Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Louisville, 2004. / Kent School of Social Work. Vita. "May 2004." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-216).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: 1 l. at end.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-12-14Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:38:08Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ferrazza_da_me_assis.pdf: 979464 bytes, checksum: 588a7035d40ca9b58068b18623e46852 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Atualmente, qualquer sinal de sofrimento psíquico pode ser rotulado como uma patologia cujo tratamento será a administração de psicofármacos. Com o advento dos modernos psicofármacos e com a ênfase preventiva que assumiu o atendimento psiquiátrico após a II Guerra Mundial, a psiquiatria modificou suas práticas e deixou de ser um saber voltado exclusivamente ao tratamento da loucura para dedicar-se a medicar qualquer mal-estar cotidiano. Essa tendência tem-se ampliado de tal modo que é possível perceber a ocorrência de uma generalizada “medicalização do social”. Neste trabalho, desenvolvemos dois movimentos de pesquisa distintos para estudar o tema da medicalização social e da atual expansão da prescrição de psicofármacos. O primeiro desenvolve um enfoque histórico-social de contextualização geral do processo de medicalização do social. Nele procuramos percorrer a trajetória da constituição do saber e das práticas médico-psiquiátricas desde a fundação manicomial do alienismo até a atual ênfase psicofarmacológica da psiquiatria contemporânea. O segundo movimento busca aproximar-se da capilaridade do processo de medicalização por meio do desenvolvimento de um estudo exploratório amostral sobre a prescrição de psicofármacos no âmbito de um serviço de atendimento à saúde mental de uma pequena cidade do interior paulista. Nossa pesquisa mostra que todos aqueles que passaram pelo atendimento psiquiátrico receberam prescrição de psicofármacos... / Currently, any sign of distress can be labeled as a pathology which treatment will be the administration of psychotropic drugs. With the advent of modern psychiatric drugs and with the preventive emphasis that psychiatric care assumed after World War II, psychiatry has changed its practices and no longer is a knowledge exclusively turned to madness but has been devoted itself to medicate any daily discomfort. This trend has been expanded in such way that is possible to notice the occurrence of a generalized medicalization of society. In the present work we developed two distinct research movements to study the issue of medicalization and social expansion of the current psychotropic drugs ´prescription. The first develops a historical-social emphasis at the general process of contextualization in the social medicalization. For that, we sought to travel through knowledge´s constitution and medical-psychiatric practices going through the asylum alienisms foundation to the current emphasis on psychopharmacology of contemporary psychiatry. The second movement seeks to approximate itself to the capillarity of the medicalization process by developing an exploratory sample of psychotropic prescription in a mental health service care from a small town in São Paulo. Our research shows that everyone who went through psychiatric treatment received psychotropic prescription... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

Thesis (M.A.(Social Work))--University of Pretoria, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 235-256).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Murdoch University, 2002. / Thesis submitted to the Division of Health Sciences. Bibliography: leaves 296-305.

<p> Police strategies have transformed over the years. The prior approach of criminalizing mental illness by incarcerating those in mental health crisis in jails was exposed to be ineffective. The development of partnerships between police officers and mental health professionals was the next evolution in the law enforcement response to mental illness. This collaboration works in partnership to provide positive outcomes for those struggling with a mental health crisis. This quantitative study evaluated the effectiveness of the co-response model by completing a secondary data analysis of pre-existing 2014-2015 data extracted from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Mental Evaluation Unit database documenting law enforcement encounters with consumers of mental health services. Descriptive and inferential analyses were conducted on 15,454 records. Significant findings indicate that this new partnership has provided a positive impact in deterring the criminalization of persons with mental illness by directly connecting those persons to more appropriate treatment facilities to help them manage their symptoms and conditions.</p>

<p> The purpose of this project is to write a grant proposal to seek funding for a support group for formerly incarcerated women with a severe mental illness as they enter the community. This group is meant to address the many needs of this population and help reduce recidivism. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) was selected as the potential funder. SAMHSA is committed to improving mental health care and increasing access to care in California. The host agency Telecare/TABS 109 is committed to mental health treatment for formerly incarcerated individuals under the AB 109 program. This support group would be in addition to the existing services at TABS 109. The actual submission and/or funding of this grant was not a requirement for the successful completion of this project.</p>

<p>The purpose of the grant was to fund a mental health awareness fair. The aim is to spread mental health awareness, by reaching out to communities where people are underserved. Educating people about mental health, would impact how people think of others dealing with mental health issues. The grant would bring a resource fair that would showcase all service providers in both mental and physical health agencies in Los Angeles County, hosted by Mental Health of America, Los Angeles. Hosting a resource fair in Los Angeles County will give the community an opportunity to identify services available to them and/or their families. Service providers will be offer services such as depression screenings, blood pressure checks, HIV testing, healthy coping skills lists, and/ or sleep hygiene tips. It would also show the communities that service providers work together to serve the health of the whole person.

Studien utgår från en kvalitativt inriktad analys och metod, där syftet är att undersöka vilka huvudräkningsstrategier som 3 svenska respektive 3 engelska lärare undervisar i, inom addition. Det empiriska materialet består av intervjuer som sedan har transkriberats och analyserats. Studien har låtit sig inspireras av ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv kombinerat med Grounded Theory. Hermeneutiskt perspektiv innebär att all data som finns i studien har tolkats och analyserats. Grounded Theory är ett vanligt sätt att analysera kvalitativ data och genom denna teori har kategorier skapats utifrån det resultat som framkommit. Resultatet av studien visar att de svenska lärarnas vanligaste val av strategier är: talsorter var för sig och algoritmer. De engelska lärarnas vanligaste val av strategier är: tiokamrater, additionstabellen och algoritmer. Av resultatet framkommer även de skillnader som finns mellan de intervjuade lärarnas val av strategier. / The study is based on a qualitatively directed method and the main aim is to investigate, and examine the mental arithmetic strategies of both Swedish and English teachers. In particular, the methods they use, to teach addition. The empirical data within this research is based on first hand interviews with six teachers; three from Sweden, and three from England. The study is inspired by a Hermeneutic Perspective in combination with Grounded Theory. The word hermeneutic, means that all of the data contained in the study has been interpreted and analyzed by the researcher. Grounded Theory is a common method used to analyze qualitative data. With this theory, categories have been created on the basis of the results obtained within this study. The results of the study show that Swedish teachers' most common choices of strategies are; partitioning method, and algorithms. In contrast, the English teachers’ strategies are the following; number bonds, the additiontable and algorithms. The results of this study also illustrate the differences between the Swedish and the English teachers’ choices of strategies.

Purpose: This study explored the lived experiences of inpatients in an adult acute psychiatric ward aiming to bring the voices, individual journeys and everyday worlds of psychiatric inpatients to the research arena. It tried to understand the meaning of psychiatric illness, acute hospitalization experience and the effects of these upon people‘s lives and identity. Lastly, it investigated the psychologists‘ role in acute wards. Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with ten adult inpatients in one psychiatric acute ward in the south of England. Data was collected and analysed according to the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) method leading to case and group analyses of interview transcripts. Results: Themes of inpatient life were found to be: (1) admission and experiences of the early days; (2) every day life on the ward; (3) maintaining connections with the outside world; (4) relationships with other patients; (5) relationships with nursing staff; (6) relationships with psychiatrists; (7) experiences of being sectioned; (8) experiences of medical treatment and (9) reactions to inpatient care. Illness journey themes were determined to be: (1) Making sense of illness; (2) experiences of illness symptoms; (3) reactions to illness; (4) way to recovery; (5) impact on self / identity; (6) impact on life and (7) anticipation of life after illness / hospital care. Conclusions: The results show, in greater detail than in previous studies, that inpatient care and treatment can be dehumanizing and that issues of psychiatric inpatients need immediate attention from service providers. The study shows vividly that social inequalities and stigma are still problematic areas in mental health. A central theme of the research is the importance of supportive relationships to clients' recovery and wellbeing. The congruence of the recovery model with counselling psychology principles is clarified and the exciting possibility that counselling psychologists could implement the recovery model is explored.