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Related to mental health:mental illness n. 1. a.A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life. ...
In the Mental Treatment Act of 1930, community psychiatric clinics were established, providing some alternative to the grimness of mental hospitalization. In 1948, UK mental hospitals came under the National Health Service (NHS). By the 1950s, the number of mental hospital beds in the USA and ...
The article reports that the United States Employee Benefits Security Administration has issued a technical amendment extending the interim final rules under the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) to December 31, 2007. MHPA provides health insurance parity between mental health benefits and other medical ...
long as their treatment in hospital does not amount to a deprivation of their liberty. The Act does not apply to any treatment for mental disorder—e.g., electroconvulsive therapy—being given in accordance with the rules about compulsory treatment set out in the Mental Health Acts 1983, 2007...
The article discusses the reports "Coercion and Consent: Monitoring the Mental Health Act 2007-2009" and "Investigation Into West London Mental Health Trust" issued by the British Care Quality Commission in July 2009. The reports uncovered the inefficient standards of care and supervision of people...
Access to mental health care and treatment is emphasized as a fundamental right under the Mental Healthcare Act. The focus of district mental health program (DMHP) under the aegis of National Mental Health program is to provide mental health interventions for all at the community level. Women ...
There is a growing number of children’s mental health and wellbeing measures that have the potential to be used in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to inform individual clinical practice e.g. [1], to provide information to feed into service development e.g. [2] and for...
According to the Centre for Mental Health, one in six school-aged children in the UK has a mental health problem. This is an alarming rise from one in 10 in 2004 and one in nine in 2017, as shown by the data collated by NHS Digital, 2020. Common mental health issues, suc...
Humans spend on average 6.5 hours a day online. A large portion of that time is dedicated to information-seeking. How does this activity impact mental health? We assess this over four studies (n = 1,145). We reveal that the valence of informatio