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Stigmatizing Language with Unintended Meanings: “Persons with Mental Illness” or “Mentally Ill Persons”? [PDF]
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2009 Language is a method of communication that transmits intended and unintended meanings. Unintended stigmatizing meanings, which are probably more insidious and dangerous (than language that clearly communicates intended meanings) can perpetuate socially constructed power dynamics and become so “commonplace” that they are invisible. Persons must be aware
Mona Shattell
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Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2019 Background It has been reported that the majority of individuals with mental illnesses (MIs) do not seek help. Few studies have focused on correlates of a positive attitude toward professional help-seeking for MI.
Mostafa A. Abolfotouh +6 more
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South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2010 The article examines the legal requirements relating to the informed consent of mentally ill persons to participation in clinical research in South Africa.
A Nienaber
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The Role of Neurocognition and Social Context in Predicting Community Functioning Among Formerly Homeless Seriously Mentally Ill Persons [PDF]
Schizophrenia bulletin, 2006 OBJECTIVE To test the influence of neurocognitive functioning on community functioning among formerly homeless persons with serious mental illness and to determine whether that influence varies with social context, independent of individual ...
Russell K. Schutt +4 more
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Employability of mentally ill persons in India: A self-report-based population study
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2016 Introduction: The employment status of mentally ill patients is a reflection of their productivity, control of illness besides providing therapeutic benefits and integration into mainstream society.
Chellamuthu Ramasubramanian +2 more
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Psychological components of decision-making in mentally ill persons [PDF]
Психология и право, 2018 The article is devoted to the study of individual psychological characteristics of decision-making in persons with mental pathology. The material of the empirical study of 99 men (mean age = 34.1 ± 10.6 years) with the following psychiatric diagnoses ...
Shekhovtsova E.S., Dubinsky A.A.
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The diversion of mentally ill persons from jails to community-based services: a profile of programs.
American Journal of Public Health, 1995 OBJECTIVES A major proposal for appropriately treating persons with mental illnesses who have been arrested is to divert them from jail to community-based mental health programs.
Henry J. Steadman +2 more
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Medicolegal aspects of hospital treatment of violent mentally ill persons [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2009 Introduction. This paper deals with medicolegal aspects of the hospital treatment of patients suffering from severe mental disorders and who are prone to violent behavior, dangerous to self and others.
Jovanović Aleksandar +2 more
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Ibom Medical Journal, 2018 Background: A high level of stigmatizing attitudes and social distance towards persons with mental illness has been reported in the medical community.
Jombo HE, Idung AU
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