Mental Disorders - Nursing
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Making rhetoric a reality: effective capacity building in mental health care provision.

30 Aug 2009 Patients diagnosed with mental illness are statistically less likely to access physical healthcare services, resulting in increased mortality rates and diminished quality and decreased longevity of lifespan. This article identifies key aspects of ... Read more...

Are stigma experiences among persons with mental illness, related to perceptions of self-esteem, empowerment and sense of coherence?

30 Jul 2009 The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between stigmatizing rejection experiences and self-related variables. Our hypothesis was that rejection experiences would be negatively associated with perceptions of self-esteem, empowerment and ... Read more...

Negotiating complexities: An ethnographic study of intellectual disability and mental health nursing in New Zealand.

30 Jul 2009 This paper presents the findings from a study undertaken to describe nursing practice in one dual diagnosis (DD; coexisting mental illness and intellectual disability) inpatient unit in New Zealand. A focused ethnographic approach (using fieldwork ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Nursing'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Empathy, a just milieu between clinical and daily ethics] 30 Aug 2009
• [Interior lives, an encounter between patient and nurse] 30 Aug 2009
• Making rhetoric a reality: effective capacity building in mental health care provision. 30 Aug 2009
• Mind to care. Abstracts of the 35th International Mental Health Nursing Conference of the Australian College of Mental Health Nurses. September 29-October 2, 2009. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 30 Aug 2009
• Are stigma experiences among persons with mental illness, related to perceptions of self-esteem, empowerment and sense of coherence? 30 Jul 2009
• Negotiating complexities: An ethnographic study of intellectual disability and mental health nursing in New Zealand. 30 Jul 2009
• Falls in a psychiatric institution in Beijing, China. 29 Jun 2009
• Enhancing intellectual empathy: the lived experience of voice simulation. 29 Jun 2009
• [Federal occupational court establishes employer responsibilities: mobbing at the work site] 29 Jun 2009
• [Introducing and incorporating aroma therapy in a psychiatric clinic: promoting quality of life] 29 Jun 2009
• [Managing psychiatric psychiatric symptoms in geriatric nursing: "somehow surviving the day"] 29 Jun 2009
• [Interaction of somatopsychic and psychosomatic factors: the psyche also requires care] 29 Jun 2009
• [Mentally ill patients in the light of non-exclusion protection ethics: on societal participation rehabilitation] 29 Jun 2009
• [26 percent is not enough] 29 Jun 2009
• Electronic health records and privacy. 30 May 2009
• What do we need to know about the culture-bound syndromes? 30 May 2009
• Response to 'Who cares for whom? Re-examining the nurse-patient relationship'. 30 May 2009
• Binary construct analysis of forensic psychiatric nursing in the UK: high, medium, and low security services. 30 May 2009
• Introducing peer-group clinical supervision: an action research project. 30 May 2009
• Sexuality of people living with a mental illness: a collaborative challenge for mental health nurses. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Mental Disorders'

Definition: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.

Descriptor UI: D001523

Alternative terms: Mental Disorders; Disorder, Mental; Disorders, Mental; Mental Disorder; Diagnosis, Psychiatric; Psychiatric Diagnosis; Behavior Disorders; Disorders, Behavior;

Related Mesh Headings: Mentally Ill Persons;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03;

Online Note: pre-explosion = MENTAL DISORDERS (PX)

History Note: use pre-explosion 1974-97