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Kaplan, Kalman J.; Harrow, Martin; Faull, Robert N. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2012
Are there gender-specific risk factors for suicidal activity among patients with schizophrenia and depression? A total of 74 schizophrenia patients (51 men, 23 women) and 77 unipolar nonpsychotic depressed patients (26 men, 51 women) from the Chicago Follow-up Study were studied prospectively at 2 years posthospitalization and again at 7.5 years.…
Descriptors: Risk, Depression (Psychology), Schizophrenia, Gender Differences
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Morabito, Melissa S.; Kerr, Amy N.; Watson, Amy; Draine, Jeffrey; Ottati, Victor; Angell, Beth – Crime & Delinquency, 2012
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program was first developed to reduce violence in encounters between the police and people with mental illness as well as provide improved access to mental health services. Although there is overwhelming popular support for this intervention, scant empirical evidence of its effectiveness is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Crisis Intervention, Violence, Mental Disorders
FOGLIATTO, HERMELINDA M.; AND OTHERS – 1962
DIFFERENCES WERE STUDIED AMONG NEUROTIC AND SCHIZOPHRENIC PERFORMANCES, ELICITED BY THE WECHSLER-BELLEVUE ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE (PICTURE ARRANGEMENT SUBTEST). TWO GROUPS OF 40 ABNORMAL ADULT SUBJECTS WITH INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENTS BETWEEN 84 AND 116 WERE TESTED. ONE-HALF OF THE SUBJECTS WERE SCHIZOPHRENIC. SUBJECTS WERE REQUIRED TO ARRANGE CARDS…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Individual Differences
Grinker, Roy R., Sr., Ed.; And Others – 1969
Described is an extensive research and demonstration project in Illinois concerned with the deaf mentally ill. Purposes were to gain experience and knowledge needed to provide therapy for such persons, train professional personnel in therapeutic processes, establish inpatient and outpatient facilities in the State Mental Health system for such…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Hearing Impairments, Mental Retardation
Teplin, Linda A.; Abram, Karen M.; McClelland, Gary M.; Mericle, Amy A.; Dulcan, Mina K.; Washburn, Jason J. – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2006
This bulletin examines the prevalence of alcohol, drug, and mental disorders among youth at the Cook County (Illinois) Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, by gender, race/ethnicity, and age. Drawing on research conducted by the Northwestern Juvenile Project, this bulletin finds that nearly two-thirds of males and three-quarters of females studied…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Juvenile Justice, Psychological Patterns, Drug Abuse