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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"and Mental Illness"”.
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Aroha mai: nurses, nursing and mental illness
… between being a nurse, doing nursing work, and experiencing a mental illness. Data is comprised of autoethnographical stories from 18 nurses. Drawing on Lyotard’s (1988) postmodern philosophy of ‘regimes of phrases’ and ‘genres of discourse,’ the nurses’ stories yielded three motifs: …
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Stigma and mental illness: are there cultural differences?
… Not much is currently known about stigma towards mental illness in non-western cultures. Limited research has also been conducted with young people. Given that adolescence is a critical stage in the development of attitudes and identity formation, it seems an important time to investigate …
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School Shootings and Mental Illness: A Moral Panic
… media coverage influences the association of mental illness with acts of mass violence in schools. I explore the relationship between the rhetoric of moral entrepreneurs (such as victims' friends and family members, law enforcement agencies, criminal justice and mental health professionals, …
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Mothering and mental illness: an ethnography of attachment in an institutional context.
This thesis entitled Mothering and Mental illness: An Ethnography of Attachment in an Institutional Context, explores mothering in the context of mental illness. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from November 2008 to October 2009 in Oliveto – an Australian, state-run, mother and baby …
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Human rights and mental illness : an investigation into the meaning and utility of rights for people diagnosed with mental illness
This study sought to develop an understanding of the ways in which rights are conceived of and made use of by people diagnosed with mental illness. This research sheds light on the processes involved in actualising rights in the lives of people diagnosed with mental illness. It focuses on the …
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The Impact of De-escalation and Mental Illness Trainings on Civilian Complaints, Deaths, and Injuries Across United States' Police Departments in 2005
… study is to examine the potential impacts that mandatory police trainings, such as de-escalation tactics and use of force trainings, have on the number of suspects who are injured, shot and killed, and citizen complaints of unnecessary force used by police officers. An examination on training …
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The politics of race and mental illness in the Post-Emancipation US South : Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane in historical perspective
In "The Politics of Race and Mental Illness" I explore the relationship between conceptualizations of black mental health and white social control from 1865 to 1881. Chapter one historically contextualizes black mental health, highlighting psychiatrists', slaveholders', and black slaves' …
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Concepts of mental health and mental illness : a comparison of definitions and checklists in the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya and the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-III-R)
This study examines concepts of mental health and mental illness in Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośabhāṣya (AKBh), and the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (third edition, revised) (DSM-III-R). The choice of these texts was made based on their …
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Explaining Combat Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An Integrated Mental Illness and Military Process Model
… was to examine a process model of combat-related and mental-illness related processes that explain increased likelihood of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This dissertation proposed the development of PTSD may occur due to cultural, social, and self-related pathways associated with veterans’ …
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Indigenous Victims with Mental Illness: The Influence of Stereotypes and Stigma on Mock-Juror Perceptions
… examined jurors’ perceptions of victim race and mental illness as a function of defendant race in a mock-juror decision-making context. Victim race (Indigenous vs. White) and Mental Illness (substance abuse vs. schizophrenia vs. no mental illness) along with officer’s race (Indigenous vs. …
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Exploration of Well-Being Through Art Media Preference and Emotion Regulation Strategies
… (resistive, fluid, technological based and other expressive arts mediums), four emotion regulations strategies (reappraisal, distraction, venting and suppression), mental health variables (emotional wellbeing, psychological well-being and social well-being), and mental illness variables …
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honeypot
… of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid work that closely examines some of the more intimate aspects of the human—and specifically the female—experience, such as motherhood, childlessness, oppression, repression, societal expectation, memory, rememory, and mental illness. This …
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Hidden Power: Journalistic Representations of Mental Health Labels
… make up the largest minority group in the U.S., and the language used to construct representations of these individuals has the ability to perpetuate or diminish stereotypes about these individuals. The purpose of this case study was to explore and describe the representations of mental health in …
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Family Histories of Mental Illness and Violence in State Patients
Background: It is known that both severe mental illness and violence have genetic components. Multiple genes play a role in the cause of violent behaviour. Violence is one of the leading causes of death for young people in South Africa and yet little is known about its prevalence in state patients …
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Mental Health Workout: Lifting Stigma
<p>Mental illness affects one out of every five Americans between the ages 13-18, and it is estimated that two-thirds of these individuals will not seek treatment due to the stigma associated with having a mental illness or mental health issue (National Alliance on Mental Illness). Access to …
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A Modified Grounded Theory Analysis of Luke’s Understanding Of His Thought Disorder
… in “Luke”, a male diagnosed with schizophrenia, and how his understanding of his psychotic breaks and mental illness evolved over the course of person-centered psychotherapy. A modified grounded theory approach was used by multiple coders to analyze transcribed text samples from selected archival …
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Ego-Feeling and Ego-Boundaries: An Examination of the Work and Legacy of Paul Federn
… who was still a member when the society was disbanded by the Nazis in 1938. He was also an early pioneer in the use of psychoanalysis toward the understanding and treatment of psychosis, and was among the very first to consider the importance of the ego to psychoanalytic understanding of the mind …
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