The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland has, as part of its remit, a responsibility to develop good practice guidelines in respect of medical treatment in the setting of mental disorders. (These include people with dementia, intellectual disability, severe and enduring mental illness or brain injury which has led to a loss or impairment of capacity.) The process undertaken to develop such a ...

BACKGROUND Although detained youth evidence increased rates of mental illness, relatively few adolescents utilize mental health care upon release from detention. Thus, the goal of this study is to understand the process of mental health care engagement upon community reentry for mentally-ill detained youth. METHODS Qualitative interviews were conducted with 19 youth and caregiver dyads (39 pa...

The interaction structure of problem solving teams in design and other domains, and its effects on ideation outcomes is a well-explored topic in the study of team cognition in problem solving and design. Much less is known on how changes in team interaction structure influence the development of mental models over the course of work on a problem. This study aims to understand the relationship b...

background: many countries make many of their governmental sectors private. this transition, however, may affect their employees in numerous ways. objective: to determine the level of occupational stress and mental health of employees of a petrochemical company in isfahan, central iran, before and 3 months after privatization. methods: out of the 700 employees of the studied company, using a st...

Social impact theory and group action theory are integrated to provide a framework for explaining how technology-mediated collaboration constrains or enhances team shared mental model development. Social impact theory and group action theory are then used to explain the role of shared mental models in shaping team work quality that ultimately affects both task productivity and team process sati...

ION AS A NATURAL PROCESS OF MENTAL COMPRESSION Eddie Gray & David Tall Mathematics Education Research Centre University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

A new model which can recognize rotated, distorted, scaled, shifted and noised patterns is proposed. The model is constructed based on psychological experiments in a mental rotation. The model has two types of processes: (i) one is a bottom-up process in which pattern recognition is realized by means of a rotation-invariant neocognitron and a standard neocognitron and (ii) the other is a top-do...

A model of the process of seeking treatment for mental health problems is presented that explicates much previous research in this area. A process comprising seven steps is proposed (recognize that there is a problem, decide the problem is mental health related, decide change is needed, make efforts to effect change, decide professional help is needed to effect change, decide to seek profession...