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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, D. Luchins, C. Savage, H. Goldman   +3 more
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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
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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, Jason Karlawish, Paul S. Appelbaum   +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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Effects of substance abuse on housing stability of homeless mentally Ill persons in supported housing.

Psychiatric Services, 1996
OBJECTIVE The study examined two-year housing outcomes of homeless mentally ill clients who took part in an experimental investigation of supported housing.
Michael S. Hurlburt, Richard L. Hough, P. Wood   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Comorbidity of personality disorders and mental illnesses

Psychiatry, 2008
Abstract Mental illness and personality disorder often occur in the same person. Although concern has been expressed that this may be due to overlapping diagnostic criteria, many different studies have confirmed this finding. Various models have been proposed to explain the association, and it is likely that different models will be relevant to ...
Marianne Hayward, Paul Moran
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Case management and recidivism of mentally ill persons released from jail.

Psychiatric Services, 1998
OBJECTIVE The study tested the hypothesis that case management provided to mentally ill offenders both in jail and after release from jail would reduce their recidivism.
L. Ventura, C. Cassel, J. Jacoby, B. Huang   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: a review

Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 1998
AbstractOne of the greatest problems of deinstitutionalization has been the very large number of persons with severe mental illness who have entered the criminal justice system instead of the mental health system.
Linda E. Weinberger, H. Richard Lamb
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