Crisis intervention in the court room: the case of the night prosecutor.

abstract：:The authors describe uses for a 17-item instrument that efficiently measures the functioning level of chronically mentally ill persons living in the community. The Multnomah Community Ability Scale is designed to be completed by case managers who work with chronically mentally ill consumers. The instrument is sensitiv...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Barker S,Barron N,McFarland BH,Bigelow DA,Carnahan T

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:A suggested example of a systematic approach for linking planning with evaluation is presented. The proposed systematic processes would help deal with the ambiguities of the mental health field and provide a more objective way of planning and evaluating programs. Program evaluation can then be related to the predeterm...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Olkon SH

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：:We conducted a qualitative evaluation of a semi-structured, client-led support group that addressed drug use recovery issues and was assisted by a psychological consultant. Seven regular group members and their counselors were interviewed about the effect of the assisted self-help group on drug use and the clients' qu...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Félix-Ortiz M,Salazar MR,González JR,Sorensen JL,Plock D

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wraparound care coordination has offered an individualized family approach to providing services to families in our county for the past decade. Instigated by our county mental health department interested in providing quality improvements to mental health services for families, we assessed the wraparound care coordina...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Kernan JB

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hurricane Katrina caused many individuals to evacuate to towns and cities throughout the United States. Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a treatment program designed to help clinicians and other disaster relief workers address the needs of adults, youth, and families immediately following disasters. We conducted focus...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Legerski JP,Vernberg EM,Noland BJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors conceptualized multidisciplinary team decision making in terms of information collection, communication, and combination. The study explored the potentially biasing effects of situational variables on information collection. When compared with evening shift nurses, day shift nurses rated patients as much l...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Robertson DU,Mesmer R,Hoshino AY,Steinmeyer C

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent legislation in California mandated the development of an outcome measure suitable for measuring changes in quality of life associated with treatment in the public mental health system. The measure, known as the California Adult Performance Outcome Survey (CAPOS), relies on clinician and client reports of object...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Cuffel BJ,Snowden L,Green RS,McConnell W,Mandella V,Styc K

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Positive Behavior Support (PBS) was introduced to community-based providers in Kansas in 2012 in response to a federally funded initiative to reduce the placement of youth in psychiatric facilities. As core project activities concluded in 2016, researchers investigated the impact of this comprehensive PBS initiative o...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Matthews K,Enyart M,Freeman R

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Siblings are considered logical replacements for aging parental caregivers of persons with severe mental illness. For workshops on future planning conducted with 400 elderly parents, 60 siblings answered a survey regarding their future caregiving expectations, anticipated difficulties, and need for help. Nearly all ex...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hatfield AB,Lefley HP

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A review of literature on suicide shows a focus on early detection of those at risk of suicide and on the traits of those who actually commit suicide, but little attention to the therapeutic decisions of those who treat suicidal patients. Through in-depth interviews, 27 therapists from an interdisciplinary mental heal...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Gurrister L,Kane RA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that earthquake poses many challenges to human life. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to explore challenges and problems facing the 2017 Kermanshah earthquake survivors. The present qualitative study was conducted using conventional qualitative content analysis in Kermanshah Provin...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Khosravi B,Xosravi T,Ziapour A,Fattahi E,Chaboksavar F,Yoosefi Lebni J

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-one parents and their children (20 girls and 21 boys, mean age = 4.33 years, SD = 1.30) participated in a study to examine how parents' personal use of mental health services related to their attitudes toward child mental health services as well as to their children's adjustment. Results indicated that parents' ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Turner EA,Liew J

更新日期：2010-06-01 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：: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：: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：:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Kaohsiung Suicide Prevention Center (KSPC) of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, during the period from June 2005 to June 2008. We used a modified CIPP evaluation model to evaluate the suicide prevention program in Kaohsiung. Four evaluation models were applied to...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Ho WW,Chen WJ,Ho CK,Lee MB,Chen CC,Chou FH

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：:The use of Medicaid for mental health services by the severely mentally ill is examined using paid Medicaid claims for clients of Community Support Programs in Wisconsin. The extent to which clients participate in Medicaid, the types and amounts of mental health services, and the costs of services are discussed. A nar...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Hollingsworth EJ

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Purpose is to present the mental health rehabilitation reform enacted in Israel in 2000, and to analyze the challenges it faces in its second decade of implementation. Lessons are drawn with regard to other jurisdictions interested in reforming mental health services. Besides reviewing the reform's accomplishments and...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Aviram U

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual dietetic consultations were trialled in a community-based first-episode psychosis program. Participants received eight individualised dietetic consultations, plus weekly shopping tours and cooking groups. The outcome measure was waist circumference (WC). In total, 30 patients commenced the program. An inten...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Teasdale S,Harris S,Rosenbaum S,Watkins A,Samaras K,Curtis J,Ward PB

更新日期：2015-02-01 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 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：:The present study examined the cumulative effects of risk and protective factors on internalizing and externalizing problems for a sample of youth who were diagnosed with a severe emotional disturbance and enrolled in an urban school-based system of care. The sample included 139 Latino and African American children (a...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Whitson ML,Bernard S,Kaufman JS

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop criteria for appropriate and inappropriate referrals by telephone counselors to a crisis clinic. Interviews were conducted with staff members and volunteers of the Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service to explore possible criteria for making a referral. Nine criteria for inappr...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Walfish S,Tulkin SR,Tapp JT,Russell M

更新日期：1976-04-01 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：:Women who are diagnosed with a major mental illness, who have a history of drug or alcohol abuse, and who have been episodically homeless are also likely to have been the victims of sexual or physical abuse. Treatment for these women needs to incorporate an active program of trauma recovery. A program of trauma-based ...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Harris M

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High levels of emotional exhaustion are frequently reported among clinicians working in community mental health settings. This study draws on social exchange theory and examines the relationships between emotional exhaustion and mental health provider work attitudes and turnover, and the moderating effect of functiona...

journal_title：Community mental health journal

authors： Dishop CR,Green AE,Torres E,Aarons GA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00