Social support and quality of life of community support clients.

abstract：:The present study surveyed federally-funded emergency psychiatric programs in 33 California community mental health centers (CMHCs). Four aspects of service organization were examined: (1) the availability of various response styles (telephone service, walk-in service, follow-up home visits, mobile initial response); ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Gaynor J,Hargreaves WA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary evidence suggests that mental health consumers can successfully serve as peer companions, case management aides, case managers, job coaches, and drop-in center staff. However, few empirical investigations have addressed the use of consumers to train mental health professionals. This project employed a rand...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Cook JA,Jonikas JA,Razzano L

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The community-based mental health organizations known as "Clubhouses" have existed since the 1940s in the United States, and the model has since spread to many countries. The present study investigates the psychological and social trajectories of 33 members of Clubhouse Paris, the first Clubhouse in France. The study ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bouvet C,Battin C,Cappelaere C,Leroy-Hatala C

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In October 2006, a survey was undertaken of youth "on the streets" in the Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions of Tanzania (n = 1,923). The question of interest was if street children who live on streets full-time differ concerning reports of abuse and support, compared to reports of children who are only part-time on the s...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： McAlpine K,Henley R,Mueller M,Vetter S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the direct and indirect effects of demographic predictors on level of resilience following a potentially traumatic event. We hypothesized that the direct effects of three variables (exposure to fire hazards, gender, and economic condition) on resilience following a fire disaster would be mediat...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Eshel Y,Majdoob H,Goroshi M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mental health enterprise may be described by either (a) rather general philosophical total mental health goals, or (b) highly diverse and individualized patient-therapist goals. Goals a. have not provided a workable framework for program evaluation. This paper proposes that evaluation be done in the framework of goa...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kiresuk TJ,Sherman RE

更新日期：1968-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pictorial mood assessments reduce the barriers of age, culture, gender and language fluency in the course of psychiatric assessments. This study sought to validate the Ottawa Mood Scales, a pictorial form of mood assessment questionnaire among non-native English speaking young adults in Malaysia. Since the Ottawa Mood...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Wong MY,Croarkin PE,Lee CK,Lee PF

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Optimizing the transition between child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult mental health services (AMHS) is a priority for healthcare systems. The purpose of this systematic review is to: (1) identify and compare models of care that may be used to facilitate the transition from CAMHS to AMHS; and ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Nguyen T,Embrett MG,Barr NG,Mulvale GM,Vania DK,Randall GE,DiRezze B

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although case management is an important component of treatment for persons with major mental illnesses, little is known about who works in case management, what functions are performed and how much occupational stress case managers experience. Mental health care managers (CM's) throughout the state of Oregon (N = 216...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hromco JG,Lyons JS,Nikkel RE

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration and normalization are goals within the community-based care of people with mental illness. The implementation of this care policy has led to increased contact between people with mental illness and so-called normal people and society at large. But we know little about how this change affects the former pat...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Ekeland TJ,Bergem R

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyzes the impact of the Kansas Mental Health Reform Act on client outcomes. The Act is of general interest because it reflects a trial of greater accountability without major changes in financial incentives. It made Community Mental Health Centers [CMHCs] gatekeepers that were accountable for services fo...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Lee RH,Chamberlain R,Rapp C

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single and multiple correlates for premature termination and duration of treatment were examined for 13,450 clients seem in 17 community mental health facilities. Predictor variables included seven demographic characteristics of clients and five characteristics of service (type of personnel seeing clients, assignment ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Sue S,McKinney HL,Allen DB

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identifying factors that facilitate treatment for psychotic disorders among Chinese-immigrants is crucial due to delayed treatment use. Identifying causal beliefs held by relatives that might predict identification of 'mental illness' as opposed to other 'indigenous labels' may promote more effective mental health ser...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Yang LH,Wonpat-Borja AJ

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeless youth have high rates of substance use and often lack connection to social services. Outreach is critical for connecting youth to services, but factors influencing their outreach engagement are unknown. This study examined predictors of meetings with outreach workers among 79 non-service connected, substance ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Carmona J,Slesnick N,Guo X,Murnan A,Brakenhoff B

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment nonadherence is a pernicious problem associated with increasing rates of chronic diseases, escalating healthcare costs, and rising mortality in some patients. Although researchers have suggested numerous factors related to treatment nonadherence, several understudied aspects warrant attention, such as primar...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hooper LM,Huffman LE,Higginbotham JC,Mugoya GCT,Smith AK,Dumas TN

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A context-specific quantity-frequency (CSQF) questionnaire has been developed to accurately measure alcohol consumption using probing questions on drinking context. The study aimed to describe the drinking context associated with different drinking intensities in a community of southern Thailand using the CSQF. A cros...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Vichitkunakorn P,Conigrave KM,Geater AF,Assanangkornchai S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wraparound care coordination has offered an individualized family approach to providing services to families in our county for the past decade. Instigated by our county mental health department interested in providing quality improvements to mental health services for families, we assessed the wraparound care coordina...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kernan JB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to clarify the relationships between socio-demographics, clinical characteristics, stressors, coping strategies, social support and quality of life (QOL) in 143 patients with a diagnosis of either schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders. The research design is cross-sectional with re...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Caron J,Lecomte Y,Stip E,Renaud S

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper highlights the results of a consensus meeting regarding best practices for the assessment and treatment of co-occurring traumatic brain injury (TBI) and mental health (MH) problems among Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation New Dawn Veterans seeking care in non-Veterans Affairs Color...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Olson-Madden JH,Brenner LA,Matarazzo BB,Signoracci GM,Expert Consensus Collaborators.

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About half of the current activity in consultation and education services of community mental health centers can be classified as primary prevention. Using a framework that distinguishes between institutional-level interventions (caretaker training and program consultation) and individual-level interventions (dealing ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Vayda AM,Perlmutter FD

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Goal attainment scaling is a program evaluation technique that measures program success using individualized client goals rather than the same measuring instrument for all clients. Although the reliability of the goal attainment scales is generally acceptable, such scales have not exhibited satisfactory validity. Also...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Calsyn RJ,Davidson WS

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phenomenon of hearing voices is currently a much-discussed topic, both in the field of research and in the field of care services. The majority of people who report "hearing voices" do not subsequently receive services or receive a diagnosis of psychopathology. This topic raises questions for professionals in the ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Iudici A,Quarato M,Neri J

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peer support facilitates recovery. However, little is known about the role of peer support within the Clubhouse model. This article reports on Clubhouse members' experiences of peer support and the outcomes they identify from engaging in this phenomenon. Grounded theory guided the study design involving 17 semi-struct...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Coniglio FD,Hancock N,Ellis LA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is an exploration of mental health consumers' perspectives on information, including scientific information, and on other inputs to decision-making. Four focus groups were held with severely mentally ill consumers at two sites in the summer of 2005. Consumers varied in age, race and diagnosis. Participant r...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Tanenbaum SJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing awareness of the sensitive and crucial role of the law enforcement officer as a community caretaker. Rigorous efforts to define criteria of adequate performance and to select men who can meet these criteria are called for. In this study applicants for a law enforcement agency were subjected to an e...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： McDonough LB,Monahan J

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study screened for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and self-harming behaviours, often related to borderline personality disorder (BPD), among individuals in a job centre considered unemployable primarily for psychological reasons. Participants (N = 112) filled in questionnaires on PTSD symptoms (n = ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hansen JS,Simonsen E

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The key jingler is the staff person in any institution who uses his power in a manner that is debilitating to the inmates. He is a confidence man, bureaucrat, buck passer, someone putting up a front. Quite often it is the norms of the institution that impose this kind of behavior on the staff. The key jingling process...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hartman C

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supported employment programs are evidence-based practices to help people with severe mental illness to obtain competitive employment. The competencies of employment specialists working in these programs are key elements related to work integration. In France, the Messidor Association, a prevocational organisation, ha...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： de Pierrefeu I,Corbière M,Pachoud B

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Low-income and Latinos use the emergency department (ED) as a primary source of care. Also, the depression prevalence in ED patients is high, making the ED a compelling venue for depression screening and intervention. This study examined barriers and facilitators to depression treatment among low-income, predominantly...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Wells A,Lagomasino IT,Palinkas LA,Green JM,Gonzalez D

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic tic disorders (CTD) are characterized by motor and/or vocal tics. Existing data on the impact of tics in adulthood is limited by small, treatment-seeking samples or by data aggregated across adults and children. The current study explored the functional impact of tics in adults using a nationwide sample of 672...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Conelea CA,Woods DW,Zinner SH,Budman CL,Murphy TK,Scahill LD,Compton SN,Walkup JT

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00