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Mental Illness as a Barrier to Marriage Among Mothers With Out-of-Wedlock Births [PDF]

open access: yes
This study explores how mental illness shapes transitions to marriage among unwed mothers using augmented data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study.
Julien O. Teitler, Nancy E. Reichman
core  

Considering the animating ethos of designing digital first unemployment services: On the motivation of others

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the animating ethos of digital unemployment services. Unlike human‐to‐human services, where the intention of policy is normally mediated by professionals, digital services are fully designed in the policy imagination. As a result, it is a pressing issue to understand the ethos that animates their development.
Ray Griffin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A case of mania presenting with hypersexual behavior and gender dysphoria that resolved with valproic acid

open access: yesMental Illness, 2016
Hypersexuality and gender dysphoria have both been described in the literature as symptoms of mania. Hypersexuality is listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 as part of the diagnostic criteria for bipolar disorder.
Michelle R. Heare   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Magnesium in mental illness

open access: yesComprehensive Psychiatry, 1979
Abstract Magnesium is essential for the activation of many enzymes, and its plasma concentration in relation to that of calcium affects nerve transmission and muscle contraction. Magnesium deficiency occurs in conditions associated with impaired intestinal absorption or excessive urinary loss of insufficient intake, especially in those on intravenous
R. Yassa, J. Ananth
openaire   +3 more sources

Managing Madness: The ethics of identifying and treating mental illness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This essay analyzes different contemporary models for defining mental illness and offers a new framework that promotes the use of normative values during the clinical diagnostic process.
Seely, Mason
core   +1 more source

Psychopolitics: Peter Sedgwick’s legacy for mental health movements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper re-considers the relevance of Peter Sedgwick's Psychopolitics (1982) for a politics of mental health. Psychopolitics offered an indictment of ‘anti-psychiatry’ the failure of which, Sedgwick argued, lay in its deconstruction of the category of
A Bell   +74 more
core   +1 more source

Beyond administrative burden: Activation and administrative harm

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Within recent public policy and administration scholarship, there has been a growing focus on the concept of “administrative burden” to describe the learning, compliance and psychological costs incurred by citizens when trying to access services and exercise social and political rights. Specifically, in the context of activation and welfare‐to‐
Michael McGann, Sarah Ball
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological distress and emotional pain among adult attendees of a dental clinic: a case-control study

open access: yesMental Illness, 2016
We set out to carry out a case-control evaluation of psychological distress and emotional pain among adult attendees of a Nigerian dental clinic. A total of 201 subjects, made up of 101 dental patients (test group) matched with age and sex with 100 ...
Adebayo Rasheed Erinfolami   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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