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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"mental hospitals"”.
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A State-Level Analysis of Deinstitutionalization and the Impact of Chlorpromazine
US state mental hospitals were rapidly depopulated in the decades following 1955. This was a demographic phenomenon of major proportion. The introduction of antipsychotics in 1954 has often been considered instrumental in this population movement. To date, studies of the role of antipsychotics in …
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“WHAT DID THEY DO ALL DAY?” PATIENT WORK, PSYCHIATRY AND SOCIETY IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND, c.1918-1939
… patient occupation in English and French mental hospitals between 1918 and 1939, a period that witnessed the transfer of new ideas concerning occupational therapy from Germany and the USA. Examining the different socio-economic, cultural and medical influences on patient occupation in both …
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Μελέτη του προβλήματος των αναγκαστικών νοσηλειών αρρένων ασθενών στο Κ.Θ.Ψ.Π.Τ. και προτάσεις για την αντιμετώπισή του
… of male psychiatric inpatients of The State Mental Hospital of Tripolis and, by extension, that of other public mental hospitals inside and outside the country. For a given period, the patients admitted under the civil commitment criteria were compared with the patients who accepted admission …
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Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context.
Institutional reform in mental healthcare started in the eighteenth century with the construction of a small number of facilities in Dublin and Cork specifically for the treatment of mental illness. The 1800s witnessed the construction of an extensive network of district lunatic asylums in two …
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An exploration of the lived experiences of people who self-harmin two secure/locked mental health hospitals in Ghana
… people who Self-Harm (SH) are being treated in mental health hospitals globally and it is now considered a major health problem. Incidence of SH are common in secure hospitals with those who use SH being highly dependent on staff for care and support, impacting on often limited resources Whilst …
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Dress as therapy: Working with dress on the self in therapeutic settings
… for the first time: “Therapy of Fashion” in mental hospitals in the US during the 1960s, contemporary vêtothérapie (fashion therapy) in France, and sensory stimulation treatment for people with anorexia in Germany. Approaching “dress therapy” as a cultural phenomenon rather than clinical …
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A study of the family during separation from and reunion with an alcoholic husband
… and war separation. While the hospitalisation of mental patients has been investigated, in such studies the emphasis has not been upon the family. The present study was of an exploratory nature, with the aim of seeking to establish regularities within the adaptation patterns of the families and …
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A study of the family during separation from and reunion with an alcoholic husband
… and war separation. While the hospitalisation of mental patients has been investigated, in such studies the emphasis has not been upon the family. The present study was of an exploratory nature, with the aim of seeking to establish regularities within the adaptation patterns of the families and …