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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 …

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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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.

Report, Defensiveness, Level Of Psychological Distress, And Help-Seeking Behavior Among Victims Of A Major Natural Disaster, 1985, Anthony V. Rao, Kenneth E. Davis, Leonard Bickman

Natural Hazards Center Collection

"The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between this personality variable and help-seeking behavior in an actual disaster setting. In this exploratory analysis, a model is presented that was guided by previous research on help-seeking behavior in laboratory settings."

When The Children Are Gone: Changes In Mental Health And Marital Relations During The Transition To Postparenthood, Kenneth Holland Cannon

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A longitudinal research design was used to determine if parents' personal well-being or marital relations changed after the launching of the youngest child and what variales might affect these potential changes.

Eighty-nine parents whose youngest child was a senior at Logan High School or Sky View High School responded to mail-out questionnaires, assessing parents general well-being, marital relations, marital companionship, personal stress, quality of parenting experiences and degree of parent-child conflict. Approximately one year later, a second questionnaire was sent and twenty-three of the parents who responded had launched their youngest child.

One of the most striking aspects of the …

The Theory And Practice Of Civil Commitment, Andrew Scull

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Court of Last Resort: Mental Illness and the Law by Carol A.B. Warren, contributions by Stephen J. Morse and Jack Zusman

Equality, "Anisonomy," And Justice: A Review Of Madness And The Criminal Law, Andrew Von Hirsch

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Madness and the Criminal Law by Norval Morris

The Insanity Plea: The Uses And Abuses Of The Insanity Defense, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Insanity Plea: The Uses and Abuses of the Insanity Defense by William J. Winslade and Judith Wilson Ross

The Propriety Of Denying Entry To Homosexual Aliens: Examining The Public Health Service's Authority Over Medical Exclusions, Robert Poznanski

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note defends the position that the PHS has the authority to define homosexuality for the purpose of the section 212(a)(4) exclusion, and that the PHS definition is binding upon the INS. Therefore, the PHS's decision to refuse to examine aliens for homosexuality precludes the INS from excluding aliens on that basis. Part I of this Note traces the history of the policy of excluding homosexual aliens. Part II maintains that, regardless of the psychiatric profession's interpretation of ''psychopathic personality,'' Congress intended the expression to encompass homosexuality. Part III contends that Congress intended to empower the PHS to change its …

"Mind Control," " Synthetic Sanity," "Artificial Competence," And Genuine Confusion: Legally Relevant Effects Of Antipsychotic Medication, Thomas G. Gutheil M.D., Paul S. Applebaum M.D.

Hofstra Law Review

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Michigan's Guilty But Mentally Ill Verdict: An Empirical Study, Gare A. Smith, James A. Hall

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Because Michigan's GBMI statute has been in effect for several years, enough data exists to assess the statute's use and practical effect. The purpose of this Project is to evaluate the statute and thus provide guidance for those legislatures considering similar proposals. This Project concludes that the new verdict has completely failed in its intended purpose. Part I describes the statute's history, legislative purpose, and procedural mechanics. Part II analyzes the displacing effect of the GBMI verdict on other verdicts, and sets forth empirical data on the disparate characteristics of defendants who raise the insanity defense and are subsequently found …

Joseph P. Reser's Review Of R. L. Kirk's Aboriginal Man Adapting: The Human Biology Of Australian Aborigines, Joseph P. Reser

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Mental Health Law: Major Issues, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Mental Health Law: Major Issues by David B. Wexler

Cults, Deprogrammers, And The Necessity Defense, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This Note considers the applicability of the necessity defense in criminal prosecutions of parents and deprogrammers. Part I explores the conflicting policies that underlie the traditional necessity defense, and suggests that courts replace their unitary approach to necessity with a "choice of evils" defense - for actors reasonably attempting to avoid a greater evil - and a "compulsion" defense - for actors reacting understandably to the pressure of circumstances. Part II applies these defenses to deprogramming cases, and concludes that rarely may they be advanced successfully.

Burton G. Burton-Bradley Review Of John F. Mcdermott, Jr., Wen-Shing Tseng, And Thomas W. Maretzki, People And Cultures Of Hawaii: A Psychocultural Profile, Burton G. Burton-Bradley

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

Involvement In Leisure Activities By Mental Health Center Clients And Non-Clients, David H. Roby

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

A survey on the level and frequency of leisure activity in individuals getting clinical aid was compared with that of individuals not presently contemplating or receiving such help. The subjects, 26 females and 24 males in each group, responded to a questionnaire which requested information regarding demographics, and the rate (days per week), and duration (minutes per day), or participation in selected leisure activities. As was expected, based on Galsser's concept of Positive Addiction, the nonclinical group showed significantly more involvement in activities rated as possible Positive Addictions. No significant difference was found between groups on absolute numbers of leisure …

Mental Disabilities And Criminal Responsibility, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Mental Disabilities and Criminal Responsibility by Herbert Fingarette and Ann Fingarette Hasse

Conscience And Convenience: The Asylum And Its Alternatives In Progressive America, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America by David J. Rothman

Beating A Rap? Defendants Found Incompetent To Stand Trial, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Beating a Rap? Defendants Found Incompetent To Stand Trial by Henry J. Steadman