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Defendants with intellectual disabilities and mentalhealth diagnoses: faring in a mental health
Compared with defendants without disabilities,defendants with intellectual disabilities (IDs) aremore likely to have low-socioeconomic backgroundsand limited educations, as well as to be unemployed,male and young (Hayes 1996). Furthermore,compared with defendants without IDs,persons with IDs also seem to be incarcerated atgreater rates (Hodgins 1992; Holland et al. 2002).These defendants with IDs may also have cooccurring mental […]
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Operating procedures of the Davidson County Mental Health Court
Upon their referral to the mental health court, thecourt’s social workers completed an initial interviewwith each defendant to determine eligibility for thecourt. Information received during this interviewwas entered into an intake form. Upon determininga defendant’s eligibility, the social worker requestedrecords of the defendant from the public school,day and residential treatment facilities, hospitals and the criminal […]
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Mental health essay:mental health strategy for preventing future mental health problems
This is a mental health essay about a mental health strategy for preventing future mental health problems among adolescents orphaned by AIDS By Thupayagale-Tshweneagae, et al. Introduction Adolescence is a unique phase of development occurringbetween the ages of 14 and 18. This is a crucial transitionalperiod from childhood to adulthood (Stuart & Laria2001). According to […]
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What is the difference between mental health and mental illness?
There is more to good health than just a physically healthy body: a healthy person should also have a healthy mind. A person with a healthy mind should be able to think clearly, should be able to solve the various problems faced in life, should enjoy good relations with friends, colleagues at work and family, […]
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Policy and mental health
Building healthy public policy is, as discussed earlier, integral to health promotion. Links can be established between all major policy areas and mental health although these are of differing strengths and some are more direct than others. A few policy areas may apply more directly to certain periods of the lifespan but most have relevance […]
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How does mental health promotion work?
Strengthening individuals: increasing emotional resilience through interventions designed to promote self-esteem, life and coping skills, such as communicating, negotiating, relationship and parenting skills. Strengthening communities: this involves increasing social inclusion and participation, improving neighbourhood environments, developing health and social services which support mental health, anti-bullying strategies in schools, workplace health, community safety, childcare and self-help […]
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Measuring mental health
The final part of this chapter considers what can or should be done to measure mental health. Clearly, from the arguments already made, those who think mental health is the absence of mental illness will make a different measurement from those who take a salutogenic view. Those who see it in individualistic terms will measure […]
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Theories of mental health
Resilience theories There are a number of references to resilience in mental health promotion writing. For example, Joubert and Raeburn place considerable emphasis on ‘resilience’ which they see as ‘a dynamic and human concept’ (p.16) and central to their model of mental health. In the UK the then Health Education Authority’s (HEA) treatment of mental […]
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Mental health, mental well-being and mental illness
Many people are used to hearing ‘mental health’ as a euphemism for ‘mental illness’. A real problem in talking about mental health is that very often we are led into a way of thinking based on ideas and assumptions about mental illness – issues like depression, suicide, paranoia, schizophrenia come to the fore. On the […]
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Risk factors and protective factors for mental health
Risk factors and protective factors for mental health, especially in reducing the risk of suicide. The presence of sufficiently strong protective factors may reduce the risk of suicide. Protective factors are related to emotional well-being; social integration through participation in sport, church associations, clubs, etc.; connectedness with family and friends; high self-esteem; physical and environmental […]
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