Change in Mental Health Stigma After a Brief Intervention Among Internally Displaced Persons in Central Sudan.

abstract：:An analysis of the social welfare movement suggests two simultaneous but divergent philosophies within that movement. One philosophy includes a commitment to the individual client and action to increase the individual's opportunity to select his own goals and methods of achieving such goals. The opposing position assu...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Sulzer ES

更新日期：1967-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Violence against women is a priority public health issue. Women with mental illness are at a double disadvantage. While social norms and beliefs either support or confront violence against women, research is limited on this issue. A randomized controlled design was adopted for the present study. This study was aimed t...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Vijayalakshmi P,Sailaxmi G,Nikhil Reddy SS,Marimuthu P,Suresh BM

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transitional housing programs aim to improve living skills and housing stability for tenuously housed patients with mental illness. 113 consecutive Transitional Housing Team (THT) patients were matched to 139 controls on diagnosis, time of presentation, gender and prior psychiatric hospitalisation and compared using a...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Siskind D,Harris M,Kisely S,Siskind V,Brogan J,Pirkis J,Crompton D,Whiteford H

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：:A prospective study of all suicidal behaviors by burns requiring hospitalization was conducted in the province of Khorasan, Iran, from March 21, 2005 to March 20, 2006, to examine marital status, urbanity and literacy among these patients. Data were obtained through interviews during the course of hospitalization. A t...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Alaghehbandan R,Lari AR,Joghataei MT,Islami A

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sociodemographic differences between rural and urban clients with severe mental illness (SMI) are explored using approaches which extend research in this area beyond limitations found in the few existing studies. Sixteen hundred adult clients from 18 Wisconsin counties are classified according to the degree of ruralit...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Greenley JR,Dottl SL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The legislative pressures now dominating the realm of program accountability are moving the mental health system from process to outcome evaluations. While the need for this type of assessment is generally acknowledged, its methodological validity and policy-setting utility are the subject of considerable controversy....

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Schulberg HC

更新日期：1981-07-01 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：: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：:A description and analysis of the Range Mental Health Center's professional activities are presented. The results of this program analysis suggest that a public health, consultation-oriented mental health center can provide equitable and effective services to a large geographic area. Maintenance of ongoing consultativ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hunter WF,Ratcliffe AW

更新日期：1968-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents the qualitative analysis of reports obtained through participant observations collected over a 4-year period in a series of suicide survivor self-help group meetings. It analysed how grievers' healing was managed by their own support. The longitudinal study was focused on self/other blame and for...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Testoni I,Francescon E,De Leo D,Santini A,Zamperini A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a combined skills training (ST) and health management (HM) intervention for older adults with severe mental illness (SMI) and one-year pilot study outcomes. Findings are reported for twelve older persons with SMI (age 60+) who received ST+HM and twelve who received only HM. ST addressed interpers...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bartels SJ,Forester B,Mueser KT,Miles KM,Dums AR,Pratt SI,Sengupta A,Littlefield C,O'Hurley S,White P,Perkins L

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:A proliferation of recent literature provides substantial direction as to the key ingredients-target groups, messages and methods, and evaluation-of local-level, public interventions to counter stigma and discrimination. This paper provides a selective narrative review of that literature from the perspective or standp...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Ashton LJ,Gordon SE,Reeves RA

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：: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：:We recruited a sample of individuals who were formerly homeless that received assertive community treatment (ACT) services to assess differences in their sources and perceived quality of social support related to changes in their residence status. Standardized questionnaires were administered to 22 participants via fa...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Carton AD,Young MS,Kelly KM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As many as 50% of patients with schizophrenia do not take oral antipsychotic medications as prescribed, yet long acting injections are rarely utilized. Community agencies that serve this population are often over-burdened and poorly funded. There are negative attitudes on the part of both physicians and consumers abou...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Velligan DI,Medellin E,Draper M,Maples N,Dassori A,Moore TA,Lopez L

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:As one of the most popular social media used around the world, YouTube may be able to serve as a new medium for mental health education. This study aims to analyze and compare the performance of YouTube in disseminating dementia education to Chinese Americans at different time points of the upload period. ME...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Lam NHT,Woo BKP

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：: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：:An extensive body of literature provides evidence supporting the effectiveness of assertive community treatment (ACT) with regard to non-forensic outcome measures, such as number of hospital admissions and length of stay. However, research findings on the effectiveness of ACT for forensic outcome measures, such as rea...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Marquant T,Sabbe B,Van Nuffel M,Goethals K

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：:A conceptual model for reducing substance use within the context of outpatient psychiatric treatment is described. The proposed model incorporates four themes from the psychological treatment literature: treatment intensity, stages of change, motivational interventions, and harm reduction. The five steps of the model ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Carey KB

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate the effect of social factors in the neighborhood environment on suicide risks, we studied 392 suicides and 416 controls, all aged 15-34 years, consecutively and randomly selected from 16 rural counties in three provinces of China. The social factors in the village neighborhood were measured by the WHO scal...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Zhang J,Wang C

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines early adjustment to marital separation as a function of sex and parent status in a sample of 153 persons separated an average of eight weeks from their spouses because of marital discord. Men were much more satisfied with the quality of their marriages prior to separation and much more opposed to i...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Bloom BL,Hodges WF

更新日期：1981-01-01 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：: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 article describes the development and psychometric assessment of the Evaluation of Client Services (ECS) measure of treatment satisfaction for people with chronic mental illnesses in community treatment settings. The ECS, a 20-item instrument, was validated in a sample of 184 individuals receiving outpatient ment...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Berghofer G,Castille DM,Link B

更新日期：2011-08-01 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