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Closing the World's Largest Mental Asylum [PDF]
Located in Milledgeville, Georgia, Central State Hospital once held the title of the World’s Largest Mental Asylum. At its height in the early 1960s, the institution reached a permanent population of over 12,000 people.
Kassum, Haley Michelle
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Societies, 2023 The right to live in the community is fundamental and is directly related to the possibility of independent living for persons with disabilities, a central principle of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ratified by ...
Ina Dimitrova, Galina Goncharova
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu +2 more
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Digital Professional Practice, Digital Competences and Impact on Family Support Services
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Digital‐mediated practices in public social services require new strategies for administration, communication, assessment and intervention. Within this field, research framed under UNESCO's (2020) Media and Information Literacy model—examining digital media management and digital competence in information management, communication, digital ...
Guacimara Rodríguez +6 more
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Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, 2006 The present study has as its aim to describe the daily work of a psychosocial care center and to aprehend how the users cared by such service experience the offered therapeutic process. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with eleven users of the
Sandra Regina Rosolen Soares +1 more
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Two Faces of the Anti‐Inclusion Neoconservative Coin in Brazil: Neoliberalism and Far‐Right
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Brazil has recently experienced the resurgence of the far‐right, a movement that has also occurred in other countries around the world. Given this context, this article seeks to understand the factors that enabled the union among neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and the far‐right in Brazil, demonstrating that in times of economic crisis the ...
Eloisio Moulin de Souza
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Home sweet harm: Confinement and tranquilidad in post‐asylum Peru
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how Peru's Community Mental Health (CMH) model contributes to the exclusion and home confinement of mentally ill individuals. Based on the experience of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia and her mother, I show how CMH's emphasis on community‐based care often fails in practice, as neighbors respond to people with mental
Julio Villa‐Palomino
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, 2016 An analysis of the process of deinstitutionalization (mental health systems) in the US and UK ...
Taylor, Paul J.
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Factors Affecting Treatment Regress and Progress in Forensic Psychiatry: A Thematic Analysis
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 International variability and shifting trends in forensic psychiatry lead to gaps in national service provision and needs for service development. This study explores these needs through the subjective narratives of those involved in Finnish forensic ...
Riitta Askola +4 more
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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