Homosexuality and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a cure and ... become normal again." The pamphlet taught that church leaders may assist gay members by reciting scripture; appealing to their reason; encouraging them to abandon gay lovers and associates; praying with them; and encouraging them to replace any sexual expression of their homosexual feelings with heterosexual expressions like opposite-sex dating. The pamphlet emphasized that "[h]omosexuality CAN be cured." In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association’s removed homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and in 1990 the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from the list of disorders classified in the tenth edition of the International
Mental health informatics as pervasive, in spite of professional recognition the domain appearing well suited to computerisation and the need for quantified outcome evidence. A major impediment may be societal stigma associated with mental disorders as well as increased sensitivity about protecting the privacy and confidentiality of records in mental health care. There also may be a professional reluctance to effect changes in established working patterns that the introduction of systems necessarily entails. Mental health informatics Mental health informatics is a branch of health or clinical informatics concerned with the use of information technology (IT) and information to improve mental health. Like health