The Sexual Adjustment of Chronic Schizophrenics: A Preliminary Study

1983 ◽  
Vol 143 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Lyketsos ◽  
P. Sakka ◽  
A. Maïlis
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Dysfunction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Sexual Disorders ◽  
Sexual Fantasies ◽  
Sexual Adjustment ◽  
Chronic Schizophrenics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Preliminary Study

SummaryA comparison of a group of chronic schizophrenics with controls showed that: the patients had significantly less interest in sex, frequency of intercourse, and satisfaction from sex; the percentage of individuals with sexual dreams and sexual fantasies did not differ between the two groups; the severity of psychopathology influenced frequency of intercourse and satisfaction from sex, and the length of institutionalization influenced interest in sex; the schizophrenics had a variety of sexual disorders, but there was a significant difference between the sexes in disturbances of thought and perception; and, significantly more male schizophrenics, in comparison with females, had sexual dysfunction associated with pharmacotherapy, but feminization in the males was far from predominant.The patients' sexual disorders are not disturbing to the social life of the open mental hospital or the community surrounding it.

Institutionalism and Schizophrenia 30 Years on

1992 ◽  
Vol 160 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Curson ◽  
Christos Pantelis ◽  
Jan Ward ◽  
Thomas R. E. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Severity Of Illness ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
The Relationship

In their comparison of chronic schizophrenic patients in three British mental hospitals in 1960, Wing and Brown found a strong association between the poverty of the social environment and the severity of ‘clinical poverty’ (blunted affect, poverty of speech, and social withdrawal). Between 1960 and 1968 the social environments of all three hospitals improved and a weak causal relationship between social poverty and clinical poverty was reported in a proportion of patients. Using the same assessment instruments as Wing and Brown, the present study re-examined the relationship between social and clinical poverty in the long-stay schizophrenic population of a fourth British mental hospital in 1990. The association found between social and clinical poverty was much weaker than in 1960. Reluctance on the part of patients to be discharged from the institution was unrelated to length of stay. There was no significant difference in severity of illness between the patients in the present study and those in the earlier study. However, patients in the former group spent more time doing nothing than those in the hospital with the most understimulating environment three decades before, with four-fifths doing nothing for over five hours a day, despite a greatly increased ratio of nurses to patients.

scholarly journals CHARACTER BUILDING: ARE EFL TEACHERS READY? (VOICES FROM LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Retno Wiyati
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Character Building ◽  
Learning Institutions ◽  
Good Attitude

Character building education in classroom contexts is nowadays gaining a lot more attention than in the past as a way to provide solution to the social misbehavior that students often conduct outside classroom and even school levels. This is in line with the new curriculum of 2013 in which “Pendidikan nasional berfungsi mengembangkan kemampuan dan membentuk watak serta peradaban bangsa yang bermartabat....peserta didik agar menjadi manusia yang beriman dan bertakwa kepada Tuhan yang Maha Esa, berakhlak mulia,sehat, berilmu, cakap, kreatif, mandiri, dan mejadi warga negara yang demokratis serta bertanggung jawab (Suherdi, 2013). This indicates that character building education is very important in producing students who have a strong religious character as well as a good attitude to make them not only succeed academically in school but also in their social life. This study is thus aimed at finding out the aspects of characters that teachers and students need to possess, the teachers’ role in promoting character education in the classrooms, and the importance of character education to enhance students’ learning activities. This study involves several teachers and students of different classes from some English learning institutions. The preliminary study revealed that teachers do not have a significant role in emphasizing character building in the classrooms and that most students are not fully aware of the importance of character education in enhancing their learning.

Eating Disorders in Schizophrenia

1985 ◽  
Vol 146 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Lyketsos ◽  
P. Paterakis ◽  
A. Beis ◽  
C. G. Lyketsos
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Chronic Schizophrenic ◽  
Perceptual Disorders ◽  
The Social ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

SummaryAn investigation of eating disorders in a population of chronic schizophrenic patients confirmed that there is a distinction between eating disorders of psychotics and eating disorders of the young. All the DSM-III criteria of eating disorders, except one, were observed among the psychotics although no patient fulfilled the necessary criteria for an eating disorder diagnosis except for one anorexic woman. All varieties of schizophrenic eating disorder were reported: in two-fifths of the patients eating disorders were associated with delusions and in one sixth with hallucinations; more than half of the patients had deviant eating behaviour which was not associated with any thought or perceptual disorders. Schizophrenic eating disorders were common, yet not disturbing to the social life of the open mental hospital or to that of the community surrounding it.

scholarly journals Investigation of Body Perceptions of Karate Athletes

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 2190-2192
Author(s):  
Aydin Ilhan ◽  
Aynur Bayhar ◽  
Hayrettin Gumusdag
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Physical Appearance ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Body Perceptions ◽  
Karate Athletes

Background: Sports are part of the social life we live in. Sports have an important role in the social, physical, mental and spiritual development of individuals. It has a significant effect on the individual's self-confidence, development of his character, being a social person, development of practical thinking ability, and mental and physical development. One of the ways used for the desired body structure is physical activity. They had the chance to reach a new physical appearance through physical activities. They have a new physical appearance and positive thoughts [1]. Self-perception is positively affected by participation in sports. From this point of view, examining it with different variables causes us to learn various ways to increase the effect of self-concept. Aim: The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the body perceptions of karate athletes, gender, sport age, and generation levels. Place & Duration: Data was collected in Turkey. Study duration September 2019 to May 2020. Methods: The research group consisted of 303 people between the ages of 12 and 20 who practiced karate in Turkey. Data collection tools 'Personal Information Form' and 'Physical Self-Perception Inventory for Children and Adolescents' scale were used. The relationships between the body perceptions of karate athletes, gender, sport age and generation levels were examined. The obtained data were made according to Shapiro Wilk normality analysis and it was determined that all variables did not show normal distribution. All analyzes were performed non-parametrically Results: The differences in body perceptions of 303 karate athletes in Turkey according to gender, sport age and generation levels were examined in this study, no statistically significant difference was found between the genders, sport ages and generation levels of the participants. Conclusion: There was no significant difference between body perceptions and gender, sport age and generation levels in karate athletes. Keywors: Karate, Body Image, Adolescence

scholarly journals Social Sustainability Assessment in Livestock Production: A Social Life Cycle Assessment Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Rivera-Huerta ◽  
María de la Salud Rubio Lozano ◽  
Alejandro Padilla-Rivera ◽  
Leonor Patricia Güereca
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Social Performance ◽  
Livestock Production ◽  
Social Life Cycle Assessment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference

This study evaluates the social performance of monoculture (MC), intensive silvopastoral (ISP), and native silvopastoral (NSP) livestock production systems in the tropical region of southeastern Mexico through a social life cycle assessment (SCLA) approach. The methodological framework proposed by the United Nations Environmental Program/Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (UNEP/SETAC) (2009) was employed based on a scoring approach with a performance scale ranging from 1 (very poor) to 4 (outstanding). Twelve livestock ranches for calf production were evaluated using 18 impact subcategories associated with the categories “human rights”, “working conditions”, “health and safety”, “socioeconomic repercussions”, and “governance”. The stakeholders evaluated were workers, the local community, society, and value chain actors. The ranches had performance scores between 1.78 (very poor) and 2.17 (poor). The overall average performance of the ranches by production system was 1.98, 1.96, and 1.97 for the MC, ISP, and NSP systems, respectively. The statistical analysis shows that there is no significant difference in the social performance of the livestock production systems. This assessment indicates that the cattle ranches analyzed in Mexico have poor or very poor social performance. The results show that socioeconomic and political contexts exert a greater influence on the social performance of livestock production systems than does their type of technology.

scholarly journals PERAN KELUARGA DALAM PENINGKATAN KEMAMPUAN INTERAKSI SOSIAL BERMASYARAKAT KLIEN SKIZOFRENIA PASCA PERAWATAN DI RUMAH SAKIT

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lailatul Maghfiroh ◽  
Khamida Khamida
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cross Sectional Design

Family has a strategic function for the schizophrenic client’s social interaction, the role of family really needs to reached client independent, The role of family enables the schizophrenic individual to re-adapt the social life in the society. This research destination to analyze realiontship the family role and the Scizophrenic client’s interaction level in the social life. This research applied the analytic cross sectional design. The populations of the research were the schizophrenic clients who have been hospitalized and left the RSJ Menur Surabaya (Surabaya Menur Mental Hospital) and their family who lived in Surabaya moreless 30 respondens with samples taken by using the total population method involved 28 repondents. For independent variable the family role anddependent variable is level interaction society. The data were collected by filling out the checklist, doing observations and interviews which were then analyzed by using the SPSS and the Rank Spearman statistical test with the significance level p < 0,05. The result of the research showed that the family role contributed the family role was shown by 12 respondents (42,8%). The schizophrenic clients social interaction level sufficiently was shown by 14 respondents (50%). The statiscal test revealed the result that p < 0,05 = 0,10 < 0,05 so that Ho was can’t accepted. This research concluded that there was a relationship between the family role and the schizophrenic clients social interaction level in the social life posttreatment in RSJ Menur Surabaya. So that, the staff of hospital give role every room at RSJ Menur Surabaya (Surabaya Menur Mental Hospital) the family need to direct follow for Schizoprenic client’s in cure at RSJ Menur and for nurse advice to family give maximal attention.

The Provisional Treatment Order of the Royal Commission

1927 ◽  
Vol 73 (303) ◽  
pp. 534-549
Author(s):  
George M. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The People ◽  
Medical Responsibility ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Treatment Order

The Lunacy Acts of England and of Scotland are in urgent need of amendment. The parent Act for Scotland dates back to 1857, since when great changes affecting its serviceableness have taken place in the social life of the country as well as in the scientific world. It, however, definitely recognizes the paramount position of the medical profession in the treatment of mental diseases, for under its provisions no layman or magistrate is called upon to interview the patient before he is placed in a mental hospital, and no layman or visiting committee is held to be responsible for his removal when recovered. Medical men discharge these and all similar duties, and to this feature must be ascribed the success of the Scottish system. It has gained the confidence of the people' and in place of misgivings and suspicion, there is pride in our mental hospitals and in their management. No case of improper detention has ever been recorded in the law courts. The Act of 1857 has served its day and generation well, and its principles of medical responsibility and of reliance on the honour of the Medical profession are established in Scotland.

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