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'Give me a break' - respite care for older carers of mentally ill persons.

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2006
BACKGROUND The concept of respite care has been widely accepted and used throughout most developed countries, although primarily in connection with frail elderly, people with dementia, people with developmental disability or children.
Y. Jeon   +3 more
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Housing satisfaction and service use by mentally ill persons in community integrated living arrangements.

Psychiatric Services, 2001
OBJECTIVE In response to provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 that sought to reduce the number of mentally ill persons in nursing homes, the Illinois Department of Human Services in 1989 developed small-scale residential treatment ...
P. Hanrahan   +3 more
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A decade of research and services for homeless mentally ill persons. Where do we stand?

American Psychologist, 1991
Over the past decade, researchers have documented the range of needs and devised new methods for increasing our understanding of the homeless severely mentally ill population.
D. Dennis   +3 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Physique, Personality and Mental Illness in the Southern Chinese

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1972
Studies on the relationship between physical constitution, personality and mental illness have been mostly confined to the Caucasian race. There has been no investigation, to our knowledge, of Oriental subjects, though a number of investigations of body type, composition and physiological functions without relation to mental aspects have been carried ...
P. T. Chang, K. Singer, G. L. K. Hsu
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A proposal for the use of advance directives in the treatment of incompetent mentally ill persons.

Bioethics, 1993
[M]y question is how these patients while competent might be able to give their own informed consent to treatment, despite being both unwilling and incompetent to do so when treatment is to be begun, thereby reducing the need to relax the dangerousness ...
D. Brock
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bill of Rights for Persons with Mental Illness

International Review of Psychiatry, 2016
The World Psychiatric Association (WPA), a global organization representing nearly 250 000 psychiatrists, urges ALL Governments to ensure that persons with mental illness/mental disability/mental h...
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The Capacity to Vote of Persons With Serious Mental Illness

Psychiatric Services, 2009
Despite legal protections, persons with mental illness continue to experience discrimination that limits their access to voting in elections. In response, a number of states have adopted individualized functional determinations of mental capacity to vote.
B.S. Raymond Raad   +2 more
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Attitudes toward the Mentally ILL, Knowledge of Mental Illness, and Personal Adjustment

Psychological Reports, 1970
2 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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Quality of life of seriously mentally ill persons in Mississippi.

Hospital & community psychiatry, 1991
1. Soloff PH, Gutheil TG, Wexler DB: Sc elusion and restraint in 1985: a review and update. Hospital and Community Psychi atry36:652—657, 1985 2. Carmel H, Hunter M: Compliance with training in managing assaultive behavior and injuries from inpatient ...
Greer Sullivan   +2 more
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Identifying modifiable risk factors for rehospitalization: a case-control study of seriously mentally ill persons in Mississippi.

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1995
OBJECTIVE The authors sought to identify risk factors for rehospitalization in a seriously mentally ill population, focusing on factors that have the potential to be modified through community-based interventions.
Greer Sullivan   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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