Mental Health: Prevention of Mental Disorders and Research on Stress-related Disorders |
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1987 NIMH Grants 42 grants totaling Administrator for Prevention agencies areas Associate Administrator August 31 Center for Studies cerned Commission on Mental coping death depression Deputy Director Director for Prevention disaster victims Division of Prevention drug abuse emergency established evaluated farm crisis fiscal year 1987 grams HHS's Institute of Medicine's line responsibility long-term loss Medicine's report mental disorders Mental Health Programs mental illness National Institute NIMH Activities Pertaining NIMH Research NIMH Supported percent point for research population Prevention and Special prevention of mental Prevention of Stress-Related priorities promotion of mental Public Health Service reducing resulting risk groups Separation and Divorce September 30 sion Special Mental Health Special Projects spouse Status of NIMH stressful effects stressful event stressful situations Subject Number Amount Table I.1 table I.4 tion programs totaling over $9 unemployed UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN University of Minnesota vention violent behavior widowed William Gadsby
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Page 2 - Institute to design national goals and establish national priorities for the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health...
Page 3 - ... (A) the prevention of mental illness, and (B) the promotion of mental health, (2) encourage and assist local entities and State agencies to achieve the goals and priorities described in paragraph (1), and (3) develop and coordinate Federal prevention policies and programs and to assure increased focus on the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health.
Page 5 - Health (NIH): the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Page 17 - Congress further directed tnese funds should be used in States most adversely affected by the farm crisis. The following States were eligible to apply: Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota...
Page 2 - Act was amended to give special attention to efforts to prevent mental disability. The amendment requires the Director of NIMH to designate a unit in the Institute...
Page 13 - American literature, but for a few descriptive accounts, is limited almost exclusively to studies of white, usually middle-class, persons. How other socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic groups react psychologically, socially, and biologically to bereavement is not known.
Page 13 - In the committee's view, high priority should be given to research aimed at better documentation and refinement of those factors that place particular individuals or groups at high risk following the death of someone close.
Page 14 - The program, which lasted 6 months, was designed to provide social support and build competence in socialization, child rearing and single parenting, career planning and employment, legal and financial issues, and housing and homemaking.
Page 18 - For that reason, the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape — which was established last year within the National Institute of Mental Health — should be appropriately funded.
Page 12 - However, although much of the advice and many of the programs seem to rest on solid conceptual ground, very few studies have been conducted to determine whether these concepts have been translated into appropriate intervention strategies or even to test their effects.