Mental Disorders - Therapy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Treatment by psychiatric acute teams - as an alternative to admission in psychiatric acute wards - has been introduced in Norway, based on positive experience in other countries. The effect of establishing such acute teams in Norway has ... Read more...

[A community short-term crisis unit does not reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards]

6 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Due to long-term capacity problems in the psychiatric acute ward, we tried to canalise acute admissions due to life crises (and not serious mental disease) to a new short-term in-patient crisis unit. Our hypothesis was that the opening ... Read more...

The influence of neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization in dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Environmental contingencies inherent in neighborhoods and communities have been shown to affect individual behavior. The authors analyzed neighborhood and individual factors predicting initial outpatient treatment attendance and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Disorders - Therapy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Conclusion: mental health in the mainstream of public policy. 30 Oct 2009
• New models of collaboration between criminal justice and mental health systems. 30 Oct 2009
• Identifying neighborhood stressors in assessment of drug treatment continuity and relapse. 30 Oct 2009
• [Can psychiatric acute teams reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards?] 6 Oct 2009
• [A community short-term crisis unit does not reduce acute admissions to psychiatric wards] 6 Oct 2009
• Applying health care reform principles to mental health and substance abuse services. 5 Oct 2009
• Infection, inflammation, and mental illness. The body's immune response to infectious agents may imperil the brain. 29 Sep 2009
• The influence of neighborhood environment on treatment continuity and rehospitalization in dually diagnosed patients discharged from acute inpatient care. 29 Sep 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
• Benefits exceed risks of newer antidepressant medications in youth--maybe. 29 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
• A 4-year prospective study of eating disorder NOS compared with full eating disorder syndromes. 30 Aug 2009
• Making rhetoric a reality: effective capacity building in mental health care provision. 30 Aug 2009
• [Mental illness common among physicians. To seek help for stress and mental problems is not always easy] 30 Aug 2009
• The cost of restricting knowledge. 30 Aug 2009
• Perinatal psychiatry: the challenges of making rational treatment decisions at the interface of psychiatry and obstetrics. 30 Aug 2009
• Telephone case management reduces both distress and psychiatric hospitalization. 30 Aug 2009
• How does sexual minority stigma "get under the skin"? A psychological mediation framework. 30 Aug 2009
• Improving access to psychological therapies: implications for mental health care in general practice. 30 Aug 2009
• To disclose or not to disclose psychological problems to GPs. 30 Aug 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