Body, movement and mental health - Historical and present considerations

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerd Holter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Body Movement

Book project: Body, movement and mental health - a physiotherapy perspective

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riitta Keskinen Rosenqvist ◽  
Gabriele Biguet ◽  
Adrienne Levy-Berg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Body Movement

scholarly journals A IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DOS EXERGAMES NO ÂMBITO DA SAÚDE MENTAL: percorrendo outros percursos e traçando outras formas de fazer o cuidado

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adilson Rocha Ferreira ◽  
Deise Juliana Francisco
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
Interaction Mechanism ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Salud Mental ◽  
The City ◽  
Potential Tool

O contexto da Saúde Mental é marcado por mobilizações que visam a reestruturação do modelo assistencial às pessoas em sofrimento psíquico. Para instituir ações que apoiem a busca pela autonomia dos usuários dos serviços de atenção à saúde mental, surgem as oficinas terapêuticas, que são atividades desenvolvidas em grupo com a presença e orientação de profissionais, constituindo a principal forma de tratamento oferecida nos Centros de Atenção Psicossocial (CAPS). O objetivo desse relato de experiência foi verificar a avaliação do uso dos videogames que utilizam o movimento do corpo humano como mecanismo de interação – exergames – por pessoas em processo de reabilitação psicossocial de um CAPS do município de Maceió-AL. Foram desenvolvidas quatro oficinas terapêuticas com os exergames, com o intuito de proporcionar práticas corporais para pessoas em sofrimento psíquico. Quatro usuários do CAPS participaram dos encontros. Após analisar as oficinas, pode-se considerar que os exergames constituem uma ferramenta potencial a ser implementado no processo de reabilitação de pessoas em sofrimento psíquico, possibilitando outras formas de realizar o cuidado no âmbito da Saúde Mental.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Reabilitação psicossocial; Jogos digitais; CAPS; Exercício físico; Formas de apropriação.   ABSTRACT The context of Mental Health is marked by mobilizations that seek to restructure the care model to people in psychological distress. In order to institute actions that support the search for the autonomy of the users of the mental health services, the therapeutic workshops are developed, which are activities developed in a group with the presence and orientation of professionals, constituting the main form of treatment offered in the Centers of Psychosocial Attention (CAPS). The objective of this experience report was to verify the evaluation of the use of videogames that use human body movement as an interaction mechanism - exergames - by people in the process of psychosocial rehabilitation of a CAPS in the city of Maceió-AL. Four therapeutic workshops were developed with the exergames in order to provide corporal practices for people in psychological distress. Four CAPS users attended the meetings. After analyzing the workshops, it can be considered that the exergames constitute a potential tool to be implemented in the process of rehabilitation of people in psychological distress, enabling other ways of performing care in the field of Mental Health.    KEYWORDS: Psychosocial rehabilitation; Digital games; CAPS; Physical exercise; Forms of appropriation.   RESUMEN El contexto de la salud mental se caracteriza por manifestaciones destinadas a la reestructuración del modelo de atención de salud para las personas en los trastornos psicológicos. De interposición de acciones para apoyar la búsqueda de la autonomía de los usuarios de los servicios de salud mental, hay talleres terapéuticos, que son actividades en un grupo con la presencia y orientación de profesionales y es la principal forma de tratamiento que se ofrece en los centros de salud mental de la comunidad (CAPS). El objetivo de este informe de la experiencia fue evaluar la evaluación del uso de los juegos de vídeo que utilizan el movimiento del cuerpo humano como mecanismo de interacción - exergames - por las personas en proceso de rehabilitación psicosocial de un CAPS en la ciudad de Maceió-AL. Cuatro talleres terapéuticos con exergames fueron desarrollados con el fin de proporcionar prácticas corporales de las personas en los trastornos psicológicos. Cuatro miembros de lo CAPS participaron en los encuentros. Tras el análisis de los talleres, se puede considerar que exergames son una herramienta potencial para ser implementado en el proceso de rehabilitación de las personas en los trastornos psicológicos, lo que permite otras maneras de lograr la atención bajo la Salud Mental.    PALABRAS CLAVE: Rehabilitación psicossocial; Juegos digitales; CAPS; Ejercicio físico; Formas de propiedad.

Trauma, Body Movement and Mental Health: An Appreciation of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyanta Dangar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Trauma Treatment ◽  
Trauma Therapy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Postwar Europe ◽  
Waiting For Godot ◽  
Bodily Representation

This article is intended to create an interdisciplinary space to enable productive dialogue about bodily representation of psychological trauma and its meanings in artistic, literary, visual, and health discourses, with reference to Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Drawing on Pat Ogden and her colleagues’ somatic approach to trauma therapy and on Bessel A. van der Kolk’s hypothesis that traumatic experiences of the past manifest in physiological states and actions of the present, the article views postures and body movements of the characters in the play as symptoms of psychological trauma. It shows how the play offers unique insights into the trauma pathology of postwar Europe, which may be valuable to psychiatrists, psychotherapists, rehabilitation workers, victim advocates, and students and interns entering the fields of mental health and trauma treatment.

scholarly journals METHODS FOR KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF HUMAN MOVEMENT IN MILITARY APPLICATIONS: A REVIEW OF CURRENT AND PROSPECTIVE METHODS

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Petr Volf ◽  
Patrik Kutilek ◽  
Jan Hejda ◽  
Slavka Viteckova ◽  
Pavel Smrcka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Kinematic Analysis ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Military Training ◽  
Human Movement ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
New Information ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Electronic Recording

Expansion of methods employed in the kinematic analysis of human movement for diagnosing of the physical and mental health of subjects can be traced back to the 1990`s when new information technologies and electronic recording systems started their development boom. Evaluation methods of body movement for the diagnostics of physical and mental health expanded significantly in clinical practice. This study presents an overview of these methods with the focus on how applicable the analysis of human movement can be in military practice, where they are currently marginally used. The aim of this study is to offer some recommendations on how particular methods could be utilized in an army context. This article also suggests the most appropriate methods of quantitative evaluation for posture and motion control in the course of standing, gait and other activities carried out in military training and active duty.

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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