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Showing 1 to 20 of 153 for “"mental health service"”.
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Mental health service norms in South Africa
… was conducted of current national public sector mental health services in South Africa, using nine service indicators. Secondly, a model was developed for estimating the mental health service needs of people with psychiatric conditions in a local South African population. Thirdly, a set of …
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Mental Health Service Utilization Among African-American Adolescents
<p>Underutilization of mental health services by ethnic minorities has been identified as a major public health threat by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2001). Research on ethnic disparities has focused on identifying the sociodemographic correlates of between group differences …
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Collaborative care planning: mental health service users perspectives
… care planning (CCP) was defined as MHS users and health professionals working together to decide care plans in a relationship that recognises equality, and encourages the shared power to decide, in an atmosphere of mutual understanding and respect for each others' contribution.<br/>This …
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Mental Health Service Utilization among African American Emerging Adults
<p>Mental illness affects 25-30% of US adults ages 18 years and older in a given year. Of those individuals, about 41% fail to utilize mental health services. Research indicates that being African American and between the ages of 18 and 29 are associated with decreased rates of service utilization. …
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A systems analysis of an area mental health service
The mental health services existing in a defined geographic area in New Zealand were studied in an effort to establish priorities for service development. It was clear from a preliminary review of the services that while community based services were operating in the area, they were under-resourced …
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Influences on Mental Health Service Utilization for Vietnamese Young Adults
BACKGROUND: Vietnamese-Americans underutilize mental health services. Several factors have been proposed to influence rates of service utilization within this population, including cultural identification and families' acceptance of such services. Most measures of cultural identification are …
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Listen to me : experiences of recovery for mental health service users
There is increasing awareness that mental health consumers may have important information for the development of services. In this qualitative study, I interviewed 10 consumers with the purpose of exploring in depth their experiences in interacting with service providers in the greater Vancouver …
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An exploration into how forensic mental health service-users experience work
… study was to understand the lived experience of mental health service-users based in secure mental health hospitals who were involved in paid or voluntary work. A review of the existing literature discovered that there was a lack of evidence about this group of service-users compared to those …
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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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Rural Parents Mental Health Service Delivery Preferences: Overcoming Barriers to Care.
… prevent parents in rural areas from seeking mental health services for their children. The implementation of innovative models of service delivery may reduce these barriers' impact on rural parents' treatment seeking.</p><p>The purpose of this study was to determine: 1) parents' willingness …
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Overcoming Barriers to Mental Health Service Utilization Among Justice Involved Youth
… to identify the barriers to and facilitators of mental health services utilization among youth in the justice setting, and to explore ways to overcome these barriers and expand these facilitators. This qualitative study utilized focus groups as a means to extract themes among the perceptions of …
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‘Putting into words my experience.’ Mental health service users’ experiences of therapeutic groups
… participants who have a severe and enduring mental illness. The study aims to illuminate previously hidden personal experiences of the psychological processes involved in engaging with a therapeutic group, which appear absent from mental health literature and research. This qualitative …
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Strategic Management in Nonprofit Mental Health Service Organizations: Understanding Processes and Impact on Performance
Managing the performance of social service-providing nonprofit organizations: NPOs) has become more and more complex in the past few decades as executives have had to cope with increasing competition, demands from a diversified set of stakeholders, rapidly changing technologies, and mounting …
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An exploration of service users' experiences of a low secure forensic mental health service
… is an exploratory study of the experiences of service users in forensic mental health settings, including how service users make sense of these experiences and their link to identity. Current research into forensic mental health services is very limited (Coffey,2006). Research has focussed on …
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Family social networks and mental health service use among Vietnamese-Americans in multigenerational families
… demonstrating that Asian-Americans underutilize mental health services compared to other ethnic groups, little is known about how Vietnamese-Americans use formal mental health services. The traumatic war, post-war and refugee journey contributed to incidences of PTSD and other mental disorders. …
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Mental Health Service Utilization Patterns in a School Mental Health Program for High Poverty Communities
… living in poverty experience high rates of mental health difficulties including high rates of externalizing and internalizing disorders. However, up to 80% of low-income children in need of mental health services do not receive needed services. Given the barriers and lack of available mental …
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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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Student nurses' feedback from mental health service users in practice : a participatory action research study
… involved student nurses, lecturers, mentors and service users in working together to design, evaluate and refine a system enabling student mental health nurses to seek feedback from service users. The feedback concerned students' interpersonal skills and occurred in practice, at the point of …
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Beyond Displacement: Understanding the Intersection of Cultural Variables on Mental Health Service Utilization among Newcomers
Existing literature regarding mental health and mental health service access reveals disparities between the experiences of newcomers and their native-born counterparts. Previous studies have mainly focused on how the immigration process and displacement from one’s country of origin influence …
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