Law enforcement officers encounter a large number of individuals with mental illness. Due to this, law enforcement officers—especially those in rural agencies—are tasked with providing frontline mental health services and making decisions about the future care of the individual. Still, the mental ...
For a person with a mental illness, dealing with law enforcement can be especially nerve wracking. Police are not consistently trained in interacting with those who have mental illnesses or in the prevention of stigmatizing behaviors. Each individual police department sets the training and the Ment...
Stigma of Mental Illness: an Exploration of Rural Law Enforcement Attitudes Toward Mental Health in the Heartland Law enforcement officers encounter a large number of individuals with mental illness. Due to this, law enforcement officers—especially those in rural agencies—are tasked with providing fro...
The impact of victimization on the mental health and suicidality of lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths Lesbian, gay, and bisexual youths (aged 15鈥 21 yrs) were studied to determine the impact of verbal abuse, threat of attacks, and assault on their mental he... Đỗ, Ngọc Toàn ...
community.10,11 The enforcement of the Law of Republic of Indonesia number 18 of 2014 concerning mental health has become a trigger for the government's commitment to overcoming issues pertaining to mental disorders, including but not limited to the practice of pasung against people with mental ...
Over the past few years, the conversation surrounding recreational and medical use of psilocybin has shifted due to growing evidence of its significant mental health benefits. This newfound social acceptance of psilocybin has led to significant advancements in local and state law and policy. Read on...
http://www.mentalhealth.wa.gov.au/mental_illness_and_health/mh_stigma.aspx“What is Stigma?” Mental Health Commission. Government of Western Australia, n.d. Web. 14 Aug. 2016. http://archives.drugabuse.gov/about/welcome/aboutdrugabuse/stigma/“One of America’s Most Challenging Public Hea...
empowerment of women, stigma reduction and the protection of human rights. daccess-ods.un.org 国家方案应扩大实施具有战略协调性的方案,结合生物医学、行为和社会及 结构干预措施,例如增强妇女的力量 、减少耻辱化 以 及保 护人权。 daccess-ods.un.org The main aims of the initiative are knowledge-...
health providers to distinguish between emotional and physical problems as it is for the patients themselves. These kinds of examples have been described as nocebo phenomena (Hahn, 1997). Just as pharmacologically neutral placebos can mitigatepsychosomaticsuffering in a variety of physical and ...
The stigma of many diseases and disorders prevalent in the world today is cause for increasing public health concern raising the question of whether new research is necessary before enlightened health policies can be implemented. Because stigma is a very broad topic it is important to acknowledge di...