The Relationship between Training of Mental Health Professionals and the Reporting of Ritual Abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder Symptomatology

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven F. Bucky ◽  
Constance Dalenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
San Diego County ◽  
Multiple Personality Disorder ◽  
Abuse Reporting ◽  
Ritual Abuse ◽  
History Of ◽  
Level Of Training ◽  
Reporting Frequency

With only a scant amount of empirical research available, there is little information to guide the clinician in assessing clients who present with a history of MPD or childhood ritual abuse. The authors surveyed 433 mental health professionals in San Diego County, California employing a 50-item questionnaire. Concerns of the investigators included whether (a) large numbers of ritual child abuse allegations are generated by a small number of therapists; (b) reporting of allegations is related to therapist discipline and level of training or licensure; (c) attendance at a MPD or ritual abuse workshop is related to MPD/ritual abuse reporting frequency; and (d) frequency of reporting MPD or ritual abuse reporting is related to workshop attendance or type of license. Results showed no differences across disciplines/licences in frequency of report of MPD diagnosis, ritual abuse patients seen, or the presence of symptom clusters which may be associated with diagnosis of either ritual abuse or MPD. However, the data suggest that a cluster of symptoms considered representative of several linked syndromes may become more tightly tied to a single diagnosis through the mechanism of workshop training.

Ritual Abuse: Defining a Syndrome versus Defending a Belief

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherrill A. Mulhern
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Memory Retrieval ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Memory Disorders ◽  
Ritual Abuse ◽  
Treatment Techniques ◽  
Education Courses

The author briefly reviews her research showing how SRA training seminars proposed to mental health professionals between 1987 and 1990 constituted a form of proselytizing. Such presentations were designed to convert clinicians before they began listening to patients to believe in the plausible existence of satanic blood cults. Diagnostic and treatment techniques recommended in SRA seminars, as well as postulated explanations for patients’ exacerbated clinical symptoms, all pre-supposed the facticity of networks of organized groups of perpetrators. Since the author first presented the results of this study to mental health professionals between 1989–91, some SRA “experts” have slightly modified their presentations in order to acknowledge the limits of hypnotic memory retrieval techniques and the risks of confabulation and uncontrolled counter-transference with highly suggestible patients suffering from memory disorders. Many others, however, continue to employ proselytizing techniques which are inappropriate in medical education courses. Patients’ better interests are ill served when their therapists’ “educated” ears have been deafened by uncritical belief.

Mandated Child Abuse Reporting in a Multicultural Environment

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan C. Dombrowski ◽  
Karen L. Gischlar ◽  
Amanda Clinton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Child Abuse ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mandated Reporting ◽  
Abuse Reporting ◽  
Child Abuse Reporting ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Reporting Laws

The abuse and neglect of children has been linked to their cognitive, academic, psychological, and behavioral demise. As a result of the deleterious effects that abuse can have on children’s development and well-being, all 50 states, including the District of Columbia, have enacted child abuse reporting laws for mental health professionals. These laws typically require a mandated child abuse report when child maltreatment has been reasonably suspected. Although mandated child abuse reporting laws appear straight-forward, mandated reporting often entails complex and nuanced decision-making, particularly when a child is from a diverse cultural background. Thus, this article offers a discussion for mental health professionals (e.g., psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, social workers) regarding mandated child abuse reporting within a multicultural environment.

Psychobehavioral Disorders

2019 ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Shawn Hersevoort ◽  
Stephen Hurwitz ◽  
Stephen Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Drug Interactions ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Emergency Medicine Physician ◽  
Medicine Physician ◽  
History Of ◽  
Severe Shortage

Emergency departments (EDs) have seen an increase in patients presenting with psychobehavioral emergencies in the past 20 years. Some of this increase is due to the severe shortage of mental health professionals across the country, and some is due to an increase in the incidence of psychiatric disorders. Patients can present to the ED themselves or can be brought in by emergency medical services or law enforcement under an involuntary hold. The presentations range from intentional ingestions and other suicide attempts to depression, psychosis, and medication interactions. Substance abuse is also common in this population and can exacerbate underlying conditions. Patients who present for other medical complaints and have an underlying history of mental illness are usually taking psychiatric medications that can have drug interactions. It is imperative that a practicing emergency medicine physician be aware of the multitude of drug interactions and side effects.

Public Beliefs About the Helpfulness of Interventions for Depression: Effects on Actions Taken When Experiencing Anxiety and Depression Symptoms

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 619-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Jorm ◽  
Jo Medway ◽  
Helen Christensen ◽  
Ailsa E. Korten ◽  
Patricia A. Jacomb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychiatric Symptoms ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Public Beliefs ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
History Of

Objective: Previous research has shown that the public have different beliefs to mental health professionals about the helpfulness of interventions for mental disorders. However, it is not known whether the public's beliefs actually influence their behaviour when they develop psychiatric symptoms. Method: A postal survey of 3109 Australian adults was used to assess beliefs about the helpfulness of a broad range of interventions for depression, as well as respondents' current level of anxiety and depression symptoms and any history of treated depression. A follow-up survey of 422 persons who had a high level of symptoms at baseline was conducted 6 months later. These people were asked which interventions they had used to reduce their symptoms. An analysis was carried out to see whether beliefs and other factors at baseline predicted subsequent use of interventions. Results: There were some major discrepancies between the ranking of interventions as likely to be helpful and the ranking of how frequently they were actually used. Interventions involving mental health professionals were often rated as likely to be helpful, but were rarely used in practice. Other simple, cheap and readily available interventions were used the most frequently, but were not the most likely to be rated as helpful. The most consistent predictors across all interventions used were gender, history of treatment, current symptoms and belief in a particular intervention. Of particular interest was the finding that beliefs in the helpfulness of antidepressants predicted their use. However, beliefs were not predictors of use for all interventions. Conclusions: Beliefs about the helpfulness of an intervention did not always predict actual use of that intervention, although beliefs did predict use of antidepressants. Therefore, campaigns that change public beliefs about effective treatments may also influence actual use of treatments. Interventions preferred by professionals are not frequently used at present. Most people with anxiety and depression symptoms rely primarily on simple self-help interventions, the effectiveness of which has been little researched.

Attribution of Blame in Incest among Mental Health Professionals

1987 ◽  
Vol 60 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1159-1165
Author(s):  
D. L. Doughty ◽  
H. G. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
History Of ◽  
Attribution Of Blame

Attribution of blame was examined in three samples differing in education and experience (38 undergraduates, 31 graduate students, 37 MA clinicians). 106 subjects completed the Jackson Incest Blame Scale, which yields four blame factors, situation, victim, society, and offender. The four factor scores were analyzed using 2 (sex) X 3 (education) analysis of variance. Attribution of blame decreased as a function of more education. The blame scores of men were significantly higher than those of women on all factors except offender. The percentage of graduate students and clinicians indicating a history of sexual abuse fell in the upper range of estimates of incidence. Individuals with histories of abuse differed only on their attribution of blame to situational factors.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION IN INDIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
L. Ponnuchamy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial

Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) is a part of psychiatric treatment for persons with chronic mentally illness. In the past two decades, the importance of psychosocial rehabilitation is increasing gradually.  The concept and approaches of PSR have been spreading steadily all over the world.  It is a growing field in the developing countries like India.  The information about history of psychosocial rehabilitation among the mental health professionals is inadequate.  But one could see the route of this, even before our country got independence from British colonial rule.  It is always happy to see pathways of any field or subject how it was evolved and developed.    This is an attempt with available resources to bring out the history to the light.

scholarly journals Examining the Deinstitutionalization Movement in North America

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chavon Niles
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
History Of

This paper will provide a brief history of the institutionalization movement during the nineteenth century in North America, followed by an examination of the reasons behind the deinstitutionalization movement, with the intent of understanding the repercussions of both movements. Suggestions will be presented to assist mental health professionals and the community at large in implementing programs to assists former patients integrate positively into the community.

How Should Mental Health Professionals Respond to Outbreaks of Mass Psychogenic Illness?

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Bartholomew ◽  
M. Chandra Sekaran Muniratnam
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Psychogenic Illness

The management of episodes of mass psychogenic illness poses a challenge for mental health professionals who have a history of inadvertently exacerbating episodes. This article identifies the two major presentation types (anxiety vs. motor), discusses their significance as a public health issue, and offers guidelines for responding to outbreaks and addressing the media.

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