			Home About us Contact

Mental Hygiene (mental + hygiene)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Medical Sciences	40%

Selected Abstracts

"The New Generation": Mental Hygiene and the Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1946,1967

HISTORY OF EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2003
Brian J. Low
That is the achievement of the psychologists. In our own society they are very kind, and do everything for our own good. The tales of what they do elsewhere are rather terrifying. ,Hilda Neatby So Little for the Mind (1953) [source]

Using School Staff to Establish a Preventive Network of Care to Improve Elementary School Students' Control of Asthma

JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, Issue 6 2006
Jean-Marie Bruzzese
To address these problems, Columbia University and the New York City Department of Education and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene undertook a randomized controlled trial to test the efficacy of a comprehensive school-based asthma program. In this intervention, school nurses were trained to facilitate the establishment of a preventive network of care for children with asthma by coordinating communications and fostering relationships between families, PCPs, and school personnel. PCPs also received training regarding asthma management. There was limited support for this model. While case detection helped nurses identify additional students with asthma and nurses increased the amount of time spent on asthma-related tasks, PCPs did not change their medical management of asthma. Few improvements in health outcomes were achieved. Relative to controls, 12-months posttest intervention students had a reduction in activity limitations due to asthma (,35% vs ,9%, p < .05) and days with symptoms (26% vs 39%, p = .06). The intervention had no impact on the use of urgent health care services, school attendance, or caregiver's quality of life. There were also no improvements at 24-months postintervention. We faced many challenges related to case detection, training, and implementing preventive care activities, which may have hindered our success. We present these challenges, describe how we coped with them, and discuss the lessons we learned. (J Sch Health. 2006;76(6):307-312) [source]

Mental Hygiene and Socio-Environmental Factors

THE MILBANK QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2005
R.H. FELIX MD
First page of article [source]

Divergences in American psychiatry during the Depression: Somatic psychiatry, community mental hygiene, and social reconstruction,

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 4 2001
Hans Pols Ph.D. postdoctoral fellow
The differences between somatic psychiatrists and mental hygienists, already apparent earlier, became much more pronounced during the Depression years, partly as a consequence of their different perspectives on this social crisis. Somatic psychiatrists, emboldened by the apparent success of new medical treatment methods, reasserted the central position of the mental hospital within psychiatry, attempted to improve the discipline's position within medicine, and promoted basic research. Mental hygienists, following the ideal of prevention, proposed far-reaching programs of community mental hygiene to alleviate widespread mental distress. A small group of mental hygienists embraced socialism and advocated measures of radical social reconstruction. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [source]