This study examined trends and influences of variables in the 100 most recent applications of Section 5(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 in a major teaching hospital in England. Case notes, section-forms, log-books and computerised records were scrutinised. Sixty-four per cent of the cases ...
Overall, the week's activities provided by staff and our Mental Health Counselling Team successfully highlighted the significance of mental health awareness and the importance of community support in nurturing a mentally healthy environme...
These methods of treating the mentally ill consisted of removal from the community into long-term institutionalization, using legal and physical restraints, and various severe forms of physical shock treatment. In the late eighteenth century, pioneering reforms by Vincenzo Chiarugi in Italy, William ...
I stopped trying to access NHS mental health services.I live with severe & enduring mental illness for which I’ve been sectioned and have no care plan or treatment, yet I stopped trying to get NHS mental health care.I stopped, because I eventually realised that the two most likely ...
Introduction to the Special Section on Forensic Mental Healthdoi:10.1080/10973430208408421Joe D. AlfordUniversity of Arkansas for Medical SciencesPsychiatric Rehabilitation Skills
Evelyn J. Bromet, in Women and Health, 2000 The chapters in this section provide both an overview of women's mental health (Chapter 78) and an in-depth analysis of five common conditions: affective disorders (depression and manic-depressive illness) (Chapter 79), anxiety disorders (both gener...
The prevalence of mental health conditions among women with HIV in Canada ranges between 29.5% and 57.4%, highlighting the need for accessible mental health care. We aimed to (1) describe the availability and use of mental health services among women with HIV and (2) identify characteristics as...
in which the “fight or flight” response is activated, even though the circumstances do not warrant it. They consider social anxiety to be a reaction to perceived threats to social relationships, status, and reputation, and various phobias to be reactions to specific threats. Some forms of par...
As noted inSection 7.20.2, the focus on community-based services for the elderly did not begin in the mental health system until shortly before the national initiative was terminated and responsibility was returned to the states. Perhaps for this reason, the efforts at national planning of commun...
In essence, the revelation of suicidal ideation on social media acts as a crucial signal for the imperative need to prioritise and enhance mental health surveillance and support systems for the greater well-being of communities. One challenge of social media research, however, is the privacy and ...