We investigated whether the quality of the therapeutic relationship (TR) between patient and clinician predicts rehospitalization in patients in assertive outreach treatment. Analyses were conducted on 332 "established" (equal to in care for > or =3 months) and 150 "new" (equal to in care for <3 months) patients with severe mental illness sampled from 24 assertive outreach teams in London, Engl...

Aiming the usage of Domain Ontology as an educational tool for neophyte students and focusing in a fast and easy way to start Domain Ontology from scratch, the semantics are set aside to identify contexts of concepts (terms) to build the ontology. Text Mining, Link Analysis and Graph Analysis create an abstract rough sketch of interactions between terms. This first rough sketch is presented to ...

This study explored the associations between adolescents’ assertive behaviour, psychological well-being and self-esteem. The sample consisted of 1023 students (14.9±0.51; 47.6% boys). Two dimensions of the Scale for Interpersonal Behaviour (distress and performance), two factors of the General Health Questionnaire-12 (depression/anxiety and social dysfunction) and two factors of the Rosenberg S...

Children are full human beings in their own right. Child maltreatment is the abuse and neglect that occurs to children under 18 years of age. It includes all types physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect, negligence commercial or other exploitation, which results actual potential harm childs health, survival, development dignity context a relationship responsibility, trus...

Recovery is the new vision for mental health services, in which two definitions of recovery dominate. Firstly, recovery is an outcome; research suggests that many people with serious mental illness learn to cope with their disabilities so they can achieve major life goals related to independent living. Secondly, recovery is a process; it reintroduces such important values as hope, empowerment a...

OBJECTIVE Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an evidence-based practice for individuals living with serious mental illnesses. Although studies estimate that at least half of people with serious mental illnesses are parents, little is known about ACT policies and services for parent consumers. METHOD Seventy-three ACT providers from 67 teams completed a survey about treatment services for ...

OBJECTIVES We studied the impact of a Housing First (HF) intervention on housing, contact with the justice system, healthcare usage and health outcomes among At Home/Chez Soi randomised trial participants in Toronto, a city with an extensive service network for social and health services for individuals who are experiencing homelessness and mental illness. METHODS Participants identified as h...