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Nursing Research Article 'Predicting Family Health in Families of Young Adults with Severe Mental Illness' Reviewed

new research is needed in the area. The style of the literature review is appropriate in that the author divides it into we...

Mental Illness' Stigma

The control group was give a similar questionnaire, except that the words "mental illness" were replaced by "heart disease" (Lai, ...

'Uncertainty in Illness' Theory of Merle Mishel

of the illness events (formed by prior experiences) are violated" (pp. 66). Mishel also found that other factors such as the pati...

Mothers Who Murder Their Infants

performed. Indeed, there is no argument that mothers who kill their children suffer from mental illness, yet it is the manner by ...

Three Theories of Human Psychology

presents a discussion and his belief that the unavoidable conflict is created in every individual by the demands made by their ind...

U.S. Immigration and Illness

female immigrants with matrons present but in 1914, two women doctors had been hired to conduct exams for female subjects (2000)....

'Bearing Illness and Injury' Review

...purpose of this study was to describe the process of bearing illness and injuries among individuals with catastrophic illnesses...

Penal System and Mental Illness

population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...

Food-Borne Illnesses From Listeriosis Bacteria

"special life style," which enables this bacterium to escape from phagosome and circulating antibodies (Jin, 2002). One of the pri...

Families and the Effects of Prolonged Illness

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

Illness in Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

from the plethora of emotionally-charged meanings that unnecessarily increase the suffering of those stricken with this disease. E...

Ethnicity and Health

more difficult to conduct trials in populations with varied ethnicities. She states that "other studies have shown that the effect...

Emotions and Health

in a joint effort by the American Psychological Association and the Mayo Clinic demonstrated that there are significant advantages...

United Kingdom's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

range of the problem is quantified 2. What is Mental Illness? 2.1 Definitions of Mental Illness The difficulty with defining me...

Geriatric Mentally Ill Patients and Nursing

characteristics of metal disorders may include abnormalities in cognition, mood or emotions; it may include abnormalities in integ...

United Kingdom's Criminal Justice System, Crime, and Mental Illness

the criminal justice system has to protect society and seek to gain a balance between the required protection for each group. In...

Chronic Illness in Children and How Parents Cope

Infotrac, and Google. Sources from general databases will be used only if they originate from a reputable or professional organiza...

Illness and Death in Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis' and Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'

into death. Both characters are, for the most part, dismissed gradually by their family. They are ignored, and their loved...

Mental Illness and Homelessness

Abstract 1 CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY ASPECTS 3...

Extreme Mental Illness And Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

that depression is experienced, as well as the inability for young adults to understand why they are depressed at such a vulnerabl...

Children with Neurodegenerative Life-Threatening Illnesses

who are directly involved live and deal with life. This is something that cannot be accurately assessed through numbers, or specif...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

Mental Illness And The Juvenile Offender

to the nature of the crime they are still classified as a juvenile for the purposes of this paper. The definition of mental illn...

Mishel's Uncertainty In Illness Theory

is the development of Mishels Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS), which is comprised of twenty-eight item measure that utilizes a...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

Mental Illness/Prisons & Recidivism

inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...

The Effects of Parental Mental Illness on Children

childbirth or it might be from a longstanding illness, but certainly, there is some risk when mentally ill parents have children. ...

Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

Illness

During this time in history there was a very powerful sense of faith in the people and in the institutions. The institutions of fa...

The Relationship Between Culture, Health And Illness In Singapore

level of education, the impact of traditional culture is also highly influential. The concepts of health are based on the cultural...