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The denial of severe mental illness

Psychiatric Services, 1997
Those who visit mental health programs in this and other countries often hear program directors say that by developing extensive and high-quality cornmunitv-based programs, they have reduced their long-term hospitalized patients to a remarkably low nuiither or have even eliminated the need for hospitals.
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Overview of severe mental illness

Clinical Psychology Review, 1997
The severe mental illnesses are psychiatric disorders characterized by their persistence and extensive disability. Classification of these disorders has seen improved reliability, but problems remain with validity. Etiological formulations emphasize the biological origins of the disorders, but psychological factors, chiefly in the area of stress, are ...
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Severe mental illness registers

Nursing Standard, 2005
The concept of creating severe mental illness registers is not entirely new to mental health services, although it has not been applied to any great extent in primary care. This article describes the process of setting up severe mental illness registers, which were implemented by Heartlands primary care trust (PCT) and disseminated to other PCTs in ...
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Severe mental illness and HIV‐AIDS

New Directions for Mental Health Services, 2000
AbstractThis chapter reviews the high rates of HIV infection and the risky sex and drug use practices of psychiatric patients, examines the role in HIV risk of psychiatric symptoms and of the contexts in which patients live, provides guidelines for taking sexually transmitted disease and risk histories from patients, presents recommendations for making
K, McKinnon, J, Rosner
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Molindone for schizophrenia and severe mental illness

2000
Typical antipsychotic drugs are widely used as the first line treatment for people with schizophrenia. However, the atypical class of antipsychotic drugs is making important inroads into this approach. 'Atypical' is a term widely used to describe some antipsychotics which have a low propensity to produce movement disorders, sedation and raised serum ...
A, Bagnall, M, Fenton, R, Lewis, M L, Leitner, J, Kleijnen   +4 more
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Molindone for schizophrenia and severe mental illness

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2007
Antipsychotic therapy is the mainstay of treatment for people with schizophrenia. In recent years new or atypical antipsychotics have been introduced. These are less likely to produce movement disorders and raise serum prolactin. Researchers have suggested that molindone should be classified as an atypical antipsychotic.To determine the effects of ...
A, Bagnall, M, Fenton, J, Kleijnen, R, Lewis   +3 more
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Service provision for severe mental illness

Nursing Standard, 1995
With the move to provide care in the community for mentally ill people, this article argues that the needs of those people with challenging behaviour are not being adequately met. The author looks at the reasons and the implications of insufficient resources for this group of people, and explores some possible solutions.
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Managing physical illness in people with severe mental illness

Hospital Medicine, 2002
People with severe mental illness have poor physical health, and increased morbidity and mortality compared to the general population. Community-based mental health care has led to hospital doctors being more involved in the physical care of psychiatric patients.
Ilyas, Mirza, Michael, Phelan
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A review of the role of illness models in severe mental illness

Clinical Psychology Review, 2003
The ways in which people think about illness experiences have been associated with a variety of important behaviours and emotional responses in patients, carers, and professionals. Some of these responses have been shown to be related to outcome. Explicit models such as the self-regulation model (SRM) [Leventhal, H., Nerenz, D. R., & Steele, D.
Fiona, Lobban, Christine, Barrowclough, Steve, Jones   +2 more
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Needs of people with severe mental illness

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2006
Objective:  This study reviews conceptual and methodological issues of needs for care among people with severe mental illness (SMI) and presents data on their prevalence, correlates and consequences for mental health care.Method:  Focus is on the definition of the concept of need as what people can benefit from and its measurement by means of two ...
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