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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Treatment of mental illness"”.
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TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS CO-OCCURRING WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
… showed 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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A Human Rights based approach to the psychiatric treatment of mental illness among prisoners in Uganda
Reports of people with mental disorders without access to treatment are a major occurrence in prisons outside and within Africa. An estimated 450 000 000 people worldwide suffer from mental or behavioural disorders. The disproportionately high rate of mental disorders in prisons is due to several …
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The development and evaluation of a wellness programme in an industrial worksite
… study was conducted in the paradigm of health psychology, investigating the causal relationship between physical exercise and psychological wellness. The aim-of the study is to increase awareness of the benefits of physical exercise as an adjunct to/or modality of treatment of mental …
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Emotion Meaning-Making: Identity, Discourse And Social Interaction Among Arab Immigrant Healthcare Providers
… dissertation sought to deepen understandings of emotion and its role in human personal and social life by exploring how a group of Arab immigrant health care providers, involved in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in one clinic in the United States, assign meaning to emotion. …
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Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context.
Institutional reform in mental healthcare started in the eighteenth century with the construction of a small number of facilities in Dublin and Cork specifically for the treatment of mental illness. The 1800s witnessed the construction of an extensive network of district lunatic asylums in two …
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“Of unsound mind”: a history of three Eastern Cape mental institutions, 1875-1910
… the origins, development and consolidation of a regional 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 …
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Diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and becoming better: An investigation into epistemic injustice and mental health
… in their capacity as a knower, on the basis of attributing to them a credibility deficit. This can occur at the level of spoken communication, which is testimonial injustice: or in regards to the availability or otherwise of the conceptual tools needed to make meaning, which is hermeneutical …
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From Moral to Immoral Treatment: The Failure to Fund the Treatment of the Seriously Mentally Ill in Texas and the Nation, 1860 to 2018
This study presents a case study of the treatment of serious mental illness in one state, Texas, and its largest city and county, Houston, and Harris County. It also examines critical factors leading to the federal government's involvement in the treatment of severe mental illness from the 1960s …
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Traditional healing modalities in the provision of mental illness in Vhembe, Limpopo Province
The study sought to explore the use of traditional healing modalities in the provision of mental illness in the Vhembe district of Limpopo province. Traditional medicine has been used for thousands of years by indigenous people in South Africa and Africa as a whole, and demonstrated efficacy in …
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An asylum : design specificity for the spectrum of cognitive conditions
… connection between architecture and the minds of its inhabitants through design that addresses specific cognitive needs. Architecture fundamentally shares a connection with the mind. Through its inhabitants' subjective experience, architecture necessarily interfaces with their cognitive …
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Interpersonal Connection As A Vehicle For Empowerment In Mental Health Services
<p>Through most of the history of the treatment of mental illness, services have had a minimal focus on empowerment of people with serious mental illness. This study aims to identify ways that empowerment is facilitated with people who have mental illnesses in the context of their services. …
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Horses for discourses: the discursive construction of guided human equine interactions
The aim of this research was to account for the meaning practitioners and clients gave to Guided Human Equine Interactions (GHEI). GHEI is a term that covers a range of interactions between human and horse for the purpose of facilitating emotional and social development in the human participants. …
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An investigation into mental health care deficits in South Africa: exploring an alternative intervention strategy
This study investigates mental health care deficits in South Africa and explores an alternative intervention strategy that promotes an integrated community-based intervention model to reach the vulnerable majority living with the debilitating consequences of mental illness. The research is grounded …
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Ngā whakawhitinga: standing at the crossroads : Māori ways of understanding extra-ordinary experiences and schizophrenia.
… Aetiological literature reveals a wide range of causal explanations including biogenetic, social and cultural factors. A major limitation of this body of research is the assumption of schizophrenia as a universal syndrome. When viewed through an indigenous lens, experiences labelled …