Nurses' attitude towards patients with mental illness in a general hospital in Kuwait
Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences, 2017 Introduction: Stigma and discrimination have been reported to cause unnecessary delay in mentally-ill patients seeking help, which adversely affects a patient's outcome.
Anwar Al-Awadhi +5 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2014 BackgroundMental health problems are often transmitted from one generation to the next. This knowledge has led to changes in Norwegian legislation, making it mandatory to assess whether or not patients have children, and to provide necessary support for ...
Camilla Lauritzen +3 more
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Some Reflections on Liberty : Bruce Winick’s ‘Civil Commitment: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model’ [PDF]
, 2010 In the United States, involuntary hospitalisation of the mentally ill through the civil commitment process results in a curtailment of the fundamental liberty interest of freedom from external restraint; part of the constitutional guarantee.
Gray, James
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The Neurobehavioral Mechanisms Underlying Attitudes Toward People With Mental or Physical Illness
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Social factors play a significant role in the health outcomes of those struggling with mental or physical health issues. People with mental illness experience more social stigmatization and receive less concern for their welfare than do those with ...
Won-Gyo Shin +12 more
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Mental health a policing challenge for the United Kingdom and the Netherlands [PDF]
, 2018 Mental health is becoming a serious problem. Statistically, one in four people in the United Kingdom experience a mental illness annually. Countries throughout Europe and indeed the World are also experiencing crisis relating to mentally ill patients ...
O'Hagan, A
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Alguns apontamentos sobre as relações de poder e controle nas instituições psiquiátricas
Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2006 This present article verifies how Brazilian society relates to mentally-ill patients, based on the perspective of a social-historical analysis of madness. The forms of power and control in their treatments were examined and considered.
Lecy Sartori
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Contacts with, and attitudes toward, the mentally ill in the New Zealand police : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]
, 2001 Irregular pagination: pg 56 missingDeinstitutionalisation and changes to the Mental health Act (1992) relating to committal and treatment for those with a mental illness has resulted in increased numbers of people with a mental illness living in the ...
Rowe, Tracey Marie
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite their increased risk for functional impairment resulting from cancer and its treatments, few adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with a hematological malignancy receive the recommended or therapeutic dose of exercise per week during inpatient hospitalizations.
Jennifer A. Kelleher +8 more
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Gender issues in psychosocial rehabilitation
Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2016 This article is based on my experience in living with mentally unprivileged people in community. This review will be highlighting issues faced by mentally ill female patients, their sufferings, and how the suffering is different from males.
Suseela Mathew
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Guilty But Mentally Ill: The Ethical Dilemma Of Mental Illness As A Tool Of The Prosecution [PDF]
, 2015 While other jurisdictions use guilty but mentally ill as a compromise verdict to fill the gap between guilty by reason of insanity and a guilty verdict after an unsuccessful insanity defense, Alaska has transformed the status into a prosecutorial tool
Johansen, Lauren G.
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