scholarly journals SOCIAL CONTAGION OF MENTAL HEALTH: EVIDENCE FROM COLLEGE ROOMMATES

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 965-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Eisenberg ◽  
Ezra Golberstein ◽  
Janis L. Whitlock ◽  
Marilyn F. Downs
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
College Roommates

scholarly journals Healing the Next Generation: An Adaptive Agent Model for the Effects of Parental Narcissism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fakhra Jabeen ◽  
Charlotte Gerritsen ◽  
Jan Treur
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Mental Development ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Agent Model ◽  
Abusive Relationship ◽  
Avoidance Behaviors ◽  
Adaptive Agent ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Abstract Parents play an important role in the mental development of a child. In our previous work, we addressed how a narcissistic parent influences a child (online/offline) when (s)he is happy and admires the child. Now, we address the influence of a parent who is not so much pleased and, may curse the child for being the reason for his or her unhappiness. An abusive relationship with a parent can also cause trauma and poor mental health of the child. We also address how certain coping behaviors can help the child cope with such a situation. Therefore, the aim of the study is three folds. We present an adaptive agent model of a child, while incorporating the concept of mirroring through social contagion, the avoidance behaviors from a child, and the effects of regulation strategies to cope with stressful situations.

Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Minimizing Client and Counselor Risk and Enhancing Client Care

2010 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 342-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Hoffman ◽  
Victoria Kress
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Mental Health Counselors ◽  
Suicide Assessment ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Client Care ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Counseling Adolescents ◽  
Nonsuicidal Self Injury

In this article, the authors present risk management considerations of which mental health counselors should be aware when counseling adolescents who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury. They address considerations related to self-injury and suicide, assessment and evaluation, countertransference, social contagion, and body privacy and make recommendations to minimize client and counselor risk while enhancing client care. Rachel M. Hoffman is affiliated with Meridian Community Care.

A critical commentary on ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 779-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Ashley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Gender Dysphoria ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Rapid Onset ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Gender Affirmation

The term ‘rapid-onset gender dysphoria’ (ROGD) was coined in 2016 to describe an alleged epidemic of youth coming out as trans ‘out of the blue’ due to social contagion and mental illness. The term reflects a deliberate attempt to weaponise scientific-sounding language to dismiss mounting empirical evidence of the benefits of transition. This article offers an introduction to the theory of ROGD and its history, presents a detailed critique of the empirical and theoretical claims associated with the theory, and highlights structural concerns with the ROGD discourse. The article argues that claims associated with ROGD, including assertions of declining mental health and degrading familial relationships following coming out, are best explained by the leading ROGD study’s recruitment of parents from transantagonistic websites against a background of growing visibility and social acceptance of trans people. ROGD theory is best understood as an attempt to circumvent existing research demonstrating the importance of gender affirmation, relying on scientific-sounding language to achieve respectability.

scholarly journals Healing the next generation: an adaptive agent model for the effects of parental narcissism

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fakhra Jabeen ◽  
Charlotte Gerritsen ◽  
Jan Treur
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Mental Development ◽  
Social Contagion ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Agent Model ◽  
Abusive Relationship ◽  
Avoidance Behaviors ◽  
Adaptive Agent ◽  
Regulation Strategies

AbstractParents play an important role in the mental development of a child. In our previous work, we addressed how a narcissistic parent influences a child (online/offline) when (s)he is happy and admires the child. Now, we address the influence of a parent who is not so much pleased, and may curse the child for being the reason for his or her unhappiness. An abusive relationship with a parent can also cause trauma and poor mental health of the child. We also address how certain coping behaviors can help the child cope with such a situation. Therefore, the aim of the study is threefold. We present an adaptive agent model of a child, while incorporating the concept of mirroring through social contagion, the avoidance behaviors from a child, and the effects of regulation strategies to cope with stressful situations.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

Prevalence of Self-Reported Depression Symptoms and Perceived Anxiety Among Community-Dwelling U.S. Adults Reporting Tinnitus

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 959-970
Author(s):  
Kelly M. Reavis ◽  
James A. Henry ◽  
Lynn M. Marshall ◽  
Kathleen F. Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Community Dwelling ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Health Distress ◽  
Validated Questionnaire ◽  
Mental Health Distress

Purpose The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between tinnitus and self-reported mental health distress, namely, depression symptoms and perceived anxiety, in adults who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examinations Survey between 2009 and 2012. A secondary aim was to determine if a history of serving in the military modified the associations between tinnitus and mental health distress. Method This was a cross-sectional study design of a national data set that included 5,550 U.S. community-dwelling adults ages 20 years and older, 12.7% of whom were military Veterans. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate the association between tinnitus and mental health distress. All measures were based on self-report. Tinnitus and perceived anxiety were each assessed using a single question. Depression symptoms were assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire, a validated questionnaire. Multivariable regression models were adjusted for key demographic and health factors, including self-reported hearing ability. Results Prevalence of tinnitus was 15%. Compared to adults without tinnitus, adults with tinnitus had a 1.8-fold increase in depression symptoms and a 1.5-fold increase in perceived anxiety after adjusting for potential confounders. Military Veteran status did not modify these observed associations. Conclusions Findings revealed an association between tinnitus and both depression symptoms and perceived anxiety, independent of potential confounders, among both Veterans and non-Veterans. These results suggest, on a population level, that individuals with tinnitus have a greater burden of perceived mental health distress and may benefit from interdisciplinary health care, self-help, and community-based interventions. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.12568475

Stress and fitness in ward-based mental health nurses

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 419-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Carson ◽  
Leonard Fagin ◽  
Sukwinder Maal ◽  
Nicolette Devilliers ◽  
Patty O'Malley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Nurses
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