Mental health care: Vulnerable populations still left behind

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Dingfelder
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Left Behind

scholarly journals Network Community Mental Health Care in North-West Derbyshire

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 262-265
Author(s):  
Malcolm Peet
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Community Mental Health Care ◽  
North West ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Real Change ◽  
Community Mental Health Movement

The community mental health movement remains an important force in American psychiatry and a shift towards community orientated mental health care is now being actively promoted in Britain. Nevertheless, concepts of community mental health care are not clearly defined, and the term has been variously misused, as a label applied to existing facilities without real change in philosophy, as a political justification for closing large mental hospitals, and as a platform for the propagation of anti-medical ideology. The development of community orientated services involves a change in role for the psychiatrist, which many find difficult to accept. Psychiatrists have been warned that they are at risk of being left behind in the current moves towards community mental health care in Britain.

scholarly journals Listening to the Mind

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn Birdsall ◽  
Manon Parry ◽  
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Empathic Listening ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Exhibition Strategies

With increasing interest in the representation of histories of mental health in museums, sound has played a key role as a tool to access a range of voices. This essay discusses how sound can be used to give voice to those previously silenced. The focus is on the use of sound recording in the history of mental health care, and the archival sources left behind for potential reuse. Exhibition strategies explored include the use of sound to interrogate established narratives, to interrupt associations visitors make when viewing the material culture of mental health, and to foster empathic listening among audiences.

scholarly journals SCOPE OF YOGA IN REDUCING STRESS AND MANAGEMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES DURING THE CURRENT PANDEMIC- A REVIEW OF EXISTING LITERATURE

AYUSHDHARA ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 2992-3003
Author(s):  
Arun Gupta ◽  
Meenakshi Verma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Psychological Disorders ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Therapeutic Modality ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Gaps

Background: With the emergence of Covid 19 pandemic due to increased socio-economic curbs and increased uncertainty of life, psychological disorders are getting surged up. Due to restricted access and poor mental health care facilities, Yoga can be seen as possibility to give a respite to the vulnerable populations and individuals. Aims and Objectives: To establish the role of Yoga as an effective therapeutic modality for catering the need of emerging psychological health issues during Covid 19 pandemic. Material and Methods: (a) Narrative review of existing scientific literature on the mental health and Yoga especially during Covid-19. (b) Studies specifically related to high-risk or vulnerable populations (c) Review of effectiveness of Yoga interventions on the mental health (d) Evidence based use of the Yogic interventions in mitigation of commonly manifested signs of psychological distress during Covid-19 pandemic. Total in depth study of 28 articles dealing with the above mentioned areas. Many methodological and research gaps are noted. Discussion: In Indian context, many research gaps exist in the study of Yoga as an effective therapeutic modality for psychological first aid and mental health care, especially in the emergent Covid 19 pandemic. Conclusion: Globally and nationally there is need to plan and execute high quality research studies to establish Yoga as an evidence based therapeutic modality especially for management of Psychological disorders and to include Yoga in existing mental health care services.

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.

Handbook of Person-Centered Mental Health Care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nosheen Akhtar ◽  
Cheryl Forchuk ◽  
Katherine McKay ◽  
Sandra Fisman ◽  
Abraham Rudnick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care

Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Scale to Assess the Therapeutic Relationship in Community Mental Health Care (D-STAR)

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Loos ◽  
Reinhold Kilian ◽  
Thomas Becker ◽  
Birgit Janssen ◽  
Harald Freyberger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Community Mental Health Care ◽  
German Version

Objective: There are presently no instruments available in German language to assess the therapeutic relationship in psychiatric care. This study validates the German version of the Scale to Assess the Therapeutic Relationship in Community Mental Health Care (D-STAR). Method: 460 persons with severe mental illness and 154 clinicians who had participated in a multicenter RCT testing a discharge planning intervention completed the D-STAR. Psychometric properties were established via item analysis, analyses of missing values, internal consistency, and confirmatory factor analysis. Furthermore, convergent validity was scrutinized via calculating correlations of the D-STAR scales with two measures of treatment satisfaction. Results: As in the original English version, fit indices of a 3-factor model of the therapeutic relationship were only moderate. However, the feasibility and internal consistency of the D-STAR was good, and correlations with other measures suggested reasonable convergent validity. Conclusions: The psychometric properties of the D-STAR are acceptable. Its use can be recommended in German-speaking countries to assess the therapeutic relationship in both routine care and research.

Transforming Mental Health Care for Children and Their Families.

2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 615-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larke Huang ◽  
Beth Stroul ◽  
Robert Friedman ◽  
Patricia Mrazek ◽  
Barbara Friesen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care
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