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Health and Social Difficulties in High School Students Using High Amounts of Alcohol and Drugs: Implications for Screening
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Christie, Grant I.; Fleming, Theresa M.; Lee, Arier Chi Lun; Clark, Terryann C. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2018
The use of frequency-based criteria to detect harmful substance use in adolescents is rare despite its potential to identify young people at risk. We compared high school students who use high amounts of substances to students with lower levels (or nil) of use across health and well-being indicators to explore the feasibility of this kind of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse
Measuring Outcomes in Mental Health Services for Older People: An Evaluation of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Elderly People (HoNOS65+)
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Gee, Susan B.; Croucher, Matthew J.; Beveridge, John – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2010
The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) family of measures is routinely used in mental health services in the New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. However, the psychometric properties of the HoNOS65+ for elderly people have not been extensively evaluated. The aim of the present study was to examine the validity, reliability, and…
Descriptors: Psychiatric Services, Health Services, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health
Evaluating Three School-Based Integrated Health Centres Established by a Partnership in Cornwall to Inform Future Provision and Practice
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Macpherson, Reynold – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to report the process, findings and implications of a three-year evaluation of integrated health centres (IHCs) established in three secondary schools in Cornwall by the School-Based Integrated Health Centres (SBIHC) partnership. Design/methodology/approach: When the partners had completed the capital works, an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Health Services, Secondary Schools, Longitudinal Studies
Health Advocacy--Counting the Costs
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Dyall, Lorna; Marama, Maria – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2010
Access to, and delivery of, safe and culturally appropriate health services is increasingly important in New Zealand. This paper will focus on counting the costs of health advocacy through the experience of a small non government charitable organisation, the Health Advocates Trust, (HAT) which aimed to provide advocacy services for a wide range of…
Descriptors: Health Services, Health Needs, Health Promotion, Correctional Institutions
A Therapeutic Play Programme for Young Hospitalised Children.
Matthews, Barbara – 1991
A therapeutic play program in New Zealand aims to provide an environment that helps children cope with the stress of being in a hospital. A relatively new aspect of child health care in New Zealand, the therapeutic play program is a preventive mental health program that differs from play therapy, which is intervention for children who have an…
Descriptors: Coping, Foreign Countries, Health Services, Hospitalized Children
Health Promotion: A Resource Book.
Anderson, Robert, Ed.; Kickbusch, Ilona, Ed. – 1990
Health promotion redirects thinking about health by: reasserting its social and political aspects; ensuring the people the power to define their own health concerns; and placing health more clearly in the context of other aims in life. This compilation of 41 articles in 8 sections attempts to document this process of redirection of thought. The…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Health, Children, Community Health Services