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Derby, John K. "Art Education and Disability Studies Perspectives on Mental Illness Discourses." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250311625.
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Richardson, Amy J. "Does the label of mental illness affect perceptions of art and artist?" Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1191718.
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This study examined the effect of diagnostic label (schizophrenia, depression, diabetes, or amateur) on perceptions of an artist as measured by social distance, perceptions of aggressiveness, artwork favorability, and monetary value (of artwork). Previous contact with a person hospitalized for mental illness was assessed to determine its moderating effects. Participants were 165 undergraduate students (118 female, 47 male). Results found a significant main effect for label on perceptions of aggressiveness, but not on social distance, artwork favorability, or monetary value. Although artwork was evaluated favorably regardless of label, the label of schizophrenia increased perceptions of aggressiveness, but showed suggestive effects on social distance and artwork favorability. The overall findings suggest a complex relationship between the label of mental illness, previous contact, and the relative sensitivity of perceptions of aggressiveness and social distance to these effects.Department of Psychological Science
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Correia, Helen. "Crazy, sad or just different : evolving representations of mental illness and the mentally ill during psychology education /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2002. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20040302.161013.
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Welch, Mark, University of Western Sydney, and Faculty of Nursing and Health Studies. "Reel madness : the representation of madness in popular western film." THESIS_FNHS_XXX_Welch_M.xml, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/705.
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This thesis considers the representation of madness in popular film, in the main from the Western canon and English speaking, and argues that madness is seen and represented as an extreme of human experience, a form of Otherness, which throws into relief notions of ontology, sanity and personal and cultural identity. It progresses from a consideration of the historical representations of madness and sanity in art and literature to a review of the pertinent literature on cinema and representation, and uses seminal examples from throughout cinematic history mostly from English language films, from 1906-1996, to illustrate the argument. Alternative methodological approaches are considered for the insights they may provide, and also for the contribution they make to the development of the thesis, in particular the influence of semiotics. A number of stereotypical portrayals of madness, such as the 'mad scientist', the 'crazed murderer', and the 'doomed heroic outsider' are examined in detail. Finally, the thesis proposes the way madness, and mad people, are represented in popular film is reflective and indicative of social and cultural concerns over what can be known, how identity can be established and what it means to live in the contemporary world fraught with uncertainty, anxiety and changeDoctor of Philosophy (Hons)
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Mohamed, Shemin. "Stigma and mental illness : are there cultural differences?" Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2011. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/39143/.
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Most of the stigma research to date has been completed in western cultures. Not much is currently known about stigma towards mental illness in non-western cultures. Limited research has also been conducted with young people. Given that adolescence is a critical stage in the development of attitudes and identity formation, it seems an important time to investigate attitudes towards mental illness. The study investigated whether there were cultural differences in stigmatising attitudes towards people with mental illness, comparing British and Pakistani adolescents living in the UK. Factors shown to influence stigma were also examined. These included labelling of mental illness, familiarity with mental illness and perceived causal attributions. A quantitative non-experimental cross-sectional design was used. In total 100 adolescents (54 British and 46 Pakistani) completed the survey (online or paper based). Participants were asked to read a vignette describing a person with psychosis and complete a series of questionnaires relating to it. Results indicated that there were no significant differences in stigma between the two cultural groups. Pakistani adolescents considered that supernatural causes and immoral life style were more likely to cause mental illness. British adolescents were more likely to provide the correct psychiatric diagnosis for the problem described in the vignette. Both groups were found to have similar levels of contact with individuals with mental illness. Future research is needed to develop a better understanding of how mental illness is constructed and construed in non-western cultures. Additional studies are also required with adolescents. This would allow the development of culturally sensitive services and appropriate anti-stigma campaigns. The application of existing stigma models to non-western cultures and adolescents should be further investigated. The social psychological model appears to be a useful framework that could be used to aid our understanding of stigma in both populations.
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Weiner, Elana. "Art as an expression of the unconscious psyche." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004903.
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This study aimed to investigate the use of expressive art as a manifestation of the unconscious psyche and as an indication of underlying personality dynamics. Its use as a significant medium for therapeutic encounter and exploration was investigated by analysing the art produced by four psychiatric in-patients during their participation in an eight-week art therapy programme. Each patient's art series was qualitatively and thematically interpreted with a focus upon the meaning of significant recurring images and motifs. The results of this study indicate that the particularity of each patient's graphic imagery enabled the lived experience of their struggles and preoccupations to emerge as uniquely different. Through their art productions they revealed the nature of their inner worlds and the power of their thoughts, feelings and experiences.
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Henderson, Anthony Roy. "Consumer perspectives of recovery from the effects of a severe mental illness : a grounded theory study." University of Western Australia. School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0220.
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Interest in the ability of people to recover from a severe mental illness has a long history. During the 1980s, however, there was a paradigm shift away research driven by clinicians immersed in the quantitative, objective microcosm of anatomy and physiology towards understanding recovery from a consumer perspective. Even so the experiences of consumers has remained relatively unexplored, with the lion's share of research emanating from the United States of America. At the time of writing the proposal for this study in 2000, there was not even one Australian study of a mental health consumer perspective of recovery from severe mental illness reported in the literature. The principal aim of conducting this research was to address this need. The author, therefore, undertook this grounded theory study to: (a) explore what recovery from the effects of a severe mental illness meant to the consumers in Western Australia; (b) identify what consumers of mental health services in Western Australia wanted in their lives; and thus (c) develop a substantive theory of recovery. Fifteen participants diagnosed with either an affective disorder or schizophrenia were each interviewed and the resultant data were analysed using the constant comparative method. Comparative analysis is a long-held method of analysing data in sociology. Analysis is achieved by asking questions such as what, when, where, how, of the data and comparing similarities and differences with the various concepts within and across sets of data. The findings revealed that the basic social psychological problem (BSPP) for participants was LOSS. In order to address this problem, participants engaged in the basic social process (BSP) of OVERCOMING LOSS. The BSP is a title given to the central theme that emerges from the data and illustrates that a social process occurs overtime. The BSP emerged as a process comprising three phases: First Recuperation, second Moving Forward and third Getting Back. The analysis further revealed that the participants viewed recovery as either
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Andresen, Retta. "The experience of recovery from schizophrenia development of a definition, model and measure of recovery /." Access electronically, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080703.161126/index.html.
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Goggin, Leigh S. "The affective response to ambiguous stimuli in depression." University of Western Australia, 2005. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0124.
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Cognitive theory of depression predicts that the illness is associated with an information processing bias that interprets ambiguous information in a mood-congruent or depressive fashion. This negative interpretative bias may serve as a vulnerability factor or maintenance mechanism for a depressive illness. The majority of studies investigating such interpretative biases rely primarily on subjective experimental methodologies (eg., evaluative feedback and self-report) that are vulnerable to experimenter demand effects, response selection biases, and the influence of autobiographical memories. In addition, the results from these studies have been mixed, leading to no firm evidence for the existence of a depression-linked interpretative bias for ambiguous material. In order to avoid the limitations that have plagued subjective research, the present study utilised two of the most promising objective physiological measures of assessing interpretation: the Rapid Serial Viewing Presentation (RSVP) procedure and the affective modulation of the human eye blink reflex. The modified RSVP experiment recorded the reaction time of participants reading a textual scenario that was composed of an opening ambiguous sentence and various emotionally valenced continuations. Interpretation of the ambiguous sentence could be inferred from the reaction time as comprehension latency is inversely related to perceived plausibility. The affective modulation experiment recorded the blink amplitudes of participants startled while performing an imagery task. Blink amplitudes are augmented by negative stimuli and inhibited by hedonic stimuli. Thus, the affective interpretation of ambiguous stimuli could be inferred from the size of the recorded blink response. The results of both experiments did not support the predictions made by cognitive theory. There was no difference in the reaction time responses to the various textual stimuli between 2 depressed outpatients and healthy controls. However, antidepressant medication did have an influence upon the ability of patients to correctly judge the plausibility of the emotionally valenced continuation sentences. With regard to the eye blink experiment, there was also no difference between the depressed outpatients and the controls in terms of size of blink amplitude to the various categories of affective stimuli. Depressive, ambiguous, and distorted stimuli did not augment blink amplitudes in healthy controls or depressed patients without social anxiety disorder. However, depressed patients with a comorbid diagnosis of social anxiety disorder did react to the ambiguous stimuli in an aversive and anxious manner as indicated by increased blink amplitudes. This may be due to the social aspect of the experimental context, which engenders fears of evaluation and performance anxiety. The eye blink procedure can therefore be compromised by group selection, as the comorbidity of anxiety and depression can confound the investigation of depression-linked interpretative biases. In addition, the failure of depressive stimuli to augment blink amplitudes may render the procedure insensitive to the selection of such biases
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Gwinner, Karleen. "Diagnosed artist : what is the understanding of 'artist' held by a person with a mental illness?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/49694/1/Karleen_Gwinner_Thesis.pdf.
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What is the understanding of ‘artist’ held by a person with a mental illness? Being diagnosed with a mental illness often results in social isolation. Art programs are often used to address this isolation, and to expedite positive mental health and wellbeing. In these programs the cultural value of art can be moderated and replaced with therapeutic meanings or used for purposes of community integration. Some individuals develop artistic identities within these programs. These artists personify representative tensions within the art world. Artists with mental illness are symbolically positioned within the history of art as holding special creative providence and, yet are also viewed as having a peripheral position outside the cultural framework of the art world. This research engaged with eight artists to determine the understanding of artist held by a person with a mental illness. Through shared activities around the curatorial aspects of an exhibition entitled "Artist Citizen" the impact of illness, culture and alterity were examined. Overlapping approaches of Community Cultural Development and Participatory Action Research have been used. A perspective of alterity is given which was apparent in transformative processes of the research. This thesis shows that alterity and difference are both important social resources as well as positions of isolation and discrimination. Finally, conclusions are presented that indicated that a more nuanced understanding of alterity offers potential to discussions of the complex experiences of a person with a mental illness to negotiate subjective constructions of an identity for participation in broader political, social, health and cultural contexts.
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Welch, Mark. "Reel madness : the representation of madness in popular western film." Thesis, View thesis, 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/705.
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This thesis considers the representation of madness in popular film, in the main from the Western canon and English speaking, and argues that madness is seen and represented as an extreme of human experience, a form of Otherness, which throws into relief notions of ontology, sanity and personal and cultural identity. It progresses from a consideration of the historical representations of madness and sanity in art and literature to a review of the pertinent literature on cinema and representation, and uses seminal examples from throughout cinematic history mostly from English language films, from 1906-1996, to illustrate the argument. Alternative methodological approaches are considered for the insights they may provide, and also for the contribution they make to the development of the thesis, in particular the influence of semiotics. A number of stereotypical portrayals of madness, such as the 'mad scientist', the 'crazed murderer', and the 'doomed heroic outsider' are examined in detail. Finally, the thesis proposes the way madness, and mad people, are represented in popular film is reflective and indicative of social and cultural concerns over what can be known, how identity can be established and what it means to live in the contemporary world fraught with uncertainty, anxiety and change
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Kelly, Peter James. "Does homework improve outcomes for individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness?" Access electronically, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080620.145514/index.html.
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Brabham, Sofia C. "Law Enforcement Training and Perceptions of Mental Illness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404609/.
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This thesis analyzes the training and perceptions on mental health of a particular population. Through the use of previous research and literature, a survey was generated and distributed to the population. The findings were used to generate policy implications for the specific population that was analyzed.
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Silva, Jose Otavio Motta Pompeu e. "A arte na terapêutica ocupacional de Nise da Silveira." [s.n.], 2011. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284451.
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Orientador: Lúcia Helena ReilyTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: Esta pesquisa discute a teoria e a técnica da terapêutica ocupacional da psiquiatra Nise da Silveira, pioneira no Brasil no estudo das atividades expressivas, artísticas e de atividade como meio de terapia em pessoas com doença mental. Defende-se a tese que ela criou a sua própria terapêutica ocupacional ao invés de se filiar a alguma escola de terapia ocupacional já existente. Busca-se neste estudo reconstruir a trajetória de Nise da Silveira e encontrar evidências que recuperem seu modo de estudo e prática da terapêutica ocupacional. A metodologia utilizada é a qualitativa e privilegia as fontes primárias. Destacaram-se para análise duas fontes: uma entrevista concedida a pesquisadora Dulce Pandolfi em 1992 utilizando a história oral para reconstruir parte de sua trajetória e um filme inédito de 1986 feito pelo cineasta Leon Hirszman em que a psiquiatra discute as questões ligadas à reforma psiquiátrica e a terapêutica ocupacional/ "emoção de lidar". Além de entrevistas, foram analisados artigos de jornais e material escrito da psiquiatra. A pesquisa apoia-se em uma iconologia que mostra Nise da Silveira e a terapêutica ocupacional desenvolvida por ela. Outro ponto importante deste trabalho foi explicitar a própria metodologia de pesquisa utilizada por ela, bem como aproximar-se do seu pensamento por meio do estudo da sua biblioteca e os autores que ela escolhe para fundamentar sua teoria sobre a terapêutica ocupacional com ênfase nas atividades expressivas. A discussão biográfica e de sua produção escrita pontua que Nise da Silveira estudou e praticou terapia ocupacional no Brasil, dez anos antes de termos o primeiro curso reconhecido nos textos atuais da história desta profissão. Esta pesquisa contribui para a interseção das áreas de artes plásticas e de terapia ocupacional. Conclui-se que Nise da Silveira, além de várias outras áreas em que atuou, deixou um legado significativo para o diálogo entre campos como arte e saúde considerando principalmente o atendimento de pessoas com sofrimento mental
Abstract: This study discusses Nise da Silveira's theoretical approach and her occupational therapy technique. This psychiatrist was a pioneer in the study of expressive, artistic and work activities as a means of therapy for people with mental illness. I defend the thesis that Silveira created her own brand of occupational therapy, rather than seeking affiliation to an already existing occupational therapy school of thought. In this study I aim to reconstruct Nise da Silveira's trajectory and find evidence that recovers the way in which she studied and practiced in occupational therapy. The main sources of discourse that were analyzed included an interview given to Dulce Pandolfi in 1992 using the oral history method to reconstruct part of her trajectory and an unfinished film that Leon Hirszman produced in 1986 in which Nise da Silveira discussed issues related to psychiatry reform and occupational therapy / "emotion of coping". Besides the interviews, Nise da Silveira left various articles in journals, published books and many other manuscripts which were read and analyzed. This study uses iconology to present Nise da Silveira and the occupational therapy that she developed. Another important issue was to make her research methodology explicit, as well as to understand her thinking by looking at her library and chosen authors that underlie her theoretical stance on occupational therapy and on expressive arts activities. The discussion of biographical information and of her written production highlights that Nise da Silveira studied and practiced occupational therapy in Brazil ten years before the first university level course had been recognized, according to present day texts on the history of the profession. This study contributes towards the intersection of the fields of visual arts and occupational therapy. The conclusion is that Nise da Silveira, who crossed into various fields of knowledge, left a significant heritage to enable dialogue between professionals in the fields of art and health, primarily for the benefit of services for people with mental suffering
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Potash, Jordan Seth. "Guided relational viewing: art therapy for empathy and social change to increase understanding of people livingwith mental illness." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44547924.
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Boulton, Brandon Reed. "Entropy's Child." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8523.
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Art, process, and materials offer me an escape from the sometimes-crushing realities of my personal struggle with chronic mental illness. Escape is often my primary motivator for making art. However, personal meaning and understanding sometimes come while I'm working in the studio. Sometimes the meanings of the work only become clear years later. Personal experience and experimenting with materials and processes have led me to an appreciation and awareness of entropy--the second law of thermodynamics. My sculptures use spontaneity, abstraction, and process to dialogue with entropy.
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Cousineau, Anna Desiree. "“Madness” in the Media: How Can Print Journalists Better Report on Mental Illnesses?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700042/.
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Stereo types and stigmas of individuals with mental illnesses have proved to be a major roadblock preventing these individuals from seeking help. The news media, despite having a responsibility to accurately inform the public, has played a significant role in portraying individuals with mental illness as violent, unpredictable, dangerous, and unfit to live with the rest of “normal” society. This happens through the words journalists choose to use and the information they choose in included, and excluded, when reporting on mental health issues. This study attempts to establish a guideline that journalists can follow that will hopefully reduce the stigma of mental illness in the media, and eventually in society. This study used a 2 x 2 ANCOVA to test two independent variables (amount of labeling terms and amount of corrective information). The variables were manipulated by modifying a news article four times to produce articles with varying levels of labeling terms and corrective information. A control article was also be used. The articles were randomized and passed out to 220 undergraduate college students at the University of North Texas who completed a questionnaire, read their assigned article, and then completed a second questionnaire to determine the impact the article had on their attitudes about individuals with mental illnesses.
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com, helen correia@gmail, and Helen Mary Correia. "Crazy, Sad Or Just Different:Evolving Representations Of Mental Illness And The Mentally Ill During Psychology Education." Murdoch University, 2003. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20040302.161013.
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Mental illness is an issue of concern to the general community, and is a major focus of professions such as psychology. Such professions demand extensive education and training, with the aim to develop a scientific understanding of mental illness that is portrayed in contrast to socially shared knowledge, or social representations. However, some aspects of these social representations may persist in conjunction with the development of scientific knowledge. The current study used a multimethodological approach to elucidate how such
social representations may be transformed or modified by relevant education in psychology.
Psychology students, non-psychology students and clinical psychologists participated in the current study to assess groups at different levels of psychology education and training. Four forms of data collection were used as part of a multimethodological approach. Intraindividual
methods focused on the use of repertory grids and word associations to explore responses to the mentally ill as well as other relevant individuals such as the physically ill and mental health professionals. Inter-individual methods focused on social interaction in response to a case vignette of an individual with a mental disorder and group discussion within the educational setting.
Several core themes described in previous research were identified consistently across different groups and different methodologies. Negative emotion, such as distress and sadness, impaired functioning, and the need for assistance were commonly used as indicators of mental health problems. One of the most prominent themes, however, was the notion of difference and distance. The mentally ill person was consistently differentiated,
particularly from the self, even when the label of mentally ill was not imposed. The importance of the self was especially evident, acting as a means to define normality and difference.
Several differences were also noticeable between different levels of education. A changing representation was evident from understandings of the mentally ill as crazy, viewed in a more stereotypical, negative and critical light, to representations of the mentally ill as sad, typified by greater sympathy. Social representations may therefore influence the social response to the mentally ill. Increasing education associated with scientific understandings was also characterised by exclusive technical discourse, a feature that may distance the
psychologist from the general community.
These findings are particularly relevant to how education affects social representations of mental illness and the mentally ill, as public campaigns seek to change community attitudes and understandings. In addition, there are particular implications for psychologists, in training or at work. While a primary goal for the psychologist is to empathise and connect with the individuals they are intending to assist, the emphasis on difference, in both social and scientific understandings of the mentally ill, may act as a barrier. The education and professional development of psychologists should incorporate an understanding of how such representations may influence professional practice.
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Blackstone, Kerri Lynn. "Stigma and Identity Formation in Young Adults with Chronic Mental Illness: An Exploration through Personal Narrative and Art-Making." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2013. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/32.
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This research explores the experience of stigma and its effect on identity formation in young adults who suffer from chronic mental illness. Data was gathered in the form of personal narratives and art-making through a a semi-structured, qualitative focus group. It was categorized and coded in order to better understand the experience of both public and internalized stigma in relation to the developmental milestones that characterize the important transition from adolescence to adulthood. Analysis of the data resulted in the emergence of three overarching themes: 1) The challenges of coping with a stigmatizing system, 2) Internalized stigma as it relates to the formation of adult identity, and 3) The use of art to combat stigma and facilitate self-discovery. These themes were examined against existing literature pertaining to the stigma of mental illness, identity formation in young adults, and the use of art to combat stigma and promote healthy identity. The findings of this research emphasize the insidious nature of stigma and ofer support for the ability of art-based programs to empower young adults who face the challenges of mental illness.
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Crisp, Dimity, and n/a. "Antecedents to Attitude Change from School-based Mental Illness Education." University of Canberra. Health Sciences, 2006. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20070803.121527.
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Although attitudes toward stigmatised groups are difficult to change, education programs and opportunities that promote direct contact with people who have experienced mental illness have demonstrated success in increasing mental health literacy and reducing stigma surrounding mental illness. The present study examined the effectiveness of a mental illness education program directed at adolescents and the factors influencing its impact. A sample of 694 students (251 males, 443 females), aged between 11 and 19 years, across 13 public and private high schools and colleges throughout the ACT was obtained. Students completed self-report questionnaires relating to stigma, mental health knowledge and help-seeking intentions before and after participating in the education program and their results were compared with a control group. Students participating in the program also completed measures of empathic concern and affect immediately following the program. Results indicated the program was effective in decreasing stigma and increasing knowledge and intentions to seek help. The impact of knowledge, empathy, affect, and similarity to program presenters, on program outcomes was also examined. While the results showed that the combination of contact and education was effective in promoting attitude change, suggestions for improving the impact of the program are discussed.
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Rego, Virginia Marie. "You are my mirror : one teacher’s autobiographical narrative inquiry into mental illness." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62570.
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This research is presented as an autobiographical narrative inquiry about one teacher’s experience of living with mental illness. The main objective of this research is to contribute to expanding our understanding of how our education systems must include acceptance and inclusion of the large number of students, educators, school trustees, education bureaucrats, parents and administrators who live with mental illness. According to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, mental illness will impact one in two Canadians by age 40 with the onset of symptoms occurring during adolescence, making the school system an important public institution for recognizing and treating mental illness. Yet, there continues to be stigma and fear around mental illness, which may hinder peoples’ ability to recognize it in themselves or others.
The autobiographical texts contained in this dissertation emerged as I, the researcher, examined my own context in relation to who I was as a researcher, and in particular, as an educational researcher, and specifically, as a teacher, and even more specifically, a teacher with mental illness. My particular illnesses were anxiety and eating disorders. The texts are a collection of stories, journal entries, and report card comments interspersed with and analyzed in relation to literature that includes academic theory, research, poetry, and fiction. I am following in the tradition of others such as Pelias (2016) who puts themselves on display as a researcher “in the belief that an emotionally vulnerable, linguistically evocative, and sensuously poetic voice can place us closer to the subjects we wish to study” (p. 1). In this study I put mental illness on display to examine it from the perspective of curiosity and openness rather than from a place of stigma or fear.
I surmise that if a teacher’s educational responsibility is to be open to what Biesta (2013) pens is the call to act in the intervention of others, then one such act is showing up as a human being, with one’s struggles and vulnerabilities, and being open to those of others.Education, Faculty of
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Starkey, Thomas Wayne Jr. "Retirees' Attitudes Toward Mental Illness Treatment: A Life-Course Perspective." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28479/.
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This purpose of this dissertation was to examine the attitudes of retirees toward mental illness treatment. Secondary data from the Survey Research Center at the University of North Texas was utilized for this study. The focus was on the influence that gender, income, education, race/ethnicity, personal experience, fear, goodwill, and social control might have had on retirees' attitudes toward mental illness treatment. An n = 225 was selected out of the existing data to serve as the sample population. Binary logistic regression was utilized to analyze the data. Results indicated that the obtained significant findings were consistent with existing literature.
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Abraham, Kristen M. "HOW EMPLOYABLE ARE PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS? CASE MANAGERS’ AND UNDERGRADUATES’ EXPECTATIONS." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1172674385.
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Abraham, Kristen Marie. "How employable are people with serious mental illness? Case managers' and undergraduates' expectations /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1172674385.
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Hulsey, Teresa. "Emerging Adults Delay Mental Illness Treatment: Another Manifestation of Experiential Avoidance?" Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984198/.
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Emerging adulthood is a term coined to recognize 18 to 25 year-olds who engage in self-exploration while not yet fully identifying as adults. Many emerging adult college students experience stress, anxiety, and depression. Although many colleges provide affordable and available mental health resources for students, many students who need help appear to not utilize these services. Gaining greater understanding of underlying processes that influence psychological treatment-seeking behavior is imperative. The current study sought to explore the role experiential avoidance (EA) plays as a treatment-seeking barrier in the context of emerging adulthood. Undergraduate students completed online measures of emerging adulthood dimensions, psychological symptoms, EA, self-stigma of, perceived public stigma of, intentions to, and attitudes and beliefs towards seeking treatment, treatment seeking behavior, and a demographics questionnaire. Binomial hierarchical logistic regressions and correlational analyses examined the relationship of EA and treatment-seeking behaviors, accounting for known barriers and emerging adult characteristics.
After controlling for demographic variables, results indicated that EA was significantly positively correlated with self-stigma (r = .187), p < .001), perceived public stigma (r = .178, p < .001), intentions (r - .207, p < .001), psychological symptoms (r = .713, p < .001), and attitudes and beliefs (r = .009, p = .003). These and other findings are discussed further, along with the study limitations and implications, as well as possible future directions for work in this area.
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Sun, Qi. "Assessing Social Determinants of Severe Mental Illness in High-Risk Groups." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500085/.
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The primary objective of this research was to explore the impact of possible social factors on non-institutionalized adults 18 years of age or older residing in the United States who exhibited severe mental illness (SMI). A holistic sociological model was developed to explain SMI by incorporating elements of social learning theory, social disorganization theory, and gender socialization theory with social demographic factors. Based on the holistic sociological model, the following factors were investigated: demographic aspects of age, education, income and gender; gender socialization; influence of neighborhood area; social network influence based on communication and interaction among peers and family members; and socially deviant behaviors such as frequently smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and using drugs specifically marijuana. The impact of these factors on SMI was examined. A sample of 206 respondents drawn from National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2003 was assessed. These respondents had answered all the questions related to SMI; social deviant behaviors; neighborhood environment; and communications among peers, family members and friends; and the other studied factors. Ordinary linear regression with interaction terms was employed as a statistical tool to assess the impact of social determinants on SMI. Being female, living a disorganized neighborhood, and frequent and high levels of smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol had a significant influence on SMI. This reevaluation and reexamination of the role of gender socialization path, socially deviant behaviors like smoking and drinking, and community construction on SMI provided additional insights. This research is one of the first to develop a more holistic sociological model on SMI and explored the previously untested interactive relationships. The limitations of this study suggest the need to test a potential recursive research model and explore additional bi-directional associations.
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Fincher, Cynthia Ellen. "Mental Status, Intellectual, and Mood States Associated with Environmental Illness Patients." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500843/.
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The purpose of the present study was to begin development of a psychological profile for environmentally ill patients. Existing psychiatric labels are unable to encompass these patients. Test scores were drawn from a pool of 89 patients whose environmental exposures were verified by the presence of toxins in the blood serum. A Mental Status Exam, a Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised screen, and the Profile of Mood States were administered. Results indicate a primary pattern which is significantly different from test norms consisting of fatigue, reduced mental functioning, and a lack of psychotic or personality disorder indicators. The reported symptoms of environmentally ill patients were objectively verified by current psychological test instruments. The need for a new diagnostic category for people who have been poisoned by environmental toxins is discussed.
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Sanchez, Phyllis Nancy. "Psychiatric diagnosis vs medical diagnosis: Are mental health professionals aware?" Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184826.
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For years research has demonstrated a varying incidence of medical disorders manifesting with psychiatric symptoms. A relatively conservative estimate of such so called "medical masquerades" is around 10%. It is important to ascertain whether health care professionals are aware of possible medical masquerades perhaps most especially in a mental health center outpatient setting where non-medically trained clinicians are the first line therapists for treatment in the majority of cases. This study set about to find out how aware three types of health care clinicians (psychiatrists, nonpsychiatrically trained medical doctors, and non-medically trained mental health psychotherapists) are of the prevalence of medical masquerades, and whether these three types of clinicians perform differently on three types of clinical vignettes (psychiatric, somatoform, and medical masquerades). Results revealed that all health care professionals surveyed are aware that there are a percentage of medical masquerades in the clinical population. Results also revealed that the three types of clinicians performed differently on the case vignettes.
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Eggers, Sarah H. "Using Photography and Poetry in Group Therapy for People with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness: An Outcome Study." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2014. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/58.
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This research explores the experience of participation in a pilot program that integrated poetry and photography for a group of seven adults living with severe and persistent mental illness. Data was gathered in the form of written, visual and verbal responses generated through a semistructured, qualitative focus group that took the week after the end of the pilot program. The data was categorized and coded using a analytical procedure based on Photovoice, a participatory action research model that seeks to empower research participants by providing them with cameras to document and share issues of importance to their lives. Analysis of the data resulted in the emergence of six overarching themes: 1) The group experience 2) Self vs. other 3) Accomplishment and challenge 4) Confinement vs. freedom 5) Observing vs. Being observed/new perspectives and 6) Memories recalled. These themes were examined against existing literature about the use of photography and poetry in therapy, arts-based and group therapy treatments of severe and persistent mental illness, and the use of participatory and artsbased research in mental health. The findings of this research emphasize the rich possibilities for incorporating linked language/written and visual interventions in the treatment of severe and persistent mental illness, as the two offer complementary but distinct opportunities for healing, growth and self-expression. Moreover, this study demonstrates the importance of including mental health clients as participants in qualitative research regarding their perceptions of treatment, and the fundamentally empowering experience of being viewed and treated as experts on their own lives.
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Jenkins, Gareth Sion. "Anthony Mannix 'The atomic book' /." Access electronically, 2008. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/89.
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Love, Patrick K. "Examining the Clinical Utility of Research Domain Criteria in an Outpatient Sample." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1157643/.
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This study examined the clinical utility of the recently released National Institute of Mental Health's (NIMH) research domain criteria (RDoC) by replicating and extending earlier work by using a demographically novel sample. Information retrieval and natural language processing of archival clinical records was used to achieve two main objectives: (1) estimate how well the RDoC domains match language used by clinicians by creating domain scores and (2) examine the differences between the DSM's and RDoC's ability to predict treatment outcome using these domain scores and DSM diagnoses. The social systems RDoC category was found to be the strongest predictor of treatment outcome across all diagnostic measures.
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Thibault, Kathleen. "Smoke and mirrors : reflections of policy and practice for those with a mental illness and who are in conflict with the law." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=84095.
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This study examined the use of language in the development and implementation of mental health policy. It focused on the current discourse of mental health reform in Ontario as it related to individuals with a mental illness and who are in conflict with the law. Using a qualitative design, informed by critical inquiry and a postmodern perspective, the researcher explored administrative perceptions of the accomplishments and challenges faced at different levels of the mental health and criminal justices systems in Ontario. The participants' understandings of the provincial mental health reform policy, Making it Happen, and the extent they felt that their organizations and related policies were able to create positive change in the lives of service users were also examined. While the language of mental health policy encompasses an empowerment, community integration approach to providing services, findings indicated that a biomedical-model, public safety discourse appear to inform both policy and practice. A number of questions and apparent inconsistencies in the manner in which the mental health and criminal justice systems deal with the needs of this population were also identified. This thesis concludes with recommendations for future research.
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Edward, Karen-leigh, and kazmic@bigpond net au. "The phenomenon of resilience as described by people who have experienced mental illness." RMIT University. Health Sciences, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080212.094504.
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The purpose of this research was to explore the phenomenon of resilience as described by consumers of mental health services in Australia who have experienced mental illness. In keeping with Colaizzi's (1978) approach to inquiry, information in this study was gathered through in-depth, semi-structured individual interviews. Information analysis was undertaken using Colaizzi's (1978) seven-step approach, with the inclusion of two additional steps- making this study's analysis a nine step process. Emergent themes were explicated from the findings of this study as follows: Universality; Acceptance; Naming and knowing; Faith, hope and being the fool; Striking a balance; Having meaning and meaningful relationships; and 'Just doing it'. The emergent concept which encapsulated the themes was 'viewing life from the ridge with eyes wide open'. In respect of this concept, participants described resilience was achieved by choosing to walk through the darkness all the while knowing the risks and dangers ahead; Making a decision for life through the hardships. That is, following a moment of enlightenment through 'naming and knowing', participants said they were able to start making decisions and to process what was happening to them by having faith, hope, acceptance, and by 'just getting on with life'. It is suggested that resilient behaviours can be learned and interwoven with life experiences. In this context, there is the potential to guide therapeutic interventions in various clinical and educational settings.
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Chalkley, Linda Brown. "Lizzie's Story: Scenes from a Country Life." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501163/.
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An episodic novel set in rural north Texas in the 1920s, this thesis concerns the life of Lizzie Brown and her son Luke. Suffering from a series of emotional shocks combined with a chronic hormonal imbalance, Lizzie is hospitalized shortly after Luke's fourth birthday. Just as she is to be discharged, he husband dies unexpectedly. Viewed by society as incompetent to care for Luke and operate her ranch alone, she finds herself homeless. She returns to her brother's home briefly, but eventually is declared NCM and institutionalized. The story also concerns Luke, his relationships with his father and other relatives who care for him in Lizzie's absence. As he matures, he must deal with society's attitudes regarding mental illness and orphans. The story ends with Lizzie's funeral when he is twenty.
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Lövgren, Sanna. "Bildskapandets kraft att återuppliva : Auktoriserade bildterapeuters och erfarna bildläraresföreställning och åsikter om hälsoarbete och bildterapeutiska metoder i skolan ochbildundervisningen." Thesis, Konstfack, IBIS - Institutionen för bild- och slöjdpedagogik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7438.
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I den här kvalitativa intervjustudien undersöker jag med diskurspsykologiska metoder deattityder som bildlärare och bildterapeuter har kring tanken på eventuella införande avbildterapeutiska metoder i skolan och bildundervisningen. Syftet med studien är att utforskatvå olika diskurser, det bildpedagogiska och det bildterapeutiska och dess eventuella plats iskolan. I studien uttrycker yrkeskunniga människor i bildterapi och dels bildpedagogik sinaföreställningar av att använda bildterapeutiska metoder i bildämnet och skolan, samt sinametoder för att främja elevers hälsa i sin undervisning.Utifrån de diskurser som kan utläsas i några bildterapeuters och bildlärares tal om möjlighetenatt tillämpa bildterapeutiska metoder i bildundervisningen och skolan kom jag fram till attsamtliga informanter tar ställning för det bildpedagogiska perspektivet istället för detbildterapeutiska. Vilket innebär att informanterna bygger på det bildpedagogiska perspektivetatt bildterapeutiska metoder inte hör hemma i bildundervisningen utan hos elevhälsansskolkurator. Några bildlärarinformanter presenterar en utopiskola som har en öppenverkstad/ateljérum som påminner om bildterapeutens. Det här rummet tillskrivs som en platsdär eleverna kan skapa kravlöst utan betyg och fritt skapande där en vuxen medmaterialkännedom arbetar. I mitt gestaltande arbete har jag bjudit in människor till ettliknande rum där jag upplevde att en god stämning och avslappnande samtal fick fortgåmedan deltagarna målade, en del behöll tankarna kring sin bildvärld för sig själv medan andravar mer öppna.
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Fol, Carine. "De l'art des fous à l'art en marge: un siècle de fascination ou de l'évolution du regard porté sur les expressions artistiques de créateurs outsiders ,personnes malades ou handicapées mentales, artistes isolés." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209782.
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My dissertation analyses the evolution of the perception of creations of mentally ill, art brut or outsider art through a phenomenological point of view that focuses on the viewer and protagonists how permitted the discovery of these creations :psychiatrists (Hans Prinzhorn, Walter Morgenthaler, Leo Navratil, and others) Jean Dubuffet, Harald Szeemann and my own practice as curator through a case-study of the art & marges museum in Brussels /Ma thèse analyse l'évolution du regard porté sur les créations asilaires, art brut et outsider au vingtième siècle à travers une approche phénoménologique qui se focalise sur les protagonistes qui ont permis la découverte, la diffusion et la recherche de ces créations :psychiatres,(Hans Prinzhorn, Walter Morgenthaler, Leo Navratil, entre autres) Jean Dubuffet, Harald Szeemann. Ma propre pratique de curateur d'exposition est également abordée par le biais d'un case-study dédié à l'art & marges musée à BruxellesDoctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie
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Ng, Roger Man Kin. "Does mental imagery act as an emotional amplifier in bipolar disorders?" Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d327c209-9d56-4ac5-8c77-610a6d7de8b2.
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Bipolar disorder is characterized by episodes of mania and depression and serious suicidal risks. Recent studies reported high mental imagery susceptibility (general use of imagery in daily life and emotional impact of prospective imagery) in euthymic bipolar patients. This thesis aims to: a) replicate these findings in patients at different phases of bipolar disorder and with varying degrees of bipolarity, and b) explore how mental imagery susceptibility, ruminative processing, and behavioural approach system (BAS) sensitivity interact to amplify mood symptoms. Chapter 1 provides an overview of current theories of mood amplification and recurrence in bipolar disorders. Chapter 2 details the local validation of scales used in the thesis. Chapter 3 (Study 1) investigated whether mental imagery susceptibility, positive rumination and BAS sensitivity were elevated in remitted bipolar I disorder compared with major depressive disorder and non-psychiatric controls. Results suggested that these cognitive variables were elevated in remitted bipolar I disorder. Positive rumination also interacted with positive prospective images to predict bipolarity. Chapter 4 (Study 2) found that these cognitive variables were elevated in bipolar I disorder during manic and euthymic phases, compared to major depression. Further, the number of positive prospective images predicted recovery status and manic symptom severity. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 report that, compared with people without bipolar spectrum conditions, these cognitive characteristics were elevated in sub-threshold bipolar disorder (Study 3), individuals with high bipolar risks based on a behavioural paradigm (Study 4), and individuals with high familial risk (Study 5). Studies 3-5 confirmed that positive and negative prospective images interacted with rumination to amplify hypomanic and depressive symptoms respectively. Chapter 8 (Study 6) showed that suicidal flash-forwards function as a psychological escape from perceived entrapment and defeat in suicidality. Based on these findings, Chapter 9 proposes novel imagery-based techniques for targeting problematic imagery in bipolar disorders.
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Rudachuk, Judith A. L. "Hospitalization of people with serious mental illness in Assertive Community Treatment, ACT, a survival analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63360.pdf.
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Tsai, Brenda Yu-Hsin, and Annie Dabley. "KONSTNÄRLIGA OCH KREATIVA UTTRYCKSFORMER SOM ARBETSMETOD I OMSORGSARBETET." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42259.
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Psykisk ohälsa är en långvarig sjukdom som inte kan botas med enbart medicin (Bundensen m.fl. 2020). Tidigare forskningar menar de att det är ett alternativ att behandlas med olika konstnärliga och kreativa aktiviteter, som till exempel kreativt skrivande, musik, livsberättelse, dans, teatereller poesiför att individen ska få tillbaka sin självkänsla (Bundensen m.fl. 2020; Slattery m.fl. 2020). Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilka konstnärliga och kreativa metoder som finns och hur yrkesverksamheter inom psykisk ohälsa använder sig utav dessa metoder för att hjälpa personer med psykisk ohälsa. En kvalitativ metod har använtsi denna studie för att besvara studiens frågeställningar. Datainsamlingen skedde genom semistrukturerade intervjuer och ett målinriktat urval användes för att rekrytera intervjupersonerna. Vi intervjuade sex personer som verksamma inom psykisk ohälsa. Dessa personer har en akademisk utbildning inom teater, uttryckande konst och pedagogik. De insamlade materialen analyserades med innehållsanalys.Resultatet blev sex olika teman: Empowerment, gemenskap,KASAM, kompetens och metod, samverkan och känslouttryck. Samt att personalen på verksamheterna arbetar med olika konstnärliga och kreativa metoder för återhämtningsprocessen för personer som drabbats av psykisk ohälsa. Personer med psykisk ohälsa behöver gemenskapen för att utveckla KASAM. Konstnärliga och kreativa metoder ökar individens välmående, självkänslan och självförtroende (Bundensen m.fl. 2020; Slattery m.fl. 2020)
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Melkumyan, Vladimir. "The effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 on people with mental illness." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1523167.
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The purpose of this thesis was to present a policy analysis of the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) of2008. Particular emphasis was placed on the legislation's protections for people with mental illness. Specifically, this project used David Gil's analytic framework to assess the strengths and limitations of the policy and its impact on social work clients and society as a whole The analysis demonstrates that there have been many positive changes since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and more are expected under the ADAAA. However, the analysis also suggests that there remain many issues and unintended consequences concerning people with mental disability, including access problems for minorities. By revealing these issues that must be dealt with, this analysis clearly indicates the importance of commitment to social justice and cultural competence in social work practice. The recommendations for future research are discussed.
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Wise, Michael John d1969. "Mad science : discourses of 'schizophrenia'and 'therapy' for hearing voices /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2004. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20041221.95451.
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Eads, Julie A. (Julie Anne). "Stress Level, Background Variables, Premorbid Health Ratings, and Severity of Psychological Disorders Using DSM-III-R Ratings." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501157/.
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This study predicted that individuals diagnosed as having higher levels of stress, based upon DSM-III-R, Axis IV ratings, would also be diagnosed as having more severe forms of mental illness. Conversely, it predicted that individuals with higher premorbid health ratings, according to DSM-III-R, Axis V, would be diagnosed as having less severe forms of mental illness. Highly significant correlations were found between stress ratings and severity of disorder. Significant inverse relationships were also found between Axis V ratings and disorder severity. Additionally, several other demographic variables were significantly correlated with severity of disorder.
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Williams, Belinda Raylene. "May you never feel the same about mental illness again -- : community theatre's contribution towards deinstitutionalising and destigmatising people with mental health problems : a case study: Lillian." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2001.
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This thesis investigates the field of arts-in-health in Australia by using Lillian 2000 as its primary case study. 'Arts-in-health' is a term coined by Sally Clifford in her Masters thesis (1997, p.3) to define participation-based community arts projects in healthcare settings. This research seeks to develop Clifford's work by analysing an arts-in-health project's impact on the community and its participants. Lillian is a rock musical written by Michael Bishop in collaboration with mental health patients at the Launceston Hospital in Tasmania in 1989. Over the past eleven years Lillian has been performed several times by a variety of people ranging from mental health workers and patients/clients, to community theatre groups and high school students. As a community theatre project, the musical aims to overcome public fears and destigmatise mental illness by raising community awareness and understanding about mental health issues. Issues addressed in this research include: the benefits of arts-in-health projects in healthcare settings; the need to combat negative stereotypes of mentally ill people proliferated by the media; a community theatre project's capacity to effect social change; and the discursive and ideological developments within mental healthcare - moving away from therapy to health promotion.
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Boutwell, Nathan. "The Invisible Dragon." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177182/.
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This collection of memoir essays chronicles the author's 19 year struggle with chronic depression. "The Invisible Dragon" explores the onset of the disease and its cure. "The Silent Typewriter" looks at how it affected the author as a writer. "Roses for Trish" discusses how it affected his wife. "My Mother's Son" explores the possibility that he inherited depression from his mother. The final essay, "The Dragon Returns" probes the author's life in 2012 with the probability that he has a personality disorder. The preface examines several depression memoirs and explores the strategies used by William Styron, Elizabeth Wurtzel and Kay Redfield Jamison to prevent sliding into the pitfalls inherent in a linear structure. Among these are the use of alternative structures, language, characterization, focus and imagery.
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Welch, Mark. "Reel madness : the representation of madness in popular western film /." View thesis, 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030915.132224/index.html.
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Tindley, Ruth. "Access to social security benefits for people who are unable to work because of mental illness." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/9908.
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This thesis examines the difficulties which people with mental health conditions may experience in establishing and maintaining entitlement to the social security benefits which underwrite incapacity for work. Two regimes are currently operating simultaneously, the incapacity benefits regime, introduced in 1995, and employment and support allowance (ESA), introduced in October 2008. The thesis identifies the main barriers to incapacity for work benefits for people with mental health problems as the symptoms of mental illness, administrative procedures, national insurance contribution conditions, assessment, conditionality, appeals and complexity of the welfare system. It compares the two regimes and concludes that although problems arise with both incapacity benefits and ESA, problems with ESA are greater. The ESA scheme and ongoing reforms appear to have worked well for people who are at the most severe end of the spectrum of mental illness, since they receive more money and are relieved of conditionality. For claimants with lesser mental health problems the situation has worsened. The thesis makes a number of recommendations for change. It suggests that mental health teams should include welfare benefits advisers, recommends better training in mental health issues for DWP staff, and improved communication between the DWP and claimants, in particular lesser reliance on telephony. Consideration should also be given to removal of national insurance contribution conditions for incapacity for work benefits, and replacement by a universal benefit. The thesis points out that assessment of incapacity is the most significant obstacle to entitlement and suggests a return to the informal procedure used pre-1995, as well as payment for partial capacity. It also recommends voluntary, rather than mandatory participation in work-related activity by claimants with mental health problems, and questions whether it is appropriate to use the welfare system to coerce claimants, particularly those with mental health problems, into employment.
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Kretschmar, Kelly. "Framing Femininity as Insanity: Representations of Mental Illness in Women in Post-Classical Hollywood." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3654/.
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From the socially conservative 1950s to the permissive 1970s, this project explores the ways in which insanity in women has been linked to their femininity and the expression or repression of their sexuality. An analysis of films from Hollywood's post-classical period (The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Lizzie (1957), Lilith (1964), Repulsion (1965), Images (1972) and 3 Women (1977)) demonstrates the societal tendency to label a woman's behavior as mad when it does not fit within the patriarchal mold of how a woman should behave. In addition to discussing the social changes and diagnostic trends in the mental health profession that define “appropriate” female behavior, each chapter also traces how the decline of the studio system and rise of the individual filmmaker impacted the films' ideologies with regard to mental illness and femininity.
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Farquharson, Kirsten Leigh. "Audience observations of art, identity and schizophrenia : possibilities for identity movement." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012992.
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This research situates itself in the study of stigma in mental illness. In particular, the aim is to explore the potential that art making and exhibiting has in reducing stigma for those with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The research explores one aspect (the exhibition stage) of an "art as therapy" project. The exhibiting of one’s artwork aims to counter limiting "patient" identities by allowing those labelled as psychiatric patients to extend their self-identity to an alternative identity of the "artist". However, this idea only stands strong if the artwork created is not discriminated against as "naïve art" and is accepted or at least considered for acceptance as legitimate nonprofessional artwork. This research explores the ways in which art created by inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia is received by the general art-viewing public at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. The study uses a discourse analytic framework to analyse the interviews of members of the public who attended the art exhibition of patient artwork. It will examine the ways in which the public construct the artworks and how they position the makers of this art across a continuum, from patient to artist. The results of this thesis have implications for rehabilitation practices for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia particularly with regard to opportunities to "perform" alternative identities in public spaces.
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Kapadia, Dharmi. "How are social networks associated with mental health service use? : a comparison between Pakistani women, and women of other ethnic groups in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/how-are-social-networks-associated-with-mental-health-service-use-a-comparison-between-pakistani-women-and-women-of-other-ethnic-groups-in-the-united-kingdom(3f997895-438c-4ba8-81d2-cd8b720681f0).html.
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Pakistani women in the UK have high levels of mental illness, alongside low levels of outpatient mental health service use, compared with women of other ethnic groups. Further, previous studies have suggested that Pakistani women have particularly low levels of social support, and high levels of social isolation which may reduce their chances of coming into contact with mental health services. However, to date, there has been little empirical evidence to support this. This thesis investigated the mental health service use, social networks' structure and function, and the relationship between the two, for Pakistani women compared with women of other ethnic groups. This was done using a systematic review of the relevant literature, and statistical modelling using two large nationally representative datasets from the UK. The first dataset, Understanding Society, was used to formulate latent classes of support networks, subsequently used in regression models to compare the support available in Pakistani women's networks with women of other ethnic groups. The second dataset, Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness Rates in the Community (EMPIRIC), was used to ascertain the influence of social networks (perceived social support, contact with relatives and friends, network composition, and size) on the use of outpatient mental health services, using logistic regression modelling. These data were also used to build a structural equation model to test the direct and indirect effects of social networks on outpatient mental health service usage, via their impact on mental illness. Pakistani women (along with Bangladeshi women) had the lowest rate of mental health service use, compared with women in other ethnic groups. Further Pakistani women were more likely to be socially isolated than White majority women, but there were largely no differences between Pakistani women and other ethnic minority women in the structure and function of social networks. Finally, there was evidence to suggest that social networks indirectly reduced mental health service use via their impact on mental illness. There were only small ethnic differences in the indirect effect of social networks on mental health service use, and these differences did not explain Pakistani women's under-use of mental health services.
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Gonzalez, Jodi Marie. "Effects of Psychoeducation on Opinions about Mental Illness, Attitudes toward Help Seeking, and Expectations about Psychotherapy." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278305/.
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The effect of psychoeducation on opinions about mental illness, attitudes toward help seeking, and expectations about psychotherapy were investigated. One group served as a control, one group read a written lecture on information about mental illness, and one group read a written lecture on information about psychotherapy. The control group, and experimental groups immediately after reading the lecture, completed demographic information, Attitudes Toward Help Seeking-Short Form, Expectations About Counseling-Brief Form, Nunnally Conceptions of Mental Illness Questionnaire, and three College Adjustment Scales (Depression, Anxiety, Self Esteem). Participants were asked to complete the same measures four weeks after the initial assessment. Results: No significant improvement in attitudes toward help seeking was demonstrated in either experimental group, at either time of testing. Expectations about psychotherapy were significantly improved in both experimental groups, which remained significant at Time 2. Opinions about mental illness demonstrated an immediate significant improvement in attitudes with the mental illness lecture group, however this effect did not remain at Time 2. The psychotherapy lecture group did not have significantly improved opinions about mental illness at either time of testing. The control group did not produce any significant changes between Time 1 and Time 2 testing. Experimental group scores demonstrated similarity with those who had previous experience with psychotherapy. No relationship was found between level of adjustment and attitudes toward help seeking, expectations about psychotherapy, or opinions about mental illness at either time of testing.