The Mental Treatment Act of 1930, in addition to creating voluntary status for patients entering a psychiatric hospital for treatment and care, provided for the setting up of out-patient clinics at which such cases could be seen and properly assessed by a Pyschiatrist before hospitalisation was decided upon. The Act, as a whole, was an enlightened and forward looking piece of legislation and in...

In psychiatric hospitals a variety of health team professionals contribute to the provision of services which help patients re-enter and function independently within the community. The therapeutic recreation specialist, as a member of the team, is responsible for addressing the individual's leisure-related needs. To facilitate change, team members employ a defined systematic process consisting...

patients with psychiatric disorders are usually more exposed to multiple somatic illnesses, including liver diseases. specific links are established between psychiatric disorders and alcohol hepatitis, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c in the population as a whole, and specifically in drug abusers. metabolic syndrome criteria, and associated steatosis or non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (nash) are fre...

objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and its determinants of antipsychotic use in patients with psychiatric disorders. materials and methods: this study was on patients with psychiatric disorder that have discharged from the hospital. we have assessed all patients with psychiatric interview and evaluation of their psychiatric documentations. results: 90.7% of all ...

EFFECTIVE SCHOOL MANAGEMENT COMMITEES Community based organisations, such as School Management Committees (SMCs) and other Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) have a significant role to play in the local governance and functioning of schools. The recently introduced RTE Act has made the formation of SMCs mandatory. In addition to government documents and the thematic paper, Changing Framework of...

Houston Shaner Economics Honors Thesis Draft #4 A Laboratory Evaluation of Partner Selection in Group Lending Models This study attempts to simulate the group loan model employed by many Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). Specifically, an experiment using Vanderbilt University undergraduates sought to determine if positive assortative matching (PAM) occurred in the context of a pool of risky and...

This essay proposes “We” human-and-technology as the new human identity performed by the collaborative action of human and technology. Its aim is to open a new way for intersections of art, technology and humanities, through the political and aesthetic intimacy of human and technology in the collaborative action based interdependent perspective. The concept of “We” human-and-technology emphasiz...

Quality of life is intimately related to an individual's major life activities (Antonovsky, 1987). For many individuals, productive employment is of central importance. Unfortunately, people with disabilities confront many difficulties in finding or keeping work; with overall unemployment rates for this population as high as 50%, and as high as 60% for people with disabilities living in rural a...