The Assessment of Social Breakdown in Newly-Admitted Psychiatric Patients

1975 ◽  
Vol 127 (5) ◽  
pp. 417-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. R. L. Clemmey ◽  
D. Kennard ◽  
B. M. Mandelbrote
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Level Of Functioning ◽  
Social Breakdown ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

SummaryThis paper presents a study of patients' social and domestic functioning preceding admission to a psychiatric hospital. A method is described for the quantitative assessment of ‘social breakdown’ in the areas of work, domestic performance and social group activity, based on reports from the patient and from another household member. Complementary changes in the domestic tasks carried out by other family members are also investigated. The sample consisted of 28 women and 17 men. Their usual level of functioning and their degree of breakdown are related to psychiatric diagnosis on admission, to the patient's position within the family and to the social class of the household. Discrepancies between reports are also investigated in relation to these variables.

scholarly journals The social support network for black psychiatric inpatients

Curationis ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Ngubane ◽  
L. R. Uys
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Social Support Network ◽  
Family Network ◽  
State Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
State Psychiatric ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family

A survey was carried out of almost 50% of Black inpatients in a state psychiatric hospital to evaluate the level of accessibility of the family network of the patients. Staff were interviewed on the problems they have with contacting families. The survey shows the extent of inadequate access and identifies reasons for the problem.

scholarly journals Mothering for Schooling

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison I. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper I explore the relationship between mothering work in the family and the social organization of schooling. In particular, I address the ways in which mothers coordinate and contest the textually-organized discourse of schooling In contrast to other studies of the family/school relationship, this research began in the experience of mothers whose children attend primary school. The data were collected through interviews with mothers in two cities in Ontario. Mothering work constructs families that are differently connected to schools -- a connection strongly shaped by and constitutive of social class.

scholarly journals Upaya Keluarga Dalam Penyembuhan Pasien Penyakit Jiwa; Studi Pada Pasien Penyakit Jiwa di RSJ HB. Sa’anin Padang

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Yenni Melia
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Family Involvement ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mutual Communication

Madness is a symptom of a disease caused by psychiatric symptoms. Many factors become the cause of insanity, therefore need many approaches in healing. The process of healing the family involvement factor is an important factor. This study discusses family efforts to support the cure of psychiatric patients at psychiatric hospital of Prof. HB. Sa’anin. The research was conducted by qualitative method by following the steps suggested by Miles and Huberman. Data were collected using observation techniques, interviews and documentation studies. The informant consists of the main informant, the family of the mental illness patient and the supporting informant, the hospital officer. The results reveal the efforts provided by the family in the healing of mental illness patients, among others, by providing motivation to return to normal conditions. Another factor that causes healing is the economic and educational factor of family members. What is unique is that ethnic role factors have an effect on patient healing. Strategies that can be done to involve the family in healing is to establish mutual communication and the resignation nature of family members. Gila adalah gejala penyakit yang disbabkan oleh gejala kejiwaan. Banyak faktor yang menjadi penyebab kegilaan, oleh karena itu perlu banyak pendekatan dalam penyembuhannya. Dalam proses penyembuhan tersebut faktor keterlibatan keluarga adalah faktor penting dalam proses penyembuhan. Studi ini membahas tentang upaya keluarga dalam mendukung penyembuhan pasien sakit jiwa di rumah sakti jiwa Prof. HB. Sa’anin. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode kulitatif dengan mengikuti langkah-langkah yang disarankan Miles dan Huberman. Data dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan teknik observasi, wawancara dan studi dokumentasi. Informan penelitian terdiri dari informan utama, yaitu keluarga pasien penyakit jiwa dan informan pendukung, yaitu petugas rumah sakit. Hasil penelitian mengungkapkan upaya yang diberikan oleh keluarga dalam penyembuhan pasien penyakit jiwa antara lain dengan memberikan motivasi untuk kembali ke kondisi normal. Faktor lain yang menjadi penyebab kesembuhan adalah faktor ekonomi dan pendidikan anggota keluarga. Yang unik adalah, faktor peran etnis ikut berpengaruh dalam upaya penyembuhan pasien. Strategi yang dapat dilakukan untuk melibatkan keluarga dalam penyembuhan adalah dengan menjalin komunikasi timbal balik dengan sesama anggota keluarga dan sifat pasrah anggota keluarga.

FAMILY MORE IMPORTANT THAN HOUSING IN CHILDREN'S COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-389
Author(s):  
R. J. H.
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Cognitive Development ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
World War ◽  
Parental Occupation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The City ◽  
Type Of School

In Warsaw, Poland, a city destroyed at the end of World War II, housing and schools were rebuilt and assigned without regard to social class. In 1974, 96% of the children born eleven years earlier, were tested for cognitive ability and correlations made between parental occupation and education and with the school and distance of the home from the city. Results showed that parental occupation and education were much more strongly correlated with cognitive development than type of school or district in which the family lived. The authors conclude that equalization of living conditions and schooling over a generation have "failed to override forces that determine the social class distribution of mental performance among children."

Social class, parental social class, and social mobility in psychiatric patients and general population controls

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Birtchnell
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Population Controls

SYNOPSISPrevious studies have suggested that, because of the chronic and disabling nature of mental illness, psychiatric patients do not fare as well in their careers as they should do. In the present study the parental social class, the current social class and the social mobility has been compared in 2,861 male referrals to the psychiatric services in North-Eastern Scotland and 1,487 men randomly selected from the local population. Within the psychiatric sample similar comparisons have been made between diagnostic groups. In all three aspects of social class considered decade of birth was shown to be an important variable.

scholarly journals BAHASA DAN IDENTITAS BUDAYA

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Budi Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Social Group ◽  
National Language ◽  
Arbitrary System ◽  
Group Language ◽  
The Social

Language is an arbitrary system of sound used by members of a social group to cooperate, communicate, and identify one self. The paper discusses the use of language to identify personal identity, social class, ethnicity, and nationality. Language can determine the identity of an individual and a group. Language is also used to identify or to show the personal identity of a person. Furthermore, language shows the social class of a person. A person who comes from the low level class has a different language style from those of the higher level class. As ethnic identity, language can be used to denote ethnicity or the membership of a person or group in a certain ethnic group. Language can also become the national identity as well. Thus, every country has its own national language

scholarly journals Social Classes and Social Mobility in Slovenia and Europe

Organizacija ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 197-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Jereb ◽  
Marko Ferjan
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship

Social Classes and Social Mobility in Slovenia and EuropeIn closed social systems the social position of an individual is determined by the social position of the family into which he or she was born, whereas in open social systems mobility from one social class to another is possible. This paper concerns the relationship between the class position an individual actually occupies and the class into which he or she was born. First the concept of social class is described and different types of social mobility are presented. Than the research methodology is described and the results are presented and discussed. At the end of the paper certain comparisons to other European countries are made.

scholarly journals The Variation in the Mortality from Cancer of different Parts of the Body in Groups of Men of Different Social Status

1926 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Young
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Social Scale ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group 1

This paper is the result of an attempt to determine if, in the different social classes obtained by a grading of a large section of the male working population of England and Wales for the triennial period 1910–12, as described by the Registrar-General in the Supplement to his 75th Annual Report, there was shown any special susceptibility to cancer in particular parts of the body. From a comparison of the standardised mortality-rates from cancer in 16 different sites in (1) men of three social grades, namely, the upper and middle classes, skilled workmen and unskilled workmen, (2) two sub-groups of the upper and middle classes and (3) men of two social classes, a higher and a lower intermediate to classes 1 and 3 and 3 and 5 respectively, it seems reasonable to draw the following conclusions:1. The mortality-rates from cancer in the majority of the parts of the body considered, including amongst others the tongue, oesophagus and stomach, which altogether account for 92 per cent, of the total deaths, are definitely higher in the men of lowest social status; the incidence decreases, though not always regularly, with ascent in the social scale.2. The mortality from cancer in other parts of the body, namely, the bowel, the prostate and probably the pancreas, is definitely highest, however, in men of the best social status.3. Though the relatively high cancer mortality-rates in these sites in the best social class may probably be attributed in some measure, which it is difficult or impossible to assess, to improved facilities for, and methods of diagnosis in this class, as compared with those in the lowest classes, this cannot be the whole explanation as the differences are considerable and as no increased mortality from cancer is evident in any of the sites except the pancreas with such an ascent in the social scale as takes place in passing from social group 1 b, to social group 1 a, where the influence of more skilful diagnosis might also be expected to reveal itself. If we may accept the mortality from hepatic cancer in the different social classes as an approximate index of the general accuracy of diagnosis of malignant disease therein, then varying accuracy of diagnosis can have little influence in producing the divergencies in mortality from cancer in these special sites that are found in the social groups under review.4. The excessive mortality from cancer of the bowel amongst males of the best social class cannot reasonably be ascribed to their habits of life such as high-feeding and easy-living or to their alleged greater liability to autointoxication. If this were so, cancer of the stomach and cancer of the rectum might also be expected to show a higher incidence in the same social class; the mortality-rates from cancer in these sites, however, are not higher in this class than in the lower social classes.

A Five-Year Outcome of Discharged Chronic Psychiatric Patients

1972 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 433-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.K.M. Fakhruddin ◽  
Antony Manjooran ◽  
N.P.V. Nair ◽  
Alfred Neufeldt
Keyword(s):  
Continuity Of Care ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Community Mental Health Clinic ◽  
Chronic Psychiatric Patients

A five-year follow-up study was done on five hundred and eight chronic psychiatric patients, discharged from Saskatchewan Hospital, Weyburn in 1963, 1964 and 1965. One hundred and twenty-seven patients died during this period — 105 were over 65 years of age, with a mean age of 78 years, two patients had accidental deaths, and the rest died of normal causes. No patient committed suicide. Fifty-five per cent of the patients continually remained in the community during the five years. Forty-five per cent had one or more admissions and of these 74 per cent spent twelve months or less in the hospital. Fifty-four per cent were readmitted within twelve months after discharge. Twenty per cent of the patients under 65 years of age were employed full-time for forty-eight months or more. Two patients affected the social life of their family and one affected the health of the family. Continuity of care was provided to 80 per cent of the patients by the community mental health clinic. Chronic psychiatric patients can thus be kept in the community, causing minimum liability to the family and the community if continuity of care close to their residences is provided for them.

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