. . . Mr. C, diagnosed as brain-damaged and schizophrenic . . . gradually became more and more unmanageable . . . continually disrupting ward routine, both by provoking other patients and by directly plaguing the staff with demands. Mr. C's rehabilitation and psychotherapy were retarded because of his direct lack of motivation as well as the staff's unwillingness to have anything to do with him...

ISSUES ADDRESSED This project engaged a mental health rehabilitation organisation in health promotion research and development to build its capacity in evaluation research. METHODS Participatory research methods were used. Staff skills development occurred through training in research and evaluation methods applied to an evaluation project in mental health promotion that they conducted. RES...

BACKGROUND The concept of ward culture has been proposed as a reason for the often reported differences in treatment decisions when managing inpatient aggression. We therefore studied whether staff on wards actually shares similar perceptions and attitudes about aggression and whether the specialty of the ward on which the staff members work influences these opinions. METHODS The Attitudes To...

Despite the existence of effective psychological interventions for people diagnosed with schizophrenia, these continue to be underutilized. This problem is most critical in the case of so called " treatment-refractory " patients, where, paradoxically, effective interventions with among the strongest evidence base in psychiatry exist – namely – inpatient social-learning-based rehabilitation prog...

results in the first three years, the team managed the care of 812 admissions. mean age wasn 44.3 years (sd = 24.8) and mean length of hospital stay was 6.1 days (sd = 10.9). ofn these individuals, 674 attended for 6 month follow-up with 52.2% having a good outcomen on extended glasgow outcome score. patients and their relatives' feedbacks weren excellent with an average score of 4.7/5 on overa...

1. Strengths of virtual reality applications in rehabilitation. The past decade has witnessed burgeoning interest in the use of virtual reality (VR) technology for assessment and treatment of rehabilitation patients. VR applications have a number of desirable features from a rehabilitation perspective. First, VR presents an opportunity to create assessment and rehabilitation scenarios that inco...