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Art Therapy With Institutionalized Adult Mental Patients: A Four-Week Study, Margaret E. Goodwin

Theses

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A P-Technique Analysis Of Patient-Treatment Interactions Of Alcoholics In Recovery., James Leander Brabham

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

No abstract provided.

Informed Consent To Organic Behavior Control, Brent A. Barnhart, Michael Lee Pinkerton, Michael Lee Pinkerton

Santa Clara Law Review

No abstract provided.

Regulation Of Electroconvulsive Therapy, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Regulation of ECT has generally focused on whether the patient or his representative effectively consented to the treatment. The highly intrusive nature of ECT and the unique circumstances of those patients who are likely to receive it create particularly difficult legal issues concerning the validity of the patient's consent. This Note will examine the various methods that are available to protect the rights of patients for whom ECT is proposed. After briefly explaining the nature of the therapy, the Note will discuss the efficacy of judicial remedies with respect to both competent and incompetent patients. It will argue that, because …

Michigan's Revised Mental Health Code, William David Serwer

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This note will evaluate the three chapters of the Michigan Code which present the most significant legislative attempts to safeguard the rights of the mentally ill. Chapter Four of the Code extends several traditional due process guarantees to the civil commitment process. By guaranteeing the right to adequate notice, the right to be present at the hearing, the right to be represented by counsel, and the right to notice of trial by jury, the Code offers better protection from unwarranted commitment. However, due to the difficulty of defining mental illness and accurately identifying those in need of treatment, the possibility …

Book Review: Involuntary Treatment Of The Mentally Ill, By Michael Peszke, Michael L. Perlin

Other Publications

No abstract provided.

Administrative Discharge Procedures For Involuntary Civilly-Committed Mental Patients: An Alternative, Barbara Woodall Kragie

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Justiciability And Mental Health, Lewis H. Larue

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

On The Voluntary Admission Of Minors, Louis Lessem

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The past several years have been witness to dramatic changes in both the theory and practice of civil commitment. In the law, this development has taken the form of increased concern for the protection of the personal liberties of the mentally ill while among members of the medical profession it has been experienced as a part of the process of opening up the back wards. Legislatures in many states have responded by revising their mental health statutes to establish more rigorous standards for commitment, periodic review of the status of committed patients, and better procedural safeguards throughout the commitment process. …

An Epidemiological Study Of Mental Illness (Hospital Bahagia, Ulu Kinta, Perak) / Jaffar Othman, Othman Jaffar

Pre-2000 Student Works

One of the most disturbing social problems in the world today is mental illness, Though it is not so serious in developing and underdeveloped countries but in countries which are well advanced and highly developed this problems has turned out to be very serious indeed. In the United States alone, there are approximately 750,000 persons who are hospitalised in mental institutions (1957) and they occupy some 55% of all hospital beds. In Malaysia, today, this problem is not very serious yet. Though in the past we are not clearly aware about it, today the situation has changed. The Government had …

Ariel - Volume 5 Number 1, Joseph Sassani, Bob Sklaroff, Martin B. Wingate, Paul Schatzberger, Dan Kanofsky, Gary Kaskey, Nelson Kardos, John R. Cohn, David A. Uhrmann, Susan B. Uhrmann

Ariel

Editors

Mark Dembert

J.D. Kanofskv

Entertainment Editor

Robert Breckenridge

Gary Kaskey

Editor Emeritus

David A. Jacoby

Photographer

Scott Kastner

Staff

Richard Blutstein

Bob Johnson

John R. Cohn

Joseph Sassani

Ken Jaffe

Bob Sklaroff

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Crisis Intervention Effectiveness And Social Class, Gary Norman Slutzky

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Police Initiated Emergency Psychiatric Detention In Michigan, Mark F. Mehlman

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

While performing his duties a police officer may frequently be confronted with the behavior of an individual which threatens or has resulted in self-inflicted injury, or which poses an imminent threat to the safety of others. Under such circumstances an officer may determine that criminal arrest is inappropriate but that some form of restraint is necessary. Michigan has provided an alternative course of action by authorizing temporary emergency psychiatric detention of an individual whom a police officer deems to be "mentally ill and manifesting homicidal or other dangerous tendencies."

Alternatives To Civil Commitment Of The Mentally Ill: Practical Guides And Constitutional Imperatives, David L. Chambers

Articles

In 1930, Ford sold Fords only in black and states offered treatment for mental illness only in public mental hospitals. Today, new views of mental health care and mental health problems have begotten a galaxy of new treatment settings. Few cities can boast community-based programs sufficient to meet their needs, but almost all cities of any size rely increasingly on outpatient programs. The large public mental hospitals still stand, of course. Indeed, every year more people enter public hospitals than entered the year before. Over 400,000 Americans were admitted as inpatients to state and county mental hospitals last year.1 Partly …

Mental Health Consultation For Nursery School Staff : A Descriptive Analysis, Corinne Willinger

Graduate Student Independent Studies

Mental health consultation to schools has become an important aid to teachers. The mental health con­sultation service described in this paper attempted to enlarge the teacher's awareness of his role in the de­velopment of children's personalities. The nursery school setting used in the study provided opportunities to focus attention on children's behavior patterns and the effect of the teacher's actions and attitudes on children. A consultant and eight teachers met bi-weekly to discuss individual children, parents, groups of children, problems of child behavior, and questions of teachers' attitudes. Excerpts of these meetirigs summarize typical examples of problems encountered. Both teachers …

Ariel - Volume 3 Number 7, Tom Williams, Richard Bonanno, Frank Taylor, Eugenia Miller, Allen Sonstein, Terry Burt, David Jacoby, Brent Spears, Robert L. Breckenridge, Jr.

Ariel

Editors

Richard J. Bonanno

Robin A. Edwards

Associate Editors

Steven Ager

Tom Williams

Lay-out Editor

Eugenia Miller

Contributing Editors

Paul Bialas

Robert Breckenridge

David Jacoby

Mike LeWitt

Terry Burt

Michael Leo

Editors Emeritus

Delvyn C. Case, Jr.

Paul M. Fernhoff

Mental Illness And Criminal Commitment In Michigan, Grant H. Morris

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article concentrates on one vital issue: to what extent are differences in treatment justified because of a mentally ill person's "criminal" involvement. While the article is primarily concerned with Michigan institutions and Michigan statutes, the discussion and the solutions proposed are in many respects applicable to all states of the Union. Not only must all states reevaluate their policies toward criminal commitment of the mentally ill in light of ever-changing medical and penal theory, but they must also consider the developing constitutional concepts in this area. These constitutional issues are raised here only to the extent necessary to alert …

Civil Commitment Procedure In Louisiana, Larry C. Becnel

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Language Of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization: A Study In Sound And Fury, Steven H. Levinson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Involuntary civil commitment is the business of hospitalizing and treating, without their consent, persons whom a court, with the aid of professional diagnosticians, determines to be psychologically disturbed or mentally ill. The purpose of the present study will be to demonstrate that the medical diagnoses of mental illness which justify involuntary civil commitment are achieved on the basis of at least unreliable and at worst invalid sets of diagnostic categories and assessments. For the purpose of determining the reliability of these diagnostic findings, the author selected a representative sample of the involuntary mental hospitalization proceedings of the Wayne County Probate …

Ariel - Volume 2 Number 2, Elaine Smith, Mike Starrels, Paul M. Fernhoff, Stephen P. Flynn, James J. Nocon, Michael Blecker, Steven Allen Ager, Norine Bonanno

Ariel

Editors

Delvyn C. Case, Jr.

Paul M. Fernhoff

News Editors

Richard Bonanno

Daniel B. Gould

Ronald A. Hoffman

Lay-Out Editor

Carol Dolinskas

Sports Editor

James J. Nocon

Contributing Editors

MichaeI J. Blecker

Lin Sey Edwards

Jack Guralnik

W. Cherry Light

Features Editor

Donald A. Bergman

Stephen P. Flynn

Business Manager

Nick Grego

Public Relations

Robin A. Edwards

Changing Concepts Of Deviance, Douglas D. Bond

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

As I look at the list of distinguished Stoneburner Lecturers, I see I am honored by being the first psychiatrist. This is a tribute to the Department of Psychiatry. In thinking about this paper, I at first considered giving a kind of history of psychiatry. What seemed to me more interesting, however, was an examination of our whole perspective on deviance, in general, and what we call “illness”—an example of a certain kind of deviance, or, perhaps more accurately, a certain way of looking at deviance.

The Role Of The Self In Counseling And Its Application To Pastoral Counseling, David Ludwig

Concordia Theological Monthly

Recent experimentation has shown that what a person thinks of himself, that is, his self-concept, is very important in his ability to adjust to life's problems. This article will examine the importance which the self-concept plays in counseling and the way in which pastoral counseling will deal with this self-concept. Since the aim of secular counseling (and pastoral counseling to a large extent) is to help the individual adjust to his marital and other situational difficulties, this article will show that the counselor must be concerned with the typical low self-feelings of his counselee and should try to adopt a …

Disposition Of The Irresponsible: Protection Following Commitment, Travis H. Lewin

Michigan Law Review

Each year more of our fellow citizens are involuntarily committed to a mental institution of one sort or another than are incarcerated for the commission of a crime. To those committed, the walls and barred windows of the hospital, as well as the treatment and mode of living, are probably not significantly different from those of a prison. This is particularly the case with those confined for treatment by court order or by some special statutory procedure following acquittal of a crime on grounds of insanity. Yet these mentally ill, even after perpetrating what would otherwise have been a criminal …

Mental Health Facilities And Needs Survey Of U.S. Colleges And Universities (With Special Emphasis On U.N.D.), Jerry R. Hordinsky

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Anxiety And Fear In Personality Structure, Robert Robert Mickelson

Graduate Student Research Papers

The problem to be studied is the effect of anxiety and fear on the personality. Concern with this problem stems from the fact that on many occasions anxiety and fear blocks a person's free approach to experience and often anxiety and fear prevent one from building sound interpersonal and intergroup relations.

Courts-Scope Of Authority-Sterilization Of Mental Defectives, William R. Warnock

Michigan Law Review

Respondent, age nineteen, appeared before the probate court of Muskingum County, Ohio, upon an affidavit filed by her mother alleging the child to be feeble-minded and in need of medical treatment. Results of psychological tests were presented at the hearing, revealing that respondent had an intelligence quotient of thirty-six and was therefore a feeble-minded person within the statutory definition. Respondent had had one illegitimate child, for whom she was unable to provide even rudimentary care or financial support, and was physically capable of bearing more children. Taking judicial notice that the state mental hospitals were then overcrowded and unable to …

Taylor University Bulletin "The Alumnus" (February 1962), Taylor University

Taylor University Bulletin (1912-1963)

The February 1962 edition of The Taylor Bulletin “The Alumnus”, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Casework Therapy And The Clergy, Robert Devries

Concordia Theological Monthly

In addition to the usual social work services, the social service department of our agency makes available to clergymen casework therapy for parishioners who present problems which seemingly do not respond to pastoral counseling. Helping many people with varied problems during the last four years, therapy has here demonstrated its usefulness as an adjunct to pastoral counseling.

Ways To Mental Health: West And East, George F. Melody

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

What is the psychosocial condition of Western man? What has happened to Apollonian man, characterized by order, harmony and leisure? Why has the ideal or Apollonian man (so well described by Nietzsche and Spengler) given way to Dionysian man ... Faustian man? Whence has gone the Apollonian safeguard, essential to measure, constraint, health and love?

How really sick is Western man? Why is he not at peace with himself, his family, his associates, people in other countries who may have political philosophies different from his own ... nay, with God? An inventory of the concrete condition of Western man may …

The Responsibility Of The Church To Offer Guidance To Parents With Regard To The Personality Development Of The Child, Edgar P. Senne

Master of Divinity Thesis

It is from such evidence and from such thinking that the desire to study the problem arises. Where do parents fail? What kind of help would assist them in doing a better job? Is the problem in any way a concern or a responsibility of the Church? If so, how can this responsibility be carried out? These are some of the questions which the study undertakes to answer.