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Your potential research topic: Mental Illness
Search terms you used to search for peer-reviewed research articles in the Walden Library: Peer-reviewed articles on mental illness.
APA references for three peer-reviewed research articles from your search and a brief explanation of how each article relates to your topic.
This article discusses the health beliefs, especially illness representations that have been widely used to understand clinical outcomes and psychosocial adjustment in people with physical diseases, and the tools and methods used to evaluate mental illness.
Averous, P., Charbonnier, E., & Dany, L. (2021). Assessment of illness representations in mental disorders: A mini review. L’Encéphale: Revue de Psychiatrie Clinique Biologique et Thérapeutique, 47(2), 137–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.encep.2020.09.011
This article discusses the socioeconomic status and the stigmas associated with certain income levels, and MIS might be explained by social dominance orientation (SDO) and the legitimizing myth that mental illness onset is controllable.
Foster, S. (2021). Socioeconomic status and mental illness stigma: How income level and social dominance orientation may help to perpetuate stigma. Stigma and Health, 6(4), 487–493. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000339
This article on mental illness, problem, disorder, distress, and does the terminology matter when measuring stigma is related to mental illness. In the articles mental illness stigma and terminology, people use language that is most appropriate for their measurement context, using a socially acceptable term for their local, cultural, and historical context.
Fox, A. B., Vogt, D., Boyd, J. E., Earnshaw, V. A., Janio, E. A., Davis, K., Eikey, E. V., Schneider, M., Schueller, S. M., Stadnick, N. A., Zheng, K., Mukamel, D. B., & Sorkin, D. H. (2021). Mental illness, problem, disorder, distress: Does terminology matter when measuring stigma? Stigma and Health, 6(4), 419–429. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000329.supp (Supplemental)
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McNally, R. J. (2011). What is mental illness? [electronic resource]. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
In this story it talks about an epidemic of madness? As it is relating mental illness to madness, does society create some mental disorders? Is it in the genes? Do mental disorders differ by kind or degree and what is mental illness?
Koch, J. (2010). Mental illnesses. [electronic resource] : descriptions, causes and treatments. Nova Science Publishers.
In this book has an emphasis on bipolar (manic-depressive illness). The comorbidities, the descriptions, causes and the treatments. It also discusses addiction and other types of mental illness.
Green, S., Beveridge, E., Evans, L., Trite, J., Jayacodi, S., Evered, R., Parker, C., Polledri, L., Tabb, E., Green, J., Manickam, A., Williams, J., Deere, R., & Tiplady, B. (2018). Implementing guidelines on physical health in the acute mental health setting: a quality improvement approach. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 12, 1–N.PAG. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0179-1
This article is about the life expectancy for people living serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It is reduced to 15-20 years compared to previous years, and evidence based guidelines/policies designed to improve their physical health. The case study it also describes how guidelines to support physical health were implemented using a quality improvement approach.
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