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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
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Friday, January 16, 2009
What kind of mental health, foster children
Of the approximately half a million children and adolescents in foster care in the United States, experts believe that 42 to 60 per cent of them have emotional and behavioral disorders. Despite the prevalence of mental disorders in foster children, very little is known about how pre-existing mental health affects their effectiveness in operation.
A new study co-author Jung-Min Park and Joseph P. Ryan, a professor at the College of Social Work at the University of Illinois, since 5978 children in foster care in Illinois for several years to determine whether these children in permanent placement and the results were presented at the intensity of their stories about mental health care. State of all children and adolescents, 3-18-year-olds, in caring for the first time from 1997 to 2001. They were in June 2005.
Based on children's rights and reports Medicaid, the study on behalf of children receive mental health care in the hospital because it is easy to identify a marker of severe emotional and behavioral disorders, and it is very demanding of mental health. Five per cent (296) children, at least one episode of hospitalization for mental health care before you enter.
"According to my previous study, children who received inpatient psychiatric care ended up in foster care within two years of their first inpatient episode," Park said.
"Children who receive inpatient psychiatric care have a substantially greater risk for parent-child separation. Our current study shows that when those children enter the child-welfare system, they are more likely to suffer poor outcomes and be left behind in the system."
The study showed that children with episodes of psychiatric hospitalization are at increased risk of frequent accidents and accommodation were less likely to return to their families of origin or adoption.
About half of the sample for more than three changes in his first placement in care. The cases of hospitalization for mental health among white children increases the risk of instability for the transfer of 75 per cent, while those events, accommodation of 24 percent among black children.
The study also indicated that access was restricted, and the use of psychiatric care in the African-American children.
"Children with a history of inpatient mental health treatment, especially when placed in foster care, benefit from continued follow-up and referrals to community mental health agencies to reduce placement disruptions and facilitate timely permanence," Park said.
Care places, significant cost to taxpayers: placement in a therapeutic aid worth $ 30,000 or more a year, as well as placement in a residential mental health care a lot.
"Early identification of service needs and related interventions for children and youth with intensive mental health needs can be cost-efficient by helping them achieve placement stability and permanence," Park said.
During the observation period, approximately 70 percent of children in the study, the durability of return to their families or through adoption or guardianship.
The study appears in the January 2009 issue of Journal of Research on Social Work Practice.
Source: Sharita Forrest
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://www.uiuc.edu/)
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The tendency to hallucinations and consumption of coffee link found
Increased consumption of caffeine may be associated with a greater tendency to have hallucinations, a new study suggests. People with higher levels of consumption of caffeine from sources such as coffee, tea and energy drinks containing caffeine are more likely to report the experience of hallucinations, such as hearing voices and seeing things that are not present, according to a study by the University of Durham .
"An increase in caffeine users - those who have more than the equivalent of seven cups of coffee a day - three times more likely to have heard the voice of man, if there is none, compared with the low-caffeine users consume less than the equivalent cup of coffee in day.
Researchers say the results will contribute to a better understanding of the principles of nutrition for the hallucinations. Changes in consumption of food and beverages, including caffeine consumption may be people in a better position to evaluate the influence of hallucinations or, perhaps, on how often they occur, say scientists.
The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Council for Medical Research, 200 students asked about their normal consumption of caffeine-containing products such as coffee, tea, energy drinks, chocolate and caffeine pills. His tendency to experience hallucinations, as well as the tension is also evaluated. Things that are not there, I hear voices, and to detect the presence of the dead belonged to the experience of some participants.
The researchers, whose work in the science journal Personality and individual differences, for example, could be the conclusion of a convention that caffeine aggravates the physiological effects of stress. When under stress, your body makes the stress hormone called cortisol. Most of the stress hormones in response to stress, when people caffeine. This will give additional impetus to cortisol may link caffeine consumption with increased tendency to hallucinate, say scientists.
Lead author, Simon Jones, a PhD student at Durham University's Psychology Department, said: "This is a first step towards looking at the wider factors associated with hallucinations. Previous research has highlighted a number of important factors, such as childhood trauma, which may lead to clinically relevant hallucinations. Many such factors are thought to be linked to hallucinations in part because of their impact on the body's reaction to stress. Given the link between food and mood, and particularly between caffeine and the body's response to stress, it seems sensible to examine what a nutritional perspective may add."
Co - author Dr Charles Fernyhough, also from Durham University's Psychology Department, noted "Our study shows an association between caffeine intake and hallucination-proneness in students. However, one interpretation may be that those students who were more prone to hallucinations used caffeine to help cope with their experiences. More work is needed to establish whether caffeine consumption, and nutrition in general, has an impact on those kinds of hallucination that cause distress."
Mr Jones added: "Hallucinations are not necessarily a sign of mental illness. Most people will have had brief experiences of hearing voices when there is no one there, and around three per cent of people regularly hear such voices. Many of these people cope well with this and live normal lives. There are, however, a number of organisations, such as the Hearing Voices Network, who can offer support and advice to those distressed by these experiences."
Research in this area continues and the public can take part in studies at www.dur.ac.uk/s.r.jones
Facts about caffeine (Source: Wikipedia)
When taken in moderation, studies have shown that caffeine can increase the capacity for mental or physical labour.
http://www.dur.ac.uk
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Mind Said On The Indignity Of Mixed Sex Wards
The report of the Conservative Party, showed that patients with mental disorders suffer from the humiliation that the hybrid plants.
In this regard, the new findings, the Chief Executive Paul Farmer said:
"In the mental health sites, responsible for services at the lowest and most vulnerable populations, and treatment of patients of both sexes, were committed in the sense of privacy, dignity and security."
"Despite repeated commitments by the Government to abolish the Board of the mixture of sex, there has been little progress, in real terms. What looks like a split in the document, he may still be a mixed environment in practice. Patients are often separated by nothing more than a curtain, partition or weak are forced to opposite floor bathroom apartment. live and same-sex stations in the area of mental health should mean exactly that. "
"In patients with mental disorders are entitled to treatment in an environment that offers them a better chance of recovery, and this can not be achieved in a mixed sex. It is simply unacceptable that this situation continues."
MIND
http://www.mind.org.uk/
