Sentences with phrase «mental health support rather»

Indeed it seems that a third of 18 year olds drop out of mental health support rather than transfer to adult services.

Not exact matches

With little or no general public funding left to address the necessary conditions for learning, the initiative process in California gave us Healthy Start, Family Preservation and Support, First Five, mental health in schools, and vast afterschool programming, too many of which were designed as short - term grants that required annual renewals and proof of sustainability rather than the ongoing funding we know the neediest schools must have consistently.

Basically, for the same reasons many people choose alternative medicine for themselves: to use more natural therapies that support healing rather than treat symptoms; to honor patients as individuals with unique strengths and weaknesses rather than simply as patients with a certain disease condition; to strive to understand the connection between the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of all living beings, and how they profoundly affect health and vitality.

The role of a foster home is not to provide financial support, but rather to provide the love and patience the animal may need to regain their mental and physical health.

Recently, a former Canadian soldier diagnosed with depression and anxiety resulting from her time in the armed forces was barred from bringing her emotional support cat on an Air Canada flight, a decision which she and the Canadian Mental Health Association decried as discriminatory and differential treatment on the basis that she had a mental health, rather than physical, disabHealth Association decried as discriminatory and differential treatment on the basis that she had a mental health, rather than physical, disabhealth, rather than physical, disability.

Too often, according to NSW researchers, support focuses on offending behaviour — rather than addressing social disadvantage, mental health, disability or alcohol and drug issues.

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

North Georgia Collaborative Family Law is an interdisciplinary network of legal, financial, and mental health professionals who assist clients in achieving resolution of disputes such as divorce, child support modifications, custody actions, and many other family law cases using Collaborative Law processes rather than litigation.

The following themes were identified: (1) personal acceptance of having a mental health problem rather than treatment access is the major barrier to treatment entry; (2) tightly connected, supportive peer networks can decrease stigma related to mental health problems and encourage treatment; however, soldiers in impoverished or conflicted peer networks are less likely to receive these benefits; and (3) soldiers are generally positive about the idea of peer - based programs to improve treatment engagement, although they note the importance of leadership support, peer assignment, and unit specialty in implementing these programs.

We compared the therapist - led treatments to the MIT condition rather than a wait - list control because: (a) the superiority of parent training over wait - list controls seemed well - established and there appeared to be little additional benefit from conducting another comparison of parent training with a wait - list group; and (b) families receiving mental health care often come for too few sessions to complete a 12 - session treatment program such as those often used in manual - driven, empirically - supported treatments.

Measures with a negative focus can suggest to participants that such programmes are for people with mental health problems and in this way detract from, rather than support, these initiatives.