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  1. An increasing number of empirical studies indicate that infants, toddlers and preschoolers may suffer from non-transient mental illnesses featuring developmental psychopathology. A few innovative child psychia...

    Authors: Tilman Furniss, Jörg M Müller, Sandra Achtergarde, Ida Wessing, Marlies Averbeck-Holocher and Christian Postert

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:12

    Content type: Case study

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  2. Over the last three decades significant efforts have been made in many European countries to move away from a mental health system dominated by institutional care towards one whereby the main emphasis is on pr...

    Authors: Evangelia Loukidou, Anastasios Mastroyannakis, Tracey Power, Graham Thornicroft, Tom Craig and Nick Bouras

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:11

    Content type: Research

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  3. The Australian Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN) is fostering a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to mental health care through the establishment of local interdisciplinary networks of mental ...

    Authors: Kylie King, Jo Christo, Justine Fletcher, Anna Machlin, Angela Nicholas and Jane Pirkis

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:10

    Content type: Research

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  4. Mental health disorders account for 13% of the global burden of disease, a burden that low-income countries are generally ill-equipped to handle. Research evaluating the association between mental health and e...

    Authors: Maureen E Canavan, Heather L Sipsma, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Angela Ofori-Atta, Helen Jack, Christopher Udry, Isaac Osei-Akoto and Elizabeth H Bradley

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:9

    Content type: Research

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  5. Mental health services for Rivers State and surrounding States in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria are provided only at the neuropsychiatric Rumuigbo Hospital in Port Harcourt City, Rivers State, Nigeria. The...

    Authors: Izibeloko Omi Jack-Ide, Leana R Uys and Lyn E Middleton

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:8

    Content type: Research

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  6. One of the most crucial steps towards delivering judicious and comprehensive mental health care is the formulation of a policy and plan that will navigate mental health systems. For policy-makers, the challeng...

    Authors: Hasheem Mannan, Shahla ElTayeb, Malcolm MacLachlan, Mutamad Amin, Joanne McVeigh, Alister Munthali and Gert Van Rooy

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:7

    Content type: Research

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  7. A cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a national Kenyan mental health primary care training programme demonstrated a significant impact for health workers on the health, disability and quality of life...

    Authors: Rachel Jenkins, Caleb Othieno, Stephen Okeyo, Julyan Aruwa, Jan Wallcraft and Ben Jenkins

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:6

    Content type: Research

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  8. A cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a national Kenyan mental health primary care training programme demonstrated a significant impact on the health, disability and quality of life of clients, despit...

    Authors: Caleb Othieno, Rachel Jenkins, Stephen Okeyo, Julyan Aruwa, Jan Wallcraft and Ben Jenkins

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:5

    Content type: Research

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  9. We compared demography, diagnoses and clinical needs in acutely admitted psychiatric hospital patients in northwest Russia and northern Norway.

    Authors: Knut W Sørgaard, Grigory Rezvy, Anatoly Bugdanov, Tore Sørlie and Trond Bratlid

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:4

    Content type: Research

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  10. Individuals, families and communities in Northern Sri Lanka have undergone three decades of war trauma, multiple displacements, and loss of family, kin, friends, homes, employment and other valued resources. T...

    Authors: Daya Somasundaram and Sambasivamoorthy Sivayokan

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:3

    Content type: Research

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  11. Data on caregiver strain and depression of principal caregivers of patients with mental illnesses are few in developing countries. Findings from developed countries cannot be applied directly to developing cou...

    Authors: Chaturaka Rodrigo, Tharanga Fernando, Senaka Rajapakse, Varuni De Silva and Raveen Hanwella

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:2

    Content type: Research

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  12. The concept of `mindfulness´ was operationalized primarily for patients with chronic stressors, while it is rarely used in reference to soldiers. We intended to validate a modified instrument on the basis of t...

    Authors: Arndt Büssing, Harald Walach, Niko Kohls, Fred Zimmermann and Marion Trousselard

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2013 7:1

    Content type: Research

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  13. Integrating mental health into primarily health care and studying risk for mental health particularly depression needs assessment of different factors including those that impede diagnosis and treatment of men...

    Authors: Solomon Hailemariam, Fasil Tessema, Mekonen Asefa, Henok Tadesse and Girma Tenkolu

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:23

    Content type: Research

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  14. In the general belief, schizophrenia is associated with the concepts of seriousness, incurability, dangerousness: this is incorrect. In recent decades, the interest in course studies increased and different tr...

    Authors: Maria Cristina Turola, Gloria Comellini, Anna Galuppi, Maria Giulia Nanni, Emanuela Carantoni and Chiara Scapoli

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:22

    Content type: Research

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  15. Specialist mental health care is out of reach for most Indians. The World Health Organisation has called for the integration of mental health into primary health care as a key strategy in closing the treatment...

    Authors: Joshua Cowan, Shoba Raja, Amali Naik and Gregory Armstrong

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:21

    Content type: Research

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  16. Recent years have seen the large-scale development of clinical practice guidelines for mental disorders in several countries. In the Netherlands, more than ten multidisciplinary guidelines for mental health ca...

    Authors: Maarten K van Dijk, Marc JPM Verbraak, Desiree B Oosterbaan and Anton JLM van Balkom

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:20

    Content type: Case study

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  18. Crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) is an emerging mode of delivering acute mental health care in the community. There is a paucity of knowledge regarding the workings of CRHT in the literature. This i...

    Authors: Ottar Ness, Bengt Karlsson, Marit Borg, Stian Biong and Suzie Kim Hesook

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:18

    Content type: Research

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  19. Crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) is an emerging mode of delivering acute mental health care in the community. There is a paucity of knowledge regarding the workings of CRHT in the literature. This i...

    Authors: Stian Biong, Ottar Ness, Bengt Karlsson, Marit Borg and Hesook Suzie Kim

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:17

    Content type: Research

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  20. The Collaborative RESearch team to study psychosocial factors in bipolar disorder (CREST.BD) is a multidisciplinary, cross-sectoral network dedicated to both fundamental research and knowledge exchange on bipo...

    Authors: Erin E Michalak, Rachelle Hole, James D Livingston, Greg Murray, Sagar V Parikh, Sara Lapsley and Sally McBride

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:16

    Content type: Case study

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  21. There is an ongoing global movement for the entrenchment of occupational mental health as an integral part of occupational health and safety schemes. Aside from being a fundamental human right issue, this move...

    Authors: Olayinka Atilola

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:15

    Content type: Review

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  22. Crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) is an emerging mode of delivering acute mental health care in the community. There is a paucity of knowledge regarding the workings of CRHT in the literature. This i...

    Authors: Bengt Karlsson, Marit Borg, Stian Biong, Ottar Ness and Hesook Suzie Kim

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:14

    Content type: Research

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  23. To determine the naturalistic outcome of treatment of psychosis by traditional healers in Jinja and Iganga districts of Eastern Uganda.

    Authors: Catherine Abbo, Elialilia S Okello, Seggane Musisi, Paul Waako and Solvig Ekblad

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:13

    Content type: Research

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  24. The presence of mental distress during pregnancy and after childbirth imposes detrimental developmental and health consequences for families in all nations. In Zambia, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has proposed...

    Authors: Lonia Mwape, Teena M McGuinness and Rachael Dixey

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:12

    Content type: Research

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  25. Australia’s Early Parenting Services support families and intervene early in mental health problems in parents. The Victorian Early Parenting Strategy, a platform for government policy recommended a stronger e...

    Authors: Heather Rowe, Sonia McCallum, Minh Thi Hong Le and Renzo Vittorino

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:11

    Content type: Research

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  26. Reports on problems encountered in the implementation of complex interventions are scarce in psychotherapy literature. This is remarkable given the inherent difficulties of such enterprises and the associated ...

    Authors: Joost Hutsebaut, Dawn L Bales, Jan JV Busschbach and Roel Verheul

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:10

    Content type: Case study

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  28. In Low and Middle Income Countries, mental health services are often poorly developed due to the lack of resources and trained personnel. In order to overcome these challenges, new ways of care have been sugge...

    Authors: Michael Odenwald, Birke Lingenfelder, Wolfgang Peschel, Farhan Adam Haibe, Abdirisak Mohamed Warsame, Ahmed Omer, Judith Stöckel, Anna Maedl and Thomas Elbert

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:8

    Content type: Research

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  29. The mental health community in Japan had started reviewing the country’s disaster mental health guidelines before the Great East Japan Earthquake, aiming to revise them based on evidence and experience accumul...

    Authors: Yuriko Suzuki, Maiko Fukasawa, Satomi Nakajima, Tomomi Narisawa and Yoshiharu Kim

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:7

    Content type: Research

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  30. A new resolution on mental, neurological and substance use disorders was adopted in January 2012 by the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board. The resolution urges WHO and Member States to collaborat...

    Authors: Corrado Barbui and Benedetto Saraceno

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:6

    Content type: Debate

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  31. Mental health has long been a neglected problem in global healthcare. The social and economic impacts of conditions affecting the mind are still underestimated. However, in recent years it is becoming more app...

    Authors: Pawel Prociow, Katarzyna Wac and John Crowe

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:5

    Content type: Research

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  32. Australia’s National Mental Health Strategy has emphasised the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of services, and has promoted the collection of outcomes and casemix data as a means of monitoring these. Al...

    Authors: Philip Burgess, Tim Coombs, Adam Clarke, Rosemary Dickson and Jane Pirkis

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:4

    Content type: Commentary

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  33. Low-threshold and out-of-hours services play an important role in the emergency care for people with mental illness. In Norway casualty clinic doctors are responsible for a substantial share of acute referrals...

    Authors: Ingrid H Johansen, Tone Morken and Steinar Hunskaar

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:3

    Content type: Research

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  34. Vulnerable prisoners and mentally disordered offenders who present with risk of harm to self or others were accommodated in Special Observation Cells (SOCs) isolated from others for considerable periods of tim...

    Authors: Yvette Giblin, Andy Kelly, Enda Kelly, Harry G Kennedy and Damian Mohan

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:2

    Content type: Case study

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  35. Over the past four decades, there has been increasing interest in Self-Help Groups, by mental health services users and caregivers, alike. Research in high-income countries suggests that participation in SHGs ...

    Authors: Alex Cohen, Shoba Raja, Chris Underhill, Badimak Peter Yaro, Adam Yahaya Dokurugu, Mary De Silva and Vikram Patel

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2012 6:1

    Content type: Research

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  36. While integrated primary healthcare for the management of depression has been well researched, appropriate models of primary care for people with severe and persistent psychotic disorders are poorly understood...

    Authors: Brian J Kelly, David A Perkins, Jeffrey D Fuller and Sharon M Parker

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:31

    Content type: Research

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  37. Recent global mental health research suggests that mental health interventions can be adapted for use across cultures and in low resource environments. As evidence for the feasibility and effectiveness of cert...

    Authors: Laura K Murray, Shannon Dorsey, Paul Bolton, Mark JD Jordans, Atif Rahman, Judith Bass and Helena Verdeli

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:30

    Content type: Case study

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  38. There is some evidence that when mental health commitment hearings are held in accordance with therapeutic jurisprudence principles they are perceived as less coercive, and more just in their procedures leadin...

    Authors: Vidis Donnelly, Aideen Lynch, Damian Mohan and Harry G Kennedy

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:29

    Content type: Research

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  40. Integrating the best available evidence into program standards is essential if system-wide improvements in the delivery of community-based mental health services are to be achieved. Since the beginning of the ...

    Authors: Patricia A Wakefield, Glen E Randall and David A Richards

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:27

    Content type: Research

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  41. The MANAS trial reported that a Lay Health Counsellor (LHC) led collaborative stepped care intervention (the "MANAS intervention") for Common Mental Disorders (CMD) was effective in public sector primary care ...

    Authors: Bernadette Pereira, Gracy Andrew, Sulochana Pednekar, Betty R Kirkwood and Vikram Patel

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:26

    Content type: Research

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  42. This study aimed to investigate existing trialling activity relating to three antipsychotic drugs from the WHO List of Essential Medicines (chlorpromazine, fluphenazine decanoate, haloperidol), link existing t...

    Authors: Marianna Purgato, Corrado Barbui and Clive E Adams

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:25

    Content type: Research

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  43. Sexual violence against children is a major global health and human rights problem. In order to address this issue there needs to be a better understanding of the issue and the consequences. One major challeng...

    Authors: Laura K Murray, Judith Bass, Elwyn Chomba, Mwiya Imasiku, Donald Thea, Katherine Semrau, Judith A Cohen, Carrie Lam and Paul Bolton

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:24

    Content type: Research

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  44. Most adolescents live in resource-constrained countries and their mental health has been less well recognised than other aspects of their health. The World Health Organization's 4-S Framework provides a struct...

    Authors: Jane RW Fisher and Meena Cabral de Mello

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:23

    Content type: Research

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  45. Few studies have investigated how demographic, clinical and organizational characteristics influence parents' experiences with child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). The objective of this study w...

    Authors: Olaf Holmboe, Hilde H Iversen and Ketil Hanssen-Bauer

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:22

    Content type: Research

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  46. The new United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities creates a new paradigm for mental health law, moving from a focus on institutional care to a focus on community-based services and t...

    Authors: Peter Bartlett, Rachel Jenkins and David Kiima

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:21

    Content type: Review

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  47. The purpose of the current study was the psychometric evaluation of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS), an instrument developed to meet the necessity of a clinically acceptable outcome scale for r...

    Authors: Pietro G Lovaglio and Emiliano Monzani

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:20

    Content type: Research

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  48. Crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) is one of the more recent modes of delivering acute mental health care in the community. The objective of the study was to describe the standardizations and variatio...

    Authors: Bengt Karlsson, Marit Borg, Marthe Eklund and Hesook Suzie Kim

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:19

    Content type: Research

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  49. Studies on the mental health of refugees have tended to focus upon the impact of traumatic experiences in the country of origin, and acculturation processes in exile. The effects of crises in the country of or...

    Authors: Eugene Guribye

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:18

    Content type: Case study

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  50. Unmet needs for mental health treatment in low income countries are pervasive. If mental health is to be effectively integrated into primary health care in low income countries like India then grass-roots work...

    Authors: Gregory Armstrong, Michelle Kermode, Shoba Raja, Sujatha Suja, Prabha Chandra and Anthony F Jorm

    Citation: International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2011 5:17

    Content type: Research

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