Mental Disorders - Rehabilitation
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Vocational rehabilitation: an educational review.

30 Oct 2009 The aim of this review is to describe aspects of vocational rehabilitation relevant for a physician aiming to become a specialist in physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM). The review discusses the epidemiology of incapacity for work, the major ... Read more...

Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults.

7 Oct 2009 Only half of older adults with a mental disorder use mental health services, and little is known about the causes of perceived need for mental health care (MHC). We used logistic regression to examine relationships among depression, anxiety, chronic ... Read more...

Methodological challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards: findings from a pilot patient preference RCT.

29 Sep 2009 There are several methodological difficulties to address when evaluating acute psychiatric services. This study explored potential methods in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards in a pilot patient ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Rehabilitation'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Vocational rehabilitation: an educational review. 30 Oct 2009
• Perceived need for mental health care among community-dwelling older adults. 7 Oct 2009
• Methodological challenges in evaluating the effectiveness of women's crisis houses compared with psychiatric wards: findings from a pilot patient preference RCT. 29 Sep 2009
• [Remembering Béla Mária (1903-1975)] 28 Sep 2009
• A systematic review of the international published literature relating to quality of institutional care for people with longer term mental health problems. 5 Sep 2009
• [Social participation and vocational integration as an objective of child and adolescent psychiatric rehabilitation] 30 Aug 2009
• [The therapeutic bar, a social space for rehabilitation] 30 Aug 2009
• [Occupational therapy, a place of encounters and discovery] 30 Aug 2009
• New developments in preventive detention in Germany. 30 Aug 2009
• Social factors and forensic psychiatry in India. 30 Aug 2009
• Forensic psychiatry in north Africa. 30 Aug 2009
• Psychiatric illness and income support. 30 Aug 2009
• Stigma, negative attitudes and discrimination towards mental illness within the nursing profession: a review of the literature. 30 Jul 2009
• The growing role of football as a vehicle for interventions in mental health care. 30 Jul 2009
• Knowledge and attitudes of mental health professionals in Ireland to the concept of recovery in mental health: a questionnaire survey. 30 Jul 2009
• The importance of medication in consumer definitions of recovery from serious mental illness: a qualitative study. 30 Jul 2009
• Community outcomes of mentally disordered homicide offenders in Victoria. 30 Jul 2009
• Changes in number and characteristics of people living in state institutions, 1977-2008. 30 Jul 2009
• Examining the meaning attached to mental illness and mental health services among justice system-involved youth and their parents. 30 Jul 2009
• Mental health services use: Baltimore epidemiologic catchment area follow-up. 30 Jul 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