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"It was the purpose of this study to examine the case records of sixty-six patients referred for history resources to the Social Service Department at the Florida State Hospital, from July 1, 1958 through June 30, 1959"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1960." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: James H. Williams, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"It was the purpose of this study to determine if the background information contained in the medical records of patients committed from the criminal courts was sufficient for the needs of the state hospital staff for purposes of efficient examination, treatment planning, and disposition of such patients; if the state hospitals outside of Florida encounter problems of gathering background information of patients admitted under criminal commitments: and if the criminal courts of Florida have facilities and resources for assisting the state hospitals in gathering identifying data and background information on offenders committed from their courts"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Vernon Fox, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"This study deals with patient admissions to the South Florida State Hospital, Hollywood, Florida. The purpose of the study was to determine how the racial groups, age groups, and the eight counties in the hospital district were being served by the hospital. To do this, population figures for the district were distributed by age, race, and county. A sample of hospital admissions was then drawn, and distributed by age, race, and county of admission. The findings of the study are based upon comparisons between the population and the hospital sample, in this manner. It was thought that such findings would be of interest to the hospital, as a public facility, in evaluating the service to its constituents"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "August, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Robert T. Lansdale, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"The purpose of this study was to attempt an appraisal of the contribution of Social Service activity toward trial visit movement over a three year period at the V.A. Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Augusta, Georgia. Preliminary exploration of such movement during the selected period had revealed an increase in the number of trial visits during the first six months of each year from 91 in 1954 to 202 in 1957. A corresponding increase was noted in the ratio of successful discharges from trial visit to rehospitalizations for the same period: from 37 discharged to 50 returned in 1954 to 142 discharged and 109 returned in 1957. The average daily number of patients on trial visit also increased from 80 to 225"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Howard W. Borsuk, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

Social agencies for several years have been aware of the problems created by the clients failure to follow through with referrals for special and continued services. More recently, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers have focused attention upon after care for the discharged hospitalized patient. This study concerns itself with the use of after care services by the Veterans Administration Hospital's patients. The focus is on the veterans referred for after care to the Hospital Outpatient Clinic and the Mental Hygiene Clinic upon discharge from the hospital. The purpose of this study was to determine similarities and differences of those veterans. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: David L. Levine, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Dr. P.H.)--University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: B, page: 6595. Adviser: Arch I. Carson. Includes bibliographical references.

This dissertation examines recurrent patterns in the interaction between psychiatric patients and the systems of knowledge and power that constitute them as patients. These patterns are traced both in the historical migmti::m of patients into and out of the asylum, and in the language used by doctors and patients to account for such migration. Transcripts of interviews with patients and case notes written by doctors are subjected to new forms of quantitative analysis and this is used together with qualitative interpretation to reveal the ways in which disciplinary power operates through confession and surveillance to constitute psychiatric subjects in the tension between freedom and incarceration. / Psychology / D.Litt. et Phil. (Psychology)

Thesis (MCur)--University of Stellenbosch, 2011. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this descriptive survey was to investigate the attitudes of mental health care providers with regards to the management of aggression and violence. The absence of scientific data describing the attitudes of nurses towards the management of aggression and violence motivated the researcher to conduct this study. The researcher undertook a descriptive survey to describe the attitudes of nurses towards the management of aggression and violence. The management of aggression and violence attitude scale (MAVAS) was administered to N92 nurses with different qualifications these nurses are employed in the acute admission units of four psychiatric hospitals in a province in South Africa. The results showed no significant differences in attitudes between the different categories of nurses in most of the questions. Enough evidence was gathered that indicated, compared to trained staff, staff without a qualification in psychiatric nursing science had found it difficult to calm patients down, had not understood the effect of the environment on a patient, had felt that patients should control their feelings and had lacked the perception of trained nurses, with regards to the effect of negotiation and poor communication on violent and aggressive mental healthcare users. These findings can make significant contributions towards the implementation of training programmes and policies to assist staff to deal with patient related aggression and violence. Furthermore the data generated can contribute towards future research in this field with subsequent expansion of skills programmes. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doelstelling van hierdie navorsings studie was om die houding van psigiatriese gesondheidsdiens voorsieners ten opsigte van die hantering van aggresie en geweld te bepaal. Die afwesigheid van wetenskaplik gefundeerde data het die navorser genoop om hierdie studie te onderneem. Die navorser het derhalwe ʼn beskrywende studie gedoen om die houding van verpleegsters ten opsigte van die hantering van aggressie en geweld te bepaal. Die “management of aggression and violence attitude scale” (MAVAS) is deur N92 verpleegsters met verskillende kwalifikasies voltooi. Hierdie verpleegsters is indiens van vier verskillende psigiatriese hospitale in ʼn provinsie in Suid- Afrika. Die verpleegsters werk in die akute opname eenhede van die onderskeie hospitale. Die resultate het geen noemenswaardige verskille tussen die onderskeie kategorieë verpleegsters se houding teenoor die hantering van aggressie en eweld aangedui nie. Genoegsame bewys is ingesamel wat aandui; dat in vergelyking met opgeleide personeel, personeel sonder ʼn kwalifikasie in psigiatriese verpleeg wetenskappe, dit moeiliker vind om pasiënte te kalmeer, nie verstaan watter effek die omgewing op ʼn pasiënt het nie. Dié kategorieë voel pasiënte moet hul gevoellens beheer en het ook nie dieselfde persepsie ten opsigte van die effek van onderhandeling en swak kommunikasie op aggressiewe en geweldadige psigiatriese gesondheids diens verbruikers as hul kollegas nie. Hierdie bevindings is ʼn belangrike bydrae ten opsigte van die implementering van opleidings programme en beleid ten einde personeel te ondersteun om pasiënt verwante aggressie en geweld te hanteer. Die nuwe data gegenereer deur dié navorsings studie kan bydra tot toekomstige navorsing in hierdie veld asook gevolglike uitbreiding van vaardigheids programme.

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work