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| C ForchukSummaryAffiliation: University of Western Ontario Country: Canada Publications
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Homelessness and health in adolescentsAmy M Haldenby
The University of Western Ontario, School of Nursing, London, Canada
Qual Health Res 17:1232-44. 2007..The findings from this study support the need for health care professionals to work in collaboration with homeless youth so that more effective care that is sensitive to their unique health needs can be provided...
Integrating the transitional relationship model into clinical practiceCheryl Forchuk
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Arch Psychiatr Nurs 26:374-81. 2012..All participants were successfully "bridged" to the community. Despite positive outcomes associated with the TRM, implementation of any best practice is difficult because it involves changing processes...
Supported housing programs for persons with serious mental illness in rural northern communities: a mixed method evaluationPhyllis Montgomery
School of Nursing, Laurentian University, Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada
BMC Health Serv Res 8:156. 2008....- From psychiatric ward to the streets and sheltersC Forchuk
School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario, Lawson Health Research Institute, 375 South Street, London, Ontario N6A 4G5, Canada
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 13:301-8. 2006..Without recognition, this problem is at risk of remaining invisible with no further improvements to the situation... - "It's important to be proud of the place you live in": housing problems and preferences of psychiatric survivorsCheryl Forchuk
University of Western Ontario Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada
Perspect Psychiatr Care 42:42-52. 2006..This paper reports findings from a series of focus group meetings held with survivors of mental illness to address issues concerning housing preferences and housing needs... - Therapeutic relationships: from psychiatric hospital to communityC Forchuk
School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Canada
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 12:556-64. 2005..Both under-implementation among implementation wards and contamination in control wards were found. This study demonstrates some of the multiple challenges in health system research... - Transitional discharge based on therapeutic relationships: state of the artCheryl Forchuk
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
Arch Psychiatr Nurs 21:80-6. 2007..The TDM Plan of Research is presented and reflects the collaboration between stakeholders and the integration of consumer advocacy, clinical practice, education, policy, and research in various countries... - Diversity and homelessness: minorities and psychiatric survivorsCheryl Forchuk
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Can J Nurs Res 39:191-3. 2007 - Postoperative arm massage: a support for women with lymph node dissectionCheryl Forchuk
University of Western Ontario, Lawson Health Research Institute London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
Cancer Nurs 27:25-33. 2004..To evaluate the usefulness of arm massage from a significant other following lymph node dissection surgery... - The Transitional Discharge Model: comparing implementation in Canada and ScotlandCheryl Forchuk
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Canada
J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv 45:31-8. 2007..It is important to elucidate facilitators and challenges in implementing the TDM to identify and disseminate strategies to aid implementation. Implications for future implementation of the model are also discussed... - Reconnecting: the client experience of recovery from psychosisCheryl Forchuk
University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
Perspect Psychiatr Care 39:141-50. 2003..To understand the experience of recovery from psychosis from the consumer/client perspective... - Perceptions of health and health service utilization among homeless and housed psychiatric consumer/survivorsC Forchuk
School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 15:399-407. 2008..Key findings include significant differences in the characteristics of each population, the use of health services and their perceptions of health. Implications for practice and policy are discussed... - Developing and testing an intervention to prevent homelessness among individuals discharged from psychiatric wards to shelters and 'No Fixed Address'C Forchuk
Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 15:569-75. 2008..Discussions are underway to routinely implement the intervention. Systemic improvements can prevent homelessness for individuals being discharged from psychiatric wards... - Mental health case management in Canada: job description analysesCheryl Forchuk
University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute LHSC site, London, Ontario, Canada
Issues Ment Health Nurs 23:477-96. 2002..The expectations of the positions are extensive... - Prescriptive authority for nurses: the Canadian perspectiveCheryl Forchuk
School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Perspect Psychiatr Care 45:3-8. 2009..This study aims to describe the role of prescriptive authority for nurses within Canada... - Exploring differences between community-based women and men with a history of mental illnessCheryl Forchuk
The University of Western Ontario, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
Issues Ment Health Nurs 30:495-502. 2009..These findings suggest health services within the community must consider these sex differences if they wish to properly assist Canadian individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses... - Surviving the tornado of mental illness: psychiatric survivors' experiences of getting, losing, and keeping housingCheryl Forchuk
School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Psychiatr Serv 57:558-62. 2006..A caring community response, including adequate housing, income support, and community care, can help people rebuild their lives... - Peer support relationships: an unexplored interpersonal process in mental healthR Coatsworth-Puspoky
Geriatric Psychiatry, Regional Mental Health Care, London, ON, Canada
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 13:490-7. 2006..Understanding the processes and factors that contribute to the development/deterioration of PSRs will enable clinicians and C/Ss to assess and promote the development of healthy, supportive PSRs in mental health... - Gaining ground, losing ground: the paradoxes of rural homelessnessCheryl Forchuk
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Can J Nurs Res 42:138-52. 2010..Increased services need to be allocated to rural communities so that a health promotion and illness-prevention model of care can replace the current emphasis on crisis management... - Living on the streets in Canada: a feminist narrative study of girls and young womenShyanne Reid
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Issues Compr Pediatr Nurs 28:237-56. 2005..In this article, the findings of the research will be presented and implications for health and social service providers will be addressed, including recommendations for programming and policy... - Integrating an evidenced-based research intervention in the discharge of mental health clientsMary Lou Martin
St Joseph s Healthcare Hamilton McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Arch Psychiatr Nurs 21:101-11. 2007..These included support from others, as well as support of practice, policy, and education... - Telephone contact intervention in women undergoing treatment for breast cancerMila Smithies
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London
Can Oncol Nurs J 19:122-8. 2009..It was determined that further research is required to determine if and how such a call should be best implemented at our cancer centre... - Clients' reflections on relationships with nurses: comparisons from Canada and ScotlandC Forchuk
University of Western Ontario/London Health-Science Centre Research, 375 South Street, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 4G5
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 8:45-51. 2001.... - Interlocking oppressions: the effect of a comorbid physical disability on perceived stigma and discrimination among mental health consumers in CanadaAllison Bahm
Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Health Soc Care Community 17:63-70. 2009..Policy-makers should take measures such as improving access to housing and employment services to help reduce stigma and discrimination against this particularly vulnerable group... - Celebrating our past. The history of Hamilton Psychiatric HospitalC Forchuk
University of Western Ontario, Lawson Research Institute, 375 South Street, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4G5
J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv 39:16-24. 2001.... - Mothers with mental illness experiencing homelessness: a critical analysisS Benbow
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 18:687-95. 2011..The contextual influences of mothering while homeless with a mental illness were emphasized in the results. The findings illuminate the need for increased on ongoing advocacy at individual and structural levels... - Nurse-client processes in mental health: recipients' perspectivesR Coatsworth-Puspoky
Geriatric Psychiatry Regional Mental Health Care London, St Joseph s Health Care, 850 Highbury Avenue, London, Ontario N6A 3V9, Canada
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 13:347-55. 2006..These findings raise healthcare providers' awareness about developing and deteriorating nurse-client relationships, and support the value of the therapeutic relationship as an instrument to restore and promote clients' health... - Uprooted and displaced: a critical narrative study of homeless, Aboriginal, and newcomer girls in CanadaHelene Berman
School of Nursing, Health Sciences Addition, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C1, Canada
Issues Ment Health Nurs 30:418-30. 2009.... - Features and impacts of five multidisciplinary community-university research partnershipsGillian King
Child and Parent Resource Institute, London, ON, Canada
Health Soc Care Community 18:59-69. 2010..The findings inform researchers about partnership diversity and help to establish more realistic expectations about the magnitude of partnerships' impacts... - A measure of community members' perceptions of the impacts of research partnerships in health and social servicesGillian King
Child and Parent Resource Institute, 600 Sanatorium Road, London, Ontario, Canada
Eval Program Plann 32:289-99. 2009..The CIROP provides a better understanding of community members' perspectives and expectations of research partnerships, with important implications for knowledge transfer and uptake... - Factors associated with readmission to a psychiatric facilityA C Bernardo
St Joseph s Centre for Muntain Health Services, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Psychiatr Serv 52:1100-2. 2001..System variables or factors that are not patient related, such as staff attitudes and perceptions, may contribute to readmission and thus may warrant further exploration... - Role changes experienced by clinical staff in relation to clients' recovery from psychosisC Forchuk
University of Western Ontario and Lawson Health Research Institute, London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
J Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs 10:269-76. 2003..Some of the clinical staff roles that evolved during the recovery process were: health teacher; advocate; counsellor; and support person... - Families' experience during recovery or nonrecovery from psychosisDonna Tweedell
McMaster University, School of Nursing, and Family Nursing Consultants, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Arch Psychiatr Nurs 18:17-25. 2004..Nonrecovery punctuated the need for professionals to assist them to maintain hope while comforting them in their sorrow... - Keeping close: mothering with serious mental illnessPhyllis Montgomery
Department of Nursing, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
J Adv Nurs 54:20-8. 2006..The aim of this paper is to describe the experiences of mothers with serious mental illness from their perspectives and how they attempted to manage their mothering circumstances... - Schizophrenia and the motivation for smokingCheryl Forchuk
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Perspect Psychiatr Care 38:41-9. 2002..People with mental illness are twice as likely to smoke than people without a mental illness... - Comments on nurse-patient relationshipCheryl Forchuk
J Nurs Scholarsh 35:306; author reply 306-7. 2003 - Current and preferred housing of psychiatric consumers/survivorsGeoffrey Nelson
Wilfrid Laurier University
Can J Commun Ment Health 22:5-19. 2003..This information is being used by stakeholder groups involved in the project to help build the capacity of the community to provide the types of housing that are preferred by consumers/survivors... - Nurse case management: negotiating care together within a developing relationshipMineko Yamashita
Department of Nursing, School of Health and Social Services, Saitama Prefectural University, 820 San Nomiya, Saitama Ken, Japan
Perspect Psychiatr Care 41:62-70. 2005..TOPIC/PROBLEM: The purpose of this study was to explicate the process of nurse case management involving clients afflicted with chronic mental illness...