scholarly journals Mr Keshav Desiraju delivering the keynote address at the Mental Health in India - Bridging the Gap Conference, October 2019, Somerville College, University of Oxford

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. ii1-ii1
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
University Of Oxford

7 Virtual reality (VR) for the treatment of mental health disorders

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (8) ◽  
pp. e3.2-e3
Author(s):  
Daniel Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Clinical Psychologist ◽  
Psychological Treatments ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Computer Environment ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
Problematic Situations

Daniel Freeman is an NIHR Research Professor and Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, a consultant clinical psychologist in Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, a fellow of University College Oxford, and leads the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis (O-CAP) research group at the University of Oxford.Daniel has been working with virtual reality (VR) since 2001 and is a founder of Oxford VR, a University of Oxford spinout company.Mental health disorders are very common, but far too few people receive the best treatments. Much greater access to the best psychological treatments may be achieved using automated delivery in virtual reality (VR). With virtual reality simulations, individuals can repeatedly experience problematic situations and be taught, via evidence-based psychological treatments, how to overcome difficulties. A key advantage of VR is that individuals know that a computer environment is not real but their minds and bodies behave as if it is real; hence, people will much more easily face difficult situations in VR than in real life and be able to try out new therapeutic strategies. VR treatments can also be made much more engaging and appealing for patients than traditional therapies. A systematic programme of work developing and testing automated VR psychological treatments will be described, with a particular focus on the gameChange (www.gameChangeVR.com) project for schizophrenia.

scholarly journals Veterans in an unnamed war: Hidden abuse, truth-telling, resistance and recovery

Temida ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-16
Author(s):  
Laura Prescott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
International Society ◽  
Annual Convention ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Mental Health Nurses

The author is the president and founder of Sister Witness International Inc a new organization of formerly institutionalized women, girls, and their allies. She is also a recovering addict, psychiatric expatient, and survivor of childhood abuse. The article is an edited version of a keynote address given at the 2nd annual convention of the International Society of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurses in Miami, Florida, on April 28, 2000.

A Bicentennial Reflection: Twenty-five Years with Fanny Hensel

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Marcia J. Citron
Keyword(s):  
Keynote Address ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Private World ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Felix Mendelssohn ◽  
The University

This paper originated in the keynote address delivered at the Fanny Hensel bicentenary conference organized by the University of Oxford, Faculty of Music and held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, 22–24 July 2005. As its title suggests, it marks a quarter-century acquaintance with Fanny Hensel. Although in recent years my research has expanded into opera on film, and that has obviously taken me into very different terrain, still Hensel continues to exert a special fascination. Preparing the edition of her letters to Felix Mendelssohn brought me into her private world, a world she assumed would remain private. I came to admire, and even love, her intelligence, her wit and her musical sophistication. It is not unusual for researchers to be enthusiastic about the person they are studying or to identify with them – this may be one reason for choosing that person in the first place, and is undoubtedly a reason why we chose to celebrate Fanny Hensel's bicentenary with the Oxford conference. In short, Fanny Hensel fascinates us.

The Development of Mental Health Services: Occupational Therapy's Inclusion in Brazil

1994 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 168-170
Author(s):  
Michelle S Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
World Federation ◽  
The World

Keynote address, given to the 11th International Congress of the World Federation of Occupational Therapists, 17–22 April 1994, London.

In Conversation… Prof. Cathy Cresswell – Anxiety and ‘Emerging Minds’

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Child Mental Health ◽  
University Of Oxford

Cathy Cresswell, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oxford discusses anxiety and 'Emerging Minds' - action for child mental health.

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.

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