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Showing 1 to 20 of 264 for “"co-occurring"”.
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UNDERSTANDING SERVICE UTILIZATION WITHIN CO-OCCURRING POPULATION
<p>A specialized system of care for co-occurring clients can be an asset to this population, if the services offered deliver adequate results that contribute to the overall wellbeing of this community. Therefore, providers, including social workers and other professionals to determine the …
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TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS CO-OCCURRING WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
… individuals with a mental illness and a co-occurring intellectual disability. The proportion of clients also having an intellectual disability and co-occurring mental illness ranged from 5 to 20%. The problems that psychiatrists are running into are the fact that patients are not being …
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Attentional Processes in Youth with ASD and Co-Occurring Anxiety
Prior research suggested that attentional control plays a role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders in youth. Research also suggests that youth on the autism spectrum suffer from difficulties in executive functioning, including attentional control. The current study investigated …
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Do Saproxylic Curculionids Affect the Fitness of Co-occurring Cerambycids?
<p>Saproxylic insects sometimes coexist in incredibly high numbers under bark and share common resources. Thus, interactions between species are possible and could even explain their coexistence. This study investigates evidence of negative or positive effects of curculionid beetles (Coleoptera: …
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Comparative reproductive biology of co-occurring endangered and common shrubland birds
… vireos (Vireo griseus) are closely related and ecologically similar. Despite these similarities, white-eyed vireos are widely distributed and common, whereas the black-capped vireo has a restricted breeding range and is federally endangered. Here I address this apparent paradox with a comparative …
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Seed and seedling ecology of two co-occurring ericoid fynbos shrub species
The seed and seedling ecology of the ericoid fynbos shrubs Passerina paleacea and Phylica ericoides were studied. These species co-occur in dune fynbos and are dependent on soil seed banks for regeneration after recurrent fynbos fires. Phylica was stimulated by the heat effect of fire. The precise …
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The Co-Occurring Disorder Patient: Effects of Stigma, Perception of Care, and Treatment
… chemically addicted population has recently become more prominent in clinician discussion than it has been in the past. Patient’s perception of care regarding this topic has also been amplified in discovering more information about stigma. This article will provide insight from a program …
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Best Practice Protocol for Patients with Schizophrenia and Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders
… individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia is common and is correlated with less than ideal clinical outcomes. There is no current, steadfast recommendation regarding treating the patient with schizophrenia and co-occurring substance use disorders. </p> <p> The purpose of this project was to …
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EVALUATION OF INTERVENTIONS USED IN THE TREATMENT OF VETERANS WITH CO-OCCURRING DISORDERS
… interventions used in the treatment of co-occurring disorders, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and substance abuse. The qualitative assessment was an interview with a number of open ended questions and scales for the respondents to report preference. Interviews were conducted …
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ASD Traits, Social Competence, and Co-Occurring Psychopathology: The Moderating Role of Gender
… traits in males, relative to females, has been consistently documented in the literature (e.g., Fombonne 2003, 2005). In addition to potential biogenetic mechanisms, there is some evidence suggesting that differences in the behavioral manifestation of ASD symptoms and co-occurring …
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BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL’S PERCEPTIONS OF EARLY CO-OCCURRING DISORDER RECOVERY AND SMOKING CESSATION APPROPRIATENESS
<p>Early stages of the co-occurring, mental health and substance use disorder (MH-SUD) recovery process present various social and physical challenges to the recovering person, including habitual cigarette smoking. Presenting smoking cessation to a person with a co-occurring disorder could also …
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Pollination biology of four co-occurring Erica species from the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… The predictive power of these techniques has come under scrutiny, and hence in-situ observations have become highly important for confirming existing pollination syndromes. Here I performed pollinator observations and recorded various floral traits of four co-flowering, co-residing Erica …
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The Physical Health of People with Co-occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders
… population largely due to chronic medical conditions (e.g., cardiovascular disease [CVD]), and having a co-occurring substance use disorder (SUD) increases this risk even further compared to having either disorder alone. This is concerning since 50% of people with SMI will be diagnosed with …
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Sibling Aggression: Associations with parenting styles, social dominance behaviour and co-occurring forms of family aggression
… of family violence. The thesis made an original contribution to knowledge by exploring the impact of multiple forms of family violence on the use of aggression between siblings, asking victims and/or perpetrators of these aggressive behaviours about their retrospective experiences and developing …
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Eye-Gaze Pattern Analysis as a Key to Understanding Co-occurring Social Anxiety within Autism Spectrum Disorder
… with SAD also operate in those with ASD and co-occurring social anxiety. This study sought to assess the influence of social anxiety on gaze patterns in adults with ASD. An exploratory aim was to better understand the phenomenology of SAD within ASD. Three groups of participants were …
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Impact of co-occurring psychiatric disorders and traumatic brain injury on speech-language treatment: Speech-language pathologists’ perspectives
… (SLPs) perspectives on the prevalence of co-occurring psychiatric disorders in the TBI population and its impact on speech-language treatment. Interviews were conducted with twelve SLPs working with a TBI population. Results revealed a lack of standard measures to assist SLPs in …
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The occurrence of childhood trauma in patients with severe mental illness with and without co-occurring substance disorders
… (SUDs) and severe mental illness (SMI) in community cohorts. There is a paucity of data on correlates of CT in dually diagnosed clinical populations in South Africa. We investigated the association among mono-substance use, polysubstance use and CT. Additionally, we explored demographic and …
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Epidemiology, diagnosis and aspects of treatment in persons with serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders
Background: Co-occurring substance use disorders (SUDs) occur in as many as half to three quarters of patients with severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, a phenomenon also described as dual diagnosis. Past research from high income countries have shown that the …
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Evidence of Executive Dysfunction in Co-occurring Substance Use Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder or Antisocial Personality Disorder
… for substance use disorders (SUDs) have co-existing lifetime psychopathology. Executive function deficits are tied to markers of decreased quality of life including increases in negative life events (Green, Kern, Braff, & Mintz, 2000), maladaptive social functioning (Kurtz, Moberg, …
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