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... you to notice that it is getting better? •• Is it better to not resolve the problem unless/until you can resolve it completely, or better to resolve the problem a little bit or in stages? What ... pathognomonic indicators and overt presenting symptoms, so as to inform risk management It is easier in that context to admit than to discharge It is probably safe to say that little attention ... frequently does it happen? When doesn t it happen? When doesn t it happen when you’re expecting it to happen? (This alerts the patient to exceptions to the rules about the problem they have constructed...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... right must be respected To act otherwise would be to suggest that persons with mental disorders had the capacity to give consent but not the capacity to refuse treatment, thus violating the principle ... supervision it is important that sufficient measures exist to protect the human rights of the patients concerned, as in other treatment settings The legislation should make provisions for the automatic ... Legislation that is concerned with mental health should not be restricted to the health sector Legislation aimed at protecting the rights of people with mental disorders should not be restricted to...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... mentioned at the outset of this chapter continue to remain concerns, there have been strong, though intermittent, efforts to give heightened attention to mental health and aging issues and to ... support, and higher levels of connectivity with others This suggests that more attention needs to be paid to the mental health implications of connectivity via computers and the Internet in the ... frequently not recognize the signs of mental illness, older adults are not apt to receive treatments that could alleviate their suffering When steps are taken to treat them, it is not uncommon for the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... the post amble to the Interim Constitution, it was vague enough to allow a rather liberal interpretation of it in the legislation that gave birth to the TRC Essentially the approach adopted traded ... of it) was just under 4,500 pages long Victim Statements In total, about 22,000 victims gave statements to the TRC The exact figures within the TRC reports tend to vary In its 1998 report, it claims ... of its content can be divorced from the fact that the subject matter was born out of the political conflict that took place in South Africa to end apartheid prior to the first democratic election...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... compassion, is actually closer to what Shapiro calls `attitude' Once this is understood, it appears that the aspects of intention, attention and attitude start to correspond to the traditional subdivisions ... resting on them This is why he has felt it better to try to say what mindfulness does rather than what it is, just as we might when trying to explain gravity Unfortunately, this step does not ... of the de®nitional dif®culties to be faced in any attempt to operationalise attention, even if these were to be dwarfed by the effort of de®ning `hysteria' At that time, any interest in `attention'...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... minority test takers There are some ways to counteract stereotype threat: individual awareness on the part of the test taking and test provider, affirmation provided to the test taker by the test provider, ... the construct will help with construct validity (c) Criterion related validity is the evaluation of specific attributes that contribute to the overall construct ● ● The more clearly defined the ... this idea of the absolute truth, one can see why measures of mental health constructs, such as anxiety, attempt to get at the truth of those constructs That truth should be the same regardless of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... prevention chiefly as that which attempts to alleviate risk factors, while health promotion attempts to develop and enhance protective factors It is these distinctions in these two concepts that serve ... patterns to determine the appropriate cost-containment strategies Cost containment is one mechanism that is used to monitor and control health care costs (Vandiver, 2007) It is also cited as the ... local, state, and governmental entities Its aim is to provide guidance and education to health and mental health sector providers on what they can to contribute to the positive mental health and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... mental health to deteriorate if it is true that the existence of and contact with children has a positive effect on the mental health of their parents Our results indicate a protective function ... contacts with children also have a negative effect on the mental health of elderly parents One might argue that the frequency of contact does not tell anything about its quality and the quality ... information on the quality of the contact with the children, but we argue that the frequency of contact with a child is more a sign of integration into the family, whereas very little 30 contact with one’s...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... EVIDENCE It is important that any mental health promotion strategy such as the promotion of physical activity is based on sound evidence However, it is important to recognize that what constitutes ... interest to the intervention per se Typically, this type of design could be considered a pilot study that provides initial support for the consideration of a particular treatment that can then ... ‘gold standard’ for judging whether a treatment does more good than harm (Sackett et al., 1996, p 72) Random selection of participants and random assignment to treatments is the most effective...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... non-sedentary The leisure domain contributed most to the men’s physical activity level, while domestic tasks contributed most to the women’s activity level It may be suggested that these data were ... how to apply the interview: how to start, conduct and conclude it All a Physical activity and mental health status of elderly Benedetti TRB et al the data collection materials and identifications ... corroborated by the data obtained in the present study, physical activity seems to have a relationship with reduction of the risks of dementia It cannot be stated that physical activity avoids dementia,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... storm, so long as the city resists the earth-shocks, so long as the levees hold, there is no disaster It is the collapse of the cultural protections that constitutes the disaster proper.’’ Therefore, ... systematic deflation of the attention to the inequality of the goods and services offered to the population On the other hand, in the case of a crisis, they try to induce a systematic inflation of the ... Charcot, Janet, Freud and Breurer suggested that psychological trauma caused hysterical symptoms; however, others at the time believed that a traumatic event was not sufficient to cause posttraumatic...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... its meaning is a vulnerability that is created by the attacker This characteristic is then systematically subjected to a racialised narrative that identifies the characteristic to be a threat ... Darwinism, that the fittest, 40 / RACISM AND MENTAL HEALTH strongest, richest and inevitably the most destructive can rule, so why should they not take over as that is promoted as their natural destiny ... by the observing perpetrators This capacity appears to threaten perpetrators of racist ideology as they cannot fail to notice that the hatred is theirs, and that there is a discrepancy between...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... provides instructive data on what therapists think they do, what they actually do, and what they have done differently since the unprecedented events of 9/11 In doing so, it intends to strengthen and ... were not broadly endorsed by therapists at the time of the attack complicated the delivery of the requisite trauma-related mental health treatments after 9/11 This book also interrogates standard ... tainting mental processes that otherwise were pure, in the sense that they were unaffected by context To fortify the split between the internal and the external, therapists directed patients to produce...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... argument, that it was the pre-morbid schizophrenic state that was a factor in attracting people to religion, rather than a more general emotional malaise It is interesting that Siddle, Haddock, Tarrier ... written about culture and mental health Important themes include: r Attention to the question whether there are variations between cultures in the prevalence and incidence of different psychiatric ... in the villagers’ attempts to help Western medical treatment was not used extensively because of its expense, and this throws up an important feature of spiritual treatments – their pragmatic...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... with the interpreter and that they will not ‘edit’ what the patient says • Be alert to any discomfort between the interpreter and patient • Look at your patient and speak directly to them not the ... support from Pukaar Pukaar offers: ‘The counsellor told me it’s not my fault and I don t deserve to be hit, that they didn t have the right to hit me, and that I was good Hearing this the first time ... not let me get to her I tried to take her to CAMHS and the doctor would not hear of it For years I had to be her therapist by myself, with no help The health visitor still talks about a relationship...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... society There was clearly a huge task to be undertaken both within the institutions and society I decided then to dedicate the rest of my time to working with people with disabilities and mental ... something, that we lose touch with who we actually are As one of the lay participants in a BBC2 series entitled The Monastery put it: ‘To follow a spiritual path is not to take the easy way out ... were taught to interpret this primarily in terms of their particular illness Religion and spirituality, we were taught, should be treated with great caution and best avoided altogether So, most...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... didn t get the love, that didn t get the attention and didn t get what I needed Coping with their mental health The women were asked to describe the strategies they use for self-care – what they to ... Limitations A number of project participants stated that this research is greatly needed and that it is important that community women’s voices are brought to the forefront regarding mental health ... how I view the world, how I trust, how I don t trust Another woman’s story illustrates the distress attached to being a child living with the panic of family separation: “That's what it was when...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 12:20

... magnitude or perception of threat, the more likely it is that a person will resort to denying or distorting the event This happens as the person attempts to cope with information that is dissonant ... believed, by the client’s adopting of the artificial, unrealistic standards of others Rogers paid attention to the client’s subjective comfort, or inner attitude toward self To the phenomenologist, a ... response (the unconditioned response) The dog (conditioned stimulus) is the primary neutral stimulus that becomes associated with the frightening situation The next time the child sees the same dog,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 00:20

... mental health treatment that did not originate from Anglo or western European culture The therapy borrowed extensively from Zen and encouraged patients to cultivate an attitude toward life that ... Instruments and Intervention Procedures The content of the instrument is reflective of the Mestizo multiculturalmultiracial world view The structure of the instrument is reflective of the Mestizo ... Institute Michigan State University INTRODUCTION This chapter reviews the construct of acculturation, its measurement, and its relevance not just to the psychology of Chicana/os, but also to that...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 00:21

... pay little attention to adolescents' experience of parental illness generally Adolescents' feelings and emotional reactions to the physical and mental alterations that the illness may impose to ... relationships within the family mediates mostly this association [35,36] The parental disorder may limit the adolescent's identification with their parents and/or the parent may be unable to help ... were assessed with the use of different statistical tests, according to the nature of the variables examined More specifically, Student's t- test was used to compare the distribution of a specific...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20