What kind of mental health, foster children

Of the approximately half a million children and adolescents in foster care in the United States, experts believe that 42 to 60 per cent of them have emotional and behavioral disorders. Despite the prevalence of mental disorders in foster children, very little is known about how pre-existing mental health affects their effectiveness in operation.

A new study co-author Jung-Min Park and Joseph P. Ryan, a professor at the College of Social Work at the University of Illinois, since 5978 children in foster care in Illinois for several years to determine whether these children in permanent placement and the results were presented at the intensity of their stories about mental health care. State of all children and adolescents, 3-18-year-olds, in caring for the first time from 1997 to 2001. They were in June 2005.

Based on children's rights and reports Medicaid, the study on behalf of children receive mental health care in the hospital because it is easy to identify a marker of severe emotional and behavioral disorders, and it is very demanding of mental health. Five per cent (296) children, at least one episode of hospitalization for mental health care before you enter.

"According to my previous study, children who received inpatient psychiatric care ended up in foster care within two years of their first inpatient episode," Park said.

"Children who receive inpatient psychiatric care have a substantially greater risk for parent-child separation. Our current study shows that when those children enter the child-welfare system, they are more likely to suffer poor outcomes and be left behind in the system."

The study showed that children with episodes of psychiatric hospitalization are at increased risk of frequent accidents and accommodation were less likely to return to their families of origin or adoption.

About half of the sample for more than three changes in his first placement in care. The cases of hospitalization for mental health among white children increases the risk of instability for the transfer of 75 per cent, while those events, accommodation of 24 percent among black children.

The study also indicated that access was restricted, and the use of psychiatric care in the African-American children.

"Children with a history of inpatient mental health treatment, especially when placed in foster care, benefit from continued follow-up and referrals to community mental health agencies to reduce placement disruptions and facilitate timely permanence," Park said.

Care places, significant cost to taxpayers: placement in a therapeutic aid worth $ 30,000 or more a year, as well as placement in a residential mental health care a lot.

"Early identification of service needs and related interventions for children and youth with intensive mental health needs can be cost-efficient by helping them achieve placement stability and permanence," Park said.

During the observation period, approximately 70 percent of children in the study, the durability of return to their families or through adoption or guardianship.

The study appears in the January 2009 issue of Journal of Research on Social Work Practice.

Source: Sharita Forrest
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://www.uiuc.edu/)

The tendency to hallucinations and consumption of coffee link found

Increased consumption of caffeine may be associated with a greater tendency to have hallucinations, a new study suggests. People with higher levels of consumption of caffeine from sources such as coffee, tea and energy drinks containing caffeine are more likely to report the experience of hallucinations, such as hearing voices and seeing things that are not present, according to a study by the University of Durham .

"An increase in caffeine users - those who have more than the equivalent of seven cups of coffee a day - three times more likely to have heard the voice of man, if there is none, compared with the low-caffeine users consume less than the equivalent cup of coffee in day.

Researchers say the results will contribute to a better understanding of the principles of nutrition for the hallucinations. Changes in consumption of food and beverages, including caffeine consumption may be people in a better position to evaluate the influence of hallucinations or, perhaps, on how often they occur, say scientists.

The study, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Council for Medical Research, 200 students asked about their normal consumption of caffeine-containing products such as coffee, tea, energy drinks, chocolate and caffeine pills. His tendency to experience hallucinations, as well as the tension is also evaluated. Things that are not there, I hear voices, and to detect the presence of the dead belonged to the experience of some participants.

The researchers, whose work in the science journal Personality and individual differences, for example, could be the conclusion of a convention that caffeine aggravates the physiological effects of stress. When under stress, your body makes the stress hormone called cortisol. Most of the stress hormones in response to stress, when people caffeine. This will give additional impetus to cortisol may link caffeine consumption with increased tendency to hallucinate, say scientists.

Lead author, Simon Jones, a PhD student at Durham University's Psychology Department, said: "This is a first step towards looking at the wider factors associated with hallucinations. Previous research has highlighted a number of important factors, such as childhood trauma, which may lead to clinically relevant hallucinations. Many such factors are thought to be linked to hallucinations in part because of their impact on the body's reaction to stress. Given the link between food and mood, and particularly between caffeine and the body's response to stress, it seems sensible to examine what a nutritional perspective may add."

Co - author Dr Charles Fernyhough, also from Durham University's Psychology Department, noted "Our study shows an association between caffeine intake and hallucination-proneness in students. However, one interpretation may be that those students who were more prone to hallucinations used caffeine to help cope with their experiences. More work is needed to establish whether caffeine consumption, and nutrition in general, has an impact on those kinds of hallucination that cause distress."

Mr Jones added: "Hallucinations are not necessarily a sign of mental illness. Most people will have had brief experiences of hearing voices when there is no one there, and around three per cent of people regularly hear such voices. Many of these people cope well with this and live normal lives. There are, however, a number of organisations, such as the Hearing Voices Network, who can offer support and advice to those distressed by these experiences."

Research in this area continues and the public can take part in studies at www.dur.ac.uk/s.r.jones

Facts about caffeine (Source: Wikipedia)

• Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant, having the effect of temporarily warding off drowsiness and restoring alertness.
• With ninety per cent of North Americans consuming some of form caffeine every day, it is the world's most widely used drug.
• In its pure state, caffeine is a crystalline white powder.
• Caffeine is completely absorbed by the stomach and small intestine within 45 minutes of ingestion.
  

When taken in moderation, studies have shown that caffeine can increase the capacity for mental or physical labour.

• Caffeine use can lead to a condition called caffeine intoxication. Symptoms include nervousness, irritability, anxiety, muscle twitching, insomnia, headaches, and heart palpitations. This is not commonly seen when daily caffeine intake is less than 250mg.

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Mind Said On The Indignity Of Mixed Sex Wards

The report of the Conservative Party, showed that patients with mental disorders suffer from the humiliation that the hybrid plants.

In this regard, the new findings, the Chief Executive Paul Farmer said:

"In the mental health sites, responsible for services at the lowest and most vulnerable populations, and treatment of patients of both sexes, were committed in the sense of privacy, dignity and security."

"Despite repeated commitments by the Government to abolish the Board of the mixture of sex, there has been little progress, in real terms. What looks like a split in the document, he may still be a mixed environment in practice. Patients are often separated by nothing more than a curtain, partition or weak are forced to opposite floor bathroom apartment. live and same-sex stations in the area of mental health should mean exactly that. "

"In patients with mental disorders are entitled to treatment in an environment that offers them a better chance of recovery, and this can not be achieved in a mixed sex. It is simply unacceptable that this situation continues."

MIND
http://www.mind.org.uk/

8 Main Causes of Liver Damage

Here are the 8 Main Habits that Causes Liver Damage that we should avoid in order to stay healthy.

1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause.

2. Not urinating in the morning

3. Too much eating

4. Skipping breakfast

5. Consuming too much medication

6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener

7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil

As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is20very fit.

8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver

Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store.

We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to 'schedule.'

1 In 4 Australian Kid Have A Parent With A Mental Illness

Almost a quarter of Australian children with one parent with mental illness, in the light of new studies, published in the January issue of the Psychiatric Bulletin.

Of these, just over 1% (approximately 60,000 children) have one parent who has a severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, depression or manic depression.

The prevalence of mental disorders in the Australian parent families was developed by a group of scientists from Australia, Charles Sturt University and Latrobe University.

Until now, There are some estimates of the number of children in families suffering from mental illness of parents in Australia. Instead, the policy that the data from North and South America, Australia or small budget.

In this study, researchers used three methods to assess the prevalence of mental illness of their parents. First, the figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics study of mental health in the family characteristics of studies, assessment of the population.

According to this assessment, 23.3% of all children in Germany, have parents with a substance which is not a mental illness. A smaller proportion - 1.3% - whose father is severe mental illness.

The second approach has a record of all users of mental health in the state of Victoria in the period from 2003 to 2004 to 38,455 people in total. This suggests that 7829 users (20.4%) had children.

In the latter approach, the survey population of about 700 8 - 12 years, children in three Australian states. Of these, 14.4% reported that at least one parent with mental illness.

Writing in the Psychiatric Bulletin, the authors of the study, said: "Unfortunately, mental illness, but the parents have no guarantee of bad outcomes for children, parents, most with severe disabilities were less sensitive and responsible parenting, mental illness is much higher than that of progeny, insecure children's institutions, and lower quality of the child's parents relations.

"The estimates nearly 60,000 children, parents with serious mental illness in Australia is likely to be very precise in these figures are extrapolated to the conditions of Australia's 14,403 children, the parents of Victoria with severe mental illness. That said, large numbers of children who may be under threat, because their parents have a serious mental illness. "

The authors believe that their new estimates provide important information for policy development and mental health programs. She said: "This test provides information to governments and organizations to promote the mental health of children, many of whom could be considered living in families with a high risk."

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New Year's resolution can be detrimental to your mental health

"New year, new you" is a popular phrase, but in early 2009, the mental health charity Mind called on leaders of the people do not feel obliged to New Year resolution as harmful to your mental health.

About 7 million people in the UK, now New Year's Resolution (1), many of the negative approach, that people are focused on the alleged shortcomings, such as obesity. This creates a negative picture, which in turn can lead to feelings of hopelessness, low self-esteem and mild depression.

For others, a sense of failure and inadequacy may be replaced by non-compliance with resolutions of the new year. Studies have shown that only one out of ten people, their resolution for a full year (2). Often, they run for the disruption, creating an unrealistic goal. Depriving yourself, either alone or pressing too far, and felt as low "resignation" or "surrender." This is a blow to the self-esteem, and began what is considered the resolution on improving the well-being does not end badly for our mental health.

Mind believes that instead of New Year resolutions There are a few simple steps that everyone can be in a whole year for our spiritual well-being, including:

• Be active - Exercise releases endorphins, and has proved beneficial for their psychological well-being. You do not have an athlete - the study showed that attention only after a walk in the countryside 71% of the population feel diminished by depression (3).
• Go-green - the use of natural ecotherapy to your door. The results show that the connection to nature contributes to the spirit and lifts depression. Things like gardening or hiking.
• Try something new for your kind encourage and give you confidence in their abilities. Why not a document, or learning a new language?
• Turn your community can be as a reward, as well as for those who are using. Why not volunteer their time at the local Union of mind and the spirit of charity shop in 2009, or, if you register with adventurous spirit means of events?
  

Mind's Chief Executive Paul Farmer said:
"New year's resolutions can sometimes focus on our problems or insecurities such as being overweight, feeling unhappy in our jobs or feeling guilty about not devoting enough time to friends and family throughout the year. We chastise ourselves for our perceived shortcomings and set unrealistic goals to change our behaviour, so it's not surprising that when we fail to keep resolutions, we end up feeling worse than when we started. In 2009, instead of making a New Year's resolution, think positively about the year to come and what you can achieve."

MIND
http://www.mind.org.uk/