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Follow the links below to find information about hospitalisation for treating mental illness.
Reviewed September 2009
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Inpatient treatment
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InfraPsych
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| Description: |
People experiencing illness, with mental and emotional distress, may be admitted into hospital for inpatient psychiatric assessment and treatment.
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Apr 2009
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Psychiatric hospitals or wards
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Inspire Foundation
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Psychiatric hospitals or wards specialise in treating people experiencing a range of different mental illnesses, including depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and eating disorders. Check out this factsheet for more info including what they are and what to expect.
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Feb 2009
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Mental illness treatments
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Better Health Channel
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| Description: |
When someone first starts to develop symptoms of mental illness, contact a doctor or a community mental health service for help. Treatment in the community, rather than in a hospital, is considered better for a person's mental health. Effective treatment involves more than medications.
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Jul 2008
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Advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
We examined the effectiveness of advance treatment directives for people with severe mental illness using a systematic review of available randomised controlled trials. We were only able to find two relevant trials. These provided little evidence of the...
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Feb 2008
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Mental health laws and involuntary patients
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Better Health Channel
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The 'Mental Health Act 1986' states that every involuntary patient must be given a written statement of their rights. If they need help to exercise those rights, the patient can ask someone of their choice to assist them - perhaps a staff member, case manager, friend, relative, lawyer or doctor.
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Nov 2007
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Length of hospitalisation for people with severe mental illness
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
The time spent in hospital for people with serious mental illness has declined in high income countries over the past 30 years due to changes in the health care policies; with more emphasis placed nowadays on community care. We reviewed the effects of p...
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Nov 2007
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Open general medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for acute psychoses
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state characterised by derangement of personality and loss of contact with reality. People experiencing a psychotic episode may have hallucinations or delusional beliefs and can exhibit disorganised t...
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Aug 2007
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Housing and Accomodation Support Initiative (HASI) evaluation final report
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NSW Department of Health
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| Description: |
This is the final Housing and Accommodation Support Initiative (HASI) Stage One evaluation report. The program follows psychosocial rehabilitation principles and aims to assist people with mental health problems and disorders requiring accommodation support to participate in the community, maintain successful tenancies, improve quality of life and assist in the recovery from mental illness.
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Mental illness: fact and fiction - myDr.com.au
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myDr
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Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every 100 people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to two in every hundred will develop bipolar disorder.
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Jan 2007
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Mother and baby units for schizophrenia
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
Post-partum psychosis is a consistent source of new episodes of severe mental illness and its worldwide prevalence has remained unchanged at 1 in 1000 live births over the past 150 years. For some women, admission to hospital is necessary. In the UK spe...
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Nov 2006
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| Title: |
Containment strategies for people with serious mental illness
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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| Description: |
People with severe mental illness can experience violent and aggressive episodes which can threaten both their safety and that of their carers. We looked for trials comparing different non-pharmaceutical containment strategies for people with severe men...
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May 2006
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Mental illness: fact and fiction
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SANE Australia
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| Description: |
Mental illness is common. For example, about one in every hundred people will develop schizophrenia at some time in their lives and up to two in every hundred will develop bipolar disorder. Overall, about twenty in every hundred people will experience some form of mental health problem at some time in their lives.
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Jan 2005
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Day hospital versus admission for acute psychiatric disorders
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Day hospitals are a less restrictive alternative to inpatient admission for people who are acutely and severely mentally ill. This review compares acute day hospital care to inpatient care. It was found that at least one in five patients currently admit...
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| Date: |
Nov 2002
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Day hospital versus out-patient care for psychiatric disorders
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Psychiatric day hospitals offer care that is less restrictive than in-patient care but more intense than out-patient care. Day hospitals can be used to provide more intense/specialised care to treatment-resistant out-patients (day treatment programmes) ...
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Feb 2001
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