Mentally Ill Persons
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The good, the bad, and the severely mentally ill: Official and informal labels as organizational resources in community mental health services.

19 Jul 2009 Research on labeling mental illness has focused relatively little attention on practical organizational concerns in the process of labeling in community mental health services. This paper examines this issue through an ethnographic study of two ... Read more...

Prevalence, treatment, and associated disability of mental disorders in four provinces in China during 2001-05: an epidemiological survey.

11 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: In China and other middle-income countries, neuropsychiatric conditions are the most important cause of ill health in men and women, but efforts to scale up mental health services have been hampered by the absence of high-quality, ... Read more...

To protect or to publish: confidentiality and the fate of the mentally ill victims of Nazi euthanasia.

30 May 2009 In Nazi Germany, approximately 200 000 mentally ill people were murdered under the guise of euthanasia. Relatively little is known regarding the fate of the Jewish mentally ill patients targeted in this process, long before the Holocaust officially ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mentally Ill Persons'

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
• [Self help groups, a first assessment] 30 Aug 2009
• [Was Nietzsche's genius a consequence of mental disease] 30 Aug 2009
• Mentally ill patients dying in social shelters in Indonesia. 20 Aug 2009
• The good, the bad, and the severely mentally ill: Official and informal labels as organizational resources in community mental health services. 19 Jul 2009
• Prevalence, treatment, and associated disability of mental disorders in four provinces in China during 2001-05: an epidemiological survey. 11 Jun 2009
• [Access to somatic health care among mentally ill] 9 Jun 2009
• To protect or to publish: confidentiality and the fate of the mentally ill victims of Nazi euthanasia. 30 May 2009
• [Perceived stigma at the end of hospitalization and mentally ill subjects' social reinsertion] 30 May 2009
• Psychiatric patients in the pediatric emergency department undergoing routine urine toxicology screens for medical clearance: results and use. 30 May 2009
• Ethical issues in perinatal mental health. 30 May 2009
• [Psychiatric rehabilitation in Poland. Polish literature review from 1990-2007] 29 Apr 2009
• Addressing homelessness among people with mental illnesses: a model of long-term philanthropic effectiveness. 29 Apr 2009
• Combat veterans, mental health issues, and the death penalty: addressing the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. 29 Apr 2009
• [The "Rubicon-Misunderstanding" - a problem in motivating mentally ill employees to return to work] 15 Apr 2009
• Criminal madness: cultural iconography and insanity. 30 Mar 2009
• Suicide pacts in the mentally ill: a national clinical survey. 30 Mar 2009
• Stigma, conscience, and science in psychiatry: past, present, and future. 30 Mar 2009
• Clinical decision-making for 'as needed' medications in mental health care. 7 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Mentally Ill Persons'

Definition: Persons with psychiatric illnesses or diseases, particularly psychotic and severe mood disorders.

Descriptor UI: D028642

Alternative terms: Mentally Ill Persons; Mentally Ill Person; Person, Mentally Ill; Persons, Mentally Ill; Mentally Ill; Ill, Mentally; Mental Patients;

Related Mesh Headings: Mental Disorders; Commitment of Mentally Ill;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: M01.150.725;

History Note: 2002