periodicals and news on mental health

... Context of mental health legislation Introduction The interface between mental health law and mental health policy Protecting, promoting and improving rights through mental health legislation ... for Action on Special Needs Education (1994) Limitation of rights Chapter 2 xv Content of mental health legislation Introduction Preamble and objectives Definitions 3.1 Mental illness and mental ... between mental health law and mental health policy; Protecting, promoting and improving lives through mental health legislation; Separate versus integrated legislation on mental health; Regulations,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... Department of Health and Human Services: Disasters and Emergencies http://www.hhs.gov/emergency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Pandemic and Avian Flu www.pandemicflu.gov/ Pandemic Influenza ... events and to foster short and long-term adaptive functioning Developed by the National Center for PTSD and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and used by American Red Cross and the ... information about common physical and psychological reactions to crisis Provide education about stress and coping Help restore the individual’s sense of control Encourage networking and re-establishing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... IIIb: Large nonrandomized, uncontrolled studies (n > 100) IIIc: Medium-sized nonrandomized, uncontrolled studies (100 > n > 50) Level IV: Small observational studies (nonrandomized, uncontrolled, ... clinical observations Randomizing liberals and conservatives, blondes and brunettes How we engage in randomization? We it by randomly assigning patients to a treatment versus a control (such as ... to appreciate confounding bias versus effect modification, one needs to understand the condition and variables 32 Chapter 6: Regression being studied In confounding bias, the confounding variable...

Ngày tải lên: 24/09/2012, 09:06

... hyperarousal and/ or dissociation and derealisation Dissociation, the disconnection of emotions from thoughts and actions, may be evident as vagueness or even confusion Derealisation may produce an incongruous ... and mental health legislation Mary Mitchell 86 Child abuse and child protection Tricia Brennan 98 Cultural diversity and mental health problems Begum Maitra 107 10 Special considerations Tony ... is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Southampton General Hospital Helen Bruce, FRCPsych, is Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, East London NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... important and Fernando, S (2002) Mental Health Race and Culture (2nd ed) Palgrave: Basingstoke Keating, F., Robertson, D., and Kotecha, N (2003) Ethnic Diversity and Mental Health in London London: ... Refugee health in London: key issues for public health London: Health of Londoners Project 76 Harris K and Maxwell C (2000) A needs assessment in a refugee mental health project in north-east London: ... provision for refugees and asylum seekers in London, please refer to: Ward, K and Palmer, D (2005) Mapping the provision of mental health services for asylum seekers and refugees in London London:...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... RACE AND CULTURE IN MENTAL HEALTH of related interest Advance Directives in Mental Health Theory, Practice and Ethics Jacqueline Atkinson ISBN 978 84310 483 Racism and Mental Health Prejudice and ... this book A lack of precision in understanding terms and concepts leads to confusion and poorer response to need For example, a focus on culture in a context where race (and racism) is the issue, ... services and structures (Sanderson, Thompson and Kilbane 2006) Person-led assessments take more account of what service users consider as their needs Practitioners may contribute and encourage the consideration...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... Made Easier Principles and Techniques for Mental Health Clinicians James Morrison The Guilford Press New York London © 2007 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc 72 Spring Street, ... Understanding the Whole Patient 87 Physical Illness and Mental Diagnosis 98 10 Diagnosis and the Mental Status Examination 116 PART III Applying the Diagnostic Techniques 11 Diagnosing Depression and ... manuals (including my own DSM-IV Made Easy) handle that chore Rather, we’ll concentrate on the issues and illnesses that mental health clinicians confront every day To illustrate the diagnostic...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... are: • mental health policy and legislation – questions; • mental health promotion – questions; • centrality of mental health – questions; • prevention of mental disorders and suicide – questions; ... chapters on policy and legislation on mental health and on opportunities for the empowerment and representation of service users and carers; • Alan Cohen for contributing to the chapter on mental health ... 6 6 8 Policy and legislation on mental health Mental health policy Main developments since 2005 Mental health legislation Discussion  romoting mental health and preventing mental disorders...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... people at risk and prevent mental health effects Keywords MENTAL HEALTH ECONOMIC RECESSION ALCOHOLISM – prevention and control SUICIDE – prevention and control HEALTH POLICY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE ... (8) Impact of economic crises on mental health page How can we contribute to mental health? Mental health is determined by socioeconomic and environmental factors (2) An economic crisis affects ... Regional Office for Europe • Anderson P Economic crisis and mental health and well-being A background paper prepared for the WHO Regional Office for Europe Impact of economic crises on mental health...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... disorders, and mental health conditions Poor children with chronic conditions have poorer health than higher-income children with the same conditions Finally, they examine whether it is only permanent ... Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales have separate administrative arrangements for health care and the HSE only covers England ... chronic condition incidence Figures and show the joint distributions of self-reported health and child age, and the incidence of having a CHC and child age Note that both subjective ill health and...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... Specifically, the subjects' responses on a mentalhealth screening instrument may be affected by their knowledge that they are subjects in a study of mental health Embedding the mental- health screening instrument ... Snow KK, Kosinski M, Gandek B: SF-36 health survey manual & interpretation guide Boston, New England Medical Center; 1993 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life ... Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys JAMA 2004, 291:2581-2590 Whooley MA, Avins AL, Miranda J, Browner...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... in contact with a person who has mental problems The internal consistency of this scale was 0.70 (Cronbach’s alpha) The connections between depression (as measured by the CIDI-SF) and components ... set of items contained in the survey questionnaire and is based on respondents’ expressed willingness in four different imaginary situations to be in contact with a person who has mental problems: ... (31.8%) men and 165 (43.3%) women had used mental health services 140 persons (25%) have been in contact with a primary care health centre, 101 persons (18%) with out-patient specialist mental health...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... Promoting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people Discussion paper: Key principles and directions.Edited by: National Mental Health Working Group Department of Health and Aged ... participants only, and these ranged from grades to 12 Gender Most studies included both males and females (n = 19) However, two focused exclusively on males and one on females only Settings and target ... want: barriers to seeking care for depression Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research 2006, 33(2):133-145 42 Liamputtong P, Ezzy D: Qualitative Research Methods...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... article as: Ryland et al.: Is there a protective effect of normal to high intellectual function on mental health in children with chronic illness? Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2010 ... of functioning Scores above 70 indicate normal function The CGAS is considered a valid and reliable tool for rating a child’s general level of functioning on a health- illness continuum, and is ... Ryland et al Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2010, 4:3 http://www.capmh.com/content/4/1/3 had a 57% rate of mental health problems, compared to 28%...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... changes in mental health on HRQOL in a longitudinal design and it provides some indication of directionality Future studies should consider more, and more frequent study contacts One further ... study, a longitudinal study to collect information on mental health and HRQOL in a representative sample of German children and adolescents and their parents [31] Although only cross-sectional baseline ... points on the KIDSCREEN School Environment dimension (between 0.5 and standard deviation) SDQ category of 'worsened' most strongly influenced the dimensions of psychological well-being, moods and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... pressure/control, and information Results from the univariate analyses showed an association between mental health and poor leadership, as well as between mental health and unsatisfactory collaboration ... and organizational working conditions and level of mental health distress among women employed in the cleaning profession from geographically diverse regions in Norway Methods Questionnaires were ... association between mental health and the following variables: age, cleaning experience, working time, family status, ethnicity, and dimensions of psychosocial work conditions and work organization...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... depression and other mental health conditions might still have other chronic conditions other than the mental health conditions (which they cite as their main condition) These other conditions might ... depression and other mental health conditions would otherwise have had the same labour force participation rates as people with conditions other than depression and other mental health conditions ... to other mental health conditions; there were 273 who were employed full time with no chronic health condition, and 781 who were employed part time with no chronic health condition Once weighted,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... in step and and, secondly, what the impact is of the intervention and improved referral letters on patient, organisational and professional related outcomes A controlled quasiexperimental design ... Public Health) and Oddbjorn Hove (Research section, Division of Mental Health Care, Helse Fonna Local Health Authority) We are also grateful for the support and grant given by the Regional Research ... professional (mental health nurses and GPs in Primary Health Care and psychiatrists and psychologist in Specialised Mental Health Care) and management perspectives will be conducted The groups...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... Professions (IACAPAP)[2], an organization that is similarly devoted to promote the international collaboration of mental health professionals Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health ... bioethics, and economics implications b) Publishing challenging and thought provoking clinical case reports and commentaries on timely and controversial issues relevant to child and adolescent mental health ... literature on current and/ or sometimes neglected issues of mental health of children and adolescents d) Fostering communication among disciplines relevant to child and adolescent mental health and thus...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Services for Mental Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policies and Plans Legislation and human rights Mental Health Context Research and evaluation Financing Child and adolescent mental health ... consumer groups, caregiver groups, WHO regions and professional organizations Professionals in child and adolescent mental health Context of child and adolescent mental health 1.1 Introduction ... National and international professional organizations (such as the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, the World Association for Infant Mental Health...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20