Challenging the exclusion of people with mental illness: the Mental Health Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI).
Introduction With high hospitalisation rates and widespread social exclusion, mental illness is a profound health and social need that requires an integrated policy approach (Shepherd 2007). In the past, mental health models of support for people with acute mental illness have focussed on clinical symptoms, rather than...

Definitions of insanity in college students.
The legal concept of insanity has had many definitions throughout the years, and the precise definition used is critical in determining the status of a person in the legal system. Past research has demonstrated that different professions working in the legal system cannot agree on the definition of insanity...

Measuring learned resourcefulness in college students: factor structure of the self-control schedule (SCS).
Rosenbaum's Self-Control Schedule (SCS) has been used as a unidimensional measure of Learned Resourcefulness (LR) in previous research. In this study we clarified the factor structure of the SCS among college students (N = 583) by conducting a principal axis factor analysis with oblique (Oblimin) rotation on the SCS....

Prevalence and correlates of PTSD among high school students after the earthquake disaster in the City of Bam, Iran.
INTRODUCTION Earthquake and its consequences present a major public health problem. Like other natural disasters, often without warning, they strike quickly, and are uncontrollable, affecting large population and leaving injury, death, and destruction subsequently. After earth quick, with the loss of loved ones and livelihood, survivors are...

Association between paternal age at birth time and the risk of offspring developing schizophrenia.
INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia is a chronic devastating behavioural psychiatric disease whose history turn back to medical science ancientness. Less than 1% of world population attacked by schizophrenia. that have spread in every geographic region. Its prevalence and incidence rate is similar around the world but there is difference...

Pregnancy not tied to risk of mental illness.
Pregnancy does not raise the risk of developing any of the most prevalent mental disorders, with the notable exception of postpartum depression, according to a report in the Archives of General Psychiatry. "Pregnancy is traditionally viewed as a stressful period that may provoke mental illness. However, [except...

Doing mental healthcare right the first time: employers are paying more attention to the impact mental illness can have on the bottom line, but determining the causes of many such illnesses merits a more muscular approach.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Employee mental health affects the bottom line and the culprits are many. Stress disability rates have been growing and mental health is also the leading cause of prolonged disability in people with a physical illness. Productivity, retention and medical care utilization are all affected by...

A select annotated bibliography of public attitudes toward mental illness, 1975-2005.
9780773451698 A select annotated bibliography of public attitudes toward mental illness, 1975-2005. Ed. by Dinesh Bhugra et al. Edwin Mellen Pr. 2007 225 pages $109.95 Hardcover Z6665 Bhugra (mental health and...

Collaborative care ideal in serious mental illness.
Patients with serious mental disorders will be best served when psychiatrists starting thinking like primary care physicians, and primary care physicians start thinking like psychiatrists, experts said at a forum on integrating physical and mental health care. "There has always been this disconnect between what we think...

Epic genetics: genes' chemical clothes may underlie the biology behind mental illness.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In research circles the debate is settled. Psychiatric illnesses are disorders rooted in biology. As convincing as the evidence is, mysteries still fog our understanding of mental illnesses. Yes, the disorders stem from problems in the brain, but "on the other hand, for...