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The use of electronic and communication technologies as a therapeutic aid to healthcare practices is commonly referred to as telemedicine [1] or eHealth. [2] [3] [4] The use of such technologies as a supplement to mainstream therapies for mental disorders is an emerging mental health treatment field which, it is argued, could improve the accessibility, effectiveness and affordability of mental ...
Based on evidence of variable quality, ICM is effective in helping many outcomes relevant to people with severe mental illness. Compared to standard care, ICM may reduce hospitalization and increase retention in care. It also globally improved people's functioning socially, but ICM's effect on mental state and quality of life remains unclear.
By the 1960s many patients were moved from the hospitals to local facilities or mental health homes where they received personalised care by qualified psychiatric nurses. The number of institutionalised mentally ill patients fell from 560,000 in the 1950s to 130,000 by 1980. [6]
Despite decades of effort, California is still far from creating an effective approach to treating severely mentally ill citizens, many of whom are homeless and desperately subsisting on our streets.
Seeing people as individuals with lives beyond their mental illness is imperative in making patients feel valued and respected. [20] In order to accept the patient as an individual, the psychiatric nurse must not be controlled by his or her own values, or by ideas, and pre-understanding of mental health patients. [21]
Idaho has been debating a secure mental health facility for 70 years. This is the time the Idaho Legislature should make it happen. | Opinion
In American history, mentally ill patients were thought to be religiously punished. This response persisted through the 1700s, along with the inhumane confinement and stigmatization of such individuals. [20] Dorothea Dix (1802–1887) was an important figure in the development of the "mental hygiene" movement.
Expressed emotion (EE), is a measure of the family environment that is based on how the relatives of a psychiatric patient spontaneously talk about the patient. [1] It specifically measures three to five aspects of the family environment: the most important are critical comments, hostility, emotional over-involvement, with positivity and warmth sometimes also included as indications of a low ...