Protection and advocacy for the mentally ill: new hope for emotionally disturbed children?

abstract：:A fundamental aspect of successful illness self-management for people with serious mental illnesses is the ability to advocate for themselves in health and rehabilitation settings. This study reports findings from a randomized controlled trial comparing propensity for patient self-advocacy among those who received a p...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Jonikas JA,Grey DD,Copeland ME,Razzano LA,Hamilton MM,Floyd CB,Hudson WB,Cook JA

更新日期：2013-06-01 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：:Two aspects of social support, availability and adequacy, were assessed for 729 severely mentally ill adults enrolled in seven state-supported Community Support Services (CSS) programs as part of repeated questionnaire surveys nine months apart. Perceived quality of life interviews with the clients were also conducted...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Baker F,Jodrey D,Intagliata J

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This contribution summarizes the background leading up to the goals of and the experience gained from a major national initiative to expand and improve collaborative activities between state departments of mental health and university departments of psychiatry through regional conferences, national workshops, ongoing ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Talbott JA,Bray JD,Flaherty L,Robinowitz C,Taintor Z

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：: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：:Following a brief introduction to response planning for terrorism and other disasters, the authors present their experiences in developing a grassroots, interdisciplinary group charged with incorporating a mental health response component into the bioterrorism response plan for the metropolitan Atlanta area. This grou...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Compton MT,Cibulas BK,Gard B,Kaslow NJ,Kotwicki RJ,Reissman DB,Schor L,Wetterhall S

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study aims to evaluate the prevalence of depression and the severity of depressive symptoms among primary care patients, who are high utilizers (HU) of health care resources. A cross-sectional, two-stage design was applied to screen for depression using the Brief Psychiatric Health Questionnaire and the Diagnostic...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Berghöfer A,Roll S,Bauer M,Willich SN,Pfennig A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is concerned with the significance of recent changes in the public's ability to correctly identify descriptions of mental illness. Whereas other investigators have argued that increased abilities to identify mental illness may lead to greater acceptance of the mentally ill, this paper suggests that increase...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Phillips DL

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Descriptive demographic, clinical and interview data from clients of an outpatient mental health clinic for older adults are presented. These clients are better educated and have a more frequent history of marital difficulties than older adults in general. Although a significant minority received V code and Adjustment...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Speer DC,Williams J,West H,Dupree L

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study sought to examine whether neighborhood social environment was related to patterns of depressive symptoms among primary care patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Neighborhood social environment was assessed in 179 patients with type 2 DM. Individual patient residential data at baseline was geo-coded ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： O'Donnell A,de Vries McClintock HF,Wiebe DJ,Bogner HR

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：: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：:Relapse prevention (RP) programs mainly focus on patients and their families; however a patient's community can also play a significant role in RP. A randomized-controlled-trial was conducted among opiate-dependents discharging from residential abstinence-based treatment programs to assess the effect of a community-ba...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Maarefvand M,Eghlima M,Rafiey H,Rahgozar M,Tadayyon N,Deilamizadeh A,Ekhtiari H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about patients' electronic cigarette use, interest in and use of smoking cessation treatments, and providers' attitude towards such treatment. We assessed patients (N = 231) and providers (45 psychiatrists, 97 case workers) in four Community Mental Health Centers. Interestingly, 50% of smokers reported...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Chen LS,Baker T,Brownson RC,Carney RM,Jorenby D,Hartz S,Smock N,Johnson M,Ziedonis D,Bierut LJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study identified profiles among 455 currently or formerly homeless individuals in Quebec (Canada), based on health and social service use. Using latent class analysis, four profiles were identified that grouped individuals with: (1) few health problems, and using few case managers and family doctors, but with hig...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Fleury MJ,Grenier G,Cao Z,Meng X

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Of current interest to the field are clinical frameworks that foster recovery. The authors offer a psycho-developmental model that parallels Erik Erikson's theory of human development, and theorize that the process of psychiatric recovery involves a psychic reworking of these fundamental steps. Understanding recovery ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Vogel-Scibilia SE,McNulty KC,Baxter B,Miller S,Dine M,Frese FJ 3rd

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors review four approaches chairmen of departments of psychiatry have used to attempt to ensure quality resident education in CMHCs they do not control. Several examples are presented of administrative problems that may develop in this type of relationship. Based on this material and the author's experience, a...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Faulkner LR,Eaton JS Jr,Bloom JD,Cutler DL

更新日期：1982-04-01 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：:Traditionally, any program in the middle of the continuum of care--between inpatient and outpatient treatment on the dimensions of intensity and expense--has been called day treatment. This conception has yielded a diversity of programs, some of which are nebulously articulated and poorly understood. Day treatment sho...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Topp DB

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main goal of this study was to explore the connections between the exposure of nurses in Israel to national terror and the levels of distress experienced due to ongoing terror attacks. The data were collected from 214 nurses from various parts of Israel who work in three types of heath services (mainly hospital de...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Ron P,Shamai M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A questionnaire presenting two clinical cases with questions about a diagnosis, type of treatment, and whether the respondent would treat or refer the person was administered to pastoral counselors, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists. Psychiatrists tend to see the most and social workers the least pathol...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Newman RC 2nd,Carney RE,Sharon IA

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shared Decision Making (SDM) is an essential component of recovery oriented treatment for clients with severe and persistent mental illnesses. SDM has been found to be effective in improving outcome of treatment of non-psychiatric ailments, and studies of SDM in community mental health settings are limited. We designe...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Paudel S,Sharma N,Joshi A,Randall M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research on the recovery domains beside clinical recovery of people with severe mental illness in need of supported accommodations is limited. The aim of this study was (1) to investigate which recovery interventions exist for this group of people and (2) to explore the scientific evidence. We conducted a scoping revi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bitter N,Roeg D,van Nieuwenhuizen C,van Weeghel J

更新日期：2020-08-01 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

abstract：:Changes in activity patterns of 12 case managers over the first year of an intensive community support program are described and a method and format for the collection and analysis of time budget data in case management are presented. During the first six months of the program case managers recorded the predominant ac...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Wright RG,Sklebar HT,Heiman JR

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has indicated that the public's knowledge on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is poor. Public understanding and perception of OCD may be one contributor to this issue. Given that mental health literacy is an important first step for those to receive the appropriate care, we sought to understand mo...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Stewart E,Grunthal B,Collins L,Coles M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study retrospectively reviews de-identified records from school-based mental health screening in a predominantly African American community. We compare participation rates, screening results, referrals to services and access to care of white and African American adolescents. Among those offered screening, 20.1% o...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Husky MM,Kanter DA,McGuire L,Olfson M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the U.S. serious mental illness (SMI) is common in jails, which are often primary healthcare providers. Incarceration and healthcare are intertwined-lack of care access increases the risk of imprisonment which decreases care access. This case study explores a jail program which assists people with SMI with the disa...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： McCauley E,Samples L

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00