aims: To explore female secure forensic mental health (FMH) patients’ therapeutic relationship (TR) quality; the impact of witnessed, or perpetrated, violence upon psychological wellbeing and TRs; and perceived beneficial support following exposure to violence within the units. Background: Female …
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“Watch and Wait” - Examining the potential impact of uncertainty in illness on the mental health of individuals with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and Low Grade Lymphomas
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and non-localised low grade or indolent lymphomas (LGL) are two of the common cancers that individuals are diagnosed with in the UK. Both of these chronic illnesses are considered slow growing and these individuals are often diagnosed when one is not exhibiting …
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The experiences of low-risk and HIV anxious gay men who are using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): A qualitative study
… paradigm. 10 gay men were recruited from sexual health clinics in central London. Participants were included in the current study through either historically or currently meeting diagnostic criteria for Illness Anxiety Disorder, were considered low risk for acquiring HIV infection and had been …
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Lost to Desire. Stories That Refuse to be Dreamt. The Investigative Burden of the Psychosomatic School of Paris
… they met with was 'opératoire', a pluriform mental exhaustion without a workable narrative. This approach set off a wave of interconnecting ripples as the problems of dealing with this became clearer. My thesis shows that collateral benefits of a conceptual innovation may outgrow its initial …