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Showing 1 to 20 of 119 for “"mental disorder"”.
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Culture, society, and mental disorder in south east Asia: a study in the epidemiology of mental disorder
Introduction: Some Theoretical Considerations • Chapter 1: Singapore: Source of Principal Data • Chapter 2: The Chinese • Chapter 3: The Indians • Chapter 4: The Malaysians • Chapter 5: Europeans and Eurasians • Chapter 6: Immigration, Language and Minority - Group Status • Chapter 7: Urban …
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Speech-Based Emotion Modelling and Mental Disorder Detection
… Furthermore, emotion is closely linked with mental wellbeing. A speech-based automatic depression detection system is introduced which uses foundation models pretrained on large speech datasets to alleviate the data sparsity issue of medical datasets. It is shown that incorporating emotion …
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Depictions of Mental Disorder in Mainstream American Film 1988-2010
… study examined visual and thematic depictions of mental disorder in mainstream American film from 1988 to 2010. The research was an extension of an earlier investigation on portrayals of psychological disability in Hollywood movies (Levers, 1988, 2001). The theoretical and historical grounding for …
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Mental disorder labelling as an extralegal variable in mock jury deliberations
… a video vignette depicting a trial, in which the mental disorder label (no label, schizophrenia, depression, intellectual disability) was varied. Deliberations were videotaped and subject to an analysis in conjunction with pre and post test questionnaire measuring victim characteristics. A 4x2x2 …
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An analysis of Stanford-Binet test responses in three types of mental disorder
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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New Approaches for Data-mining and Classification of Mental Disorder in Brain Imaging Data
… information to provide information about complex mental illness such as schizophrenia are needed. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) are two well-known neuroimaging approaches that provide complementary information, both of which provide a huge amount of …
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Perceptions of stalking: The influence of perpetrator mental disorder diagnosis, target-perpetrator gender, and perpetrator persistence
… was to investigate the influence of perpetrator mental disorder diagnosis, target-perpetrator gender, and persistence on perceptions of stalking. Although psychiatric diagnoses are prevalent among clinical stalker populations, little is known about how the presence of a perpetrator mental …
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Implicit models of mental disorder across the life-span : a comparison of older and younger adults
The implicit models of mental disorder held by a group of older adults (n=25) and younger adults (n=28) were examined, using a questionnaire focusing on vignette - case descriptions developed on the basis of previous research in the field. Older and younger adults were found to have highly …
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Women and Madness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
… to examine the experience of women regarding mental disorder in nineteenth-century Ireland. The central argument of this thesis is based on two claims. First, that mental disorder was socially constructed in nineteenth-century Ireland, and second, that the social construction of mental …
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The experiences of ex-offenders living with a mental disorder within three to twelve months following discharge from psychiatric prison care in Zimbabwe: a qualitative study
… manage service needs of prisoners with a mental illness. In Zimbabwe, there is no literature on the prevalence of mental disorders among prisoners but it is likely to be as high as in other African countries. Apart from high prison populations which often under resourced, it is also …
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Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in the adult population of Mamre : an empirical and methodological investigation
… to estimate the base-line prevalence of mental disorder in the adult population of Mamre. The study further undertook to investigate a possible association between mental disorder and specified socio-demographic variables; to obtain basic information on health care utilization and …
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DISASTER SALSA
… to be the mother of a child who struggles with mental disorder. Our oldest son has had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) all his life; at the age of 11 he was struck with a baseball bat, which resulted in a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).</p> <p>Services that address, diagnose, and treat mental …
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The traditional healers’ and caregivers’ views on the role of traditional Zulu medicine on psychosis
… the African ancestry conceptualise and treat a mental disorder such as psychosis. The research approach adopted in in this dissertation includes qualitative content analysis. The findings of this research provide evidence that Traditional Zulu healers and a few community members view psychosis …
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The Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill Adult Living in the Community: The Experience of Loneliness
… forty million people in the United State with a mental disorder. In 1955 the population in the state and county hospitals was 558, 992 individuals. Deinstitutionalization has allowed many people with severe and persistent mental disorders too live in community settings instead of locked in wards. …
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The detention of dangerous severe personality disordered offenders under mental health legislation: legal and ethical issues
Public protection and mental disorder has frequently been at the forefront of government policy since psychiatry established itself as a medical science, coupled with media attention and at times, national hysteria. For over 150 years, public policy has exceeded medical science in the control and …
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Mental disorders and violence-related injuries : prevention opportunities in emergency centres
Mental disorders and violence-related injuries make significant contributions to the global disease burden, mostly affecting young people. In emergency centres, mental disorders and violence-related injuries are commonly seen and, according to international data, violently injured patients are …
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The effects of depression on quality of life in the ageing population: A systematic literature review
… the ageing population. Depression is an ongoing mental disorder in the elderly which has negative outcomes on the quality of life (QOL). To enable effective health our quality of life is essential in all stages of life especially at older age, as it is becoming more of an issue due to the …
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Approaches to Treatment of Schizophrenia as a Function of Evolving Stigma
… Bleuler coined the term Schizophrenia for a mental disturbance which he noted as being characterized by a separation of emotion and thought (Pridmore, 2016). Bleuler believed the defining feature of Schizophrenia to be a disorganized change in thought (Pridmore, 2016). Today, the Diagnostic …
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