In recent decades the understanding of the core physiology giving rise to schizophrenia has advanced markedly. Current pharmacological interventions fail to target the core problems in schizophrenia. Several important outcome studies call into question whether current medications actually make long term outcomes worse. These new studies follow the recognized negative side effect of anti-psychot...

A quantitative survey was undertaken to determine the attitudes of nurses towards mentally ill people at King Edward VIII Hospital, large academic hospital in Durban. Data were collected by a questionnaire intended to measure attitudes according to cognitive, affective and behavioral components in a sample of 100 black nurses. The results of this study were analyzed through a statistical softwa...

The Patient Rejection Scale, which was developed to assess rejecting feelings of family members toward mental patients, was administered to a sample of 80 relatives living with schizophrenic patients in the Federal Republic of Germany. In spite of the cross-cultural differences involved, the response distributions of the German sample and a New York City sample of families were almost identical...

This article has presented the background, history, examples, and analyses of community care programs for the chronically mentally ill. From these data, it is concluded that such programs are as if not more effective an cost-efficient than conventional inpatient programs plus conventional follow-up for this population. The future, however, may depend much more on current political and economic ...

AIM The aim of the present study was to investigate sense of coherence in healthy siblings of persons suffering from schizophrenia as well as their ways of coping in the relationship with ill brother or sister. METHODS 40 healthy brothers and sisters of persons with ICD- 10 diagnosis of F20 to F29 participated in the present study. Orientation to Life Scale (SOC- 29) was used to assess sense ...

In Washington state, public concern about the potential dangerousness of mentally ill offenders has led to increasing legislative efforts to contain them in secure settings. A recently enacted law authorizes the transfer of persons found not guilty by reason of insanity from state psychiatric hospitals to prison facilities. The authors review the recent legislation and discuss some of the legal...

Criminal recidivism in mentally ill offenders, In the context of a county jail, has not been extensively studied. This study compares the rate of criminal recidivism between those who suffered from a mental illness at the time of arrest and those who did not. In addition, the length of incarceration between these two groups was compared. Using survival analysis, a risk assessment model describi...

Pseudo-patient studies are studies in which a medical sociologist or anthropologist masquerades as a patient. Medical treatment is sought without revealing that the 'patient' is really a covert research worker. When access has thus been gained to a medical setting--typically a hospital ward--social interaction between medical staff and patients is then observed over a period of days or weeks. I...

y the mentally ill. The Bristol Borough Lunatic Asylum *n?w Glenside Hospital) was established there in 1861, ut it may not be generally known that there was a Pr'vate lunatic asylum in Fishponds as early at 1740. In 1738, on the death of his father, Dr. Joseph Mason ^ late VIII) succeeded to the management of a small Rental establishment at Wickwar. A year or two later e moved to Fishponds, an...