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Storying Mental Illness and Personal Recovery
2023This book contains excerpts of life stories from 118 individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder. This library of personal narratives, heavily reproduced and quoted throughout the text, presents a composite image of the ways in which narrative identity can be affected by ...
Thomsen, Dorthe Kirkegaard +4 more
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Employing Persons With Serious Mental Illness
Health Affairs, 2002Data from various national surveys find that approximately half the population with mental disorders is gainfully employed across the entire range of occupations; such persons have an employment rate of about two-thirds that of the general population.
David, Mechanic +2 more
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Personality and risk for serious mental illness
Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 2020AbstractAimCertain personality traits may be related to an increased risk of developing a severe mental illness (SMI). This study examined differences in personality characteristics in a sample of youth at‐risk of SMI across different clinical stages compared to healthy controls (HCs).MethodPersonality characteristics were assessed with the NEO‐Five ...
Olga Santesteban‐Echarri +7 more
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Swedish attitudes towards persons with mental illness
Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 2011Negative and stigmatizing attitudes towards persons with mental illness must be dealt with to facilitate the sufferers' social acceptance.The present study aimed at survey Swedish attitudes towards persons with mental illness related to factors impacting these attitudes.New CAMI-S based on the questionnaire "Community Attitudes to Mental Illness in ...
Torbjörn, Högberg +3 more
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Loneliness Among Persons With Severe Mental Illness
Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 2018Abstract Although studies show that loneliness increases risk of illness and hastens death, it is poorly understood among persons with severe mental illness (SMI). Using data on 150 people with SMI, we used logistic regression to predict (1) loneliness from sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, and (2) psychiatric hospitalization ...
Jonathan D, Prince +4 more
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Attitudes toward the Mentally ILL, Knowledge of Mental Illness, and Personal Adjustment
Psychological Reports, 19702 studies were performed to discover correlates of attitudes toward the mentally ill. In Study I, 121 college students in 3 states were given the Opinions about Mental Illness questionnaire (OMI) and a test of knowledge about mental illness devised by Nunnally.
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Personal Recovery and Mental Illness
2009Recovery is a concept which has emerged from the experiences of people with mental illness. It involves a shift away from traditional clinical preoccupations such as managing risk and avoiding relapse, towards new priorities of supporting the person in working towards their own goals and taking responsibility for their own life.
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[Mentally ill homeless persons].
Ugeskrift for laeger, 1989Homelessness is a social problem but it is frequently associated with other problems connected with health. Abuse of illegal and legal intoxicants and severe mental illness among homeless persons make it increasingly difficult to provide support and help for homeless persons solely by means of social measures.
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Is Personality Disorder a Mental Illness?
International Journal of Mental Health, 1993(1993). Is Personality Disorder a Mental Illness? International Journal of Mental Health: Vol. 22, Mental Health and the Law, pp. 61-70.
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