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14 Mental Health
14 Mental Health
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The NMHA reports that many "patients seeking medical help do so because of physical symptoms related primarily to stress reactions or emotional problems." On the positive side, however, the NMHA reports that "a substantial and rapidly expanding knowledge base exists to direct efforts in the prevention of mentalemotional disabilities." ('tO70) The combination of the high costs of mental illness and the potential benefits to be attained through prevention led 75 testifiers to address their remarks primarily to this subject and another 18 to make substantial comments.
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knowledge of "responsible individual and organizational prevention strategies that are beneficial in the management of stress.n (~176) Depression Roseann Scott and others from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center report that depression affects millions of people per year.
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f#O70J Johnson, representing the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill and the American Psychological Association, sees the hospital relapse rate for schizophrenia as too high and calls for action on this front. Lowering the relapse rate will entail less restrictive treatment and rehabilitation environments; continuity of care; adequate housing and protection against economic need; better education and training for caretakers, including family members; use of social learning methods to decrease unacceptable behavior and increase desirable behavior; and rehabilitation senaces, including supported employment, education, and skills training.
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One program of education, counseling, and medical and contraceptive services offered at a clinic located near the school resulted in a 30 percent decline in the pregnancy rate for those in the school program after 28 months, but a 57.6 percent increase in pregnancies among those not in the program during the same period.5 (~006) To help prevent adolescent pregnancies, the NMHA calls for Cooperative efforts by parents, schools, and other social service agencies to prevent adolescent pregnancy, through programs to develop responsible decision making, provide health and sex education programs that emphasize the consequences of sexual act~vibr, and ensure access to counseling 126 Healthy People 2000: Citizens Chart the Course about contraception and health sentences." (~070)
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Programs to increase the social involvement of older people in the community have shown positive effects on mental health and life satisfaction." (~070J IMPLEMENTATION A number of implementation issues were raised by testifiers, especially the integration of mental health and other health services, the overall organization and funding of prevention programs, and the need for better surveillance data and more research. Henry Leuchter, President of the Mental Health Association of Franklin County in Ohio, and others say that mental health services should not be treated as separate from other health services.
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New York: Pergamon Press, 1988 TESTIFIERS CITED IN CHAPTER 14 006 Allensworth, Diane; American School Health Association 009 Anthony, Virginia; American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 014 Banyay, Beverly; Community College of Beaver County (Pennsylvania) 015 Scott, Roseann; University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 019 Benjamin, George; National Safety Council 047 Dahl, Ernest; American River College (Sacramento)
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