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Severe mental illness in depression

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2006
Objective:  The study aimed to evaluate the outcome from in‐patient treatment in major depressive disorders (MDD) and its impact on the patients’ 1 year outcome under the present routine care conditions.Method:  The reported data stem from a multicentric follow‐up study on the course and outcome of patients with MDD.
H-J, Möller, R, Bottlender
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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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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 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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Severe mental illness across cultures

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2006
Objective:  International studies have shown that the outcome of illnesses like schizophrenia vary across cultures. The good outcome in developing countries depends upon a number of factors.Method:  Using both primary and secondary sources, existing literature was reviewed.
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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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Persistent and Severely Mentally Ill Clients' Perceptions of Their Mental Illness

Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 1994
This qualitative, exploratory study examines severely mentally ill clients' perceptions of their illness and the effects of this illness on their lives. The major purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of severely mentally ill clients. Subjects included 15 clients in an out patient mental health clinic in a veterans' hospital in the
B A, Vellenga, J, Christenson
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