Aggrey W Burke
Biographic Data
| ID | 5122012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aggrey W Burke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aggrey W |
| FAMILY NAME | Burke |
| SIGNATURE | BURKE A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | St George's, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mental Health and Apartheid World Psychiatric Association Conference Report
The Causes of and Solutions for Rioting in Britain in the Summer of 1981
The Outcome of the Multi-Racial Small Group Experience
The Multi-Racial Small Group On Race
Is Racism a Causatory Factor in Mental Illness
Racism and Psychological Disturbance Among West Indians in Britain
"Race, Cultural And Mental Disorder", by Philip Rack
Outcome of Mental Illness Following Repatriation
A study is made of indices which predict the outcome of psychotic mental illness among migrant patients who had become ill in England and who were repatriated home to Jamaica. The findings of a field survey among 55 cases showed that a poor outcome had taken place in 32. This may have been predicted by indices of chronicity and the resulting poor employment history in England. Prediction in Jamaica is associated with socio-economic hardship and p…
Determinants of Delinquency in Female West Indian Migrants
A sample of young West Indian females were interviewed whilst being on remand for petty offences. Most were suffering from adjustment reactions of adolescence, a half had previously been convicted and a third gave a history of parasuicide. On investigation, it was found that there had been a characteristic pattern of multiple separation experiences, which had been closely related to the onset of early symptoms of maladjustment, with subsequent de…
Epidemiological Aspects of the Repatriate Syndrome
A careful analysis of the mental hospital case notes of 55 Jamaicans who had become ill in Britain and were successfully traced in Jamaica show that most had suffered from recurrent episodes of schizophrenia but that few were predisposed develop this illness. After an average period of 42 months follow-up it was found that there had been an excessive mortality and that others were living in the Bush. The most important finding of the study is tha…
Classification of Attempted Suicide From Hospital Admission Data
A Cross Cultural Study of Delinquency Among West Indian Boys
Social and psychiatric findings among boys at an approved school in Jamaica are described. Parental deviance and other evidence of family disorganization are less prevalent than elsewhere. A third of the boys are admitted for personal aggression and give a history of a previous offence. These factors are associated with a benign non-psychiatric (50 per cent) or malignant psychopathic (20 per cent) personality disorder and characterised by pre-mor…
Family Stress and the Precipitation of Psychiatric Disorder
A study of family data among immigrant West Indian and Native British patients in Birmingham is described. Predisposing factors--unhappy childhood and a family history of mental disorder--were associated with psychiatric illness but not with ethnic origin. Behaviour disorder among children and broken marriages among family members were not associated with psychiatric illness, but are more prevalent among immigrants. These patients did not admit t…
Trends in Social Psychiatry in the Caribbean
Social Attempted Suicide
The study compares attempted suicide data among young women of two ethnic groups resident in native West Indian and immigrant Birmingham environments. Although African rates were higher than East Indian ones, the three-fold increase in the immigrant population was unrelated to ethnic origin. This was also true regarding clinical data, patients using psychotropic tablets and giving similar reasons for attempting suicide. Formal psychiatric diagnos…
Attempted Suicide Among Commonwealth Immigrants in Birmingham
The distribution of attempted suicide among Commonwealth immigrants has been investigated in Birmingham. Four-year data concerning 119 (43 male, 76 female) admissions to hospitals there have been used. The crude rate of attempted suicide (94 per 100,000 per annum) is lower than that for the native population. All the patients were younger than 44, and repeated suicide attempts were rarely seen and drug or alcohol abuse were found to be less preva…
Social and Psychiatric Problems in Day Hospital Management At Hill End
This paper proposes a personal network approach to the study of structural assimilation and structural transnationalism among international immigrants. Structural assimilation and transnationalism are defined as embeddedness in native social networks of the host society, and in co-national social networks of the origin society, respectively. Data on the personal networks of international immigrants, each including 45 alters, are obtained from two…
Social and Psychiatric Problems in Day Hospital Management At Hill End
This paper proposes a personal network approach to the study of structural assimilation and structural transnationalism among international immigrants. Structural assimilation and transnationalism are defined as embeddedness in native social networks of the host society, and in co-national social networks of the origin society, respectively. Data on the personal networks of international immigrants, each including 45 alters, are obtained from two…
Attempted Suicide Among Commonwealth Immigrants in Birmingham
The distribution of attempted suicide among Commonwealth immigrants has been investigated in Birmingham. Four-year data concerning 119 (43 male, 76 female) admissions to hospitals there have been used. The crude rate of attempted suicide (94 per 100,000 per annum) is lower than that for the native population. All the patients were younger than 44, and repeated suicide attempts were rarely seen and drug or alcohol abuse were found to be less preva…
Trends in Social Psychiatry in the Caribbean
Social Attempted Suicide
The study compares attempted suicide data among young women of two ethnic groups resident in native West Indian and immigrant Birmingham environments. Although African rates were higher than East Indian ones, the three-fold increase in the immigrant population was unrelated to ethnic origin. This was also true regarding clinical data, patients using psychotropic tablets and giving similar reasons for attempting suicide. Formal psychiatric diagnos…
Classification of Attempted Suicide From Hospital Admission Data
A Cross Cultural Study of Delinquency Among West Indian Boys
Social and psychiatric findings among boys at an approved school in Jamaica are described. Parental deviance and other evidence of family disorganization are less prevalent than elsewhere. A third of the boys are admitted for personal aggression and give a history of a previous offence. These factors are associated with a benign non-psychiatric (50 per cent) or malignant psychopathic (20 per cent) personality disorder and characterised by pre-mor…
Family Stress and the Precipitation of Psychiatric Disorder
A study of family data among immigrant West Indian and Native British patients in Birmingham is described. Predisposing factors--unhappy childhood and a family history of mental disorder--were associated with psychiatric illness but not with ethnic origin. Behaviour disorder among children and broken marriages among family members were not associated with psychiatric illness, but are more prevalent among immigrants. These patients did not admit t…
Determinants of Delinquency in Female West Indian Migrants
A sample of young West Indian females were interviewed whilst being on remand for petty offences. Most were suffering from adjustment reactions of adolescence, a half had previously been convicted and a third gave a history of parasuicide. On investigation, it was found that there had been a characteristic pattern of multiple separation experiences, which had been closely related to the onset of early symptoms of maladjustment, with subsequent de…
Epidemiological Aspects of the Repatriate Syndrome
A careful analysis of the mental hospital case notes of 55 Jamaicans who had become ill in Britain and were successfully traced in Jamaica show that most had suffered from recurrent episodes of schizophrenia but that few were predisposed develop this illness. After an average period of 42 months follow-up it was found that there had been an excessive mortality and that others were living in the Bush. The most important finding of the study is tha…
"Race, Cultural And Mental Disorder", by Philip Rack
Outcome of Mental Illness Following Repatriation
A study is made of indices which predict the outcome of psychotic mental illness among migrant patients who had become ill in England and who were repatriated home to Jamaica. The findings of a field survey among 55 cases showed that a poor outcome had taken place in 32. This may have been predicted by indices of chronicity and the resulting poor employment history in England. Prediction in Jamaica is associated with socio-economic hardship and p…
The Causes of and Solutions for Rioting in Britain in the Summer of 1981
The Outcome of the Multi-Racial Small Group Experience
The Multi-Racial Small Group On Race
Is Racism a Causatory Factor in Mental Illness
Racism and Psychological Disturbance Among West Indians in Britain
Mental Health and Apartheid World Psychiatric Association Conference Report
Psychology (15 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Mental health (7 works) · Demography (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Medical emergency (4 works)