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Law, Wai-yu Irene. "Mental health policy in Hong Kong : an analysis of the policy on the provision of community care for ex-mental patients /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13762114.

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Palmer-Erbs, Jung Victoria Katherine. "Interactive competence and mental health service utilization among the severely mentally ill." Thesis, Boston University, 1992. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/34649.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University<br>PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>The American Psychiatric Association criteria for differential psychiatric diagnoses (DSM III-R) do not exhaust the list of socially problematic behaviors displayed by the mentally ill. The extent to which such behaviors influence a person's "career" as a deinstitutionalized patient is the major topic of this study. Fiscal crises and changing public commitments have reduced support to those with severe mental illness who are deinstitutionalized, increasing the importance of understanding how degrees of competence at activities of daily living and the extent of socially problematic behaviors affect their participation in the community. The concept Interactive Competence was developed on the basis of the writer's clinical experience and a review of the literature on community adjustment of persons with severe mental illness. The concept characterizes the social functioning of persons diagnosed as mentally ill, and includes demonstration of self-care (ADL) skills and self-management skills (trouble in relationships). Secondary analysis was performed on data from a 1984 probability sample of clients in Community Support Programs for seriously mentally ill adults. Factor analysis reduced items in the original instrument, The Uniform Client Data Instrument, to scales measuring Interactive Competence. Only persons with the diagnosis of Schizophrenia or Affective Disorders were studied (n=824 of 1053), excluding diagnoses which were diverse in nature and infrequent in occurrence. Bivariate correlation and regression techniques were used to test the major hypotheses: 1) Schizophrenics demonstrate less Interactive Competence than those with the diagnosis of Affective Disorder; 2) the greater the chronicity (length of time in the social role as a patient from point of first diagnosis) the less Interactive Competence; 3) lower level of Interactive Competence is associated with a lower level of mental health service utilization. Monitoring Interactive Competence self-care (ADL) skills and selfmanagement skills (trouble in relationships) provides new insights about the service utilization of the severely mentally ill and their families. Schizophrenics had less the Interactive Competence than those with Affective Disorders; those with lower scores on Interactive Competence used more services; family involvement influenced clients' use of crisis assistance services and urgent care services.<br>2031-01-01

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NeeSmith, David Hagan. "Committed and voluntary psychiatric patients a longitudinal comparison of commitment patterns among first-time inpatients in the Oklahoma mental health system /." Access abstract and link to full text, 1993. http://0-wwwlib.umi.com.library.utulsa.edu/dissertations/fullcit/9403630.

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Kukla, Marina Elizabeth. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPLOYMENT STATUS AND NONVOCATIONAL OUTCOMES FOR PERSONS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS ENROLLED IN VOCATIONAL PROGRAMS: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2117.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2010.<br>Title from screen (viewed on April 1, 2010). Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Gary R. Bond. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-77).

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Sharp, Christopher. "INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS REGARDING MENTALLY ILL OFFENDERS: PERCE." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3321.

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The federal program of deinstitutionalizing psychiatric facilities has resulted in a well documented, ever-increasing mentally ill population in the nation's prisons and jails. Historically, the criminal justice system has maintained a laissez-faire attitude toward the mentally ill, and only became involved with the mentally ill when a crime had been committed. As such, the President's Mental Health and Criminal Justice Consensus Project was developed to explore ways that the two systems could work together to address the growing problem of the mentally ill offender. However, challenges arise because the criminal justice system has typically been viewed as a loosely coupled, fragmented system that is unwilling or unable to address the social issue of the mentally ill offender. The concept of coupling between agencies has serious ramifications for the ability of agencies to successfully collaborate. Theoretical foundations for collaboration between mental health and criminal justice agencies lie partly in labeling theory and the drive to avoid the negative stigmatization of the mentally ill by the formal criminal justice system. A second theoretical foundation is found in developmental theories, which seek to explain the development of organizational knowledge and skills, in handling mentally ill offenders, through interaction between the mental health and criminal justice systems. In this study, it is asserted that agencies that are appropriately coupled and have experience with collaboration will perceive greater benefits from the collaborative exchange. Furthermore, this leads to the main hypothesis of the current study that agency coupling and collaborative experience will increase the perception of benefits of collaboration and support of collaborative efforts that deal with mentally ill offenders. To assess the main hypothesis of the current study, a modified Dillman methodology was utilized. The research population consisted of a complete enumeration of the 20 Florida State's Attorneys Offices, the 66 County Sheriffs, the 54 Probation Office Managers, and the 313 municipal law enforcement agencies for a total study population of 453 possible respondents, of which 49% responded. Overall, the findings of the current study illustrate a willingness of agencies to couple with outside agencies to address the phenomenon of the mentally ill offender. The results provide theoretical support for the need to reduce the negative stigma of a mentally ill individual being additionally labeled a criminal offender. The results additionally bolster the belief that the knowledge and skills to do this can best be accomplished through interaction with outside agencies.<br>Ph.D.<br>Other<br>Health and Public Affairs<br>Public Affairs: Ph.D.

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Mitchell, Penelope Fay. "Mental health care roles and capacities of non-medical primary health and social care services : an organisational systems analysis /." Connect to thesis, 2007. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00003854.

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Evavold, Suellen Ann. "Family Members of the Mentally Ill and Their Experiences with Mental Health Professionals." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27255.

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This qualitative research looks at the relationships between primary caregivers of mentally ill individuals and mental health professionals from the perspective of the caregivers. It reports the stories told to me by family members of mentally ill loved ones who were receiving mental health services in order to raise awareness of the challenges these caretakers face on a daily basis as they tried to support their loved ones in the community and the isolation they experienced because of current attitudes and practices of mental health professionals. Although family members voiced their frustrations at the relationship between themselves and mental health professionals, they were not complaining as much as viewing this study as a forum to vocalize years of frustration and recount numerous personally unsatisfying interactions and relationships with mental health professionals. I used four main research questions to guide the interviews in which I asked family members to share their experiences with mental health professionals. My investigation produced a general narrative of experiences rather than specific details about the treatment of family members. The overall results of my interviews suggest that family members believe a family-centered care approach in the treatment of mentally ill individuals and the respect of mental health care professionals for family members can enhance a mental health professionalâ s ability to treat individuals with mental illness. These results provide useful insights into the challenges that mental health professionals need to address and highlight some of the changes they need to make for community mental health care programs to work for both the mentally ill and their caregivers.<br>Ph. D.

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Moran, James E. "Insanity, the asylum and society in nineteenth-century Quebec and Ontario." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0021/NQ27309.pdf.

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Gaumer, Sarah. "MEDIA AND MENTAL ILLNESS: THE EFFECT OF TELEVISION ON ATTITUDES ABOUT THE MENTALLY ILL." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1399387035.

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Tse, Siu-keung. "Attitudes towards the mentally ill, mental illness and the location for mental health facilities : a Hong Kong study on secondary school students /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19470228.

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Taylor, Amanda Christine. "Employment specialists' competencies as predictors of employment outcomes." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2141.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2010.<br>Title from screen (viewed on May 25, 2010). Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Gary R. Bond, John McGrew, Kevin Rand, Dennis Devine. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-85).

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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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Purin, Barbara RuthAnn. "Attitudes of community mental health nurses toward doing a spiritual assessment with mentally ill seniors." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0020/MQ48832.pdf.

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Kelly, Brendan Desmond. "Human rights protection for the mentally ill through mental health law in England and Ireland." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/27948.

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This thesis aims to analyse the influence of human rights concerns on recent revisions of mental health legislation in England (Mental Health Act 2007) and Ireland (Mental Health Act 2001), and the extent to which human rights concerns assist in promoting human rights through mental health law. This thesis demonstrates that human rights standards, as reflected in the European Convention on Human Rights and publications of the United Nations and World Health Organisation (WHO), played a critical role in shaping revisions of mental health law in England (where public safety was also influential) and Ireland (where human rights concerns dominated single-handedly). Mental health legislation in England meets 92 (55.4%) of the 166 relevant human rights standards outlined by the WHO; mental health legislation in Ireland meets 81 (48.8%). Areas of high compliance include definitions of mental disorder, involuntary admission procedures and clarity regarding offences. Areas of medium compliance relate to capacity and consent (with a particular deficit regarding capacity legislation in Ireland), review procedures (which exclude long-term voluntary patients and lack robust complaint procedures), and rules governing special treatments. Areas of low compliance relate to economic and social rights, voluntary patients (especially non-protesting, incapacitated patients), vulnerable groups and emergency treatment. Overall, mental health legislation provides substantial protection for some rights (e.g. liberty) but not others (e.g. economic and social rights). Additional protection is provided by mental health policy, social policy or other areas of law (e.g. human rights law). Future research could usefully focus on the outcome of mental health legislation in the lives of the mentally ill; the relevance of the “third wave” of human rights, acknowledging the broad range of legal, health-care and social-care actors affecting the mentally ill; and values underpinning increased trans-national influences on national mental health law and policy (Council of Europe, European Union, WHO).

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Hurlburt, Michael S. "An empirical framework for the evaluation of mental health care strategies targeted to community integration of severely mentally ill homeless individuals /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9722820.

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Pang, Pui-yan Helen. "An exploratory study of mental health services in Guangzhou /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1991. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13117105.

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Lam, Ching-hang Christine. "A meditative environment : for the mentally I /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25951725.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998.<br>Includes special report study entitled: Psychology for the architecture : perception of space and behavioural pattern. Includes bibliographical references.

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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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Magadla, Mfanisi Welcome. "A study on the effects of mental illness on relationships amongst families with the mentally ill members." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1001101.

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The increased abscondment of Mental Health Care Users from institutions of care, treatment and rehabilitation has prompted the researcher to conduct the study because patients who are not visited do not stand a chance of getting a Leave Of Absence (LOA). Problem: The concern is the danger of assault, murder, rape and other high risk situations the mentally ill individuals and the community are exposed to, which is caused by frequent abscondment of mentally unstable individuals who roam around the community without proper treatment and care. This is caused by failure of the relatives in coming to request patients for leave of absence (LOA). Purpose: The study investigated the effects of mental illness on relationships amongst families with the mentally ill members. The number or frequency of visitations by relatives to the mental health institutions is used by the researcher, to measure the nature of relationships between families and the psychiatric patients related to them. Method: The population comprised families of the mentally ill persons admitted at Cecilia Makiwane mental health units. The sample was collected conveniently as relatives came to visit the mentally ill until the desired number was reached. The designed tool was a questionnaire which was self administered. Data were analysed manually. Tables and graphs are shown in the results. Conclusion and Recommendations: The study revealed that approximately 100% of respondents had a lack of knowledge about mental illness and the mentally ill, in terms of care, treatment and rehabilitation hence they all need assistance in dealing with the mentally ill in the community. Findings also revealed that mental illness causes breakdown in family relationships. Recommendations regarding the enhancement of relationships between families and their mentally ill members are formulated as coping skills in the dissertation. The burden of having to deal with mentally ill person whose illness is not understood can lead the family to a state of confusion and iv not knowing what to anticipate. Lack of resources compounds the problem as the family members are not able to visit the ill member due to lack of funds (Baumann, 2007:637). The families with a mentally ill member usually shoulder the greatest part of the burden of mental illness (Uys and Middleton, 2004:77); unfortunately, lack of resources pose a problem.

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Oie, Thomas. "A manual for pastoral care of the seriously mentally ill a Lutheran perspective /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Lai, Sum-yee Sumi, and 黎心怡. "Equal opportunities for the mentally-ill." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2000. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B44569853.

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Lai, Sum-yee Sumi. "Equal opportunities for the mentally-ill /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22284394.

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Garde, Maria Salomé. "Mentally ill homeless and companion pets." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2186.

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The present study assessed the relationship between mentally ill homeless and their companion pets and questioned if the pets acted as a barrier for them to receive shelter and other services. The study also sought to find if pets acted as a communication tool between this population and society. themselves because they are mentally vulnerable and victims of a mental disorder.

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Rayborn, Kimberly Nicole Bryant. "Student perceptions of mentally ill offenders." Thesis, The University of Southern Mississippi, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10104495.

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<p> Since deinstitutionalization, the responsibility for mentally ill members of society has shifted to the criminal justice system in a process of trans-institutionalization or “criminalization of mental illness” (Slate & Johnson, 2013, p. 28). Though various groups have been studied to ascertain their perception of mentally ill individuals and offenders, previous research focuses largely on students of psychology, social work, and medicine. Little research has been conducted regarding the perceptions of criminal justice students toward mental illness, despite the increasing involvement of the criminal justice system in treating and handling mentally ill individuals in the past thirty years. This exploratory research serves as a replication to a study which was conducted by Thompson, Paulson, Valgardson, Nored, and Johnson (2014). </p>

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Hendrickson, Edward Lee. "Characteristics of seriously mentally ill clients who benefit from outpatient dual diagnosis (substance abuse/mental health) group treatment." Thesis, This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01312009-063225/.

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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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Dozoretz, Jeffrey Victor 1962. "THE EFFECT OF DIAGNOSTIC LABELS ON ATTITUDES TOWARD THE MENTALLY ILL." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/276430.

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McIlroy, Charles R. "Aftercare for the chronically mentally ill utilizing church resources in the community /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Hernandes, Raphaela Schiassi [UNESP]. "Significados de atividade na terapia ocupacional na área de saúde mental: um olhar sobre a prática da atividade." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/139325.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-07T17:12:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-02-25. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2016-06-07T17:16:40Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000864174.pdf: 817538 bytes, checksum: 95cd20515e085c84bf58e933e4326df3 (MD5)<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)<br>Um olhar sobre o trabalho de terapeutas ocupacionais nos cenários atuais de Saúde Mental provoca inúmeras indagações para os agentes e estudiosos deste campo. A relação da especificidade das intervenções e a composição dos movimentos constituídos nas reabilitações psicossociais aproximam as práticas com tradições humanistas, sociais e políticas em manejos com campos teóricos e procedimentais fronteiriços. Indiscutivelmente os ganhos nas composições de equipes multidisciplinares em Saúde Mental são visíveis nos atuais debates e enfrentamentos que os equipamentos substitutivos e as políticas públicas de Saúde Mental exigem. Por outro lado, cabe particularmente ao profissional estabelecer, cada qual com seu repertório, um campo de problemáticas e fenômenos para lidar com a complexidade da clínica e seus desdobramentos e manejos. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho é compreender o significado de Atividade na Terapia Ocupacional para diferentes atores sociais, dentro da área da Saúde Mental, como terapeutas ocupacionais, pacientes acompanhados pelo terapeuta ocupacional, profissionais que compõem as equipes multidisciplinares e coordenadores de serviços de Saúde Mental. Para isto fez-se uma investigação de metodologia qualitativa, base teórico-metodológica sócio-histórica. Para a coleta de dados foi utilizada a técnica de entrevista aberta, sendo a escolha dos sujeitos aleatória, utilizando-se como estratégia de aproximação o critério de serviços de Saúde Mental do Sistema Único de Saúde dentro da Direção Regional de Saúde de Bauru, e a quantidade de entrevistados foi delimitada pelo critério de saturação. A análise global das entrevistas indicou três grupos de núcleos temáticos de Atividade: a) Objetivo da atividade: o imediato da ação, com cinco núcleos de significação - a.1) Aproximando-se do sujeito: conhecer e avaliar; a.2) Medicação: a atividade como recurso de...<br>A look at the work of occupational therapists in the current scenarios of Mental Health causes several questions for the agents and scholars in this field. The relationship of specific nature of the interventions and the composition of the movements made in psychosocial rehabilitation approach practices with humanities tradition, social policies and managements with theoretical fields and procedural border. Undoubtedly, the gains in compositions of multidisciplinary teams in Mental Health are visible in current debates and confrontations that the substitutive equipment and public policies of Mental Health require. On the other hand, it is the particular responsibility of the professional setting, each with its repertory, a field of problems and phenomena to deal with the complexity of the clinic and its deployments and managements. In this sense, the objectives of this work is to understand the meaning of activity in occupational therapy for different social actors in the area of Mental Health, such as occupational therapists, patients followed by occupational therapist, professionals who make up the multidisciplinary teams and coordinators of Mental Health services. For this reason, a research of qualitative methodology, theoretical-methodological socio-historical base was developed. For the data collection, the technique of open interview was used, being the choice of random subjects, using as a strategy to approach the criterium of Mental Health services of the Unified Heath System in the Bauru regional health bureau. And the quantity of interviewers was bounded by saturation criterium. The overall analysis of the interviews indicated in three groups of core meaning activities: a) Objective of the activity: immediate action, expressed in five content - a.1) Approaching the subject: to know and evaluate; a.2) Medication: the activity as a treatment facility; a.3) Occupation: the useful action; a.4) Rules and limits: adaptation or ...

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Hernandes, Raphaela Schiassi. "Significados de atividade na terapia ocupacional na área de saúde mental : um olhar sobre a prática da atividade /." Botucatu, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/139325.

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Orientador: Maria Dionísia do Amaral Dias<br>Coorientador: Solange Aparecida Tedesco<br>Banca: Rita de Cassia Marcelo Bittencourt<br>Banca: Maria Cristina Pereira Lima<br>Banca: Sueli Terezinha Ferreira Martin<br>Banca: Meire Luci da Silva<br>Resumo: Um olhar sobre o trabalho de terapeutas ocupacionais nos cenários atuais de Saúde Mental provoca inúmeras indagações para os agentes e estudiosos deste campo. A relação da especificidade das intervenções e a composição dos movimentos constituídos nas reabilitações psicossociais aproximam as práticas com tradições humanistas, sociais e políticas em manejos com campos teóricos e procedimentais fronteiriços. Indiscutivelmente os ganhos nas composições de equipes multidisciplinares em Saúde Mental são visíveis nos atuais debates e enfrentamentos que os equipamentos substitutivos e as políticas públicas de Saúde Mental exigem. Por outro lado, cabe particularmente ao profissional estabelecer, cada qual com seu repertório, um campo de problemáticas e fenômenos para lidar com a complexidade da clínica e seus desdobramentos e manejos. Neste sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho é compreender o significado de Atividade na Terapia Ocupacional para diferentes atores sociais, dentro da área da Saúde Mental, como terapeutas ocupacionais, pacientes acompanhados pelo terapeuta ocupacional, profissionais que compõem as equipes multidisciplinares e coordenadores de serviços de Saúde Mental. Para isto fez-se uma investigação de metodologia qualitativa, base teórico-metodológica sócio-histórica. Para a coleta de dados foi utilizada a técnica de entrevista aberta, sendo a escolha dos sujeitos aleatória, utilizando-se como estratégia de aproximação o critério de serviços de Saúde Mental do Sistema Único de Saúde dentro da Direção Regional de Saúde de Bauru, e a quantidade de entrevistados foi delimitada pelo critério de saturação. A análise global das entrevistas indicou três grupos de núcleos temáticos de Atividade: a) Objetivo da atividade: o imediato da ação, com cinco núcleos de significação - a.1) Aproximando-se do sujeito: conhecer e avaliar; a.2) Medicação: a atividade como recurso de...<br>Abstract: A look at the work of occupational therapists in the current scenarios of Mental Health causes several questions for the agents and scholars in this field. The relationship of specific nature of the interventions and the composition of the movements made in psychosocial rehabilitation approach practices with humanities tradition, social policies and managements with theoretical fields and procedural border. Undoubtedly, the gains in compositions of multidisciplinary teams in Mental Health are visible in current debates and confrontations that the substitutive equipment and public policies of Mental Health require. On the other hand, it is the particular responsibility of the professional setting, each with its repertory, a field of problems and phenomena to deal with the complexity of the clinic and its deployments and managements. In this sense, the objectives of this work is to understand the meaning of activity in occupational therapy for different social actors in the area of Mental Health, such as occupational therapists, patients followed by occupational therapist, professionals who make up the multidisciplinary teams and coordinators of Mental Health services. For this reason, a research of qualitative methodology, theoretical-methodological socio-historical base was developed. For the data collection, the technique of open interview was used, being the choice of random subjects, using as a strategy to approach the criterium of Mental Health services of the Unified Heath System in the Bauru regional health bureau. And the quantity of interviewers was bounded by saturation criterium. The overall analysis of the interviews indicated in three groups of core meaning activities: a) Objective of the activity: immediate action, expressed in five content - a.1) Approaching the subject: to know and evaluate; a.2) Medication: the activity as a treatment facility; a.3) Occupation: the useful action; a.4) Rules and limits: adaptation or ...<br>Doutor

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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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Wilder, Patricia. "A study comparing the characteristics of the mentally ill/ chemically addicted population with mental illness alone /." Staten Island, N.Y. : [s.n.], 1999. http://library.wagner.edu/theses/nursing/1999/thesis_nur_1999_wilde_study.pdf.

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Tse, Siu-keung, and 謝肇強. "Attitudes towards the mentally ill, mental illness and the location for mental health facilities: a Hong Kong study on secondary schoolstudents." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B19470228.

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Lammers, Arthur John. "The reforms to mental health and their impact on the empowerment of consumers and carers /." Connect to Thesis, 2002. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000237.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, School of Post Graduate Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, 2002.<br>Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 311-322).

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Cloyes, Kristin G. "The politics of mental illness in a prison control unit : a discourse analysis /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7188.

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Chu, Siu-man. "The role of religion in coping with mental disorder." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B43895256.

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Harrington, Scott Winslow. "Measuring hallucinations in the chronic mentally ill." Scholarly Commons, 2003. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2679.

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Hallucinations are one of the defining criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia, but extremely difficult to measure. This is simply because hallucinations are private events and the community does not have access to information within the skin. There are several measures of hallucinations, but most are cumbersome, expensive, and have questionable psychometric properties. This investigation attempted to look at the relationship between a clients' self-report of a hallucination and observable indicators of hallucinations. Participants in the study were chronically mentally ill individuals taking medication, but suffering from hallucinations. This study advanced a previous thesis on the same topic by revising the self-report tool, operationally defining hallucinatory behavior with a well-established instrument, and collecting reliability data. It was hypothesized that there would be a correlation between a client's self-report of hallucinations and observable indicators reported by staff (e.g., client talking to self or laughing while alone outside). The staff at a residential treatment center for the chronic mentally ill collected data on client hallucinatory behavior and correlated it with a revised self-report measure of hallucinations. The data indicated there is no relationship between a client's self-report of hallucinations and the staff report. The data did show however, that the staff reported more symptomology than the clients reported during the same time period.

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Card, Amanda Nicole, and Heather Nicole Sylvester. "Service utilization among the mentally ill homeless." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3143.

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This study conducted in-depth interviews with 11 homeless or formerly homeless individuals at eh Central City Lutheran Mission. The focus of this research project is mental health service utilization among the homeless in San Bernardino. A wide array of services are available to the mentally ill homeless in this area, however services offered often do not meet the needs of this population.

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Ayres, Jennifer Susan. "Policing the Mentally Ill in Coronado, CA." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4418.

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The growing number of individuals suffering from mental illnesses and their inability to access intervention methods has adverse effects on the criminal justice system. These impairments increase the likelihood that police officers will have negative attitudes about persons with mental illnesses. This study sought to understand whether police officers' empathy, education, experience outside of work as well as on the job, and officers' training in the field of mental health all related to police officers' attitudes relating to persons with mental illness. The purpose of this study was to expand the body of knowledge and determine how factors such as police officers' empathy, education, experience on the job and personal experience, and officers' training in the field of mental health relate to police officers' attitudes regarding persons with mental illness. Gilbert's model of attribution process served as the theoretical model for this study. A mixed methods research methodology was used to determine the relationships between mental illness and officer empathy, experience, education, and training. Twenty-four participants completed face-to-face interviews and the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire was utilized for data collection. Empathy scores were analyzed for all study participants. QDA Miner Lite was used for qualitative data analysis. The perception of the training and the officers' outside experience with the mentally ill both have positive impacts on the attitudes towards the mentally ill while on duty. While empathy could not be linked to these relationships, personal experiences and perceptions cannot be dismissed as unrelated to empathizing with a specific population. Ultimately, the police gain knowledge and understanding resulting in positive community perception of police, better community service and creating an overall positive social change.

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Law, Wai-yu Irene, and 羅惠如. "Mental health policy in Hong Kong: an analysis of the policy on the provision of community care for ex-mental patients." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31964540.

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Correia, Helen Mary. "Crazy, sad or just different: evolving representations of mental illness and the mentally ill during psychology education." Correia, Helen Mary (2003) Crazy, sad or just different: evolving representations of mental illness and the mentally ill during psychology education. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/663/.

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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. Intra-individual 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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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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Bradley, Brown Rina Desiree Deneice. "Causes of Recidivism Among Mentally Ill Prerelease Offenders from the Perspective of Former Correctional Mental Health Professionals." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6174.

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The move toward reducing the prison population was driven by an increase in the number of reentry programs that focused on the needs of the offender, such as the provision of stable housing, employment, education, and sustaining strong familial bonds. While the literature supported these areas as being effective in reducing recidivism, there was no consensus that they were effective for offenders with mental illness (OMI). The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyze the impact of prerelease services for the OMI population from the perspective of former correctional mental health professionals who provided these services. The research questions were focused on understanding the needs of OMIs in a correctional setting, and in the community and how the ability or inability to meet these needs impacted their successful reentry. The conceptual framework for this qualitative phenomenological study was based on social construction of reality framework and the risk, needs, responsivity theory. Based on thematic analysis of data collected from interviews with former correctional mental health professionals, qualitative findings showed that reentry programming is offered at the same rate for non-OMI and was not specific to OMI risks and needs. The social change implications affect the OMI population as well as every community they reintegrate back into. The direct impact of social change for the OMI population could be a fiscal impact which affects all tax-paying citizens. An increase in the allocation of state and federal dollars to be directed to prerelease specific programming could have the potential to reduce the rate of homelessness, crime, and victimization by increasing the ability to meet the needs of the OMI population before they were released back to the community.

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Rickard, Wendy Joy. "Community care for the long term mentally ill : an evaluation of the community mental health team approach." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1994. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1298/.

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The thesis addressed two research questions: 1) Why has community care of long term mentally ill people been so difficult to implement. and 2) Do Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT s) provide an intellectually viable and practically sustainable model of service provision. These questions were approached by an analysis of the wider literature and a multi-method case study evaluation of an innovative CMHT in one inner city area of London from 1979-1992. The thesis concentrated on interchanges between theory, policy and local practice. It was found that community care of the long term mentally ill was difficult to implement during the 1980s because adoption of new approaches depended on their delayed acceptance by the psychiatric profession and even then, the required social and environmental approaches to care were only partially adopted. Policy became dominated by professional and managerial influences and clients continued to have a low political profile. Administrative inadequacies were severe and deep rooted and there were unreconcilable differences between Health and Social Services. The collectivist ethos of CMHTs was undermined. The CMHT approach can provide a practically sustainable approach to service provision when certain conditions are met. The CMHT service must: be comprehensive, or supported by a full range of complementary services in the local community; receive genuine political commitment to the long term mentally ill client group and an on-going level of adequate funding; be introduced with a clear acknowledgement of where lead responsibilities rest; and harness the enthusiasm of professionals and catalytic individuals. The CMHT approach is a system of care and in so far as a new care model emerged during the 1980 s, it was the Care Programme Approach. Yet the CMHT approach provided a vital source of experimental energy during the 1980 s and now needs to be formally recognised by central government as a valuable vehicle for change.

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Yeung, Yee-yu. "An assessment of the implementation of social rehabilitation for the mentally ill." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1993. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13552983.

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Szeto, Lai-lee Lily. "Perceptions of the conditionally discharged patients towards their status." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4389530X.

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Vaughan, Hillary A. Faulk. "Effects of an intermediate care program for inmates with severe persistent mental illnesses." View electronic thesis, 2008. http://dl.uncw.edu/etd/2008-2/vaughanh/hillaryvaughan.pdf.

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Shasha, Nontembeko Grycelda. "Strategies to facilitate community-based health care for severely and persistently mentally ill persons." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/3755.

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The goal of mental health delivery system is to allow the individual with severe and persistent mental illness to live and function effectively in the community and to ensure that the consumers and their families have access to accurate information that promotes learning, self-monitoring and accountability (Stuart & Laraia, 2005:710). In community-based health care, the persons living with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) are in their natural environment in the context of the family and the community. The goals of care are focused around maximizing the person living with SPMI’s quality of life (Hunt, 2001:15-16). In South Africa, an integrated package of essential Primary Health Care (PHC) services has been made available to the entire population in order to provide the solid foundation of a single unified health care service (Department of Health, 2000:4). The assessment of health care needs of persons living with SPMI is a dynamic on-going process that is used to collect information, recognise changes, analyse needs and plan health care to provide baseline information to help evaluate the physiological and psychological normality and functional capacity of persons with SPMI (Hunt, 2001:100). There is insufficient information from the Department of Health to either satisfy the enquiry of whether the health care needs of persons living with SPMI are being met comprehensively or whether the practitioners rendering community-based health care are knowledgeable and comply with PHC norms and standards developed by this Department. The researcher is interested in understanding how the persons living with SPMI and their families experience the community-based health care provided by PHC nurses. The purpose of this research study is to develop strategies that would assist the PHC nurses in the selected rural areas of the Eastern Cape to facilitate community-based health care and to render a health care service relevant to the health care needs of the persons living with SPMI and their families. To achieve the objective of the study, the research design was based on a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, contextual research approach. Phase one includes describing and selecting the research population and the sampling process prior to conducting the field work which comprises individual interviews with persons living with SPMI and their families as well as PHC nurses. According to Dickoff, James and Weidenbach (1968:422) and Chinn and Kramer (1995:78), this strategy involves identifying concepts from fieldwork and creating conceptual meaning to provide a foundation for developing strategies to facilitate community-based care for persons living with mental illness. Phase two of the research design will focus on development of conceptual framework in order to allow better understanding of the phenomenon of interest, as the major concepts will be simplified by connecting all related concepts together by means of statements. This was done by making use of the themes identified during data analysis and the literature sources used throughout this research process. The evaluation criteria of Chinn and Kramer (2008:237-248) were used to evaluate the strategies. It is therefore concluded that the researcher succeeded in achieving the purpose of this study because strategies which were understandable, clear, applicable and relevant to the nursing practice have been developed for use by Department of Health and Primary Health Care to facilitate the multifaceted role of the PHC nurses.

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Tomsic, Rachel A. "Serving older adults with mental illness a review of approaches to case management /." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1114108729.

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Thesis (M.G.S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Sociology and Gerontology, 2005.<br>Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], iii, 36 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 30-31).

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Favreau, Marie-Diane Lucie. "The pre-shrinking of psychiatry : sociological insights on the psychiatric consumer/survivor movement (1970-1992) /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9935449.

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