Word: mentality
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Koenig is a co-director of Duke's Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health. His latest book on the subject offers an overview of research into faith's effect on mental health, cardiovascular disease and mortality, as well as guidelines for health-care professionals on how they can integrate spirituality into the care they offer patients...
...might one day become a little less desolate. According to a small study just published in the Journal of Neural Engineering, a new technique may make it possible for people on the outside to communicate with these patients by, in effect, reading their minds. (See pictures of Asia's mental health centers...
...serious practical problems within not only California prisons, but also within our current prison system as a whole. Prisons at around 200 percent capacity—with thousands bunked in hallways and gyms for lack of housing space—cannot possibly provide an acceptable level of medical or mental health care to inmates. In addition to prompting action to reduce overcrowding, we hope that the court order will also be viewed as a call for a more thoughtful, long-term evaluation of our theory of punishment. Strategies such as outsourcing prisoners to other states or privatizing prisons do little...
Locals, however, say the whole billboard contretemps is more amusing than controversial. "The billboard right next to it says 'My friend's got mental illness,' " jokes Tom Davis, the public-information director at Bryan College, who has lived in Dayton for 17 years...
...such changes is notoriously difficult and often depends on the subjective self-reports of sex offenders. A 1989 Psychological Bulletin study concluded that "the recidivism rate for treated offenders is not lower than that for untreated offenders; if anything, it tends to be higher." Many other studies emphasize the mental nature of deviant sexual interests, which cannot be cured through surgery. Fred S. Berlin, associate professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, argues that even if most sexual offenders cannot be cured, many can be successfully treated through counseling. "It depends on the availability of adequate...