Some Reasons that Mental Health Treatments Are Not Technologies: Toward Treatment Development and Adaptation Outside Labs.

Mitochondrial DNA barcoding detects some species that are real, and some that are not.

Mimicry and extensive geographical subspecies polymorphism combine to make species in the ithomiine butterfly genus Mechanitis (Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae) difficult to determine. We use mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) barcoding, nuclear sequences and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) genotyping to investigate species limits in this genus. Although earlier biosystematic studies based on mor...

identifying areas that are outside of fire stations services

aid uses, including fire stations, according to critical activities that are responsible, in comparison to other city services, are more important. identify areas where are located outside of the fire stations covered services can help urban planners to site selection of this important land use. the purpose of this paper is detection the areas that are beyond the services coverage of the fire s...

Mental health law and the movement toward voluntary treatment.

Attitudes of Mental Health Patients Toward the Use of Mobile Health Technologies

Study participants include underserved individuals who were developmentally disabled, or suffering with an addictive disease. Face-to-face interviews consisted of thirteen questions were conducted at an in-patient behavioral health service center located in Brunswick, GA for a period of five weeks. The participants’ responses were electronically captured by interviewers using Survey Monkey. Ten...

Reducing stigma toward seeking mental health treatment among adolescents.

PURPOSE This study examined the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce explicit and implicit stigma-relevant attitudes toward mental illness and treatment-seeking and behavioural indicators of willingness to seek treatment. METHODS Adolescents were randomly assigned to the experimental (education about mental illness and treatment involving psychoeducation and contact (via DVD) with an af...