Dissertations / Theses: 'Of Mental Hygiene'

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VALENTE, MARIA LUIZA CAMPOS DA SILVA. "PSYCHIACTRIC SOCIAL WORK: FROM MENTAL HYGIENE TO PSYCHOANALYSIS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 1993. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=8575@1.

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CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Este estudo é uma pesquisa histórica, que tenta reconstruir o nascimento do serviço social psiquiátrico nos Estados Unidos, a fim de identificar os antecedentes do Freudian deluge, ocorrido nos anos vinte, quando a psiquiatria psicanalítica torna-se o principal referencial dos assistentes sociais americanos. Neste contexto, identifica o movimento de higiene mental e os postulados higienistas de Adolf Meyer, como o principal antecedente histórico da influência da psicanálise no serviço social americano.
This study is a historical research that attempts to reconstruct the birth of a psychiatric social work in the United States in order to identify the historical background of the Freudian deluge in the twenties, a time in which psychoanalytical psychiatry becomes the main approach of the hygiene movement and the mental hygiene principles established by Adolf Meyer as the landmark of the influence of psychoanalysis in American social work.
El presente estudio es una investigación histórica que reconstruye el origen del servicio social psiquiátrico en los Estados Unidos, con el objetivo de identificar los antecedentes del Freudian deluge en los años veinte, cuando la psiquiatría psicoanalítica transformase en el principal referencial de los asistentes sociales americanos. En ese contexto, el trabajo identifica el movimiento de higiene mental y los postulados higienistas de Adolf Meyer, como los principales antecedentes históricos de la influencia del psicoanálisis en el servicio social americano.

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Moore, D. "Online resources for perinatal mental illness and stigma." Thesis, City, University of London, 2017. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/20395/.

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Perinatal mental illness is a global health issue with detrimental outcomes for women and their families if left untreated. Unfortunately, many women do not get the treatment they need for many reasons, one often acknowledged reason is that the stigma some women experience inhibits disclosure of their needs to healthcare providers. This thesis looked at Internet resources for women with perinatal mental illness, in particular online forums. It examined how forums might affect stigma and thus disclosure behaviour. This thesis is by prospective publication. Article 1 aimed to describe and interpret qualitative studies regarding forum use and perinatal mental illness stigma. A metasynthesis of five studies identified four key themes: a safe place to talk; virtual support; stigma and identity; and repair of the mother identity (Moore, Ayers & Drey, under review). Article 2 aimed to identify what websites about postnatal mental illness were available and assess them for content and quality. A systematic review of 114 websites evaluated accuracy of information, resources and website quality. Results showed information was largely incomplete and difficult to read; resources were limited and website quality was variable (Moore & Ayers, 2011). Article 3 aimed to determine how women with perinatal mental illness use web based resources. A qualitative interview study (n= 15) found that the anonymity and non-judgemental social support on forums may have made it an acceptable way to challenge internal stigma and that most women described forums as providing a space to discuss stigma and test out disclosing about their illness to others (Moore & Ayers, 2016). Article 4 therefore aimed to identify whether forums for perinatal mental illness reduce stigma and facilitate disclosure. Thematic analysis of 1546 posts over six months on a forum for postnatal mental illness suggested that forum discourse reconstructed ideology of motherhood as compatible with perinatal mental illness. Many women overcame stigma and posted that they had taken advice and disclosed to a healthcare provider (Moore, Ayers, & Drey, 2016). The final article developed and tested a hypothesised model of the relationship between stigma and disclosure about perinatal mental illness. Study 5 developed a questionnaire measure of stigma for perinatal mental illness in order to test the model. Questionnaire items were completed online by women with perinatal mental illness (n=279). Psychometric testing suggested it was a valid scale with three subscales: external, internal and disclosure stigma (Moore, Ayers, & Drey, 2017). Study 6 tested a hypothesised model that stigma would mediate the relationship between forum use and disclosure to healthcare providers. An online survey of women with perinatal mental illness (n=200) who had used forums provided partial support for this hypothesis, with internal stigma mediating the relationship between length of forum use and disclosure (Moore, Drey, & Ayers, 2017). This research highlights the importance of considering the stigma associated with perinatal mental illness and its role in online forum use and disclosure. Overall, findings suggest that forums may facilitate recognition of stigma, which may in turn lead to greater disclosure of symptoms to healthcare providers. However, the relationship between forum use, stigma and disclosure may be more complex than our initial model proposed. Similarly, most participants in these studies were white, well-educated and actively participated in the forums. Future studies would benefit from testing these relationships using longitudinal designs with more representative samples.

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Taylor, Gemma Maria June. "The association between smoking, smoking cessation and mental health." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5534/.

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Introduction: Smoking is a major risk factor for development of serious disease and smoking cessation greatly reduces this risk. The association between smoking, smoking cessation and mental health however, is less clear-cut, therefore this thesis aimed to further investigate this association. Methods: The first part of the thesis reports a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies to determine the difference in change in mental health between quitters and continuing smokers. The second part of the thesis reports three prospective analyses of individual level-patient data from five trials for smoking reduction treatment. The first analysis examined the association between cessation and change in mental health using propensity score matching (PSM). The second analysis examined the association between cessation and risk of psychiatric disorder using PSM. The final analysis examined the association between change in mental health after quitting and odds of relapse. Results and interpretations: Cessation was associated with improvements in mental health compared with continuing smoking; there was no association between cessation and risk of psychiatric disorder, and no association between change in mental health after cessation and future relapse. Results support the misattribution hypothesis, and have implications for future research, smoking cessation treatment and public health policy.

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Bělíčková, Helena. "Psychologické aspekty zaměstnání na Základní škole." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-74539.

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The aims of the Master's Thesis were: to analyze job satisfaction and to reveal the abidance by rules of mental hygiene among the employees of the primary school. The theoretical part describes basic concepts of job satisfaction, factors of job satisfaction and theories of work motivation. Questions of mental hygiene, factors of mental health and basic principles of good mental health are explained too. The practical part then discovers problematic factors of job satisfaction and critical points of mental hygiene among the employees of the primary school. The research was carried out thanks to these methods: the analysis of webpage, questionnaire surveys and an interview. The results of the research are well-arranged in tables, graphs and diagrams in the practical part. The most important findings and recommendation can be found in final parts and in the conclusion of this Master's Thesis.

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Richardson, Theresa Marianne Rupke. "The century of the child : the mental hygiene movement and social policy in the United States and Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27518.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the dynamics between professional knowledge and the power to construct social realities. The focus is on the institutions which contributed to mental hygiene as a protocol for public policies directed toward children. The social history of the child in the twentieth century is juxtaposed with shifts in the configurations of private and public institutions in a sociology of mental illness. The mental hygiene movement created one of the twentieth century's major paradigms. Mental hygiene was conceptualized as the development of a science of promoting mental health and preventing mental illness. The' working premise of the movement was that early life experiences determined adult competence and constituted the root cause of major social problems from crime and dependency to labour unrest and war. The National Committee for Mental Hygiene was established in the United States in 1909 and a second National Committee was established in Canada in 1918. Mental hygienists developed an ideology of child oriented prevention in public health, welfare and educational policies which legitimated public intervention into the private spheres of family relations and child rearing. The idea of mental hygiene was based on a medical model and as such it was part of the new psychiatry and public health movements of the Progressive Era. As a paradigm mental hygiene fostered the identification of children according to scientific standards. Mental hygiene contributed to the transformation of juvenile delinquency into a psychiatry of maladjustment in childhood. As a positivistic approach to public health, mental hygiene research elaborated criteria to determine age related stages of normal psychological and biological progress. Mental hygiene was a product of professional researchers and policy makers. The knowledge base of mental hygiene grew with the expansion of higher education in the United States especially in regard to scientific medicine. The medical model was subsequently applied to research in the behavioural and social sciences. Scientific philanthropy provided funds for research, professional education, and the distribution of knowledge. The accumulation of monetary resources by nineteenth century entrepreneurial capitalists, who applied these funds to further the growth of scientific models, were a sustaining factor in twentieth century mental hygiene. The agents of power described as part of the mental hygiene movement include: 1) the National Committees for Mental Hygiene in the United States and Canada; and, 2) general purpose foundations in Rockefeller related philanthropy and the Commonwealth Fund. By mid-century, the federal, state/provincial and local governments of the United States and Canada had assumed major aspects of the former role of the National Committees and philanthropy in mental health advocacy. The theoretical foundation of mental hygiene evolved in conjunction with the development of the scientific method as applied to preventive medicine, especially in fields related to psychiatry. Mental hygiene was a primary carrier of the medical model into applied disciplines in the social and health sciences. The professionalization of education, social welfare and psychology, as imbued with mental hygiene, translated technological change into revised concepts of public and private spheres in relationship to family and child life. The medicalization of human differences limited the potential for radical revisions in social organization. It justified unequal access to political and economic power on the basis of psychological and biological characteristics. The mental hygiene paradigm served to maintain established social configurations in the face of social change. The function of justifying inequalities was especially important in the United States but less so in Canada for reasons of the timing of nation-building, national history, character, and culture.
Education, Faculty of
Educational Studies (EDST), Department of
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Belan, Vladimír. ""Aplikace 7 návyků od Stephena Coveyho v praxi ve firmě Green Ways"." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-199941.

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Impulse to write master's thesis was effort to use knowledge from book "7 habits of highly effective people" by Stephen Covey in practice in company Green Ways. Experiment was chosen as method of research. The goal of master's thesis was verifying hypothesis that certain volume of (non)work activities should lead to better work results in concrete amount. Experimental stimulus as (non)work activities influenced experimental group (10 people from company Green Ways) but did not infulenced control group (another 10 people from company Green Ways). Research lasted from the 2nd September till 3rd November 2013. As conclusion it was realised that hypothesis was not confirmed. This certain volume of activities did not lead to supposed work results (quantitative results). As people from experimental group are concerned, side effect of research for them were different findings from (non)work topics (qualitative results of survey).

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Ainsworth, Marie K. "Feminine Discourse and the "Frequently Neglected Area" of Mental Hygiene in 1950s Ontario Elementary Health Textbooks." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23515.

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This thesis examines how mental hygiene principles were adopted for a student audience through the elementary-level health textbooks series, Health and Personal Development, used in Ontario schools from 1952 until 1963. In particular, I explore the didactic messages pertaining to mental hygiene as they related to girls. The results of this analysis demonstrate that healthy mental hygiene and personal development for girls, according to the textbooks, meant becoming wives, mothers, and homemakers, as their own mothers model. While these roles required many skills and responsibilities, and provided women with a certain amount of agency in the female-dominated sphere, girls were represented in the textbooks as having a limited set of options in life: to emulate their mothers’ feminine domesticity, or to risk a life marred by poor mental hygiene.

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Toms, Jonathan Paul. "Mental hygiene to civil rights : MIND and the problematic of personhood, c.1900 to c.1980." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1446618/.

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Johnson, Rebecca E. "Practicalities of public health practice and evaluation : the case of mental wellbeing in Coventry." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/61708/.

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There are gaps in the UK knowledge base for understanding the implementation and evaluation of public health interventions which aim to improve the mental health and wellbeing of participants. In this thesis I examine the measurement of mental wellbeing and the implementation of health improvement interventions in a community setting and investigate the practicalities of their evaluation using a measure of mental wellbeing -- WEMWBS. Methods: Using a mixed methods approach I collected and analysed i) three cross sectional surveys of Coventry residents, ii) quasi-experimental before and after outcome evaluations of three CHIP projects, and iii) undertook semi-structured interviews with CHIP stakeholders. Data were integrated using a matrix technique. Results: A total of 8188 individuals (~40% response rate) completed valid survey questionnaires in 2010-2012, while 590 individuals (~88% response rate) completed valid before-after mental wellbeing outcome evaluations in 2011 and 2012 from three CHIP projects. Fifteen one-on-one interviews were completed. I found that health and lifestyle variables ‘sleep quality’ ‘physical activity’ and ‘fruit and vegetable consumption’ showed the strongest and most consistent patterns of association with levels of mental wellbeing measured using WEMWBS. CHIP projects demonstrated associations between the intervention and increases in mental wellbeing, some of which were both statistically significant and clinically meaningful. Some were sustained at three months. Interview findings showed that the difference between the plans and the observed implementation practices resulted in some of the projects struggling to cope with the evolving and changing needs of the programme, for example moving from outputs to outcomes, introducing mental wellbeing and changing concepts of health, and the work required to achieve partnership with the local authority). The effect on programme level outcomes and outcome measurement of these struggles was a reduction in the number and quality of valid evaluation returns from some of the projects in the programme and reduced staff capacity to deliver project objectives. The introduction of mental wellbeing as an outcome measure created a momentum of change for understanding complex health interventions and outcomes among stakeholders; it assisted those delivering the CHIP programme to understand the underlying health improvement rationale for their programme better. Through integrating quantitative datasets I provided a benchmark from which to make comparisons between population estimates of WEMWBS and observed evaluation findings. Integrating quantitative evaluation process challenges and qualitative insights from stakeholder interviews allowed for complex issues to be ‘untangled’. Interrelated mechanisms affected facilitators and barriers of programme planning, implementation, evaluation and sustainability. Integrating my quantitative and qualitative findings highlighted some clear health benefits from the projects but also highlighted a lack of congruence between the documented linear, unidirectional and unrealistic operational planning which I found in CHIP at a programme level, compared to practical implementation on the ground, which was nonlinear, complex and dynamic. Conclusion: Iterative, transitional stages of programme development could benefit implementation processes and potentially health outcomes, including mental wellbeing, in future public health practice. Further research in this area should explore the extent to which complex, collective, and adaptive operational planning can result in more successful public health improvement programmes.

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Žilková, Eliška. "Návrh projektu zřízení centra duševní hygieny a relaxace v podmínkách ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-71845.

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This diploma work focuses on themes of psychic pressure, psychic health, mental hygiene and its exercise in the corporate practice. The main interest of the work is to survey the working conditions in the Czech Republic and to find main weaknesses in terms of stressful working environment. After analysing the main problems the work attempts to propose a solution -- the establishment of a Centre for Relaxation and Mental Hygiene for overstress bearing employees. The theoretical part of this work concentrates on the complex informational base of human psyche, work pressure and its all context, and also informs about principles of mental hygiene. The practical part tries to find out the level of awareness among the workforce in respect of mental hygiene as well as the prospective demand for services of the Centre for Relaxation and Mental Hygiene. The main contribution of this work is the attempt to inform the public about these issues and to propose a possible solution for mainly problematic working conditions in the Czech Republic.

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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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Saymah, Deya-Edeen. "A proposed approach for management of community mental health projects in areas of political conflict." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5729/.

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Background: The burden of mental disorders in post-conflict areas is higher than in countries where there is no conflict. Post-conflict areas lack the resources to respond to such high burden, resulting in a treatment gap. This study explored the potential for mental health reform in Gaza. Design: Mixed methods study. Methods: The WHO-AIMS questionnaire was used to assess mental health services in Gaza and documentary analysis was conducted to evaluate the Mental Health Policy and Plan. Healthcare professionals‟ mental health training needs were identified and policy makers, healthcare professionals, service users and carers took part in focus groups to elicit their perspectives on mental health reform. Framework analysis was used to identify recurrent themes. Results: Psychotherapy, recovery, family intervention and crisis management were rated priority training areas. Poor coordination between governmental and non-governmental organisations and short-term funding were identified as main barriers to mental health reform. Service users and carers felt excluded from service delivery and development and suggested possible models of partnership working with service providers to address exclusion. Conclusion: Meaningful mental health reform in post-conflict areas requires inclusive policy development, targeted staff training, improved coordination between different service providers, and partnership working between service providers and service users and carers.

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Doku, Paul Narh. "The mental health of orphans and vulnerable children within the context of HIV/AIDS in Ghana." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3629/.

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Background: The HIV/AIDS epidemic has contributed to a drastic increase in the number of orphans and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa. However, little is known about the mental health of these children in low prevalence areas such as Ghana. The thesis investigated the relationship between orphanhood, parental HIV/AIDS status and mental health. It further examined the mediating effects of identified risk and protective factors on the relationship between orphanhood/parental HIV/AIDS status and psychological difficulties. Finally, the thesis identified pathways through which HIV/AIDS impacts children by exploring the interactive and cumulative effects of the various risk and protective factors on psychological difficulties. Method: The thesis employed cross-sectional, quantitative interviews that involved 291 children aged 10-18 years and their caregivers that compared children who have lost their parents to AIDS, those who have lost their parents to other causes, those who are living with HIV/AIDS-infected caregivers and children from intact families in the Manya Krobo district in Ghana. ANOVAs, T-tests, General Linear Models, Log-linear Analyses, Chi-Squares and Bivariate Correlations were used to analyze the data that were obtained from both the children and their caregivers. Results After controlling for relevant socio-demographic factors, both children and informants’ reports showed that children orphaned by AIDS and those living with infected parents showed higher delinquency (p <.01), peer problems (p <.001), hyperactivity (p <.01) and lower self esteem (p <.001) than other orphans and children from intact families. AIDS orphans, other orphans and those living with HIV/AIDS-infected parents all reported significantly more depression (p <.001) and relationship problems (p <.001) than those for intact families. Conduct problems as indicated by informants’ reports were generally, significantly higher for orphans and vulnerable children compared to children from intact families. Over 70% of both AIDS orphans and children living with infected parents showed internalising symptoms that were above clinical cut-offs for abnormality. AIDS orphans and children living with infected parents reported more stigma, abuse, child labour and lower levels of SES and lower perceived social support. These factors independently, strongly mediated the relationship between orphanhood, parental HIV/AIDS status and mental health. The interactive and cumulative effect of engagement in child labour and being physically abused heightened the risks for depressive symptoms from 38% to 66%. Neglect and psychological abuse increased the risks for symptoms of Reactive Attachment Disorder from 26.6% to 67.3%. The cumulative effect of stigma and either child labour or physical abuse substantially increased the likelihood of delinquency symptoms to approximately 67%. Conclusion: The findings demonstrated that both AIDS orphans and children living with HIV/AIDS-infected parents showed heightened psychosocial symptoms. The present evidence also highlighted the interactive, cumulative, co-occurrence of contextual factors and HIV/AIDS unique exposures to create heightened vulnerabilities for psychological difficulties among children. The findings call for a comprehensive intervention programme that addresses factors specific to HIV/AIDS and contextual variables.

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Almeida, Adir da Luz. "Viajando pelo agridoce toque da ciência (o serviço de Ortofrenia e Higiene Mental no Rio de Janeiro de 1930: seus efeitos na escola, família, comunidade)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-28062011-102117/.

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O foco da pesquisa são as ações do Serviço de Ortofrenia e Higiene Mental, Seção do Instituto de Pesquisas Educacionais, da Diretoria Geral de Educação e Cultura do Rio de Janeiro de 1930, durante a chefia de Arthur Ramos (1934-1939). A intervenção do Serviço junto às chamadas Escolas Experimentais, buscou prevenir comportamentos considerados inadequados das crianças; objetivo que procura alcançar fazendo deslocamento conceitual de criança anormal para criança problema. Problemas que para o médico-antropólogo Arthur Ramos, e muitos dos seus colaboradores podem e devem ser resolvidos, já que são oriundos das relações produzidas pelos diversos grupos sociais dos quais as crianças fazem parte: família, escola, comunidade onde vivem Inicialmente levadas em seis escolas chamadas de experimentais, têm a pretensão de estender-se para todas as escolas públicas e, dessa forma, produzir, através da escola, novas formas de viver, agir, pensar na população em geral. A partir dos cinco anos que esteve à frente do SOHM, Ramos escreve o livro A Criança Problema, que tem como base empírica as fichas das crianças consideradas problemas. O tratamento teórico-metodológico dado ao trabalho advém da historiografia francesa ligada à história social e cultural no diálogo com a antropologia, buscando as contribuições da sociologia, da análise do discurso, e da micro-história italiana; utilizadas como ferramentas de trabalho, destacando o trabalho com as fontes. A articulação com a Antropologia tornou-se fundamental, para melhor vislumbrar as ações de Arthur Ramos, já que este buscou firmar-se no campo da Antropologia e seus escritos sobre educação é dirigido aos educadores, não sendo como educador que se identifica e nos seus combates políticos não é este lugar que busca ocupar. Buscar trançar foco e fundo constituiu-se no movimento da pesquisa e da escrita.
The focus of this research are the actions of the Service of Orthophrenia and Mental Hygiene (SOMH), Section of the Educational Researches Institute, from the General Board of Education and Culture of Rio de Janeiro of 1930, during the direction of Arthur Ramos (1934-1939). The intervention of the Service together with the so called Experimental Schools, sought for the prevention of behaviors considered inappropriate for children; goal that intends to achieve doing conceptual displacement of abnormal child to problematic child. Problems that for the physician-anthropologist Arthur Ramos, and many of his collaborators may and must be solved, since they result from relations produced by several social groups which the children belong to: family, school, community where they live. Initially, taken into six so-called experimental schools, they intend to expand to all public schools and, thus, produce, through school, new ways of living, acting and thinking of population in general. From the five years in which he was the head of SOMH Ramos writes the book A Criança Problema, which has as empirical basis the files of children considered problematic. The theoreticalmethodological treatment given to the work accrues from the French historiography connected to the social and cultural history in the dialog with anthropology, seeking for contributions from sociology, speech analysis, and from the Italian micro-history; used as work tools, highlighting the work with the sources. The articulation with Anthropology became essential for better understanding of the actions of Arthur Ramos, provided that he aimed to settle down in the field of Anthropology and his papers on education are addressed to educators, even though he is not identified as an educator himself and in his political struggles this is not the place he aims to engage. The search for connecting focus and funds constituted the movement of the research and the writing.

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David, Juliana Vital Abreu. "Pela criança, para a família: a intervenção científica no espaço privado através do Serviço de Ortofrenia e Higiene mental (1934-1939)." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2012. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=5509.

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Afirmar a sociedade brasileira nos quadros da modernidade foi o anseio de intelectuais de campos variados no contexto das décadas iniciais do século XX. Neste cenário, a educação era considerada uma via possível para promover mudanças de hábitos, conformando a população a partir dos referenciais modernos. Se a escola assumiu papel de destaque por ser um espaço a partir do qual seria possível educar a infância, a importância de outras instâncias educativas também era considerada, dentre as quais, destacamos a família, pensada como espaço fundamental de socialização. A educação ministrada no espaço privado deveria, no entanto, ser consoante com os ideais preconizados à época, para isso fazia-se necessário intervir sobre ele, educando os agentes do seu interior. Neste estudo, analisamos as ações encaminhadas pelo Serviço de Ortofrenia e Higiene Mental (SOHM), que funcionou no Rio de Janeiro, então Distrito Federal, no período de 1934 a 1939. Este Serviço, chefiado por Arthur Ramos, visava prevenir e corrigir os problemas dos escolares, considerando as relações culturais e sociais importantes para uma compreensão global destes indivíduos. Como as relações familiares e o espaço doméstico eram aspectos a serem conhecidos e modificados quando necessário e, como os pais eram chamados a colaborar com as ações do Serviço de formas diversas, buscamos analisar estratégias variadas destinadas a intervir no espaço doméstico, focalizando as prescrições voltadas a este e alguns aspectos da dinâmica estabelecida nas relações entre as famílias e a escola, através do SOHM.
Affirm the Brazilian society in the tables of modernity was the desire of intellectuals from various fields in the context of the early decades of the twentieth century. In this scenario, education was considered a possible way to promote changes in habits, shaping the population from modern references. If the school has taken a prominent role to be a place from which you could educate the children, the importance of other educational institutions were also considered, among which we highlight the family, thought of as fundamental space for socializing. The education given in private should, however, be consonant with the ideals advocated at the time, for that it was necessary to intervene in it, educating agents inside. In this study, we analyzed the actions directed by the Office of Ortofrenia and Mental Hygiene (SOHM), who worked in Rio de Janeiro, then the Federal District, in the period 1934-1939. This service, led by Arthur Ramos, aimed at preventing and correcting the problems of school, considering the cultural and social relations are important for a global understanding of these individuals. As family relationships and domestic space were aspects to be known and modified as needed and as parents were asked to help with the actions of service in various forms, we analyze various strategies designed to intervene in the domestic space, focusing on the requirements aimed at this and some practical aspects of the relationship established between families and school through the SOHM.

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Cook, Adam. "Cannabis use amongst individuals with severe mental health problems : reasons for use and motivational based interventions." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1454/.

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Motivational based approaches have been shown to be effective in reducing problematic behaviours in the general population. The present study reviewed 31 studies that aimed to reduce a number of problematic behaviours amongst individuals with severe mental health problems. Evidence supporting the efficacy of motivational based approaches in increasing adherence to medication was inconsistent. In the minority of studies where an increase in medication adherence was reported, the duration of effect appeared to decline over time. The evidence from the studies that aimed to reduce substance use was more consistent. A number of other positive outcomes were reported reductions in: dependence, general functioning and mental health symptomatology. The empirical paper presents a quantitative study that aimed to look at the reasons for cannabis use amongst individuals with and without severe mental health problems. It was found that the motivations for using cannabis did not differ between the two groups; both using cannabis to cope with negative affect, for pleasure and for social reasons. However, individuals with severe mental health problems differed in that they expected cannabis to be more ‘socially and sexually facilitative’. Irrespective of mental health status, participants who used cannabis more problematically endorsed more coping and pleasure motives.

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Silva, Juliana da Rocha e. "A concep??o de ensino sob medida na obra hygiene mental e educa??o (1927), de Luiz Ant?nio dos Santos Lima." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2013. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/14572.

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This dissertation examines the concept of the personalized teaching proposed by the physician and educator from Rio Grande do Norte Luiz Antonio dos Santos Lima, in his doctoral thesis "Mental Hygiene and Education," published in 1927. To do so, we start from the assumption that this thinker appropriated part of the educational theory formulated by ?douard Clapar?de - specifically, in the case of the teaching concepts of the personalized teaching and comprehensive education designed by the Swiss intellectual - and, considering the Brazilian social reality of early twentieth century, reframed these concepts, adapting them to the country context. To implement the proposed idea, the bibliographical study was the option chosen, and so was done through a theoretical research which had as a reference authors whose studies referred to the Brazilian historical moment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, our examined time frame. As for the understanding and the methodological analysis of discourse, seen as socially constructed, the Foucault postulations were studied under an analytical approach, in which the disciplinary society is analyzed from the relations of power and knowledge that exist in it. The main source of this research was the work of "Mental Hygiene and Education," published as a requirement to the obtainment of Luiz Antonio s medical degree by the Rio de Janeiro Medicine School. Thus, it was found that the conception of personalized learning to the comprehensive education of students, as proposed in the doctoral thesis of Luiz Antonio dos Santos Lima, was related to abnormalities of mental character that children could present. School education was thought in a way by the potiguar thinker that it could be applied as deep as the moral, intellectual and behavioral deviations of the individual were, making use of hygiene practices of the minds through a normalizing process towards a civilized and developed future of the Brazilian nation which would manage, watch and fix the thoughts of the school students
Esta disserta??o examina a concep??o de ensino sob medida proposta pelo m?dico e educador potiguar Luiz Antonio dos Santos Lima, em sua tese de doutoramento Hygiene Mental e Educa??o , publicada no ano de 1927. Para tanto, partimos da hip?tese de que esse pensador apropriou-se de parte da teoria educacional formulada por ?douard Clapar?de especificamente, dos conceitos de ensino sob medida e educa??o completa pensados pelo su??o e, considerando a realidade social brasileira do in?cio do s?culo XX, ressignificou esses conceitos, adaptando-os ao contexto do pa?s. Para a execu??o do proposto, optou-se pelo estudo bibliogr?fico, no qual foi feito o aporte te?rico da investiga??o, tendo como refer?ncia os autores cujos estudos remetiam ao momento hist?rico brasileiro do final do s?culo XIX e in?cio do s?culo XX, nosso recorte temporal. Quanto ? compreens?o e tratamento metodol?gico do discurso, tido como socialmente constru?do, aderiu-se ao enfoque anal?tico das postula??es foucaultianas, nas quais a sociedade disciplinar ? analisada a partir das rela??es de poder e saber nela existente. A principal fonte de pesquisa foi a obra Hygiene Mental e Educa??o , publicada como requisito da Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro para Luiz Antonio obter o diploma de m?dico. Desse modo, constatou-se que a concep??o de ensino sob medida para a educa??o completa dos escolares, proposta na tese de doutoramento de Luiz Antonio dos Santos Lima, estava relacionada ?s anormalidades de car?ter mental que as crian?as pudessem apresentar. O ensino escolar pensado pelo potiguar seria na medida dos desvios morais, intelectuais e comportamentais do indiv?duo e faria uso das pr?ticas de higieniza??o das mentes num processo normalizador que, voltado para o futuro civilizado e desenvolvido da na??o brasileira, controlaria, vigiaria e corrigiria os pensamentos dos escolares

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Piuva, Katarina. "Normalitetens gränser : En studie om 1900-talets mentalhygieniska diskurser." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm University, Department of Social Work, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-445.

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The comprehensive aim of the dissertation is to examine how ideas about mental hygiene have been elaborated and debated within the context of Swedish welfare. The dissertation is a compilation of four articles where issues of mental hygiene are examined in detail through an analysis of texts. In addition, a theoretical and methodological framework and a discussion of the concepts of mental health and normality are asserted to the dissertation. The subjects of research are (1) the launching of the movement in USA in the early twentieth, and the autobiographical narrative "A Mind That Found Itself" (Beers 1908), (2) the conception and the evolution of the movement in Sweden, (3) the psychosocial training within the education of social workers between the years 1939 –1989, and (4) the debate about the Mental health Campaign in 1969. The issues of mental hygiene and mental health discussed in the articles are elaborated in relation to the academic disciplines of Sociology of Health and Illness and the History of Public Health. The theoretical approach of these disciplines proceeds from a post-structural and social constructivist perspective of knowledge and language, a perspective also used in the interpretation of the textual materials. The section where the research methods are presented, consists of a description of how the textual materials have been selected and treated in relation to the theoretical and methodological standpoints.

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"A Mind That Found Itself" (Beers 1908) in relation to the launching of the movement in the USA, is that the monomyth-character of the story supported an image of victory and hope, important for the movements aims to improve the reputation of psychiatry. Concerning the launching of the mental hygiene movement in Sweden two important conditions stands out as the course behind the rather hesitant start: the dominant position of custodial care and the antagonistic attitude towards psychoanalytical theories. The study of the psychosocial training of social workers showed how the skills of the clinical gaze were taught to the students by the technique of case-writing. The study of the Mental Health campaign in 1969 showed important divergences concerning the opinions of normality. Since the individual anatomy in the welfare system in Sweden is organised through the individuals position within the labour market, the issues of mental health and allied opinions of normality also contained the risks of exclusion. In conclusion, a comprehensive reflection concerning the results of the studies, is that the concept of mental hygiene, due to the mix of psychiatric and social knowledge, mediated shifting ideas about normality.

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Moth, Richard Robert. "'The Business End' : perspectives on mental distress in the context of neoliberal restructuring of community mental health services." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5274/.

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Contemporary neoliberal reconfigurations of statutory mental health services involve significant organisational changes. Based on findings from twelve months fieldwork within a community mental health team, the thesis examines the effects of this new service landscape on the way conceptualisations of mental distress are utilised and articulated. The thesis combines critical realist epistemology and reflexive ethnographic method to produce a contextually situated understanding of the field capturing the dynamic relationships between concepts, agents and the context of action. This draws on and extends Rhodes’ ‘pentimento’ (1993) as a conceptual framework for understanding mental health practice. It argues the mental health team is a ‘differentially sedimented structural institution’ in which practitioners and service users navigate a field of contradictions defined by four strata: the custodial system of the asylum; the biomedical treatment system of the hospital; community care within the Keynesian welfare state; and neoliberal welfare reconfigurations. These are conceptualised as ideological positions that coexist within practitioners as alternative modes of thinking and operate in a relationship of mutual tension. Practice should be understood as a process shaped by mechanisms at different levels of scale from micro to macro, and involving movement between these overlapping and co-existing strata of historically sedimented meaning.

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Kuncová, Kateřina. "Duševní hygiena manažera ve stavebnictví." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-240024.

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This thesis deals with the issue of mental hygiene of the construction engineering manager from various angles. The theoretical part defines and describes characteristics of management and mental hygiene. The practical part contains hypothesis related to mental hygiene. Based on the hypothesis, there was compiled and evaluated a questionnaire. That was the main basis for the evaluation of hypotheses. The result is a summary of findings about mental hygiene of the construction engineering managers.

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Boyer, Duane, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Defining moments in men's lives: A study of personal narratives." Deakin University, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050727.123714.

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This study explores the defining moments in six mens lives. The empirical dimension of the research is built around the personal narratives these men tell of their lives across a series of four interviews. The central research theme is the notion of the defining moment as a key element in the processes of establishing how men understand and interpret the events and incidents that have shaped their lives. In the context of this study, the defining moment is seen as the moment or period in time when an individual gives definition to a specific event or experience, as a transition point with (potentially) life-altering consequences. Some of the thematic structures presented include relationships with significant adults (parents, teachers), masculinity, self-harm, schooling, mental illness, isolation, loneliness, stress and relationships with peers. In my pursuit of a methodology that could accommodate the aims of this study, I explored the process of meaning through the qualitative paradigm. Drawing on the principles of qualitative research, as applied through narrative inquiry, I deployed a semi-structured interview format to collect the lived experiences of participants. By privileging the stories that individuals tell of their experiences, the narrative method recognises that data are inexorably located in the contextual and contingent. The experiences and narratives that are presented in this thesis are built around the authentic voices of participants. The study presents a warrant for working with mens defining moments to disrupt, alter and redefine their attitudes and behaviours in order to improve their lives. Based on the insights gleaned through this study, I argue that there are defining times/points in peoples lives where their experiences can be life altering. When these experiences involve uncertainty, anxiety, stress and other pernicious effects, their longer-term consequences can be devastating. The study confirms existing research, that men are reluctant to seek help or reveal their insecurities during such times, therefore making them particularly vulnerable to defining moments. The conclusion of this thesis establishes some broad recommendations pertaining to working effectively with men and their defining moments. I focus particular attention on the place of schooling and education in helping individuals recognise and respond to the early symptoms of what is potentially a life-altering experience. Schools and, by association, teachers need to be actively and strategically involved in this process. To this end, I argue the need for targeted interventions that are both sensitive and timely. In their engagements with young males, parents, teachers, coaches and mentors need to be particularly attuned to their silent screams for help.

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Joiner, Rachel Elizabeth. "Identity and social networking sites : the roles of alcohol use, mental health, and personality." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7686/.

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This thesis is submitted as part of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Birmingham and consists of two volumes. Volume I contains the research component of this thesis and consists of a systematic literature review, empirical research paper, and public dissemination document. The systematic review found that content on social networking sites can provide researchers with tentative information about the psychopathology and personality traits of the user. However, research displaying greater internal and external validity is required before this information could reliably inform the development of targeted online public health information or interventions. The research paper presents a study exploring the relationships between drinking identity, alcohol use, mental health symptoms, and alcohol content in social networking site pictures, in a community sample of young females. Drinking identity may be an important factor to consider in alcohol reduction and prevention efforts. The public dissemination document provides an accessible overview of the review and research paper. Volume II consists of five Clinical Practice Reports (CPRs). CPR I presents a Cognitive-Behavioural and Systemic formulation for a 21-year-old female experiencing low mood. CPR II presents a service evaluation of non-attendance to psychological assessment appointments in an adult community mental health setting. CPR III presents a single-case research design to assess the effects of a Positive Behavioural Support intervention with a 40-year-old female displaying behaviour that challenges. CPR IV presents a case study of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with a 69-year-old female experiencing chronic pain and depression. CPR V presents a presentation abstract for a case study of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with a 31-year-old female experiencing Bulimia Nervosa.

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Sunshine, Megan. "An empirical investigation into task aversion." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006085.

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Aversion is a complex phenomenon that arises over time through performance of cognitively demanding tasks and has been associated with the mechanisms of mental fatigue and compensatory control. However, little is known about this sensation to dissociate from the task at hand and the causation thereof. It is apparent that aversion is a negative state for the operator and could result in decreased performance and productivity. Through identification of factors that contribute to aversion when performing cognitively demanding tasks, recommendations to reduce design deficits may be employed to promote worker wellbeing and further advance performance and productivity. The current study examined possible factors that may influence aversion experienced through execution of cognitive tasks. A subsequent aim of this study was to assess a possible cause of aversion. The cause of aversion was hypothesized to be related to efficiency, namely the perception of efficiency when performing tasks and actual efficiency calculated through performance of tasks in relation to the expenditure of effort. Four investigations were undertaken with a non-repeated design between investigations and a repeated design within investigations. The first investigation was an analysis of the effect that stimulus cycling had on the aversion experienced. This consisted of a proof reading task with two conditions varying in the repetitiveness of the text, therefore, allowing an analysis as to how aversion is altered by the provision of a new stimulus to the participants. Investigation two investigated the effect that task difficulty imposed on aversion experienced. This comprised of two conditions with varied difficulty that were implemented through a driving simulator tracking task with difficulty altered by the width of the driving lane. The effect of performance feedback on the aversion experienced towards a task was the focus of the third investigation. The effect on aversion experienced was assessed through a driving simulator tracking task with a condition providing feedback of performance to participants and a condition with no knowledge of performance. The final experiment evaluated the effect of task alternations on aversion. This experiment was conducted through alternations between a driving simulator tracking task and a choice reaction task. The choice reaction tasks required participants to identify critical and non-critical stimulus. Four conditions were required for this experiment and were made up of two conditions where there was provision of alternation that varied in frequencies between the two tasks (medium alternation condition and fast alternation condition) and two conditions where no alternations were instated (driving simulator task condition and choice reaction task condition). Separations between all testing conditions were three or more days apart with sixty participants distributed between the investigations. Test duration of each condition was 30 minutes. Subjective data was recorded throughout investigations for all conditions in the form of aversion, subjectively perceived efficiency and rate of perceived exertion. Objective data was collected in the form of physiological responses and performance of tasks for the analysis of objective efficiency. For factors influencing aversion analysis, no differences in aversion experienced were found for the task difficulty and performance feedback investigations. Aversion was found to be less for the changes imposed through the task cycles and task alternation investigations. This concludes that aversion is aggravated through monotonous tasks and by a change of the stimulus or the structure of the cognitive tasks provided to operators; aversion can be alleviated. The results for the cause of aversion analysis found no difference in objective efficiency over time, with a subsequent decrease in perceived efficiency associated with the increasing aversion. Inference from these findings suggest that aversion cannot be attributed to objective inefficiency of task performance, however it can further be assumed that perception of actual efficiency is inaccurate. Perception of efficiency however had a large influence on the sensation of aversion. Aversion is seen to be more of a product of time on task, however whether this is mechanism of fatigue or compensatory control is still to be determined.

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Blažková, Martina. "Duševní hygiena v manažerské praxi." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-75483.

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This diploma thesis focuses on problems of mental hygiene in the current managerial practices. The theoretical part reveals to readers basic concepts and background to this isme for more understanding. It deals gradually with the role of mental hygiene in an individual life, self-knowledge and selfmanagement, and last but not least, managerial practice. The main practical part presents three case studies, relating to mental hygiene and its application in the world of managers. Research objective is trough a semi-structured interviews with managers to identify to which extent they apply mental hygiene in personal and professional life. After the discovery of deficiencies will attempt to find concrete advice and recommendations needed to improve some of the monitored questions. Finally will be respondents collating and analyzing each other. The main contribution of this thesis is a real insight into the life of managers and the discovery of the importance and the role attributed to mental hygiene.

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Koonce, Glenn L. "The effects of a structured wellness program on physical and mental well-being of public school teachers and staff members." Diss., This resource online, 1986. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-140001/.

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Morris-Paxton, Angela Ann. "Impact of a holistic lifestyle management education programme on health and education outcomes of socioeconomically disadvantaged university students." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/11909.

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Disorders of lifestyle are increasing globally; countries in transition are suffering the double burden of both contagious and chronic disorders. The utilization of health education to address these issues has had variable results, but the most successful have incorporated human contact. The aim of this study was to measure the quantitative and qualitative impact of a wellness promotion programme on university students. The objective was to provide a structured facilitated holistic wellness education programme to a sample of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in Higher Education in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Using a pragmatic mixed methodological approach to this critical evaluation, the impact on both wellness and academic progress was measured. Initial demographic data was gathered via a biographical questionnaire, pre- and post-intervention measurement of wellness, using the Wellness Questionnaire for Higher Education, as well as a semi-structured qualitative questionnaire and transcripts of academic results. Quantitative data was analysed using SPSS analysis software and qualitative data using the NVivo analysis package. The findings were that all students improved throughout the year in their overall wellness scores, in particular in areas such as avoiding excessive sun exposure and increasing the amount of physical exercise. This corresponded with an increase in the value that the participants attached to information on these aspects of wellness, which was attributed to the programme. Results revealed that there was a weak correlation between student wellness measured at the year-end and academic success overall, but a strong correlation between student wellness and academic success for the students that gained the highest marks. Analysis of the dimensions of wellness that correlated best with student success revealed that there was a particularly strong correlation between year-end career wellness and year-end academic success. In conclusion it was found that a positive and holistic salutogenic wellness education programme increased levels of student wellness overall, which translated into student academic success. The link between wellness and success was particularly strong in students that gained higher marks. Recommendations include that first-year higher education students receive a positive wellness education programme built into the curriculum of their first year of study and that the overall impact be monitored across a broader spectrum of students over the duration of their diploma or degree programme.

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Saidi, Marya. "No place like HOME : specialist Housing services for people with mental health problems, Outcomes, Movements and Experiences." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/914/.

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Background: No exact and reliable data exists on the characteristics and needs of people with mental health problems in England living in specialist housing services (SHSs). Aims: To describe the cohort of service users’ with mental illness aged 18 to 65 living in various types of SHSs (care homes, supported housing, and Shared Lives schemes) as well as their housing satisfaction, taking into account their social inclusion, and social networks. Pathways into SHSs were accounted for: delayed discharge, referrals and move-on accommodation where applicable. Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted - using interview schedules designed for the purpose of this study - with 86 service users and 40 managers of SHSs within 7 areas of England. Analysis: Based on a mixed-methods approach: each interview was coded and string variables were turned into quantifiable ones; anonymised quotes from service users and managers were included in the body of the text. Main analysis is quantitative, with a secondary qualitative study, using framework analysis. Results: Differing support levels influenced service users’ experiences and pathways into SHSs, as well as the outlooks of managers. Analyses revealed several aspects mediating housing satisfaction. Many service users were not very well integrated in the community although managers held different views. Some service users were very much reliant on staff and had small social networks. Discrimination was still persistent and recent policy initiatives, in terms of funding, housing, benefits and employment held a negative impact. Preferences of service users were for the most part not taken into account. Conclusions: Further research is needed with regard to BME groups as well as other SHSs settings like Shared Lives schemes. Data should be more systematically collected and in more detail and barriers to employment should be tackled. Better advocacy and information for service users should be established.

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Craig, Pauline M. "An exploration of primary care policy and practice for reducing inequalities in mental health." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/287/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2007.
Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Community-Based Sciences, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.

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Graham, Andrew J. 1964. "Physical fitness of adults with an intellectual disability : a 13 year follow-up study." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35318.

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The purpose of this study was to describe the physical fitness of middle-aged adults with an intellectual disability and how their state of fitness has changed over time. Thirty-two adults with an intellectual disability served as participants: 14 were female and 18 were male. Participants had an age range from 34 to 57 years. All worked at a readaptation center in Montreal and were participants in a study of physical fitness in 1983. Using the "Canadian Standardized Test of Fitness", the participants were evaluated on tests of Cardiovascular Endurance, Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, Flexibility, and Body Composition. All participants were deemed physically capable of performing all the tests after a screening procedure was used. A home visit, previous to the testing session, familiarized the participants with the procedures for each test. The battery of tests took one hour per participant. Three levels of analysis were used to describe the change in physical fitness with age: First, the conversion of raw scores into percentiles highlighted individual differences within the group. Second, to assess the change in fitness over time, a 2 x 2 (group x time) repeated measures design was used. Third, effect sizes were calculated to measure the magnitude of change in fitness over the 13 year period as compared to the general population. Results indicate that, when compared to the general population, the participants had lower levels of fitness and that their fitness had changed significantly over time. Most interesting were results showing that the participants had a significantly greater magnitude of change in VO2max and percent body fat than what is expected in the general population. The findings of this study raise concerns regarding the potential health risks associated with aging and poor fitness for adults with an intellectual disability.

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Hugo, Charmaine June. "Mental health literacy and attitudes of human resource practitioners in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53498.

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Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: South African companies need to contend with numerous transformation and development issues since the country's re-entry into the international marketplace. One component that is receiving increasing attention is the wellbeing of employees in the drive to remain competitive within the global economy. This study argues that mental illness is a component of employee wellbeing that has been ignored, even though these conditions are highly prevalent and costly to businesses. The lack of recognition, research and information about mental illness in the workplace raises questions about the knowledge and orientation of human resource (HR) practitioners. This study therefore aimed to investigate and describe the mental health literacy and attitudes ofHR practitioners in South Africa. Methodology: This study had a descriptive purpose and employed a sample survey research design to distribute a mail questionnaire to a randomly selected sample of human resource practitioners registered with the South African Board for Personnel Practice (SABPP). The measuring instrument comprised mental health literacy and attitudes scales that have been extensively researched and reported to have sound psychometric properties. Three vignettes portraying mental disorders selected for their relevance to the business world (i.e., depression, panic disorder and alcohol abuse) were used as aids to achieving the research aim. A standard statistical package (SPSS 10.0) was utilised to determine descriptive and inferential statistics with an accepted 5% level of significance. Results: A response rate of 31% was achieved yielding an equal distribution of responses across the study vignettes. HR practitioners who acted as respondents to this study were found to be illiterate regarding mental illness and to hold subtle negative attitudes towards the mentally ill. Less than 10% could recognise mental illness as opposed to the majority who regarded the behaviour in the vignettes as normal responses. Whereas just over a third could correctly name the diagnosis described in the vignettes, only 7% were able to identify panic disorder. Most respondents believed that psychosocial stress factors caused mental illness, while only 29% where of the opinion that biological factors had a role in the aetiology of mental illness. Respondents favoured psychological and lifestyle treatment strategies and opposed medical treatments, irrespective of the type of mental illness presented with. Although as a group respondents showed mainly positive attitudes towards the mentally ill, evidence was found that the commonly held myths of danger/violence and the irresponsible/ childlike nature of the mentally ill were adhered to. Conclusions: The HR field should take cognisance of the reality of mental illness. Urgent steps need to be taken to adequately equip HR practitioners and students with both evidencebased knowledge and a positive orientation to enable the effective management of these conditions in the workplace. Attention should be given to addressing common mistruths and misconceptions, and to creating an awareness of the significant role that the HR practitioner can play in timeously recognising and appropriately dealing with employee mental health problems so that companies can benefit by the optimal utilisation of human resources.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Agtergrond: Suid-Afrikaanse maatskappye het te doen met verskeie transformasie- en ontwikkelings aangeleenthede sedert die land se terugkeer na die internasionale mark. Die welstand van werkers is 'n aspek wat toenemend aandag verkry met hierdie strewe om mededingend te bly in die globale ekonomie. Hierdie studie argumenteer dat geestessiekte as 'n komponent van werkerwelstand geïgnoreer word, alhoewel dit algemeen voorkom en besighede heelwat geld kos. Die beperkte herkenning, navorsing en inligting oor geestessiekte in die werkplek lei tot vrae omtrent die kennis en inslag van Menslike Hulpbron- (MR) praktisyns. Derhalwe, ondersoek en beskryf hierdie studie die kennis en houding jeens geestesgesondheid van MH-praktisyns in Suid-Afrika. Metodologie: Hierdie studie se doel is beskrywend van aard en maak gebruik van 'n steekproef opname navorsingsontwerp. 'n Vraelys is gepos aan 'n ewekansig gesellekteerde steekproef van MH-praktisyns wat geregistreer is by die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad vir Personeelpraktyk. Die meetinstrument bestaan uit geestesgesondheid kennis- en houdingskale wat ekstensief nagevors is en wat beskryf is om goeie psigometriese eienskappe te besit. Drie gevaUestudies van geestessteurings relevant tot die besigheidswêreld (depressie, panieksteuring en alkoholmisbruik) is gebruik as hulpmiddels om die navorsingsdoeiwit te bereik. Standaard statistiese sagteware (SPSS 10.0) is gebruik om beskrywende en afleidende statistiek te bepaal met 'n aangenome 5% vlak van betekenisvolheid. Bevindings: Altesaam 31% van vraelyste is beantwoord en dit was eweredig verdeel tussen die verskillende gevallestudies. MH-praktisyns wat deelgeneem het aan hierdie studie het swak kennis omtrent geestessiekte en subtiele negatiewe houdings ten opsigte van persone met geestesiekte getoon. Minder as 10% kon geestessiekte identifiseer teenoor die meerderheid wat die gedrag in die gevallestudies as normaal beskou het. Net oor 'n derde kon die diagnose korrek benoem en slegs 7% kon panieksteuring korrek identifiseer. Meeste van die respondente het geglo dat psigososiale stresfaktore geestessiekte veroorsaak, terwyl net 29% van mening was dat biologiese faktore 'n rol speel in die etiologie van geestessiekte. Respondente het psigologiese en lewensstyl behandelingsmodaliteite verkies bo mediese behandeling en dit was onafhanklik van die tipe geestessteuring wat voorgekom het. Alhoewel die respondente as 'n groep hoofsaaklik 'n positiewe houding getoon het ten opsigte van persone met geestessiekte, was daar bewyse dat algemene mites ondersteun is en dat persone met geestessiekte beskou is as gevaarlik/aggressief en as onverantwoordeliklkinderlik. Gevolgtrekkings: Die MH veld moet die realiteit van geestessiekte aanvaar. Dringende stappe moet geneem word om MH-praktisyns en studente te voorsien van uitkomsgebaseerde kennis en 'n positiewe houding sodat effektiewe hantering van hierdie toestande kan plaasvind in die werkplek. Algemene onwaarhede en miskonsepsies moet aangespreek word en die bewustheid van die betekenisvolle rol van die MH-praktisyn moet benadruk word. Geestesgesondheidsprobleme van die werker moet betyds herken word en toepaslik gehanteer word sodat maatskappye voordeel kan trek uit die optimale gebruik van menslike hulpbronne.

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David, Emiliano de Camargo. "Saúde mental e racismo: a atuação de um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial II Infantojuvenil." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2018. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/21029.

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This paper considers the assumption that racism, in relation to power and the attempt to keep privileges, produces subjectivities and might generate psychic suffering, affecting (also) black children and teenagers and their territories. The aim of this research was to discuss the relationship between psychosocial care and racism through the perspective of those who work at a juvenile Psychosocial Care Centre II (CAPSij). In order to do that, an institutional perspective of analysis was favoured, one that sees racism as an institution, as a logic of production and reproduction of social interactions. To achieve the objectives, a review of the literature about psychology and racial interactions was carried out, highlighting the relationship between insanity and the black population, as well as the relationship between racism and health care inequities and the empiric study in a CAPSij. The study used the following procedures: participant observation; reading of medical records; partaking in meetings and staff interviews, with the intention of: characterizing possible psychic sufferings related to racism; using colour/race as an item in the planning of Singular* Therapeutic Projects (STP) for users under care; psychosocial interventions to fight racism. The material collected was organized into two thematic axes: the first, based in two cases brought by professionals, discusses how the team think the relationship between psychic suffering and racism and how they develop their intervention; the second approaches the dimensions of the service organization and of the political-institutional sphere. The ongoing interventions and therapeutic projects at the CAPSij suggest that the ethical-political dimension of the anti-asylum fight already takes into consideration the effects of racism within their commitment with the freedom practices and refusal of exclusion and violence processes. However, they also suggest that seeing the effects of racism as an anti-asylum issue, which is being called a CAPS assembly, might augment the power of actions in health care that contributes to the promotion of racial equity and to the deinstitutionalisation of racism
Este trabalho parte do pressuposto que o racismo, enquanto relação de poder e sustentação de privilégios, produz subjetividades, podendo gerar sofrimento psíquico, afetando (inclusive) crianças e adolescentes negros e seus territórios. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi discutir as relações entre atenção psicossocial e racismo na perspectiva dos profissionais de um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial II Infantojuvenil (CAPSij). Para tanto, foi privilegiada uma perspectiva institucional de análise, a que pensa o racismo como instituição, como lógica de produção e reprodução das relações sociais. Para o alcance dos objetivos, foi realizada revisão de literatura sobre psicologia e relações raciais, com destaque para a relação entre loucura e população negra e a relação entre racismo e iniquidades em saúde, bem como um estudo empírico em um CAPSij. O estudo teve como procedimentos: observação participante; leitura dos prontuários; participação em reuniões e entrevistas com a equipe, com a intenção de: caracterização dos possíveis sofrimentos psíquicos relacionados ao racismo; utilização do quesito cor/raça no planejamento dos Projetos Terapêuticos Singulares (PTS) dos(as) usuários(as) atendidos(as); e identificação das intervenções psicossociais de enfrentamento do racismo. O material colhido foi organizado em dois eixos temáticos: o primeiro, com base na apresentação de dois casos trazidos pelos profissionais, aborda o modo como a equipe pensa as relações entre sofrimento psíquico e racismo, e como desenha sua intervenção; o segundo aborda dimensões da organização do serviço e da esfera político-institucional. As intervenções e os projetos terapêuticos em andamento no CAPSij sugerem que a dimensão ético-política da luta antimanicomial já acolhe os efeitos do racismo na medida dos seus compromissos com as práticas de liberdade e da recusa dos processos de exclusão e de violência. No entanto, sugerem também que a tomada dos efeitos do racismo como uma questão antimanicomial, o que se chamou de uma aquilombação dos CAPS, pode ampliar a potência de um agir em saúde que contribua para a promoção da equidade racial e para a desinstitucionalização do racismo

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Kimmel, Ainslee. "Mental health perceptions of rural community members and firefighting personnel after a wildfire." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, c2012, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/3285.

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Wildfires in Canada and around the world are increasing in frequency each year from factors such as accumulated fuel load, climate changes, and pine beetle infestation. Due to an increased proportion of individuals living in the wildland–urban interface areas within Canada and due to the increasing need for firefighters to fight the growing number of fires that burn each year, the potential threat for humans is also becoming greater. Conducted on the 2009 West Kelowna, British Columbia wildfires, this descriptive, exploratory, qualitative study incorporates quantitative validity measurements to investigate factors related to individual variations in psychological distress and posttraumatic growth (PTG). The findings revealed that perception of control, social support, compounding stressors (i.e., dual roles, ongoing responsibilities and personal issues), and coping methods (i.e., debriefing, humour, self-care behaviours, and reflection) were precursors to psychological health and resilience. Since wildfires are increasing in Canada as well as on a global scale, understanding how they affect residents and firefighting personnel from a mental health perspective is important to research, as it can lead to identifying more effective interventions, better provision of disaster relief services, and increase individual resilience.
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Tamano, Luana Tieko Omena. "\"Manter normal a criança normal e normalizar a desajustada\": Arthur Ramos e o Serviço de Ortofrenia e Higiene Mental, 1934-1939." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-23112018-103312/.

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Com esta tese, busca-se refletir sobre o trabalho desenvolvido pelo médico alagoano Arthur Ramos (1903-1949) frente ao Serviço de Ortofrenia e Higiene Mental (SOHM), no recorte temporal de 1934 a 1939, período que corresponde tanto à fundação e término do Serviço quanto ao tempo em que Ramos foi seu diretor. Almeja-se entender qual foi o papel desempenhado por ele no Serviço: de sua criação ao seu término, passando por sua construção operacional, metodologia de trabalho, equipe, métodos teóricos utilizados, abordagem realizada e os trabalhos desenvolvidos. Sustenta-se a hipótese de que o SOHM foi criado e funcionou como um serviço auxiliar à reforma educacional Anísio Teixeira no intuito de normalizar os escolares matriculados nas escolas experimentais, lócus da reforma, classificados como desajustados. Para alcançar estes objetivos, utilizou-se como fontes os escritos de Ramos; as fichas ortofrênicas dos alunos assistidos pelo SOHM e o Diário de uma das alunas. Estas séries documentais possibilitaram uma compreensão daquela instituição em sua integridade, abarcando seus objetivos, realizações e como as crianças foram inseridas em todo o processo. Para analisar estes materiais, utilizou-se do método indiciário de Ginzburg, tencionando \"ver\" a presença das crianças e de suas famílias para além do que registrava o SOHM, por meio dos vestígios que resistiram e foram impressos. Como aporte metodológico complementar, foi utilizada a estatística descritiva, objetivando sistematizar as informações textuais e transformá-las em valores numéricos, gerando médias e percentuais, que possibilitaram uma análise geral do grupo de alunos.
This thesis aims to reflect on the work developed by the doctor from the state of Alagoas Arthur Ramos (1903-1949) on the Service of Orthophrenia and Mental Hygiene (SOMH), in the temporal cut from 1934 to 1939, a period that corresponds both to the foundation and the end of the Service and also to the time when Ramos was its director. It is longed to understand the role played by him in the Service: from its creation to its completion, through its operational construction, work methodology, staff, theoretical methods used, approach carried out and the works developed. It is hypothesized that SOMH was created and functioned as an auxiliary service to the Anísio Teixeira educational reform in order to normalize the students enrolled in the experimental schools, the locus of the reform, classified as misfits. To achieve these objectives, the writings of Ramos were used as sources; the orthophrenic records of the students assisted by the SOHM and the Diary of one of the students. These documentary series enabled an understanding of that institution in its integrity, encompassing its goals, achievements and how children were inserted throughout the process. To analyze these materials, the Ginzburg index method was used, intending to \"see\" the presence of the children and their families to beyond to what the SOMH recorded, through the traces that resisted and were printed. As a complementary methodological contribution, descriptive statistics were used, aiming to systematize textual information and transform them into numerical values, generating averages and percentages, which made possible a general analysis of the group of students.

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Janssen, Clemens Walter. "A Systems Perspective on Mental Wellbeing and Quality of Life: Testing a Model of Dietary Behavior, Physical Condition and Inflammation on Quality of Life in a Nationally Representative Dataset." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/560750.

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The current dissertation tested a model based on a systems perspective, where inflammation was hypothesized to mediate the influence of diet and physical condition on quality of life (base model) in a nationally representative U.S. dataset (NHANES). Three additional hypotheses, regarding social support (The Buffering Hypothesis), early microbial exposure (The Hygiene Hypothesis) and life history theory (The Tradeoff Hypothesis) were tested utilizing the base model. All analysis utilized a structural equation model. This study focused on objective measurements for dietary behavior and physical activity utilizing blood serum values of nutrients and metabolic markers and anthropometric data as well as blood serum concentrations of CRP and white blood cell count. Quality of life was assessed with the number of limitations in daily living, the number of days that were affected by mental, emotional and physical limitations and the self-reported general health condition. The hypothesized model fit well to the data and the results revealed that lower intake of healthy nutrients and reduced physical condition both predicted decreased quality of life, as mediated by inflammation and explained 31.9 % of the variation in quality of life (R² = .319, p<.001). Social support further predicted quality of life directly (β = .417, p<.001) and indirectly through dietary behavior and inflammation (β = -.106, p<.001), microbial exposure significantly moderated the relation between inflammation and quality of life (β = -.127, p<.001) and higher reproductive effort predicted lower intake of vital nutrients (β = .316, p<.001), physical condition (β = .352, p<.001) and subsequent inflammation. Reproductive effort also directly predicted reduced quality of life (β = .278, p<.001). These analyses indicated that inflammation can be considered a strong mediator between lifestyle factors and resulting quality of life and that social support, microbial exposure and reproductive effort each added unique predictive value to this model.

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Gagné, Marie-Anik. "Worry and the traditional stress model." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0004/NQ44434.pdf.

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Chanias, Angelos. "The effects of exercise programming on health-related physical fitness of individuals with an intellectual disability : a meta-analysis of studies." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ29535.pdf.

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Yaldiz, Lale Muazzez. "Age-based Differences in the Usefulness of Resources: a Multi-Study Investigation of Work and Well-being Outcomes." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4650.

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The labor force is aging globally. It is projected that the number of older workers will increase in the workforce in the near future. At the same time, it is estimated that workplaces will grow more age-diverse, where younger and older workers will work side-by-side more often than they used to. These demographic shifts in the workforce necessitate a further understanding of the differences between the values, needs and motivation, and work outcomes of employees of different ages. To this end, few studies to date have investigated whether job-related resources are differentially useful for the work and non-work outcomes of younger and older workers. Guided by Conservation of Resources (COR) theory and two lifespan development theories (Selection-Optimization-Compensation, SOC; Socio-emotional Selectivity Theory, SST), this dissertation suggests that the utility of resources is age-dependent. Specifically, this dissertation includes three studies that expand our knowledge of age-based differences in the usefulness of job-specific, social, and personal resources, and how they relate to various job attitudes, different forms of job performance, and employee well-being. Study 1, which was published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, examines the moderating role of age in the relationship between baseline resources (skill discretion, leader-member exchange, and procedural fairness) and perceived stress after one year in a sample of U.S. construction workers (N = 243). As hypothesized, the findings of this study showed that these autonomy and support resources were more important for older workers: When resources were high in the workplace, all employees reported lower levels of stress. However, when resources were low, older workers experienced greater stress compared to their younger colleagues. In Study 2, multi-source data from Turkish manufacturing employees (N = 156) are utilized to investigate the age-based differences in the link between social support resources (leader-member exchange, perceived organizational support) and supervisory ratings of in-role performance and organizational citizenship behaviors in a cultural context other than the U.S. It was hypothesized that these social support resources would be more important for older workers' performance. However, the findings showed that both leader-member exchange and perceived organizational support were considered as equally important by older and younger workers to perform well at work. Finally, Study 3 explores whether resource from job (decision-making autonomy) and personal resources (optimism, perceived work ability) differentially relate to work attitudes (job satisfaction, work engagement) and well-being (perceived stress, emotional exhaustion) of older and younger nurses (N = 111) working in the Pacific Northwest, U.S. The findings of this study supported that the usefulness of decision-making autonomy and optimism were more pronounced for older workers. Overall, the results suggested that, when these resources were low, all employees had lower job satisfaction and work engagement, and greater emotional exhaustion and perceived stress independent of their ages. However, under high resource conditions, older employees shined at work and in life: When resourceful, they enjoyed their job more and felt strong and vigorous at work, and they perceived an overall sense of control over life as well as had an ease of mind at and outside of their work environments. Taken together, the findings of these three studies suggest several implications for theory and practice, particularly those pertaining to the key role that age may play in understanding different workers' needs for job-related resources and how this may affect their work attitudes, behavior, and well-being. Theoretical implications suggest that COR theory can be integrated with lifespan development theories to address the age-related differences in the resource utility. In addition, the findings of this dissertation highlight the need to examine employee age as a main study variable to explore the boundary conditions of various resources -- work and non-work outcomes. Implications for practice include recommendations such as facilitating job crafting and job redesigns for older workers, developing managerial trainings on relationship building with subordinates, creating a fair work environment through transparent organizational policies and practices, and improving personal capacities through stress management interventions. Avenues for future research are discussed as well, including identifying additional resources (e.g., overqualification, support from coworkers and family), and work and well-being outcomes (e.g., objective health measures such as sleep, sick days, and injuries) that may show age-based differences based on lifespan development theories. Finally, this dissertation highlights the need to replicate these study findings across industries, job types, gender, and culture as the usefulness of resources may be context-specific.

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Thomson, Gerald E. "Remove from our midst these unfortunates : a historical inquiry into the influence of eugenics, educational efficiency as well as mental hygiene upon the Vancouver school system and its special classes, 1910-1969." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0001/NQ38989.pdf.

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Omagari, Lynda Lee. "Depression among the elderly." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3336.

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This study will examine depression among the elderly in an assisted living facility. The main problem in depression in the elderly is the lack of diagnosis and treatment. Left untreated it affects the elderly person's overall well-being and may eventually lead to their mortality.

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Wentworth, Leah Marie. "Suicide prevention and the workplace." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2292.

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The long-term goal of this research is to reduce the number of deaths by suicide. Suicide is the leading cause of violent death in the United States, and is currently the 10th most common cause of death across all age groups. Suicide prevention efforts have historically been focused on youth/young adults, and the elderly, with less attention on programming for individuals in the working years. Our intention is to generally broaden the understanding of suicide, depression and the workplace, with the hope of improving interventions for this underserved population. The research activities outlined below were conducted under the auspices of a larger quasi-experiment at the University of Iowa. We first sought to assess the experiences of professional, nonclinical staff identifying and responding to apparently mental health problems in the workplace. We looked at the impact of two exposures on engagement with individuals in crisis: self-reported contact (the number of students or coworkers a participant interacted with each week), and participation in any suicide prevention training/programming over the previous five years. High contact with students was generally associated with a greater capacity for recognizing and responding to depression and potential suicidality. In contrast, the association between high contact with employees and recognition and response was insignificant for four of the six recognition and response behaviors. Participation in any form of suicide prevention training or programming in the previous five years was highly associated with recognizing and responding to depressed or suicidal coworkers and students. Next, we considered the impact of a personal prior experience with suicide and prior suicide prevention training/programming on four constructs: preparedness to respond to someone in crisis, familiarity with appropriate resources, gatekeeper self-efficacy, and gatekeeper reluctance. Suicide prevention training/programming was significantly associated with higher perception of three constructs: preparedness, familiarity, and self-efficacy. There was no statistical difference in reluctance between previously training participants and participants who had not previously taken suicide prevention training or programming. Individuals who had a personal prior experience with suicide were less reluctant to engage, although the results were not significant. There was an association between individuals who had a personal prior experience with suicide and suicide prevention training/programming, suggesting that individuals with a personal connection to suicide might be more likely to enroll in suicide prevention programming. Finally, we examined how a suicide prevention training programming impacted the perception of safety culture in the workplace. On the 10 item safety scale, there was a significant difference between the means scores reported by the intervention and control group on 7 of the 10 questions. Individuals who participated in QPR gatekeeper training reported a higher sum safety culture score than individuals who did not participate in the training; the overall model was statistically significant. This project shows that suicide prevention training/programming of any kind in the workplace can have a persistent, positive training impact on employees by informing and empowering them to act. It suggests that individuals with a personal prior experience with suicide may be more likely to take suicide prevention training, and may be less reluctant to engage with someone in crisis. It also demonstrates that suicide prevention training may have a positive impact on other workplace psychosocial factors, and deserves prioritization in workplace wellness programming.

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Garcia, Ronaldo Aurélio Gimenes. "A educação na trajetória intelectual de Arthur Ramos: higiene mental e criança problema (Rio de Janeiro 1934-1949)." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2010. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/2242.

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In this research we look for to critically reconstitute the paper of the education in the intellectual trajectory of Arthur Ramos. This author carried through an intense work of research and developed practical actions throughout its professional and academic experience. Ramos elaborated a theory of psychoanalysis base and humanist who resulted in an important set of concepts, proposals and social intervention that surpassed the limits of the school to reach the family and the community as a whole, extending in such a way the proper concept of education. The intellectual mentioned one was collaborator of Anísio Teixeira in the reform of public education next to the Department of Education of the Federal District during the administration of mayor Pedro Ernesto Batista in the decade of 1930. As part of the reform of Anísio Teixeira the Service of Ortofrenia and Mental Hygiene commanded by Ramos was installed. The objective to receive the children who were considered as incapable to learn and who presented a misadjusted behavior directed from the public school. It enters the objectives of the present research we can detach: to present Arthur Ramos as an intellectual of its time, involved with the controversies of its time in the interior of the field and thinking about forms of overcoming of the educational and social quandaries of the nation under the prism of the humanism and the democracy; to analyze its pedagogical proposals and of intervention in the school by means of the mental hygiene; to referential the child concept problem and to analyze its workmanship of scientific spreading Spirit Health of the 1939. The reverential theoretician methodology had been used the patrimonialism concepts, of authoritarian modernization, of intellectual field and habitus. The developed research search to use of the analysis of the intellectual production and the practical politics of Arthur Ramos from some documentary sources as published workmanships, periodic and manual assays, scientific articles in of spreading. Everything indicates that the proposals of Arthur Ramos were beyond the historical possibilities of the decades of 1930 and 1940. The work of the alagoano doctor of undeniable pioneers in the field of the applied psychoanalysis and the anthropology to the education was not enough to hinder that its accomplishments were condemned to the intellectual ostracism the one that had been deliver during many decades. The rescue of the thought and the practical one of Ramos is a form to retake the memory intellectual of that historical period especially of the field of the knowledge of the history of the education.
Nesta pesquisa procuramos reconstituir criticamente o papel da educação na trajetória intelectual de Arthur Ramos. Este autor realizou um intenso trabalho de pesquisa e ações práticas desenvolvidas ao longo de sua experiência profissional e acadêmica. Ramos elaborou uma teoria de base psicanalítica e humanista que resultou em um importante conjunto de conceitos, propostas e intervenção social que extrapolou os limites da escola para atingir a família e a comunidade como um todo, ampliando desta forma o próprio conceito de educação. O mencionado intelectual foi colaborador de Anísio Teixeira na reforma do ensino público junto ao Departamento de Educação do Distrito Federal durante a administração do prefeito Pedro Ernesto Batista na década de 1930. Como parte da reforma de Anísio Teixeira foi instalado o Serviço de Ortofrenia e Higiene Mental chefiado por Ramos. O objetivo do serviço era receber as crianças encaminhadas pelas escolas públicas e consideradas como incapazes de aprender e que apresentavam um comportamento desajustado. Entre os objetivos da presente pesquisa podemos destacar: apresentar Arthur Ramos como um intelectual de seu tempo, envolvido com as polêmicas de sua época no interior do campo e pensando em formas de superação dos dilemas educacionais e sociais da nação sob o prisma do humanismo e da democracia; analisar suas propostas pedagógicas e de intervenção na escola por meio da higiene mental; referenciar o conceito de criança problema e analisar sua obra de divulgação científica Saúde do espírito de 1939. Como refenciais teórico-metodológicos foram utilizados os conceitos de patrimonialismo, de modernização autoritária, de campo intelectual e habitus. A pesquisa desenvolvida procura utilizar-se da análise da produção intelectual e da prática política de mencionado intelectual a partir de várias fontes documentais como obras publicadas, ensaios, artigos científicos em periódicos e manuais de divulgação. Tudo indica que as propostas de Arthur Ramos estavam além das possibilidades históricas das décadas de 1930 e 1940. O trabalho do médico alagoano de inegável pioneirismo no campo da psicanálise e da antropologia aplicadas à educação, não foi suficiente para impedir que suas realizações fossem condenadas ao ostracismo intelectual a que estiveram entregues durante muitas décadas. O resgate do pensamento e da prática de Ramos é uma forma de retomar a memória intelectual daquele período histórico especialmente do campo do conhecimento da história da educação.

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McClatchey, Kirstie. "Developing guidance to inform a clinically meaningful and feasible suicide risk assessment measure for use in emergency departments." Thesis, Edinburgh Napier University, 2018. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1256366.

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Introduction: Over 800,000 people die by suicide each year, and despite being a global public health issue, limited research exists exploring suicide risk assessment practices in emergency departments. The current thesis investigated emergency department suicide risk assessment practices and clinician experiences in Scotland, to develop guidance to inform the development of a clinically meaningful and feasible suicide risk assessment for these settings which is theoretically underpinned. Methods: A mixed-method triangulation approach was utilised. Two systematic reviews were conducted to update the risk and protective factor literature. This was followed by a national survey of suicide risk assessment practices in emergency departments. Fifty-one clinicians across 17 emergency departments participated, and six clinicians participated in follow-up semi-structured interviews to investigate their experiences, which were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings of the thesis were triangulated using the ‘following-a-thread' method, to develop guidance for informing the development of future risk assessment for use in emergency departments. Results: The systematic reviews identified emerging risk and protective factors including, sexual orientation and internet usage. The survey identified substantial variation in practice between emergency department clinicians. Only 35 (68.6%) participants reported using a suicide risk assessment tool. Importantly, variation was found not only across clinicians and departments, but also within departments, with clinicians based within the same department reporting differing risk assessment practices, indicating both inter- and intra-department suicide risk assessment practice differences. The qualitative analysis of clinician experience established four major themes (current experiences; components of suicide risk assessment; clinical decision-making; suicide risk assessment needs). Triangulation of findings developed recommendations for suicide risk assessment tools and training for emergency departments. Discussion: The risk and protective factor literature has evolved due to societal changes, and there is substantial variation in suicide risk assessment practices, both across and within emergency departments. Clinicians also find suicide risk assessment challenging. There is a need for consistent training, appropriate and helpful guidelines, and the improvement of risk assessment tools to improve practice. It is recommended that suicide risk assessment tools are developed to align to clinicians' needs, while taking into account research from the health domain and from related psychological research domains.

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Hoar, Mariana. "Racial Microaggressions: Relationship to Cardiovascular Reactivity and Affect Among Hispanic/Latinos and Non-Hispanic Whites." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804968/.

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Racial microaggressions are a type of perceived discrimination entailing a brief pejorative message by a perpetrator, whether verbal or nonverbal, intentional or unintentional, about a target person that operates below the level of conscious awareness. Research supports a relationship between perceived discrimination and worse mental and physical health outcomes, with the literature centered mainly on non-Hispanic blacks. Less research exists on how perceived discrimination, specifically racial microaggressions, affects the mental and physical health of Hispanic/Latinos. This study examined how exposure to racial microaggressions, using an experimental design whereby a confederate delivers two types of racial microaggressions, influences affect and cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) among Hispanic/Latinos and non-Hispanic whites. Results revealed that the experience of racial microaggressions did not evoke larger and longer lasting emotional and physiological arousal among Hispanic/Latinos and non-Hispanic Whites. Future directions are discussed.

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Černá, Zdena. "Management osobního rozvoje." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-241191.

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This thesis called "Management of Personal Development" is focused on analysis of the personal development management at one unnamed Moravian manufacturing and trade company focused on creative tasks. The theoretical background deals with defining the elementary terms in this area, lifestyle, career management, mental hygiene, successful manager principles, time management, introspection, and problem solving. In the area of creativity, it approaches the topic in itself, its development, creative abilities and attitudes, and shows a connection between creativity and personal development. It also includes several alternative methods of personal development. The practical part deals with the present state of personal development management and creativity in the company, and on the influence of these factors on the company's operation. This thesis also includes several specific solutions which show several ways of company development.

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Woods, Ginger Lee. "Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Personnel." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2035.

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EMS personnel were examined for Post Traumatic Stress symptoms and the usefulness of Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) using the Los Angeles Symptom Checklist (LASC) and a demographics questionnaire. This study revealed that women in this group show higher PTSD symptoms than male coworkers. Level of Training (LOT) of the EMS provider did not demonstrate a significant difference in whether a provider developed PTSD. EMS personnel receiving debriefing actually suffered greater levels of PTSD than those that did not receive debriefing. And 16% of EMS providers in this study suffered from PTSD, while approximately 20% suffered from partial PTSD or PTSS. The results suggest that there are high levels of PTSD within the EMS community, especially in women. This study also suggests that CISD does not help with PTSD symptoms and may actually worsen them.

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Bernardo, Fátima Sofia Rosário Batista. "Os idosos e a prática desportiva no Concelho de Lamego." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UP-Universidade do Porto -- -Faculdade de Ciências do Desporto e de Educação Física, 2000. http://dited.bn.pt:80/29145.

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Costa, Karoline Louise Silva da. "Luiz Ant?nio dos Santos Lima e o seu legado educacional (Natal/RN, 1910-1961)." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2013. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/14571.

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This research aims to analyze the intellectual practice of Luiz Ant?nio Ferreira Souto dos Santos Lima. This is done considering the author?s legacy related to the History of Education in Rio Grande do Norte/Brazil in the time span of 1910 to 1961. Thus, the research is grounded on assumptions that rely on the Cultural History field. The research also dealt with dialogues between the author and Chartier (1990), Elias (1994), Morais (2003; 2006), as well as Gondra (2003). For the bibliographical research the work dealt with a vast array of documents such as newspapers called A Rep?blica and Di?rio do Natal, Pedagogium, Revista do ensino, as well as state laws and decrees These documents were obtained at the Historical and Geographical Institute in Rio Grande do Norte. The research also dealt with School Bylaws and a medical doctoral thesis called Mental Hygiene and Education that was written by Luiz Ant?nio dos Santos Lima. Other documents were obtained at the State?s Public Archive, such as the Book of Honor, Work Records, Reports and Minutes of the General Directorate of Public Instruction Meetings. It was possible to infer that professor Luiz Ant?nio dos Santos Lima was teacher at Grupo Escolar Augusto Severo, the Atheneu as well as some local grade schools. The professor had a broad role in society, in administrative positions such as the Presidency of the Association of Teachers of Rio Grande do Norte, as Grade School Director in the School of Pharmacy and the State Education Department. He was also a member of the Academy of Arts and a partner at Historical and Geographical Institute in Rio Grande do Norte. The professor has also concerned with issues related to teaching good habits such as feeding, grooming, discipline, game morals, temperance, smoking, sex education; all of which necessary for the formation of healthy children. He was an enthusiast of an intuitive method and teaching lessons through practice, that he considered key elements in education. It is seen that professor Luiz Ant?nio dos Santos Lima had presence in the State?s health education and that his ideals were line with the ideal of modernity of the early twentieth century
A pesquisa analisa a pr?tica do intelectual Luiz Ant?nio Ferreira Souto dos Santos Lima e o seu legado ? hist?ria da educa??o no Rio Grande do Norte, durante o per?odo de 1910 a 1961. Fundamenta-se nos pressupostos da Hist?ria Cultural, por meio do di?logo promovido por autores a exemplo de Chartier (1990), Elias (1994), Morais (2003; 2006), e Gondra (2003). Utilizamos os Jornais A Rep?blica e Di?rio do Natal, as Revistas Pedagogium, do ensino e do Instituto Hist?rico e Geogr?fico do Rio Grande do Norte e, as leis e decretos do Governo do RN, o Regimento Interno dos Grupos Escolares, al?m da Tese de doutoramento em Medicina intitulada Higiene Mental e Educa??o, escrita por Luiz Ant?nio dos Santos Lima. Documentos estes procedentes do acervo do Instituto Hist?rico e Geogr?fico do Rio Grande do Norte (IHGRN). No Arquivo P?blico do Estado (APE/RN) encontramos o Livro de Honra, Livros de Of?cios, Relat?rios e Atas das Reuni?es da Diretoria Geral da Instru??o P?blica. Observamos que o professor Luiz Ant?nio dos Santos Lima exerceu o magist?rio no Grupo Escolar Augusto Severo, no Atheneu Norte-Rio-Grandense e na Escola Normal de Natal. Desenvolveu uma ampla atua??o na sociedade, frente a cargos administrativos como o da Presid?ncia da Associa??o de Professores do Rio Grande do Norte (APRN), Dire??o da Escola Normal de Natal, da Escola de Farm?cia e do Departamento de Educa??o do Estado. Pertenceu a Academia Norte-Rio-Grandense de Letras e ao Instituto Hist?rico e Geogr?fico do Rio Grande do Norte, como s?cio efetivo. Destacou-se pela preocupa??o com a arte de ensinar e cultivar bons h?bitos, como: metodiza??o da alimenta??o, do asseio, da disciplina, da moral contra o jogo, do antialcoolismo, do antitabagismo, da educa??o sexual, dentre outros cuidados para a forma??o sadia das crian?as. Defendia o m?todo intuitivo e a realiza??o da pr?tica de ensino concreto realizada pelas li??es de coisas, consideradas a chave para desencadear a pretendida renova??o educacional. Evidenciamos que Luiz Ant?nio dos Santos Lima atuou na educa??o e na ?rea m?dica do Estado em conson?ncia com o ideal de modernidade do in?cio do s?culo XX

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Green, Carla Ann. "Social Support in an Urban Moroccan Neighborhood: the Effects of Social Networks, Mediation and Patronage on the Physical Health and Psychological Adjustment of Women." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1335.

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Although there has been a great deal of research in the areas of social networks, social support and well-being over the past two decades, little of that research has been cross-cultural, and virtually none has been carried out in countries outside the West. The present study attempted to describe the structure and functioning of the social networks of a group of relatively modern urban Moroccan women, and the associations among their social networks, social support, physical health and psychological well-being. Extensive interviews were conducted with 108 married or previously-married women who were living in a middle-class neighborhood in Rabat, Morocco. Subjects were asked to identify social network members, defined as friends, family or others who provided various types of support in typically encountered life situations, or with whom the subject had negative interactions. Standardized self-report instruments were used to assess physical and psychological well-being, and to assess the occurrence of stressful life events. Additional observational data were collected on respondents' neighborhoods and immediate physical surroundings. A model describing the interactions between well-being, network structure and network function was tested using factor-analytic and set-regression techniques. Stressful life events predicted reduced physical well-being. Enhanced psychological functioning was predicted by reciprocity in relationships, marital satisfaction, and to a lesser degree, practical and emotional support. Contrary to predictions, patronage support was associated with both enhanced physical and psychological well-being. Results were generally consistent with Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, which predicts that the uniformly large and well-functioning networks found in this study would produce effect sizes that were small, but consistent with Western research findings.

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Hargett, Thompson Candace L. "Social Support, Depression, and Cardiovascular Disease in Married, Middle-Aged/Older Adults." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4611/.

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This study examined the relationship between physical health, social support, and depression in a married, middle-aged/older adult sample in which at least one partner has heart disease. The data was obtained from a national longitudinal study the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) and is composed of selected respondents and their spouses. The HRS Wave 1 data that was used for these analyses was collected in 1992 and 1993. This study tested a stress buffer model predicting the relationship between physical health, social support, and depression. For study inclusion, participants must have been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease and received treatment in the last year. A heart disease construct was developed by calculating the level of disease by the number of conditions and medical treatments received within the last year. A second health category for other chronic health conditions included diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and chronic pain. These constructs were combined into a total disease construct, which provided a broad measure of health problems typical of an older adult population. Social support was determined by respondents' satisfaction with friends, neighbors, family, their marriage, and enjoyable time spent with their spouse. Social support was subdivided into two constructs separating spousal support from social support sources outside the marriage. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression short-form (CES-D) calculated depression scores. Findings support a stress-buffering model among older married adults with chronic diseases. Hierarchical multiple regressions found the following main effects predicted Depression: Total Disease (Beta=. 03, p<. 000), Exercise (Beta=-.11, p<. 000), Smoking (Beta=. 04, p<. 001), General Support (Beta=-.21, p<. 000), Spousal Support (Beta=-.19, p<. 000). The Total Diseases by Spousal Support interaction was a significant predictor of Depression for men and women (Beta= -.04, p<. 000) and Total Disease by Spousal Support was also a significant predictor for men and women (Beta=-.03, plt;. 000). For men with Heart Disease, Total Disease by Spousal Support was a stronger predictor (Beta=-.03) than it was for women with Heart Disease (Beta=-.10). These results may partially explain gender differences in heart disease patients and suggests several psychological interventions that could be beneficial.

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WOJCIECHOWSKI, JEAN BERNARD. "Hygiene mentale et hygiene sociale; contribution a l'histoire de l'hygienisme : naissance et developpement de l'hygiene mentale en france. la ligue d'hygiene et de prophylaxie mentales (1920 - 1960) et l'action du docteur edouard toulouse (1865 - 1947)." Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg) (1971-2008), 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996STR20010.

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Le mouvement d'hygiene mentale apparu en france au cours du xixe siecle prend son essor au siecle suivant, surtout dans la periode de l'entre-deux-guerres. Le corps medical va jouer un role determinant dans l'institution d'une medecine politique qui entend eduquer les classes populaires et repondre aux problemes souleves par la "question sociale". Le champ de l'hygiene mentale repose sur une critique du modele alieniste (loi de 1838) et s'integre au sein d'un dispositif global de prevention medicale, morale et sociale (lutte contre les fleaux sociaux, tuberculose, alcoolisme, mortalite infantile. . . ) qui s'adresse a l'ensemble de la population. Apres la premiere guerre mondiale, ce mouvement soutenu par des alienistes, des psychologues, des pedagogiques, des scientifiques et des hommes politiques s'organise autour de quatre domaines distincts : a) l'asile, en creant en 1922 au coeur de la psychiatrie parisienne a sainte anne, le premier "service libre" qui deviendra en 1927 l'hopital henri rousselle. Ce service servira de modele pour revendiquer la generalisation des services ouverts ; b) l'enfance anormale et delinquante, en preconisant la mise en place d'un modele de reeducation medicosocial; c) le monde du travail par le developpement de la psychotechnique (selection et orientation, adaptation au poste de travail ; d) la recherche scientifique, par la creation en 1927, d'un institut de prophylaxie mentale comportant quatre laboratoires (bio-psychiatrie, chimie-biologique, physiologie, psychologie). Au cours des annees trente, la volonte de federer des initiatives similaires et complemantaires conduit a un eclatement et a une specialisation des activites : creation de l'association d'etudes sexologiques dont l'objectif est d'envisager des mesures eugenistes
The action for mental hygiene which appeared in france in the xixth century reached its full scope in the following century, especially in the period between the two world wars. The medical profession was about to take decisive steps in the institution of a political medecine which intended to educate the masses and solve problems raised by "social issues". The field of mental hygiene wes based upon a criticism of the alienist model (law of 1838) and found its place inside a global purview of medical, moral and social prevention 8struggle against social plagues, such as tuberculoses, alcoholism, infant mortality. . . ) which concerned the whole population. After te first world war, this action which was supported by alienists, psychologists, pedagogues, scientists and politicians organized itself around four distincts fields : a) in mental hospitals, they created in the "st anne hospital" in paris the first "free department", which would become the "henri rouselle hospital" in 1927 - this department would be the model for all open structures ; b) as for abnormal and delinquent children, they advocated the organization of medico-social reeducation ; c) labour was concerne by the extension of psychotechnics (selection and careers advice, adjustment to specific tasks) ; d) in the field of scientific research they created in 1927 an institute for mental prophylaxis including four laboratories (bio-psychiatrics, chemico-biology, physiology, psychology). By the 1930's, the will to federate similar and complementary actions led to the splitting and specialization of these activities

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