Mental illness and its treatment today [PDF]
This paper discusses how the treatment of people with mental illness has been affected by the changes within health and welfare provision brought about by political change and austerity measures.
Bell, David
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Understanding and addressing the stigma of mental illness with ethnic minority communities [PDF]
Higher income societies have moved from institutional to community-based care for people experiencing mental illness. However, stigma and discrimination persists and undermines help-seeking, recovery and life chances.
Knifton, Lee
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Stigma and mental illness: A comparative study of attitudes and personal constructs [PDF]
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Evidence suggests that people with mental illness experience discrimination by being stigmatised both by the general public and by healthcare ...
London, Carlyle
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Interventions to Reduce Prejudice Towards, and Avoidance of, People with Mental Illness [PDF]
Research has identified education and contact as two effective strategies for reducing prejudice, discrimination and avoidance of people with a mental illness. This thesis explores ways in which these strategies can be effectively employed.
Mandela, Rachel
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Attitudes towards mental illness in Malawi: a cross-sectional survey [PDF]
<p><b>Background:</b> Stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness are strongly linked to suffering, disability and poverty.
Masson, N. +17 more
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A study of psychiatrists’ concepts of mental illness [PDF]
Background: There are multiple models of mental illness that inform professional and lay understanding. Few studies have formally investigated psychiatrists' attitudes.
Landau, S +33 more
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Illness and mental illness [PDF]
The arguments in the literature for and against "mental illness", are shown to founder on the lack of a thorough analysis of the sense of "illness" itself. Such an analysis is developed in the present study in three main stages.
Fulford, K. W. M., Fulford, Bill KWM
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Utilization of a cardiometabolic health nurse – a novel strategy to manage comorbid physical and mental illness [PDF]
Background: Comorbid chronic illnesses, such as cardiovascular disease, respiratory conditions, and type 2 diabetes are common among people with serious mental illness.
Robert Stanton +11 more
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One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens
Abstract For both Jung and Shakespeare, one‐sidedness is the fundamental tragic trait. Jung proposed that as an individual develops, they inevitably associate their identity with certain modes of perception and interaction, and that this leads to psychological polarization.
Sofie Qwarnström
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Kansas Congress on Mental Illness and Health Proceedings. [1963]
Sponsored by the Kansas Medical Society in cooperation with the Kansas Psychiatric Society, the Kansas Chapter, American Academy of General Practice, the Kansas Association for Mental Health, [and] the Division of Institutional Management of the ...
Kansas Congress on Mental Illness and Health (1st : 1963 : Topeka)
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