Sentences with phrase «receive psychiatric treatment»

Welfare reform has disrupted Medicaid benefits for millions of children who need treatment.97, 98 Medicaid enables many youth to receive psychiatric treatment.99 Many parents who left welfare to go to work found their new jobs did not provide insurance or, when available, they could not afford copayments.100, 101 The State Children's Health Insurance Program, designed to offset the loss of Medicaid, did not fulfill its intended purpose.98, 102 Moreover, welfare reform has not substantially decreased poverty103; many poor children have become even poorer.104 Poor children are vulnerable to poor outcomes, 105 including involvement with the juvenile justice system.

He was released on $ 50,000 bond, along with an agreement that he would receive psychiatric treatment and medication.

In lieu of prison or the death sentence, these women receive psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation.

The first was Charles Antwi who is currently receiving psychiatric treatment for saying that he wanted to kill the president so he will become president of Ghana.

Alexander Niculescu of Indiana University in Indianapolis and his colleagues have developed a questionnaire and blood test that together predicted with 92 per cent accuracy who among a group of 108 men receiving psychiatric treatment would develop suicidal feelings over the next year (Molecular Psychiatry, doi.org/6vk).

They combined the blood test data with an app that asks questions designed to detect suicidal intentions, and predicted with 92 per cent accuracy who of a group of 108 men receiving psychiatric treatment would develop suicidal feelings over the following year — and with 71 per cent accuracy who of a group of 157 would be hospitalised by an attempt.

In Howell v. New York Post, the plaintiff, Pamela J. Howell, was receiving psychiatric treatment at a facility in Westchester.

There was a story about a four - year - old girl in the UK who is receiving psychiatric treatment for an iPad addiction, it includes my blog, My parenting is experiencing technical difficulties.

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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.

With an interdisciplinary staff of fourteen full - or part - time persons, the project maintains a diagnostic and treatment center where homeless men receive medical and psychiatric examinations, psychological testing, group or individual psychotherapy, vocational counseling, and Antabuse.

Patel expected to see a conventional psychiatric ward, maybe a bit run - down, with beds for patients receiving treatment.

However, those extremely low birth weight babies who received a full course of life - saving steroids before birth as part of their treatment had even higher odds (nearly four and a half times) of those same psychiatric issues, and they were not protected against alcohol or substance use disorders.

UC San Diego Health receives National Institute of Mental Health funding to establish advanced psychiatric treatment clinics at VA San Diego Healthcare System and UC San Diego Medical Center.

397 patients who were 18 — 65 years of age, had a diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder according to DSM - IV criteria, had required intensive psychiatric treatment within 24 months before study entry, had received a stable dose of antipsychotic medication for ≥ 30 days before study entry, had resided at the same address for ≥ 30 days before study entry, and were judged clinically stable by the principal investigator.

A sole managing conservator has the exclusive right to decide where the children live, consent to invasive medical or dental procedures, consent to psychiatric or psychological treatment, decide about the children's education, consent to marriage or enlistment in the armed forces, and the right to receive child support.

The control group continued to receive general psychiatric treatment.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is 1 of only 2 DSM - IV diagnoses for which suicidal behavior is a criterion.1 Borderline personality disorder is a severe and persistent mental disorder experience of severe emotional distress and behavioral dyscontrol.1 - 3 Among patients with BPD, 69 % to 80 % engage in suicidal behavior,4 - 9 with a suicide rate of up to 9 %.10 Forty percent of the highest users of inpatient psychiatric services receive a diagnosis of BPD.11, 12 Patients with BPD use more services than those with major depression13 and other personality disorders.14 Among patients with BPD seen for treatment, 72 % have had at least 1 psychiatric hospitalization and 97 % have received outpatient treatment from a mean of 6.1 previous therapists.15, 16 Despite this high - use pattern, patients with BPD have high rates of treatment failure.17, 18

Although more than a third of their children had a current psychiatric disorder at baseline and more than half had a lifetime history, some improvement was observed in the children in a relatively short time, ie, 3 months, and this occurred, in most cases, without the children receiving direct treatment.

For example, there is evidence of local systemic stigma based on population data analysis, in that children registered in tertiary mental health services receive less emergency and inpatient treatment for their physical disorders after psychiatric diagnosis than do children with no mental disorder, even though they have more physical and biomedical diagnoses at the levels of ambulatory and provincial physician billing.28

Like adult detainees, juvenile detainees with serious mental disorders have a constitutional right (under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments) to receive needed treatment.5 Mental health professionals believe that providing psychiatric services to juvenile detainees could improve their quality of life and help reduce recidivism.6 - 8 Until we have better data, we can not know how best to use the system's scarce mental health resources.9, 10

Subjects receiving DBT were less likely to drop out of treatment (hazard ratio, 3.2; P <.001) and had fewer psychiatric hospitalizations (F1, 92 = 6.0; P =.007) and psychiatric emergency department visits (F1, 92 = 2.9; P =.04).

Eligible couples 1) had to be at least 25 years old; 2) had to be exclusively involved and living together for at least one year; 3) could not have been previously diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, or currently taking any medication known to treat psychosis or psychotic disorders; 4) could not be receiving current psychotherapeutic (psychological or psychiatric) treatment or anticipating such treatment within the next six months; 5) could not be drinking more than 14 alcoholic drinks per week, using any type of illegal drugs, or misusing prescription medication; and 6) could not have a history of either childhood or adulthood physical or sexual abuse.

Patients with severe psychiatric comorbidity or receiving current psychiatrist treatment were excluded, meaning the results can not be extrapolated to patients with significant mental illness.

Patients were excluded if they (a) were currently receiving psychotherapy or antidepressant drugs (unless they had been taking the same dose for at least three months without improvement); (b) were unwilling to accept randomisation or were unavailable for follow up; (c) met criteria for severe depression (melancholia) or had a history of bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, or substance misuse (as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition, revised (DSM - III - R) 18); or (d) were at significant risk of suicide or in need of urgent psychiatric treatment.

Results show significant improvement in children receiving TST on several dimensions of psychiatric symptoms, and the treatment effected measurable changes in children's social environments and stability.

Results indicated that families who received either treatment showed decreased parental psychiatric symptomology, reduced overall stress, and a reduction in the severity of identified problems.

She receives ongoing training in the evidence - based treatments for Drug Addiction, Substance Abuse Disorder, Alcohol Addiction, Behavioral Addictions, and other psychiatric disorders.

None of the patients had been treated with medications acting on the central nervous system (including psychiatric treatments) and none of them was receiving prophylactic medications for migraine.