Care management and mental health.

Mental health care management in the Brazilian National Health System.

This article puts in context and evaluates the historical and political process of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. The goal is to provide a brief retrospective and analysis of the management mechanisms that have permitted the Psychiatric Reform to advance. This historic process is divided into three periods: the implementation of deinstitutionalization, the expansion of the psychosocial suppo...

Mental health, care and management of the mentally ill.

Mental and physical health are closely related; it is considered that no health exists without mental health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a significant number of individuals in the general population can develop mental disorders, conditions which affect their personal, familial and social life and constitute an important cause of impairment. It is currently considered that...

Integrating primary mental health care and mental health promotion.

Attitude toward Spirituality, Spiritual Care, and its Relationship with Mental Health among Intensive Care Nurses

Background and Objectives: Spirituality and spiritual care, as essential components of holistic nursing care, are widely recognized, while spiritual aspect is still overlooked. Spirituality has been associated with the caregiver’s sense of well-being and ability to cope. The aim of this study was to determine attitude of intensive care nurses toward spirituality and spiritual care and its relat...

Day-care and Mental Health

This thesis was part of a large epidemiological LAPSETproject which was carried out in Finland during the years 1989-1990. The aim of this thesis was to examine associations between day-care and the mental health of 8-9 year-old children. The hypothesis being: that those children who have experienced several changes of day-care arrangements will have more psychiatric problems than children whos...