Sentences with phrase «mental hospital as»

In «Barefoot,» Scott Speedman plays a low - life rich boy mopping floors at an L.A. mental hospital as part of a court - ordered probation.

Mopping floors at a mental hospital as part of his probation, Jay (Scott Speedman) busts Daisy (Evan Rachel Wood) out of the ward to act as his date at his brother's wedding, so he can curry favor, and money, with his perennially disappointed dad (Treat Williams).

Service in mental hospitals as volunteers helps stimulate interest in these careers.

In mental hospitals as in general hospitals, intelligent treatment of patients is always better where education and research are going on.

Not exact matches

«This has enormous promise in changing the way we do mental health care as well as medical care,» says David Ahern, director of behavioral informatics and e-health at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.

Poitier served as a medical attendant at a mental hospital in New York, but eventually grew tired of Army life.

The nursing home shares the same building as a mental hospital, called Larkin Community Hospital Behavioral Health Shospital, called Larkin Community Hospital Behavioral Health SHospital Behavioral Health Services.

As for the mentally ill, they're the victims of liberal policies decades ago that declared mental illness a «right» and opened the doors to the mental hospitals dedicated to treating them.

As psychiatrist Frieda Fromm - Reichmann once put it, «Unless one believes and feels that the most regressed catatonic, on the back ward of the mental hospital, is more alike than different from oneself, one will be of little help to the mentally ill person.»

It serves as a residence for young adults who have been released from mental hospitals and for those who are receiving treatment at outpatient psychiatric services.

Even though a mental hospital has an effective chaplaincy service the patient's minister should visit him as regularly as distance permits.

If a person is violent and / or adamantly refuses to accept help, it may be necessary for the family to call the police who will transport him to a public psychiatric ward (in a county hospital) or to a mental hospital for observation, This is the least desirable method of getting the person to treatment, but it sometimes becomes necessary as a last resort.

For helping many alcoholics, I am convinced that we shall need far more multilevel institutions that serve only alcoholics (through bed care, day - hospital care, out - patient care, etc.) as well as an increase in facilities that are part of general and mental hospitals and other kinds of institutions.

As the movie opens, protagonist Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) has just been released from a mental hospital.

For one thing, as women begin to feel strong and to see that they have far more potential than they have ever imagined, they are less apt to land in mental hospitals.

Because general hospitals, unlike most mental hospitals, were under many kinds of administrative auspices (churches, community funds, self - perpetuating boards, as well as public agencies), the advance in chaplaincy service within them has had to take a variety of financial patterns.

One of the factors in my own experience that has made me increasingly regard this as basic to the teaching function of ministry has been my service as theological consultant to mental hospitals, especially the Menninger Foundation.

As Jana Bennett has pointed out, the judgment of Charlie's physicians, his hospital, and the court was focused primarily on Charlie's mental disability.

Instead of sending the, delinquent youth to a reform school, a tough but compassionate magistrate, Hesther Salomon, commits him to the psychiatric ward of the local hospital and convinces her friend, Dr. Martin Dysart, to take the boy as a mental patient.

When a board from the American Psychiatric Association recently inspected 273 private, state, and federal mental hospitals, only 75 were approved as meeting minimal standards.

Even more effective as an attitude - changing experience is firsthand contact with recovering patients in a progressive mental hospital.

If a member of one's family is hospitalized for mental illness, his chances of being released as improved or recovered are linked directly with the adequacy of treatment in that particular hospital.

For example, if someone were to assert that as he read the Bible the Word of God commanded him to set fire to a «heretical» church, the community of faith (and the political community as well) would insist that this is no Word from God at all, and that the man is not to be honored as a prophet or mystic but to be treated in a mental hospital.

Out of his personal struggles with psychosis and many years» experience as a hospital chaplain, Anton Boisen concluded that the most damaging feelings in mental illness are the sense of awful isolation and the feeling of unpardonable guilt.

He had been in and out of mental hospitals and had been diagnosed as having schizophrenia.

As a result of his efforts, along with those of the mental health societies (the change from «hygiene» to «health» came in the 1940s) and many other groups, including the professionals, it is safe to say that most mental hospitals are better now than they were a generation ago.

Whatever the provocation, it becomes a tragedy when the very institutions designed to rectify the errors of the mental hospital system move into the kind of business - as - usual attitude originally thought to be the worst aspect of mental hospitals.

The centers were designed for several purposes: to admit emergency patients and help them for a brief period, discharging them if improved and sending them to hospitals if extended care was called for; to provide out - patient treatment to individuals and families; to serve as a coordinating or focal channel for many kinds of problems, referring clients to other agencies when indicated; and above all to take mental health services into the community more and more.

Writing out of more than a decade of experience as a mental hospital chaplain, Carroll A. Wise speaks to the importance of symbols in religion:

While I was serving as a parish pastor and mental hospital chaplain, a man came to the church office to see me.

Declared mentally incompetent in 1917, he fought last bout in 1920, was committed to mental hospital in 1927 as result of brain injuries suffered in 136 fights.

The treatment offered for postpartum psychosis is similar to the treatment given for postpartum depression, except that it may have to be administered in a highly structured and secure environment such as a hospital or mental health facility.

We will cover the natural process of labor, comfort measures, relaxation, emotional and mental preparation for labor and how to handle many variations of birth, as well as how to navigate interventions and options in the hospital setting.

I knew I had chosen homebirth for a reason that was as much physical and mental — even though we were treated wonderfully at St. Lukes, my body sensed I was in a hospital and shut down my labor!

I personally enjoyed the whole process of packing my hospital bag, as a mental preparation for baby arriving.

around midnight i began to question my decision to have a home birth, & maria was getting tired... she called in a second midwife for support & my doula arrived from another birth... i was afraid of the power - i hadn't felt it like this in kayenn's birth... i was afraid that i would come apart - even though i had to - i know now that coming apart is a part of the process... someplace in the middle of this birth i realized that i did not know how to do this - i was acting against the birth process - literally & emotionally... i had a mental idea of what it should look, sound, smell, be like... after some hours maria checked me again, i had been at 9 cm for 4 hours... she said to me, «some babies can come through at 9 cm, but yours will not, sokhna... sokhna, you are going to have to fight to bring this baby out... go into the bathroom, get in the shower & work it out... «so i did... i went in the cold bathroom alone & remembered every cold detail of kayenn's birth... i wondered if i could get to the hospital on time to have an emergency c - section & i began to cry... & as i cried i had to go to the bathroom - i sat on the toilet & the rushes came down like nothing i can explain - but they didn't hurt - it was just POWER!

In a study from the emergency medicine division at Boston Children's Hospital, researchers have found that emotional and mental symptoms, such as irritability and frustration may show up much later and hang around longer.

They also worked together as Clinical Assistant Professors of Psychology in Pediatrics at New York Presbyterian Hospital / Weill Cornell Medical College to support the integration of mental health care into pediatric primary care.

Mental health doesn't sound that important, compared with the physical safety of mother and child, but when you consider the affects of post natal depression, psychosis and PTSD, as well as bonding issues, you start to see that the effects of poor psychological / mental health support in traditional maternal hospitals is a major factor pushing women towards less safe birthing options.

To truly address the reasons why women choose potentially unsafe home birth situations and attendants, we need to look as their — usually unconscious — drive to protect their mental health, when faced with disrespectful, intrusive and abusive medical environments (I'm not saying that all hospitals are like that at all, mine isn't, but it can be a major factor).

BSc in Psychology, works as an independant mental health advovate in a secure hospital, 2 days a week.

The initiative intends to develop a greater understanding of homeless people who have to cope with multiple problems in their lives, such as drug or alcohol dependencies, severe mental health problems and institutional experiences, such as prison or long term hospital stays.

She worked at the Maudsley hospital from 1972 to 1974, then switched to the voluntary sector as assistant director of the mental health charity Mind until 1986.

At 5 p.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will be honored as the Person of the Year by President and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals Dr. Ram Raju for her leadership on mental health, 125 Worth St., Manhattan.

Perhaps even more troubling, the researchers noted, is that nearly 30 percent of those admitted to the hospital with heart failure, AMI or pneumonia were diagnosed in the previous year as having a mental health condition.

Tim Hasledon takes a postoperative cognition test in an Ontario, Canada, hospital as part of a study to compare mental status before and after a surgery.

Children who experience family and environmental stressors, and traumatic experiences, such as poverty, mental illness and exposure to violence, are more likely to be diagnosed with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to new research by investigators at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM), titled «Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity,» published in Academic Pediatrics.

According to a 2008 study, people who have POCD 3 months after they leave the hospital are nearly twice as likely to die within a year as are surgical patients who report no mental setbacks.

Working in partnership with Wellframe, a Boston - based company that enables health plans and providers to better manage risk and amplify existing support resources, McLean Hospital's Waverley Place community support program successfully completed an important and promising study to gauge the effectiveness of a new smartphone app as a support model for people with severe mental illness.

Steven E. Gelda, MD, focuses his clinical interest and expertise on ways to help stabilize psychiatrically hospitalized patients who enter the hospital in crisis due to environmental and interpersonal factors as well as those experiencing an episode of major mental illness.