Health Technology AssessmentBackground There is a lack of interventions for specific phobia in children and adolescents with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities. Objectives The objectives were to: (a) develop an intervention for specific phobia, together with an ...
Kylie M Gray +12 more
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Guilty By Reason of Insanity: Unforeseen Consequences of California\u27s Deinstitutionalization Policy [PDF]
, 2015 Beginning with the passage of the Lanterman-Petris- Short Act in 1969, deinstitutionalization in California has had a devastating effect on the mentally ill.
Rushforth, Jen
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Creating Hope Through Employment for People Who are Homeless or in Transitional Housing [PDF]
, 2005 [Excerpt] Persons with significant disabilities, especially those with problems relating to mental illness and/or substance abuse, face numerous challenges in securing employment.
Marrone, Joe
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Deviancy, Dependency, and Disability: The Forgotten History of Eugenics and Mass Incarceration [PDF]
, 2015 Three widely discussed explanations of the punitive carceral state are racism, harsh drug laws, and prosecutorial overreach. These three narratives, however, only partially explain how our correctional system expanded to its current overcrowded state ...
Riseby, Emil, Svensson, Alexander
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Psychiatry beyond the brain: externalism, mental health, and autistic spectrum disorder [PDF]
, 2019 Externalist theories hold that a comprehensive understanding of mental disorder cannot be achieved unless we attend to factors that lie outside of the head: neural explanations alone will not fully capture the complex dependencies that exist between an ...
Glackin, Shane +2 more
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The effects of Managed Care on Social Work Mental Health Practice [PDF]
, 2008 An individual seeking psycho-therapy services for a mental health disorder has 60-70 percent chance of receiving services from a master’s level clinical social worker.
Masiriri, Tendai
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Can Neuroscience Help Predict Future Antisocial Behavior? [PDF]
, 2016 Part I of this Article reviews the tools currently available to predict antisocial behavior. Part II discusses legal precedent regarding the use of, and challenges to, various prediction methods.
Anderson, Nathaniel E. +3 more
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Risk and Protective Factors in the Lives of Caregivers of Persons With Autism: Caregivers’ Perspectives [PDF]
, 2016 PURPOSE The purpose of this descriptive exploratory study is to understand the experience of being a caregiver of a person with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the light of the resilience theory.
Bekhet, Abir K. +1 more
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The classification of substance and behavioural addictions: A preliminary investigation [PDF]
, 2012 The term addiction has been used to refer to impaired control over substance use for several centuries however recently there has been a shift toward using this term in the context of non-substance use disorders, such as pathological gambling.
McLaughlan, Andre David +1 more
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The role of the individual in the coming era of process-based therapy [PDF]
, 2018 For decades the development of evidence-based therapy has been based on experimental tests of protocols designed to impact psychiatric syndromes. As this paradigm weakens, a more process-based therapy approach is rising in its place, focused on how to ...
Carpenter, Joseph K. +6 more
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