Numbers and the Assembling of a Community Mental Health Infrastructure in Postsocialist China

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-49
Author(s):  
Zhiying Ma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Seriously Mentally Ill ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
Mental Health In China

This chapter shows how globally validated epidemiological estimates have constituted a population of seriously mentally ill patients in China. It talks about the target population of the 686 Program and compares the program's different visions. It also discusses how national and local interests translate estimates into program targets and evaluation standards. The chapter explains how the numbers' circulation in existing bureaucratic pathways can generate controversies of “quota apportioning.” It covers what the numerically guided community mental health infrastructure might include or exclude and when it might work or break down. The data for the chapter draw on ongoing ethnographic research on community mental health in China.

Wayfinding Training for the Severely Mentally Ill

1993 ◽  
Vol 74 (7) ◽  
pp. 434-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brennen Taylor ◽  
Ann Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Seriously Mentally Ill ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
History Of ◽  
Way Finding ◽  
Ill Adults

Compliance with outpatient community mental health treatment is problematic for seriously mentally ill adults. One way to facilitate clients' compliance is through training in public bus riding and way finding skills. The authors present the history of wayfinding services, a diagram to enhance clients' learning, and suggestions for implementation.

Suicidality in Seriously Mentally Ill Clients of Two Intensive Community Mental Health Programs

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Langley ◽  
Margaret Gehrs ◽  
Donald Wasylenki ◽  
Carolyn Dewa ◽  
Sergio Rueda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Seriously Mentally Ill ◽  
Mental Health Programs

scholarly journals Birmingham community mental health team for the homeless

1997 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Commander ◽  
Sue Odell ◽  
Sashi Sashidharan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
First Year ◽  
Community Mental Health Team ◽  
Mental Health Team ◽  
Health Team ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
Homeless Mentally Ill ◽  
History Of

Mental health services have been criticised for failing to respond to the needs of the rising number of homeless mentally ill. We report on the first year of referrals to a community mental health team established to meet the needs of the severely mentally ill homeless in Birmingham. Most users had a psychotic disorder and a lengthy history of unstable housing, and experienced a range of other disadvantages. Although the team is successfully reaching its priority group, examination of other characteristics of users has highlighted a number of issues which should inform the future planning and development of the service.

Hell in the Family: Married Women and Madness Before Institutionalization at the St-Jean-de-Dieu Asylum, 1890 – 1921

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Married Women ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Family ◽  
Seeking Help

Research in Montreal's St-Jean-de-Dieu Asylum archives has revealed a number of letters from family members and local physicians pleading for asylum care for married women between 1890 and 1921. When added to other admission documents in patients' medical files, these letters allow an intimate glimpse into private lives of families and highlight the pain and distress of dealing with mentally ill people in the home before the introduction of community mental health services. Far from easily abandoning a spouse or mother, close-knit French Canadian families struggled until they could no longer cope before seeking help. To comply with asylum regulations, family members (primarily husbands, who were often illiterate) and local physicians were required to justify their applications for admission, but they did so in different ways.

Extraversion and Neuroticism in a Midwest Community Mental Health Center

1979 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Burdick ◽  
F. S. Chebib ◽  
J. Leichty
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Community Mental Health Center ◽  
Mental Health Center ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
Eysenck Personality Inventory ◽  
Health Center Staff

A community mental health center staff ( n = 33) and its rural target population ( n= 89) were measured using the Eysenck Personality Inventory. The values for these rural Midwest samples were similar to those reported by Eysenck and Eysenck (1968). A replication through factor analysis of the orthogonality of Extra-/Introversion with Neuroticism was reported.

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