Pathways into care have not changed significantly since the introduction of early intervention services for psychosis in London. Some groups have different pathways into care and those whose pathway originates in primary care have a longer route to services. This editorial explores the nature of these challenges, for both early intervention services and referring agencies.

Health inequalities research has shown a growing interest in participatory ways of working. However, the theoretical ideas underpinning mainstream approaches to participation remain underexplored. This article contributes to theorising participatory practice for the kind of egalitarian politics to which many of those focused on reducing health inequalities are committed. First, we argue that th...

The concept of reification is used by Marx to describe a form of social consciousness in which human relations come to be identified with the physical properties of things, thereby acquiring an appearance of naturalness and inevitability. This essay presents a systematic reconstruction of Marx's theory of reification, with an emphasis on the social-structural dimensions of the concept. This rec...

aggression is universal behavior that can be seen in all cultures and the most common behavioral problems in adolescence and young adulthood which can cause discomfort and distress of adolescents and young people and those around them. this research aim to survey of some social and individual factors influencing the tendency to aggression among youth in deylam city. the methodology of this stud...

in this paper we present a new method for solving fractional optimal control problems with delays in state and control. this method is based upon bernstein polynomial basis and using feedback control. the main advantage of using feedback or closed-loop controls is that they can monitor their effect on the system and modify the output accordingly. in this work, we use bernstein polynomials to tr...

This study analyzed sixteen cases which appeared to meet Dr. Richard Gardner 's criteria for parental alienation syndrome as set forth in his 1987 book. Thesecases showed a wide diversity of characteristics but Gardner's criteria were useful in differentiating these cases from other postdivorce difficulties. Traditional interventions were ineffective in altering Ule alienation. Gardner (1985) h...

A review of the psychological, sociological and educational literature indicated that the various conceptualizations of "alienation" could be fitted into five tentative categories appearing to have considerable overlap. An item pool developed to represent these categories of alienation was screened by expert review and pilot testing in the 9th grade and then administered to 500 "normal" adolesc...