The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Mental Illness: Effective Interventions for Mental Health Professionals. - book review
In The Link between Childhood Trauma and Mental Illness, Everett and Gallop have written a helpful handbook for mental health and rehabilitation professionals who do not necessarily specialize in work with survivors of childhood trauma but who may be both the first to hear clients’ stories and to work most intensely with these [...]
Mental illness will hit 56 million North Americans - Health
Prisoner commits suicide: Failure to treat mental illness: Eighth and fourteenth amendment violations: Wrongful death: Settlement
Tracy, 20, was an inmate with a two-year sentence for dealing drugs. The state of Connecticut transferred Tracy to a supermaximum security prison in Virginia. Seven months before his scheduled release, Tracy hanged himself.
Tracy’s estate sued the Connecticut corrections department and several officials, alleging negligent failure to treat Tracy for mental illness despite evident [...]
A study to assess the knowledge, attitude and prctices of family members of clients with mental illness
Mental illness is an age-old problem of mankind as recorded in the literature of the oldest civilizations world over. It imposes unique demands on both the patient and the health care provider.
Availability of psychiatric services does not guarantee their utilization. Crucial to their utilization are community attitude towards mental illness, their level of knowledge about [...]
Covert study finds mental illness among kids in Australia’s asylum camps - General
The conditions of detention, the researchers reported, are a major factor because symptoms of mental illness had not been seen in other rejected asylum seekers who were awaiting deportation outside the detention centers.
The researchers, Clinical psychologists Zachary Steel and Louise Newman interviewed twenty youths, as young as age 3.
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5th Circuit: MENTAL ILLNESS CAN NULL PROSECUTION
The defense lawyer for an indigent charged with homicide failed to adequately explore the mental health history of the defendant, the circuit said.
The decision in the instant case outlines the role police and prosecutors may play in assisting defense counsel during the discovery stage of the trial to assure that the government’s efforts aren’t reversed [...]
The montgomery county CIT model: interacting with people with mental illness
Sadly, this does not represent an isolated incident. During the years 1992 through 2001, 11 law enforcement officers in the United States were killed by assailants who were mentally ill. (3) Add these homicides to the 914 law enforcement officers assaulted by people with mental illness in the year 2001 alone and the [...]
Attitudes regarding interpersonal relationships with persons with mental illness and mental retardation
Negative attitudes and a high degree of social distance towards people with disabilities has been well documented. Research has shown, however, that the degree of social rejection and social stigma varies with specific disabilities, creating a well-defined hierarchical order (Strohmer, Grand, & Purcell, 1984). In studies examining the hierarchical attitudes towards disabling conditions, [...]
Mental illness may really be infectious disease - Letters to the Editor - Letter to the Editor
I’m going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I’m going to Lourdes …. Woody Allen
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Jerry Floersch, Meds, Money and Manners: The Case Management of Severe Mental Illness
The type of intervention most likely provided by social workers and other mental health professionals to individuals suffering from severe mental illness is “case management.” The literature on case management practice has grown and matured over the years and has spawned a wide variety of theories and models. The same literature, Floersch points [...]
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