Family influence in recovery from severe mental illness.

abstract：:Five issues have been identified as major impediments to program evaluation. Examination of these issues shows many of them to be resolved in the process of conducting evaluations. It is asserted that only by implementing evaluations will the field move foreward. At the present time much energy is wasted discussing or...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Edwards DW,Yarvis RM

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a high prevalence of suicide among elderly Chinese, and particularly among elderly Chinese women in Mainland China with a prevalence of 19.6 per hundred thousand. Since Chinese individuals may much more highly value education, a cognitive-behavioral package originated by Ricardo Munoz, Ph.D. was adapted for C...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Dai Y,Zhang S,Yamamoto J,Ao M,Belin TR,Cheung F,Hifumi SS

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluating the impact of early intervention as a means to prevent or ameliorate developmental disabilities has been a long standing problem and the issue of effectiveness continues to be debated. This study explored the utility of Goal Attainment Scaling as a planning and evaluation tool whereby intervention outcomes ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Simeonsson RJ,Bailey DB Jr,Huntington GS,Brandon L

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the impact of exposure to community violence tends to define victimization as a single construct. This study differentiates between direct and indirect violence victimization in their association with mental health problems and mental health service use. This study includes 8947 individuals from four waves...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Chen WY,Corvo K,Lee Y,Hahm HC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied trends in antipsychotic polypharmacy over a 4 year period in order to see if a change occurred when a statewide quality improvement program aimed at reducing the practice was implemented. Antipsychotic polypharmacy prevalence rates were calculated for eight 6-month periods for enrollees with schizophrenia a...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Constantine RJ,Andel R,Tandon R

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Good mental health is essential to successful integration for refugee populations that resettle in the U.S. We explored perceptions of mental illnesses and barriers to mental health service use as well as solutions to current mental health problems from the perspective of refugees. The interviews with a convenience sa...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kim W,Yalim AC,Kim I

更新日期：2020-08-25 00:00:00

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：:People taking antipsychotic medications are at increased risk for obesity, diabetes, and early mortality. Few weight loss interventions have targeted this population. Thirty-six individuals were randomized to an evidence-based 12-week weight loss intervention (PREMIER with DASH diet, n = 18) or to usual care (n = 18) ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Green CA,Janoff SL,Yarborough BJ,Yarborough MT

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of 12-step programs and 12-step-oriented treatments for dually diagnosed individuals (DDI) remains unclear. Here are presented the results of a pilot study in which 10 seriously mentally ill patients received a modified 12-step facilitation (TSF) therapy emphasizing engagement of DDI in a specialized 12-step ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bogenschutz MP

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：: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：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the association of opinions towards seeking psychiatric help with the duration of untreated mental disorders in a sectorized Athens area, served by a Community Mental Health Centre. The sample consisted of 134 individuals who had sought help from health or mental hea...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Madianos MG,Zartaloudi A,Alevizopoulos G,Katostaras T

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During yearly meetings of the recently developed network of 15 public/community psychiatry fellowships, it has been noted that programs are having varying degrees of success with regard to recruitment. To understand factors that impact recruitment, a quality improvement survey of fellows and alumni was conducted. Resp...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Weinberg M,LeMelle S,Ranz J

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) is a self-report questionnaire that allows the assessment of positive mental health, including three well-being components-emotional, psychological and social-as well as the categorical diagnosis of the presence or absence of mental health. The purpose of this study is t...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Fonte C,Silva I,Vilhena E,Keyes CLM

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current and coincident biomedical advances make this an opportune time to encourage research with subjects who have fluctuating cognitive impairments due to disorders like schizophrenia. Effecting research with a heterogeneous population who may have impaired decision-making capacity that diminishes their autonomy, wh...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Backlar P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although gender differences in schizophrenic symptom expression have been widely established, no systematic studies have documented if these differences extend to the perception of quality of life. This survey gathered international data on the perception of quality of life among 102 outpatient men and women with schi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Vandiver VL

更新日期：1998-10-01 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：:Factors in the social processes by which communities act to send persons to the state mental hospital produce differences in admission rates for Mexican-Americans in certain age-sex-diagnosis specific populations. These factors are seen as related to ethnic discrimination at all stages of the process. ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Wignall CM,Koppin LL

更新日期：1967-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this research, we examine the relationships between the housing characteristics and dimensions of community adaptation for 107 psychiatric consumer/survivors. Hypotheses about which housing characteristics best predict which dimensions of adaptation were made based on previous research and theory. Using a longitudi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Nelson G,Hall GB,Walsh-Bowers R

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines level of depression and factors associated with depression among female and male youth in Jordan. The study uses data from a cross-sectional survey conducted among a national sample of 14-25 year old youth attending educational institutions in Jordan (N = 8,129). On average, respondents reported fr...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Ismayilova L,Hmoud O,Alkhasawneh E,Shaw S,El-Bassel N

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This descriptive study was aimed to evaluate the attitudes of the engaged men and women who are of legal age to marry towards gender roles and acceptance of couple violence, and determine their sexual/reproductive health education needs. It was conducted in two marriage registry offices in Ankara, Turkey. The study sa...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Terzioglu F,Kok G,Guvenc G,Ozdemir F,Gonenc IM,Hicyilmaz BD,Sezer NY

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various factors may contribute to cyclical fluctuations in mental health emergency service utilization. Information regarding service utilization patterns would assist the planning and administration of such programs. Five years of data on emergency service contacts at a rural community mental health center were analy...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Sobel SN,Anisman S,Hamdy HI

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Why do some implementations in human service settings of goal attainment scaling (GAS), an innovative program evaluation technique, last over time, whereas others die out despite an initially successful period of operation? To provide some tentative answers to this question and to help shed more light generally on dif...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Glaser EM,Backer TE

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to bridge the gap between service need and service utilization, an urban based, university affiliated children's psychiatric outpatient clinic has implemented a program which provides mental health services in inner city schools. When compared with the central clinic populations (N = 304), the school samp...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Armbruster P,Gerstein SH,Fallon T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia is viewed by most as having a neuropsychological component, with deficits primarily occurring in the areas of attention/concentration, memory, and executive functioning. These deficits often contribute to difficulties in everyday living and social functioning. The purpose of this study is to examine the ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Davalos DB,Green M,Rial D

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the addition of medication monitoring to the duties of nurses working as case managers in a day treatment program for the chronically mentally ill. The nurses used their medical and behavioral knowledge to form a more complete picture of the patient than either a visiting psychiatrist or a case-manager who...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Davidson RE,Factor R,Gundlach E,Adler K

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：:In reviewing the public mental health services of 11 California counties during a period of fiscal retrenchment, we found several common trends: a greater focus on the severely mentally disabled; an increase in utilization of hospital-based care, residential treatment, day treatment, and case management services; and ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Surber RW,Shumway M,Shadoan R,Hargreaves WA

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People with HIV (PWH) who have mental health disorders (MHD) and substance use disorders (SUD) have lower HIV medication adherence, higher unsuppressed viral loads, and higher mortality rates than those who do not. Individuals who have triple diagnoses (HIV, MHD and SUD) are at an exponential risk for these adverse ou...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Conway FN,Rountree MA,Jones KV

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to determine the acute and long term services and supports (LTSS) utilization, cost of health care and disparities in access of care for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD). Individuals with IDD on a waiver (receiving Medicaid-funded LTSS in community setting...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Amin MR,Gentile JP,Edwards B,Davis M

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00