Process Evaluation of a Smoking Cessation Group for Adults with Serious Mental Illness

Tobacco cessation strategies are needed to improve health outcomes among individuals with serious mental illnesshttps://knowledgeconnection.mainehealth.org/lambrew-retreat-2021/1055/thumbnail.jp

Understanding the experience of family homelessness in the context of single mothers\u27 lives

Over the course of the last two decades, homelessness has become one of America\u27s major social problems. On any given night, hundreds of thousands of people can be found living in temporary shelters, abandoned buildings and on the streets of our nation. Many are single mothers with dependent children. A considerable amount of research in recent years has focused on the topic of family homelessness. Most studies have been conducted with families who were homeless at the time of the investigation. They have focused primarily upon the characteristics of homeless mothers and children and the conditions of shelter facilities. The goal of this research was to examine the experience of family homelessness from a somewhat broader perspective by interviewing formerly homeless mothers about their lives before and after leaving the shelter system. A qualitative approach was used in an effort to also convey a sense of individual women\u27s lives. In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty-four formerly homeless single mothers in New York City. Transcripts of these interviews were subsequently analyzed using an interpretive approach. Major themes that emerged from the women\u27s life stories are elucidated. These themes include childhood neglect and abuse, poverty, troubled interpersonal relationships, and the experience of homelessness. The women\u27s descriptions of their lives since leaving the shelter system, including issues of housing, education, employment and mental health, are also examined. A majority of participants talked about their experience in the shelter system in positive terms. This finding is examined in the context of the women\u27s life experiences and also the support services provided by the New York City shelter system

Principles for Recovery-Orientation Inpatient Care

This chapter defines and distinguishes between two related concepts of “recovery” in relation to serious mental illnesses and the provision of “recovery-oriented care.” With this distinction in place, the chapter then outlines four key principles for applying the principles of recovery-oriented care to inpatient psychiatry. This first principle is that it is the person’s own recovery, reframing the aim of inpatient care to preparing the person to manage his or her condition and life following discharge. The second principle that follows from this is that Recovery-oriented care needs to be person/family-centered and culturally responsive to be relevant to the person’s life. Given the high prevalence of trauma among persons with mental illness and the potentially traumatic nature of hospitalization itself, the third principle is that inpatient staff should anticipate, and welcome, trauma survivors through the provision of a safe, respectful, and collaborative environment. Finally, principle four is that the interdisciplinary team needs to be expanded to include the person him or herself, his or her identified family members, and the community-based providers who have worked with the person in the past and/or will work with the person following discharge. In closing, the respective role of each of these team members within the context of recovery-oriented inpatient care is described

Peruvian Altiplano Stratigraphy Highlights Along-Strike Variability in Foreland Basin Evolution of the Cenozoic Central Andes

Retroarc foreland basins in the Andean plateau contain critical information on geodynamic processes driving plateau development by providing a record of exhumation and sediment sourcing, as well as the timing, location, and magnitude of basin subsidence. However, this record is incomplete along orogenic strike and particularly limited in southern Peru. We measured similar to 6,200m of nonmarine clastic strata in the northern Peruvian Altiplano, documented through lithofacies characterization and paleocurrent analysis, conglomerate clast counts, sandstone petrography, and detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology; for the latter we employ quantitative detrital zircon interpretation methods including multidimensional scaling, mixture modeling, and quantification of zircon roundness. Results show dominant sediment sourcing from the Western Cordillera and/or western Altiplano. Sediment accumulation rates define an upward-convex Paleogene subsidence profile consistent with deposition in a northeastward-migrating flexural foreland basin system, with lithospheric loading from an increasingly proximal Western Cordilleran hinterland. Basin deposition following a 23-9Ma angular unconformity shows a marked increase in sediment accumulation rates >800m/Myr, interpreted as a departure from flexural subsidence. Results highlight along-strike variability in Andean foreland basin evolution, as foredeep deposits are thicker, and the onset of rapid sediment accumulation occurs earlier in southern Peru compared to Bolivia and Argentina. Results tentatively support models of orogenic cyclicity and reveal that episodes of high-flux magmatism in southern Peru are slightly out of phase with those documented in northwest Argentina, which may be controlled by preexisting Paleozoic-Mesozoic structural and stratigraphic fabrics and the rate of underthrusting of melt-fertile continental lower crust and mantle lithosphere.National Science Foundation [EAR-1550097]; National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration; Geological Society of America Grants-in-Aid; International Association of Sedimentologists; Sigma Xi; Joe and Lucy Steward Memorial Endowment; Sam Penn Memorial Endowment; Houston Alumni Association; British Petroleum; Marathon Oil Corporation6 month embargo; published online: 29 May 2018This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at [email protected]

Global Seismic Hazard Map

The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Global Seismic Hazard Map (version 2023.1) poster replaces the previous version (2018.1) released in December 2018. This map depicts the geographic distribution of the Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, computed for reference rock conditions (shear wave velocity, VS,30 of 760-800 m/s). The map was created by collating maps computed using national and regional probabilistic seismic hazard models developed by various institutions and projects and by GEM Foundation scientists. The OpenQuake engine, an open-source seismic hazard and risk calculation software developed principally by the GEM Foundation, was used to calculate the hazard values. A smoothing methodology was applied to homogenise hazard values along the model borders (Pagani et al., 2018). The map is based on a database of hazard models described using the OpenQuake engine data format (NRML); those models implemented initially in other software formats were converted into NRML. While translating these models, various checks were performed to test the compatibility between the original and new results computed using the OpenQuake engine. Overall the differences between the original and translated model results are small notwithstanding some diversity in modelling methodologies implemented in different hazard modelling software. The hatched areas in the map (e.g. Greenland) are currently not covered by an openly accessible hazard model. The underlying database is a dynamic framework capable of incorporating newly released open models. Due to possible model limitations, regions portrayed with low hazard may still experience potentially damaging earthquakes. The GEM Foundation plans to release future updates of this map regularly as new information becomes available. Technical details on the compilation of the hazard maps and the underlying models - including updates to model components made by GEM - are available at https:// hazard.openquake.org/