3116.0 Mental Health and Disability

Monday, November 9, 2009: 10:30 AM
Oral
Session will focus on the complex interaction between a person's disability, or risk of disability, and his or her mental health or the presence of a mental illness. Presentations focus on diverse topics and describe innovative research projects on the relationship between patterns of service use and employment, on the influence of stigma on failure to seek mental health services, on the mental health aspects of coping with disability, and of the relationship between cognitive and emotional issues, on the one hand, and social and role-related functioning, on the other.
Session Objectives: Describe key areas of research in the interrelationship between mental health and disability. Identify barriers to services use among people with mental health disabilities.
Moderator:
Suzanne McDermott, PhD

10:30 AM
Intensive and irregular service use as possible barriers to employment for people with psychiatric and other disabilities
Kathleen Thomas, PhD, Alan R. Ellis, MSW and Joseph Morrissey, PhD
  
10:48 AM
Mental illness, mental healthcare and the effects of stigma on treatment
Elizabeth A. Courtney-Long, MA, MSPH and Brian S. Armour, PhD
  
11:06 AM
Contribution of cognitive difficulties to disability in persons with multiple sclerosis
Alexa K. Stuifbergen, PhD, RN, FAAN
  
11:24 AM
Being in- or out-of-sync: A qualitative study of couples' adaptation to change in multiple sclerosis
Kurt L. Johnson, PhD, Helene Starks, PhD, Megan Morris, MSCCC, Kathy Yorkston, PhD and Robin Gray, PhD, LMFT
  
Discussion

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Disability
Endorsed by: Gerontological Health, Socialist Caucus, Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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