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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"mental health policy"”.
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State Level Mental Health Policy Making Under Managed Care
The adoption of managed care in public mental health care programs at the state level was a relatively new development in state mental health policy during the 1990s. The introduction of managed care for public mental health occurred primarily through the use of Medicaid managed care waivers, but …
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Understanding the formation of American mental health policy preferences, 1952-1981
… of an outpatient-centered, drug-based model of mental health care was physically feasible from the 1950s onward, with the introduction of thorazine and other first-generation antipsychotics. However, it was not until 1981, with President Reagan’s veto of the Mental Health Systems Act, that …
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Multi-stakeholder study of the Malaysian mental health policy implementation within urban populations
Global studies investigating scaling-up of mental health services have highlighted mental health policy development and implementation as a priority area, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This research aimed to investigate Malaysia’s National Mental Health Policy (NMHP) development …
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Participation of people with psychosocial disability in mental health policy development in South Africa
… South Africans with psychosocial disability in mental health policy development in South Africa? A systematic literature review (objective 1) addressed the question: ""What supports people with psychosocial disability to participate in national mental health policy development?"" The WHO …
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Mental health policy outcomes: an examination of older adults' mental health service use, 2002-2012
The underutilization of mental health services (MHS) by older adults – and especially by racial/ethnic minority elders – is a well-recognized problem. Though several national-level mental health policies have been enacted and implemented over the past decade, rates of underutilization remain high. …
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Mental health policy implementation as an integral part of primary health care services in Oshana region, Namibia.
Despite the 1990 health system reforms in Namibia, mental health still receives low priority. Pressed with limited resources, health policies are directed at communicable and life-threatening diseases. On primary health care level, there is either an absence of or fragmented mental health services. …
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Exploring the perspectives of health service providers on mental health policy and interventions for school children in the Western Cape, South Africa
Background: Mental health is recognised as a critical public health challenge globally, yet child and adolescent mental health receive low priority, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Children and adolescents spend a significant proportion of their lives in school, suggesting that …
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A Comparative Analysis Of Mental Health Reform: Canada, The United Kingdom, And Australia
This dissertation explores the trajectories of mental health reform in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, examining how each state’s political and institutional contexts within universal healthcare systems have influenced these trajectories. Despite being parliamentary democracies, these …
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Psychiatric, traditional and other interpretations of Ukuthwetyulwa : a witchcraft phenomenon in the Western Cape
… to psychiatry is increasingly on the agenda of mental health policy makers in South Africa.
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A phenomenological study of healing in a North Sotho community
… healing and modem medicine in forging a new mental health policy for South Africa. Four North Sotho indigenous healers, located in Naphuno district (a predominantly rural settlement comprised of an indigenous North Sotho speaking African population) in the Northern Province, were selected on …
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To what extent are Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services engaged in Trauma Informed Practice: an Irish study
… Children and adolescents attending the mental health services are likely to have experienced childhood or intergenerational trauma. International and national mental health policy recommends that services integrate TIP into mental healthcare provision. A lack of research studies …
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Trans, Genderqueer, Non-Binary and Gender Non-Conforming Peoples Experiences With Mental Health Care in Ontario
… transgender and gender diverse people with the mental health care system in Ontario, as well as their experiences in regard to related health and social policies. My objective is to understand whether the stated goal of the mental health policy in force at the time data was collected—to promote …
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No longer fledglings but struggling to fly: peer support workers' experiences of forming an occupational identity within an urban NHS trust: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Background: Mental health policy promoting the notion of self-management and the patient as the expert welcomed the advent of peer support (Watson, 2017; Gillard, 2019), which is now regarded as the fastest growing profession within mental health services (Rebeiro Gruhl et al., 2016). Research has …
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Enacting recovery in an English NHS 'arts for mental health' service
… the emergence of recovery in/from serious mental health problems as a conceptual frame, and as a set of practices and policy orientations. I provide a specific empirical account of recovery in practice. “Recovery” has multiple meanings and is enmeshed in on-going challenges to the validity …
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Reconnecting with life: reconnecting with self, others and time. A grounded theory study of recovering from mental health problems in an Irish context
It has been recommended that Irish mental health services adopt a recovery perspective (Department of Health and Children 2006). However there is no unified theory of recovery capable of guiding services (Craig 2008). The aim of this study was to develop a coherent theory of recovering from mental …
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Focus groups as a method for accessing stakeholder voice in public sector community mental health
… addressing the topic of public sector community mental health services. These groups were conducted with four designated constituency groups (Consumers and Advocates, Children's Service Providers, Health and Social Service Providers, and Justice Service Providers) in three geographic locations in …
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Suicide prevention among learners in the Northern Free State schools : the views of the youth at risk
… among youth, youth at risk of suicide, suicide, mental health in learners, mental health in schools. The main aim of this study was to investigate strategies for suicide prevention as perceived by youth at schools in the Northern Free State. This was an explorative qualitative research which …
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