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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"mental ill-health"”.
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The incidence of mental ill-health in adults with intellectual disabilities
… 2002; McConkey et al, 2006) but have very high health needs and thus make up a proportionally larger section of the population with illness. Although it has been demonstrated that adults with intellectual disabilities have a higher prevalence of mental ill-health when compared to that reported …
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Mental ill health in nursing and midwifery education. A critical discourse analysis
Students diagnosed with long-term mental health conditions have been the focus of policy development for over a decade. Student mental health is on the increase and universities are legally obliged to make reasonable adjustments for disabled students. Therefore it is crucial that nursing and …
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The impact of Islam and Muslim identity on experiences and views of mental ill health among Muslim men in south Wales.
… of Islam and Muslim identity on experiences of mental ill health among Muslim men in south Wales?”. It conducted interviews with 21 Muslim men living in south Wales around their views and experiences of mental health, in relation to their gender and religion. Mental health is a topic of …
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Class, Neoliberalism, and Mental Health: a case study of the Cardiff Health Area.
… relationship between class, neoliberalism, and mental health in the Cardiff Health Area. Quantitative analyses reveal that class has a more statistically significant influence on the prevalence of mental ill-health than deprivation. Qualitative analyses situate phenomenological experiences of …
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Risk and Resilience: Exploring the Ecological Factors that Impact the Recovery of Sexual Assault Survivors at Two Centres in the Western Cape
… assaulted are at high risk of developing poor health outcomes, ranging from HIV to mental disorders. The high prevalence of sexual assault and the burden of poor health outcomes highlights a serious need for interventions for these women. However, it is common that survivors face many …
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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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Exploring the experience and meaning of therapeutic relationships for mothers in a Parent-Infant Mental Health Service with infants who have been at the edge of care: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
The prevalence and consequences of perinatal mental ill health has attracted more attention as a public health issue in recent years. Much attention has focused on the deleterious effects that parental mental health problems can have on parents themselves, as well as on the quality of the …
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Tertiary learner mental health and wellbeing: The development of a national framework
… explores the impact of tertiary study on the mental health and wellbeing of tertiary learners. I describe a dual practice approach combining two threads - the development of the work-based project for mental health of tertiary learners in education implemented as the Mental health Education …
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Ageing, health and retirement choices in a diverse workforce : a case study of a large private sector retail organisation
… to improve employees’ enjoyment of their work. Health is a key predictor of retirement. Good health acts as an enabler to extending working life. This research aims to explore the factors that enable or inhibit people to work for longer, post traditional retirement age, in a large UK based …
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A Pill for the Ill? : Depression, Medicalization and Public Health
Mental disorders, especially depression, have been increasingly described as a growing burden to global public health. Critics argue, however, that the use of mental health surveys, underlying these descriptions, tends to overestimate the prevalence of mental disorders by not distinguishing …
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An analysis of client trends in gay and lesbian counselling service
… of homophobia encountered within mainstream mental health services, sexual minorities have established mental health services that address their needs. This study explored client patterns and trends at Triangle Project, a counselling service, aimed at gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered …
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What happens to the mental health of United Kingdom personnel when they return home from Afghanistan?
Introduction: The rates of mental illness in United Kingdom military personnel have largely been stable since operations began in Iraq in 2003. However data is often gathered at one time point so cannot measure change over time and the one longitudinal study (Fear et al., 2010) which has examined …
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Exploring the attitudes of mental health nurses and mental health nursing students toward the physical health of service users- a mixed methods study
Rationale: People with mental ill health face higher mortality rates than the general population with reported reductions in life expectancy of up to twenty years, often dying from common medical conditions that do not impact on mortality rates for the general population. Mental health nurses and …
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Navigating Burnout within the Changing Context of the NHS: An Exploration into the Experiences of General Practitioners
… pressures, and a high prevalence of mental ill-health among general practitioners. In the context of the current turbulence in the NHS, however, there is a scarcity of qualitative research exploring general practitioners’ poor wellbeing, particularly regarding their experiences of …
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Education and mental health
… adult and continuing education for people with mental health difficulties and to gather information, from them and the staff involved, about the merits of the provision. The information will be used to identify successful practice through the responses of students, people who live with the …
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Moving on from ‘Listening Visits’: a mixed methods, multi-phase study exploring the support that health visitors provide to mothers with mental health problems
… least 50% of the 25% of mothers who experience mental health problems (MHPs) during pregnancy or the year after they have a baby (the perinatal period) are not getting the help they need that will lead to recovery. Children of mothers with untreated MHPs are more likely to experience physical …
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Functional Imagery Training for Increasing Employee Psychological Resilience
Work-related mental ill-health is a significant issue affecting individuals worldwide including the United Kingdom, and has adverse individual, organisational, and societal impacts. Psychological interventions can address this problem by promoting individual coping skills, or resilience. Before …
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In an era of neoliberalism and inequality can self-transcendence foster conscientisation for social change?
… it) (Monbiot, 2016). As the prevalence rates of mental ill health are on the increase and according to some, could be considered to have reached epidemic proportions (Carlat, 2010, Kirsch, 2010, Whitaker, 2010). Investigating the high percentage rate of consumption in prescriptive anti-depressant …
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Gals, guys and gender construction: What's in it for art therapy
… art therapy for therapists both male and female will be suggested. There is potential for a socially conscious art therapy, in breaking away from traditional theories, to be in a position to offer a bond between individual insight and external social dynamics. Power inequalities in society lead …
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The usefulness of administrative data in the research of migrant health
Increasingly, migrants and health are major international concerns and an important area of study within public health. The recent increase in rates of migration and the vast differences between demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of most migrant groups compared to settled populations are …
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