Public Recognition and Perceptions of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

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：: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 role of individual variables (COVID-19 anxiety, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, optimistic bias and personal identity) as predictors of quality of life (QoL) during the novel coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic is explored. Impact of group related variables (identification to family, religious group and...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kharshiing KD,Kashyap D,Gupta K,Khursheed M,Shahnawaz MG,Khan NH,Uniyal R,Rehman U

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study focuses on the long-term impact of war on adolescents (N = 821) and adults (N = 870) living in a war afflicted Israeli community a year after the war. Results indicate the following: (a) stress symptoms and posttraumatic growth (PTG) correlate negatively with each other. (b) Age was positively associated wit...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kimhi S,Eshel Y,Zysberg L,Hantman S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In structured interviews with 96 women with severe mental illness, nearly two-thirds had not used condoms during sexual intercourse in the past 3 months, more than two-thirds had sex with multiple partners, and almost one-third had been treated for a sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the past year. Women who rep...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Randolph ME,Pinkerton SD,Somlai AM,Kelly JA,McAuliffe TL,Gibson RH,Hackl K

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of innovative alternatives to nursing homes is critical, especially in the context of OBRA mandates and the growing geriatric population. This article examines the experience of one urban country in Washington State in providing supported housing for the OBRA-affected mentally ill elderly. The signific...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Sohng SS

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：:This article summarizes literature about paraprofessionals who assist children or families in the areas of mental health, education, or early childhood education, and focuses on three main questions: How effective are paraprofessionals?; what are the common and appropriate roles and responsibilities of paraprofessiona...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Walter UM,Petr CG

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to explore the relationship between cyber-bullying and psychological security, psychological loneliness, and age. In other words, it sought to identify the predictive power of these three variables on cyber-bullying among university students. Participants were 426 male and female Saudi universi...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Al Qudah MF,Al-Barashdi HS,Hassan EMAH,Albursan IS,Heilat MQ,Bakhiet SFA,Al-Khadher MA

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：: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 service systems which assist the long-term mentally ill to function in the community have been routinely described as fragmented and uncoordinated. The development and implementation of case management has been seen as one response to this dysfunctional system. This article examines case management from the perspe...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Anthony WA,Cohen M,Farkas M,Cohen BF

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether county-level increases in continuity of mental health care (i.e., mental health visits per mental health patient) at Community Health Centers (CHCs) correspond with a decline in Emergency Department (ED) visits for suicidal ideation and self-harm (1) overall, and (2) among specific race/ethnicities...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Das A,Singh P,Bruckner T

更新日期：2020-11-09 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：: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：:This study described the prevalence and correlates of comorbid moderate-severe depressive symptoms (comorbid depression thereafter) and their association with quality of life (QOL) in schizophrenia patients treated in primary care. 623 schizophrenia patients were enrolled. Patients' socio-demographic and clinical char...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hou CL,Ma XR,Cai MY,Li Y,Zang Y,Jia FJ,Lin YQ,Chiu HF,Ungvari GS,Hall BJ,Zhong BL,Cao XL,Xiang YT

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:Severe mental illness entails multiple hospital admissions and a large use of public resources. The Reflecting Team (RT), together with other dialogue strategies, place in a single therapeutic space, the patient, his family and a team of professionals to find together a solution to a situation of stagnation. The aim o...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Balcells-Oliveró MM,Nuño L,Freixa N,Domínguez I,Pons I,Alcover E,Gual T

更新日期：2020-09-29 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：:This study assessed mental disorders among 144 homeless and poor adults using four different methods: (a) history of psychiatric hospitalization, (b) structured clinical interview, (c) self-report symptom checklist, and (d) interviewer ratings. These four methods yielded divergent estimates of mental illness, ranging ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bellavia CW,Toro PA

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the relationship between hopelessness on chronic disease in a national sample of African Americans (3570) and Caribbean Blacks (1438) Using the National Survey of American Life. A multivariate negative binomial regression examined whether chronic disease is associated with hopelessness, controlling...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Robinson MA,Kim I,Mowbray O,Washington T

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：: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：:Little is known about the capacity of community providers to provide military informed evidence based services for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We conducted a regional, web-based survey of 352 community mental health care providers that sought to identify clinical practices, training needs, and predictors of ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Richards LK,Bui E,Charney M,Hayes KC,Baier AL,Rauch PK,Allard M,Simon NM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to explore four mental health consumers' experiences of completing self-report outcome measures in a research project. Participants were recruited from a community mental health organisation in Melbourne and were interviewed upon completion of a mixed methods research study where they were asked to co...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bibb J,McFerran KS

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citizen involvement in CMHC service delivery has two bases: (a) volunteerism and (b) identification with clients and citizens who may need services. This identification is expressed two ways, as cultural similarity to clients or social activism in their behalf. Paraprofessionals have been portrayed as a major mechanis...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Riley W

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The onset of a mental illness is a traumatic experience for all the members of a family. While the mental illness in their family member may be life long, family members can experience their own recovery from the trauma, just as their family member with a mental illness can experience recovery. This article will descr...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Spaniol L

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Jail diversion and forensic community treatment programs have proliferated over the past decade, far outpacing evidence regarding their efficacy. The current study reports findings from a randomized clinical trial conducted in California for frequent jail users with serious mental illness that compares a forensic asse...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Cusack KJ,Morrissey JP,Cuddeback GS,Prins A,Williams DM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines which issues public psychiatrists perceive as having most impacted their careers over the past five years and whether this impact was experienced differently by psychiatrists in varying regions of the country. The author sent a questionnaire to all members of the American Association of Community P...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Ranz J

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00