Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2010. / Title from screen (viewed on May 25, 2010). Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Gary R. Bond, John McGrew, Kevin Rand, Dennis Devine. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-85).

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / The primary purpose of the current study was to determine the relationship between employment and the nonvocational functioning of people with severe mental illness in a prospective 24 month study, as a partial replication of another study. An employment typology was utilized that was comprised of participants at four employment levels: no work (those who did not work the entire study period), minimal work (those who worked 24 weeks or less in competitive and/or noncompetitive, paid employment), paid work (those who worked 24 or more weeks, the majority of which was spent in noncompetitive, paid employment), and competitive work (those who worked 24 or more weeks, the majority of which was spent in competitive employment). Both objective and subjective outcomes were addressed, including quality of life, symptoms, psychiatric hospitalizations, social networks, and residential status. Participants consisted of persons with severe mental illness (most with a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder) who were receiving employment services at a large, urban psychiatric rehabilitation center. Mixed effects regression modeling and logistic regression were used to analyze the date. Results indicate that the competitive work group experienced an accelerated improvement in negative symptoms across time and was less likely to have psychiatric hospitalization days as compared with the no work group. The paid work group showed an accelerated improvement in social network scores across time as compared with the no work, minimal work, and competitive work groups. The full sample demonstrated improvements across the study period regardless of employment typology status in the areas of overall quality of life, financial quality of life, cognitive symptoms, and social networks. In conclusion, this study adds to the growing body of evidence indicating that work, particularly periods of extended competitive work may lead to important benefits in clinical and social domains, although threats to internal validity that could not be ruled out preclude a causal link from being established. Future research is needed to further investigate this relationship, particularly in regards to those outcomes that are not well understood, such as residential status.

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This thesis explores the collaborative practice between psychiatrists and chaplains within three mental healthcare facilities in south central Ontario, Canada. From an overview of the current literature, there has been a renewed interest by psychiatrists in the healing qualities of religion and spirituality. However, the literature also reveals that psychiatrists have a tendency not to be interested in spiritual matters. So, despite the renewed interest in the effects of spirituality on persons with mental illness and the positive outcomes that the research reveals, many psychiatrists remain unconvinced about the use of spirituality in their practice. In the light of this, I undertook this research into the lived experiences of twelve psychiatrists and ten chaplains within three mental healthcare facilities within south central Ontario. From an overview of the literature, I noted the lack of engagement by chaplains in performing research and the lack of a theological focus on the collaborative practice between these two disciplines. This study is located within the discipline of practical theology using a transversal model of praxis. Through the use of hermeneutic phenomenology as both methodology and method within a qualitative framework, I engaged some of the fundamentals of the concepts within the work of the philosopher Hans Georg Gadamer,1 in order to gain access into the collaborative practices between psychiatrists and chaplains. Using the transversal model of cross-disciplinary dialogue, I come to an understanding of the array of collaborative or non-collaborative practices between psychiatrists and chaplains. I then come to the understanding that in many instances, it is up to the chaplain to lead the way in collaborative practice. Drawing on the Christian notion of hospitality, the persuasive communication techniques used by Jesus and current organization theories within healthcare, I bring about a more robust collaborative practice with psychiatrists.

This study has a twofold purpose. The first is to determine the consequences related to labeling deviant behaviors, especially as these effects are reflected in the person who labels and defines deviant behavior. The second is to evaluate the medical model of abnormality in relation to the labeling of deviant behavior.

This study is concerned with determining the relationship among functional educational level of groups, three types of reinforcement, and length of the study and with their resulting effects on schizophrenic performance.

M.P.H., Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 2011

"The purpose of this study was to determine the significant differences between the responses of principal relatives of newly hospitalized male mental patients, to different form letters from the Social Service Department at The Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. These responses were dichotomized by: (1) the responses of the relatives who received the original Social Service form letter; and (2) the responses of the relatives who received the revised version of the aforementioned form letter, which was reconstructed by the author of this study to include the application of selected basic social casework principles to its content"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1961." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Howard Borsuk, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-57).