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We explore how suicide-prevention policy-makers might respond to Bruffaerts et al's findings....
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PMID: 21719875
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The focus of Mental Health Care in Brazil has been on community psychiatric care services that replace the asylum model. However, individuals with mental disorders continue to shift between community services and psychiatric hospitals, besides becoming a target of the disciplinarizat...
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PMID: 21655789
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This article reports on the findings of a study conducted with a sample of 136 Mexican-heritage mothers residing in a large southwestern metropolitan area. From a risk-and-resiliency perspective, hopelessness was approached as a culturally specific response to family stress and other challenges encou...
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PMID: 21446605
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To study, in a sample of French Family Practitioners (FPs), beliefs and attitudes toward depression and how they vary according to training received in mental health.
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PMID: 21675343
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The Veterans Health Administration, the nation's largest integrated delivery system, launched an organizational transformation in the mid 1990 s to improve the quality of its care.
To synthesize the evidence comparing the quality of medical and other nonsurgical care in Veterans Affairs (VA) and non...
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PMID: 20966778
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We are able to perform counseling and therapeutic practices, and we can affect and change the human self and mindset in virtual spaces. Using the connection between neuroscience and philosophy, we show that there are different types of the self people adopt in cyberspace. By showing how their dispos...
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PMID: 21685636
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These results demonstrate the need for directing the actions of mental health to develop healthy bonds, to expand the social network and structure of the group in order to provide benefits which favor effective psychosocial rehabilitation....
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PMID: 21412640
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Miles McFall,
Andrew J Saxon,
Carol A Malte,
Bruce Chow,
Sara Bailey,
Dewleen G Baker,
Jean C Beckham,
Kathy D Boardman,
Timothy P Carmody,
Anne M Joseph,
Mark W Smith,
Mei-Chiung Shih,
Ying Lu,
Mark Holodniy,
Philip W Lavori and
CSP 519 Study Team
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Most smokers with mental illness do not receive tobacco cessation treatment.
To determine whether integrating smoking cessation treatment into mental health care for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) improves long-term smoking abstinence rates.
A randomized controlled trial of 943 s...
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PMID: 21139110
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Little is known about how to remedy the unmet mental health needs associated with major terrorist attacks, or what outcomes are achievable with evidence-based treatment. This article reports the usage, diagnoses and outcomes associated with the 2-year Trauma Response Programme (TRP) for those affect...
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PMID: 20178677
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Chronic medical illness among children and adolescents is a growing concern with implications for informal and formal caregivers. When coupled with a psychiatric comorbidity, implications grow exponentially. Nurses who care for child and adolescent populations play a crucial role in optimizing physi...
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PMID: 20971335
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The impact of language proficiency as a potential contributor to ethnic disparities in mental health care has received less attention than other factors. Data from the National Latino and Asian American Study were examined to assess the impact of limited English proficiency (LEP) on access to and qu...
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PMID: 21063226
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I and Axis II comorbid disorders. However, individuals with CMDD received higher rates of all treatment modalities than individuals with dysthymic disorder.
Individuals with CMDD and dysthymic disorder share many sociodemographic correlates, comorbidity patterns, risk factors, and course. Individual...
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PMID: 21190638
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J J Ito,
I I Oshima,
M M Nishio,
T T Sono,
Y Y Suzuki,
K K Horiuchi,
N N Niekawa,
M M Ogawa,
Y Y Setoya,
F F Hisanaga,
M M Kouda and
K K Tsukada
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program in a Japanese mental health service setting.
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PMID: 21070193
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Although changes in the US health care system promote a population-based approach, increases in population diversity emphasize the need for culturally competent, patient-centered, participatory care. Despite this perceived conflict, the global view has improved the recognition of mental health issue...
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PMID: 20951270
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With the aim of describing the usual clinical context as opposed to the academic or research context, the characteristics of patients and psychological treatments applied in a sample of 856 patients from the Clinic of Psychology of the Complutense University is analyzed. The disorders that require a...
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PMID: 21044488
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To identify the association between medical or psychiatric comorbidities, clinical characteristics, or course of illness/recovery in pediatric bipolar disorder (BD).
Data from the South Carolina Medicaid program covering all medical services and medication prescriptions between January 1996 and Dece...
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PMID: 20584522
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We conducted a systematic review on the nature and determinants of the pathway to care of patients experiencing a first psychotic episode.MethodWe searched four databases (Medline, HealthStar, EMBASE, PsycINFO) to identify articles published between 1985 and 2009. We manually searched reference list...
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PMID: 20236571
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The South African Mental Health Care Act (the Act) No. 17 of 2002 stipulated that regional and district hospitals be designated to admit, observe and treat mental health care users (MHCUs) for 72 hours before they are transferred to a psychiatric hospital.
Medical managers in 49 'designated' hospita...
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PMID: 21080997
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Globally, a significant 'mental health gap' exists between the major burden of mental and substance use disorders and the provision of psychiatric and mental health services. As a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, South Africa has committed itself to transfor...
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PMID: 21080996
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Reduced bed numbers were associated with reduced length of stay, fewer referrals from the community and subsequently shorter waiting times in the ED, without significant change in readmission rates. A higher proportion of patients was treated in the local catchment area, with improved community foll...
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PMID: 20919966
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Although combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with considerable impairment in relationship adjustment, research has yet to investigate how PTSD symptoms and relationship distress uniquely and jointly predict utilization of a range of mental health services. The present s...
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PMID: 20954766
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The aim of this paper is to describe a comprehensive metabolic monitoring strategy within an Australian public mental health service.
Patient physical health was identified as a high priority within the mental health service. A survey of staff attitudes informed the development of metabolic monitori...
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PMID: 20863187
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The intensification of the use of terms from economics and management can be dated from the introduction of neo-liberal policies in our Western democracies, but the economic discourse circulates with a life of its own. The use of the language of economics and management has spread generally through...
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PMID: 20863178
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We aimed to explore the emotional reactions, concerns and beliefs related to working with the person with BPD by health and non-health related agencies.
A specifically designed questionnaire was completed by different agencies prior to their receiving educational training on an organizational and co...
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PMID: 20863184
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We outline a promising theory-driven approach we took to implementing guideline recommendations about routine monitoring of weight gain and metabolic disturbance in our first-episode psychosis clinic. While there is significant psychological and physical morbidity associated with weight gain and met...
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PMID: 20863186
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Suicide is a global health priority. It is important to analyse the effects of investment in mental health services on suicide rates. This paper presents and discusses recent changes in suicide rates and diagnostic mix among clients of the mental health service in Auckland during a time of service g...
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PMID: 20863183
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This paper describes a training program in mood disorders for senior mental health clinicians in the Pacific region and presents the qualitative evaluation findings.
The program, which incorporated a 2-week intensive course in Sydney and follow-up in-country, was undertaken by 13 clinicians from the...
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PMID: 20863188
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To examine the patient and provider characteristics associated with utilization of mental health services (MHS) among women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV).
Cross-sectional study among 6870 women aged 18 to 65 years with first IPV identification between May 2004 and December 2009 in Kai...
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PMID: 20964469
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This pilot study aimed to explore the clinical outcomes and therapeutic relationship for clients of an adult mental health service using Beating the Blues, a computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (CCBT) package. Sixteen participants completed the programme and reported a significant reduction in...
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PMID: 20485996
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The provision of mental health services over the Internet is becoming increasingly commonplace as new technologies continue to develop. Evidence in support of the efficacy of many such interventions is accumulating. Given the potential global reach of Internet-based psychological services, the autho...
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PMID: 20485997
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Eole-LIENS is an available telephone line for first-line professionnels facing, in their daily practice, patients or users in psychological trouble. This service proposes a dialogue with a third party allowing a support, a help to the handling of the situation, a finer orientation towards the instit...
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PMID: 21089398
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Early psychosis intervention programmes have been around for 20 years. The duration of psychosis has been hypothesised to be neurotoxic, and there is a critical period, postulated to be up to five years from the onset of psychosis for intervention before the psychosis becomes established. Early inte...
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PMID: 20938607
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Like other Latin American democratic societies, Chile is supposed to respect legal rights of mentally ill people who are in trouble with the law, and provide them protection, treatment and welfare. Therefore, in this decade, the Chilean Criminal Justice and Mental Health System has undergone signifi...
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PMID: 20683181
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In Balkan countries, as in all Europe, forensic psychiatry as a subspecialty between psychiatry and legal medicine, an interface between mental health and the law, is focused on assessment and treatment of people with mental disorder who show antisocial or violent behavior. Thus, the authors thought...
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PMID: 20683182
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