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The Freedom To Be Psychotic, Joram Graf Haber

Journal of Law and Health

The following will examine both involuntary commitment and deinstitutionalization, as well as some recent and rather novel proposals that have been championed by those who advocate neither. I refer here to the so called "Ulysses Contract" as well as to "mandatory out-patient treatment." My concern is primarily with the moral and legal aspects of these practices and to that end will focus on more conceptual matters. I will conclude by defending a concept of freedom which does greater justice to patients' needs than does the one currently employed.

Report, Aftermath Of A Disaster: Psychological Response To The Indianapolis Ramada Jet Crash, 1988, Elizabeth Mary Smith, Carol S. North

Natural Hazards Center Collection

A report of the results of interviews with hotel employees affected by an Air Force jet crashing into the hotel.

Report, Mental Health Service Utilization By Child Victims Of Natural Disasters, 1988, Bill J. Locke

Natural Hazards Center Collection

A study looking at mental health services for children and how they were, or were not, used after tornadoes in Texas.

A Descriptive Study Of Mexican-Americans Who Were Seen At The Adult And Child Guidance Center During The Period, November, 1986-April, 1987, Lucy Medina

Master's Projects

No abstract provided.

Report, Training Primary Care Workers In Disaster Mental Health: The Experience In Ecuador, April 6-11, 1987, Bruno R. Lima

Natural Hazards Center Collection

"The proposed research is the first effort of a long-range project to develop the role of the primary care worker (PCW) in providing mental health care to disaster victims."

Psychological Counseling For Law Students: One Law School's Experience, Faith Dickerson

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

The Emotional Impact Of Post-Disaster Relocation, Michael E. Durkin

FMHI Publications

No abstract provided.

Ten Years After: Evolving Mental Health Advocacy And Judicial Trends, Michael L. Perlin

Fordham Urban Law Journal

"Address to the Mental Health Legal Advocacy Symposium, "Current Issues in Law and Psychiatry," New York, New York, May 30, 1985." This speech provides an overview of trends in mental disability law as they evolved from 1972 to 1982. It also explores social, economic, and political developments impacting on mental health advocacy, and looks at both seminal supreme court cases and lower courts' responses. It finds an ambivalent Supreme Court without a clear position on many issues related to mentally disabled individuals.

Psychosocial Impact Of Disaster: The Baldwin Hills Fire, Norma S. Gordon

FMHI Publications

No abstract provided.

Kalamata Earthquake, 1986: Psychological Reactions And Roles For Health Care Workers, Jerri Laube

FMHI Publications

No abstract provided.

The Relation Between Daily Stress And Health., Glenn Neil Jones

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The role of stress in the development and exacerbation of physical symptoms has long been a topic of interest. The present investigation attempted to establish if there is an association between the irritants and demands of everyday life--termed minor stressors--and health. In order to investigate the influence of minor stressors on health, it appears necessary (for a number of reasons discussed in the text) to account for the influence of major life events on health and on minor stressors. Both major and minor stressful events were assessed using two approaches: simple frequency counts, and a subjective weighting approach which attempts …

Report, Kalamata Earthquake, 1986: Psychological Reactions And Roles For Health Care Workers, 1987, Jerri Laube

Natural Hazards Center Collection

A report on research looking at "the psychological effect of disaster on health care workers" after the Kalamata, Greece, earthquake.

Ten Years After: Evolving Mental Health Advocacy And Judicial Trends, Michael L. Perlin

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

Report, Psychosocial Impact Of Disaster: The Baldwin Hills Fire, 1987, Norma S. Gordon, Carl A. Maida, Alan Steinberg, Gail Gordon

Natural Hazards Center Collection

A report of the results of interviews with fire victims from the Baldwin Hills Fire in Los Angeles, California.

Report, Emotional Impact Of Post-Disaster Relocation, 1987, Michael E. Durkin

Natural Hazards Center Collection

"We surveyed 116 families of the Santa Carolina housing project in Santiago, Chile, approximately 8 months after the March 3rd, 1985 Child earthquake. Our goals were to assess the general mental health impact of the earthquake; to document post-earthquake relocation patterns; and to explore the potential relationship between relocation and mental health."

Foreword: Public Health & The Law—A Symposium Dedicated To Professor William J. Curran, Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay serves as the foreword to Public Health & the Law, a symposium dedicated to Professor William J. Curran held in 1987.

During his career, Professor Curran chaired the Harvard School of Public Health Committee on Human Research; he directed the Program in Law and Public Health; and he was co-director of the Harvard Interfaculty Program in Medical Ethics from 1973 to 1980. He was also an advisor to the World Health Organization and spent two sabbatical periods in Europe with WHO organizations. He advised and lectured in countries throughout the world.

At Harvard Law School and at …

Religiousness And Mental Health Reconsidered: A Study Of An Intrinsically Religious Sample, Allen E. Bergin, Kevin S. Masters, P. Scott Richards

Faculty Publications

Despite the existence of strong viewpoints, the relation between religiousness and mental health is not yet clearly understood. The Religious Orientation Scale has provided researchers with a valuable tool for differentiating between intrinsic (/) and extrinsic (E) religious orientations, thereby clarifying some of the confusion in this area. In the present study we assessed correlations between these two scales and anxiety, personality traits, self-control, irrational beliefs, and depression. Results generally indicated that / is negatively correlated with anxiety and positively correlated with self-control and "better" personality functioning, whereas the opposite is true ofE. Correlations were generally not found with irrational …

Mental Health Treatment Of Mentally Ill Persons / Alcoholics / Drug Abusers: Outpatient / Inpatient Procedures, Georgia State University Law Review

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act extensively revises the criteria and procedures for inpatient and outpatient commitment of mentally ill persons, alcoholics, and drug abusers. It allows physicians at community mental health facilities and state hospitals to initiate outpatient treatment for persons not meeting the inpatient criteria but requiring regular treatment to avoid the need for hospitalization. It provides procedures to remove an outpatient who fails to comply with a treatment plan to a mental health facility for treatment before his or her condition requires hospitalization.

Mexican American Aged And The Utilization Of Mental Health Services, Brenda Kay Newcom

Master's Projects

No abstract provided.

Social Support Following A Disaster, Leonard Bickman, Jerome D. Cook

FMHI Publications

No abstract provided.

The 1986 California Floods, Robert C. Bolin

FMHI Publications

No abstract provided.

After The Factory Explosion: Family Reactions To Death In A Disaster, Joan N. Mcneil

FMHI Publications

No abstract provided.

Psychological Responses To The Mexico City Earthquake, Abigail J. Stewart

FMHI Publications

No abstract provided.

Report, Social Support Following A Disaster, 1986, Leonard Bickman, Jerome D. Cook

Natural Hazards Center Collection

"Thirty-nine victims of a natural disaster were interviewed six weeks after tornadoes touched down in their communities in east central Ohio and west central Pennsylvania. Data were gathered as part of a pilot study for a subsequent investigation of mental health help-seeking following natural disasters. The present study hypothesized that perceived availability of social support would moderate the stress associated with the disaster, resulting in a negative correlation with a measure of psychological symptomatology."

Report, After The Factory Explosion: Family Reactions To Death In A Disaster 1986, Joan N. Mcneil

Natural Hazards Center Collection

A report with results from interviews with families affected by the Aerlex Corporation fireworks factory explosion.

Report, Psychological Responses To The Mexico City Earthquake, 1986, Abigail J. Stewart

Natural Hazards Center Collection

"The broad goal of this study was to assess the emotional, cognitive, psychosocial, and behavioral consequences of disasters (in this case, an earthquake) for victims, less directly affected neighbors, and disaster relief workers. Specifically, the present study was designed to examine the process of adaptation to disasters within a larger framework for studying individuals' responses to traumatic life changes."

Report, 1986 California Floods, 1986, Robert C. Bolin

Natural Hazards Center Collection

A report split into three sections. First, "a general description of the flooding and its social impacts in northern California;" second, "the study questions that guided research" and "some extant literature on the topic;" and third, "the data looking specifically at social support and mental health impacts of the disaster, relocation stressors, housing problems, pre-disaster social trends and post-disaster effects."

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Review Of The Reign Of Error: Psychiatry, Authority, And Law, Linda C. Fentiman

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Defensiveness, Level Of Psychological Distress, And Help-Seeking Behavior Among Victims Of A Major Natural Disaster, Anthony V. Rao, Kenneth E. Davis, Leonard Bickman

FMHI Publications

No abstract provided.