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Costs and effects of managing chronic psychotic patients
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Detlef Schwefel,Herbert Zöllner,Peter Potthoff |
Contributions to a European study of the World Health Organization regarding strategies and options for giving health care to chronic psychotic patients, e.g. inpatient or outpatient care. |
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Challenging behaviour
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Eric Emerson |
"'Challenging' behaviours are common among people with intellectual disabilities, resulting in significantly reduced quality of life. These may include aggression, self-injury, destructiveness, hyper… |
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Committed
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Dinah Miller |
"Battle lines have been drawn over involuntary treatment. On one side, there are those who oppose involuntary psychiatric treatments under any condition. Activists who take up this cause often don't … |
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Sometimes amazing things happen
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Elizabeth Ford |
Welcome to the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward, a maximum-security hospital and inpatient psychiatric unit for the inmates of the New York City jail system, with its hub on Rikers Island. I… |
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Insane consequences
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D. J. Jaffe |
"This well-researched and highly critical examination of the state of our mental health system by the industry's most relentless critic presents a new and controversial explanation as to why--in spit… |
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Serving mentally ill offenders
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Gerald Landsberg |
This comprehensive book addresses the complex issues associated with the criminalization of mentally ill offenders in the United States and the ways in which social workers and other mental health pr… |
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Quality of life in mental disorders
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Hugh L. Freeman,Heinz Katschnig,N. Sartorius |
In a single volume the contributors examine the relationship between quality of life and disabilities with psychosocial concepts like well-being, life satisfaction, difficulties and events and social… |
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Bedlam
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Catharine Arnold |
Catharine Arnold takes us on a tour of Bedlam and examines London's attitude to madness along the way. We travel through the ages, from the barbaric `exorcisms' of the medieval period to the Tudor be… |
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The Chronically Mentally Ill
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Moshen Mirabi |
The topic of chronic mental illness has been much discussed, but there is still no widely accepted strategy of intervention for patients suffering from disorders of this kind. These patients have rec… |
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