Attitudes toward help-seeking and duration of untreated mental disorders in a sectorized Athens area of Greece.

abstract：:The U.S. President's Commission on Mental Health (1978) has called for a broader conception of mental health and the factors that influence it. The "macro"-social environment is emerging as one area of concern. The influence of two macroenvironmental domains, the physical and economic, on several areas of human functi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Monahan J,Vaux A

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a one-year experience with a new program of group therapy for Southeast Asians who were treated in a psychiatric program for Indochinese refugees. Cultural factors involving communication styles, respect for authority, and traditional social relationships greatly influence the group process. Soci...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kinzie JD,Leung P,Bui A,Ben R,Keopraseuth KO,Riley C,Fleck J,Ades M

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether concurrent medical status contributes to employment outcomes among those with psychiatric disabilities. Thirty-five percent (n = 70) of the 200 participants reported being currently employed. Sixty-three percent (n = 127) reported one or more co-occurring medical conditions; thirty-six perc...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Goldberg RW,Hackman A,Medoff DR,Brown C,Fang LJ,Dickerson F,Kreyenbuhl J,Dixon L

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In regular medicine if a patient goes to a doctor to be treated for a rat bite, the physician cleans the bite, dresses it, gives antibiotics, and gives a tetanus shot. The physician practicing social medicine would give our imaginary patient the same treatment but would go a step further; he would arrange for someone ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bell CC

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decades of the 20th century, many psychiatric hospitals changed the living environments of their clients with long-term psychiatric disabilities. We investigated the effect of this environmental psychiatric rehabilitation and normalization process on the activity and participation level of such clients...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： van Wel T,Felling A,Persoon J

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:The aim of this Swedish study was to describe landlords' experiences of having tenants suffering from severe mental illness. Sixteen landlords working in private and public housing agencies participated in open in-depth interviews. Data were subjected to a thematic latent content analysis. The results showed that havi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bengtsson-Tops A,Hansson L

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Sexual health and education are rarely investigated in the Middle East countries, including Egypt. We performed the current study to investigate the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors towards sexual health practices among Egyptian youth. A self-administered questionnaire was translated from English to Arabic. After pi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Menshawy A,Abushouk AI,Ghanem E,Senna M,Lotfy N,Abdel-Maboud M,Elmaraezy A,Elsherbeny MY,SABEAD Study group.

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using administrative data from the public long-term disability support program in Ontario, Canada, this paper examines the factors related to receipt of a paid employment benefit. These analyses include only ODSP beneficiaries who were primary beneficiaries, who had active files in March 2011 and who were <65 years of...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Dewa CS

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focus of the present study was to examine the extent of noncompliance in psychiatric aftercare in an integrated hospital and community mental health service. Characteristics of those patients who were noncompliant were explored in order to facilitate the prediction of treatment noncompliance at the point of discha...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Owen C,Rutherford V,Jones M,Tennant C,Smallman A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a recent three year period, approximately 600 individuals responded to newspaper advertisements for research studies requiring healthy, cocaine using subjects. These subjects were screened using a standard phone interview in order to eliminate individuals with known medical or psychiatric illnesses that would exc...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Harsch HH,Pankiewicz J,Bloom AS,Rainey C,Cho JK,Sperry L,Stein EA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consumer satisfaction with treatment is important information for providers of mental health services. The goal of the current study was to examine the relationship between youth and parent satisfaction ratings and the following youth variables: gender, age, primary diagnosis, and changes in functioning and symptomato...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Turchik JA,Karpenko V,Ogles BM,Demireva P,Probst DR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This Is My Brave (TIMB) is a contact-based mental illness stigma reduction program, set in theaters, meant to reduce stigma, increase beliefs about empowerment and recovery, and improve attitudes towards treatment seeking for mental health concerns. The authors conducted the first empirical evaluation of TIMB using a ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kosyluk K,Marshall J,Macias DR,Andrus D,Guerra D,Robinson M,Ostos A,Chapman S

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent pessimistic criticism of right to treatment decisions is unwarranted. The developing law contains a great deal of flexibility, and this can be creatively utilized to secure resources for community-based services. Courts' emphasis on the physical framework of care is an intentional effort to avoid interfering wi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Dix GE

更新日期：1976-07-01 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：:With cultural issues prominent in the United States today and with ongoing rapid changes in health care management and delivery, this paper discusses the shift from a genetic-type psychiatry (i.e., assuming that humans the world over are no different, and will react to given stressors in life in the same manner) to on...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Moffic HS,Kinzie JD

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental experience of an urban community mental health-mental retardation center is presented as a guiding model for other community mental health centers interested in "tooling up" their mental retardation services. Surveying personnel needs, establishing educational objectives tailored to personnel, presen...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hersh A,Brown GA

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violence inflicted by individuals with mental illness towards healthcare workers has received significant media attention. Though such incidents are relatively infrequent, they inspire reactive responses and contribute to further stigmatization of the mentally ill. Prevention of violence is an important challenge for ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Weisman RL,Lamberti JS

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As it is increasingly evident that distressing voices can be linked to traumatic events across diagnoses, there is a need for new transdiagnostic interventions for persons with voice hearing related distress. Twenty-five interviews with voice hearers and mental health professionals explored the trans-diagnostic suitab...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Schnackenberg J,Fleming M,Walker H,Martin CR

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessing and responding to suicidal risk among inmates is discussed based on a comprehensive literature review and personal experience. Sections detailing jail conditions, suicide risk factors, reasons for self-harm, and practical responses are included. Intoxication, isolation, and the initial 24 hours of incarcerat...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Winkler GE

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption that terminations data represent a cross section of patients treated at mental health centers is investigated by comparing social characteristics of patients admitted to and terminated from mental health centers. The great majority of patient characteristics of the two groups are similar enough to make ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Stern MS

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To describe 5-year changes in the provision of Residential Facilities (RFs) in a large Italian Region and in the characteristics of their staffing and patients. 2000 census data of all RFs with >4 residential beds in the Emilia-Romagna Region were compared with 2005 census data. The number of residential beds increase...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Neri G,Guzzetta F,Pazzi L,Bignami R,Picardi A,de Girolamo G

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effectiveness of group discussion in mitigating the rising hostility between police and residents of the urban ghetto, two 15-member groups of police and ghetto residents held weekly discussions, led and observed by university researchers, for 12 weeks. Attitude scales administered at the beginning and en...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Lipsitt PD,Steinbruner M

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microaggressions perpetuate inequalities and stereotypes against people from marginalized communities. Research demonstrates that ongoing experiences of identity-related microaggressions can negatively impact mental health outcomes, increase somatic symptoms, and increase negative affect. This study explores the relat...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kattari SK

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research indicates a higher prevalence of victimization among severely mentally ill women. Few studies have either compared these levels across diagnostic categories or evaluated perpetration by the women. We report qualitative and quantitative findings regarding intimate partner violence perpetrated both aga...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Friedman SH,Loue S,Goldman Heaphy EL,Mendez N

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In schizophrenia, treatments that improve outcomes have not been reliably disseminated. A major barrier to improving care has been a lack of routinely collected outcomes data that identify patients who are failing to improve or not receiving effective treatments. To support high quality care, the VA Mental Health QUER...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Young AS,Niv N,Chinman M,Dixon L,Eisen SV,Fischer EP,Smith J,Valenstein M,Marder SR,Owen RR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite their increasing numbers, Saudi Arabian international students in the United States have been the focus of few research studies. We examined acculturative stress among 84 female Saudi Arabian students enrolled in US colleges and universities in the vicinity of Washington, DC. Most participants experienced low ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Al-Krenawi A,Alotaibi F,Elbedour S

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the literature on children's responses to natural, technological and na-tech disasters via content analysis. Twenty two articles documenting children's responses to disasters were collected and analyzed. Children's responses were examined by (a) disaster type; (b) measurement instrument used to ass...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Mercuri A,Angelique HL

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A program in the state of Maryland which introduces psychiatric residents to community psychiatry is described. Since 1958, 80 senior psychiatric residents worked one day a week for a year as psychiatric consultants to Maryland county health departments. The program embodies the principle of inductive education, intro...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kern HM Jr,Jacobson WE

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00