scholarly journals Black men’s conversations about mental health through photos

2020 ◽  
pp. 147332502092229
Author(s):  
Frank Keating
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right ◽  
Research Action

This paper presents findings from a photovoice project that was aimed at engaging with a diverse range of black men in a London Borough. The key objectives were to find a different way to get men to talk about their concerns and to raise awareness about mental health. Photovoice is a participatory research action technique that was developed to enable communities to document their concerns and experiences of community life that is meaningful to them. Nineteen men participated in the project. It has been suggested that men, in particular, black men do not find it easy to talk about mental health issues. This study found that through the use of photovoice methods, black men were able to talk about a range of emotions when they were offered the right medium and safe spaces to share their experiences. It found that they can and want to take control of their lives, but at times may require life skills training. Another finding was that black men have to balance expectations about being strong whilst ‘containing’ vulnerabilities in racialised contexts – being hard on the outside and human on the inside, and that their experiences are characterised by journeys of significant struggle and resilience in the face of adversity. The paper concludes that mental health services should find ways of engaging with black men differently, i.e. reaching out rather than the traditional mantra of ‘outreach’.

Our people are our business

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 643
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Struthers
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Vehicle Accidents ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Military

Every year in Australia, the number of people taking their own lives is more than those who die in vehicle accidents. Further, the most recent studies show industry workers are six times more likely to commit suicide than to die from a workplace accident. Simply put, mental health significantly impacts workplaces. Estimations suggest mental health issues cost Australian industry $14.8 billion. Further, an employee who is not mentally healthy presents fitness for work issues similar to those of a worker influenced by drugs or alcohol. Protecting the mental health and safety of our workforce is the right thing to do—for workers, their families and the wider community. A proactive approach to mental health has a positive impact on workplace culture, which further impacts safety outcomes and productivity. Moreover, training numerous psychologists is not required. Proven strategies that are practical, simple and cost-effective are available. Preventative approaches include strategies borrowed from the military to strengthen the resilience of workers and their families. From a mitigation perspective, a first-aid model means it is about providing support and care, and all levels of the workforce can be equipped with the skills to help. It is mostly about having the confidence to ask the question and to listen. De-mystifying mental health and making it okay to talk about significantly reduce the likelihood of depression, anxiety and self-harm. By following this first-aid model, a difference can be made.

scholarly journals Combining efforts: Libraries as mental health safe spaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
pp. 546
Author(s):  
Sabrina Thomas ◽  
Kacy Lovelace
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Health Initiative ◽  
Marshall University ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Faculty And Staff

In the face of seemingly insurmountable, persisting problems, what is one thing that you could do to lift that burden in your own space, in your own building, or on your own walls?This defining question led to the creation of Marshall University (MU) Libraries Mental Health Initiative. The initiative began with an art exhibition titled: “Don’t Call Me Crazy: Resiliency through Art.” The goal of this exhibition was to encourage students, faculty, and staff to create artwork informed by mental health or to help process their own mental health. With more than 30 artists and 50 pieces filling the four floors of the library, we used this artwork to launch other aspects of the initiative.

scholarly journals Palliative Care and Legal Issues in Geriatric Psychiatry

2021 ◽  
pp. 025371762110310
Author(s):  
Bhavika Vajawat ◽  
Prakyath R. Hegde ◽  
Barikar C. Malathesh ◽  
Channaveerachari Naveen Kumar ◽  
Palanimuthu T. Sivakumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Palliative Care Setting ◽  
The Right

There is an increased risk of debilitating illnesses that often have no curative treatment with aging. The mainstay of treatment in many such conditions is palliative care: a holistic approach focused on preventing and relieving physical, psychosocial, legal, ethical, and spiritual problems. It involves the facilitation of end-of-life care decisions aimed at relieving distress and improving quality of life. In this article, the authors discuss the role of mental health professionals in legal issues related to palliative care in the elderly around decision-making, right to autonomy, euthanasia, and advanced directive. The cognitive decline associated with aging and mental health issues in the palliative care setting of an individual such as dementia, depression, and hopelessness, and impact on the family members like burnout may influence the overall capacity of that individual to make decisions about their treatment. While an individual has a right to self-determination and autonomy, withholding or withdrawing treatment has many legal and ethical implications, more so in those with incapacity, especially in India due to the absence of uniform legislation. The decision to withhold or withdraw treatment might be a restrictive choice due to limited options in a setting with a lack of palliative care options, poor psychosocial support, nonaddress of mental health issues, and lack of awareness. As the right to health is a constitutional right, and the right to mental health is legally binding under Section 18 of the Mental Health Care Act 2017, systematic efforts should be made to scale up services and reach out to those in need.

Emotion Based Music Recommendation System

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1674-1680
Author(s):  
Dhruv Piyush Parikh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Facial Expression ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Expression Recognition ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Face

Abstract: Our world today is driven by machines of various complexities. From a basic one like a computer to a highly complex humanoid robot, everything is a product of human intelligence. A lot of industries are being benefited from such new technologies. Facial Expression Recognition is one of these technologies. It has a wide range of applications and is an area that is constantly evolving. The analogy behind it is, when we gaze at someone, the eyes send signals to the brain. The face patterns of that specific person are carried by these messages. These patterns are then compared to those stored in the brain's memory. Inspired by such innovations, our research collects human expressions and analyses their emotions using our vast dataset, offering some necessary strategies to change their facial expressions. Due to the competitive environment, the youth of our generation has been inclined to a lot of mental health problems such as anxiety and depression. Our generation's youth has been predisposed to a variety of mental health issues. Our idea attempts to provide a relaxing atmosphere to a person based on his or her facial expressions. Keywords: Facial Expression, Face Recognition, Python, PyWhatkit, OpenCV.

scholarly journals Putting Citizens in Front of the Dilemma Voting VS Health Protection: The Biggest Challenge to Avoid by the Albanian Authority in the 2021 Parliamentary Election

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Irena Toshkallari
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Face ◽  
Voting System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Voting Mechanisms

In a relatively new and fragile democracy like Albania, with only 30 years of life in this post-communist period, the COVID-19 Pandemic placed the authorities in the face of even more difficult challenges in holding free and fair elections that are uncontested and legitimate. Finding a balance between elections that meet the criteria of being democratic and protecting the lives of citizens is one of the chief objectives for Albanian authorities. This is likened to be the case of many other countries that had elections during the COVID19 period. Although COVID-19 virus is not selective as to whom it will infect, some specific groups such as the elderly people with underlying health conditions tend to manifest more severe symptoms. Countries are responsible for adapting the voting system to ensure public safety during the pandemic by implementing a diverse range of alternative voting mechanisms. Policymakers in the design process of measures have to take into consideration these vulnerable groups and also the individuals who show symptoms on the voting day due to SARS, CoV-2, or they may be hospitalized or be quarantined on the voting day. This paper focuses on analyzing the measures that Albanian authorities have envisaged to ensure the right to vote for these specific groups. After evaluating the decisions and instructions of the responsible authorities for the organization and administration of elections in Albania, it can be concluded that based on the subject of this research paper, no specific measures was undertaken for any of the groups mentioned above to ensure a safe voting process. The lack of this can probably lead to exclusive and not inclusive elections.

scholarly journals Biochemical terrorism: Too awful to contemplate, too serious to ignore

2003 ◽  
Vol 183 (6) ◽  
pp. 491-497
Author(s):  
David Alan Alexander ◽  
Susan Klein
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Major Trauma ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
Response Strategy ◽  
Nuclear Accidents ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Terrorist Incident ◽  
The Face ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Professional Confidence

BackgroundIt is important not to foster unnecessary public anxiety with regard to the risk of a biochemical terrorist incident, but the authorities need to consider their response strategy, particularly with regard to mental health issues.AimsTo describe the likely effects of a terrorist incident involving biochemical agents and to identify important response issues.MethodLiterature survey.ResultsObservations following conventional terrorist incidents and other major trauma, including biochemical and nuclear accidents, suggest that a biochemical terrorist incident would have widespread public effects. The mental health services should play a major role in designing an effective multi-disciplinary response, particularly with regard to the reduction of public anxiety, identifying at-risk individuals and collaborating with medical and emergency services, as well as providing care for those who develop post-traumatic psychopathology.ConclusionsWe should not feel helpless in the face of a biochemical threat; there is considerable knowledge and experience to be tapped. Awell-designed, well-coordinated and rehearsed strategy based on empirical evidence will do much to reduce public anxiety and increase professional confidence.

Utilitarian Psychiatric Ethics

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sridhar Venkatapuram
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Attractive Candidate ◽  
The Face ◽  
Main Components ◽  
The Right ◽  
Mental Well Being

Utilitarianism is often expressed as the moral dictum, “Do that which produces the greatest good for the greatest number.” It is seemingly an attractive candidate for psychiatric ethics for two reasons. First, in the face of such overwhelming human suffering due to mental illness, doing the greatest good seems intuitively the right approach; helping more people rather than fewer seems right and rational. Second, the “good” that utilitarianism seeks to produce is often understood to be happiness or a positive mental state. Producing the greatest mental well-being possible seems in line with the functioning of psychiatry. Utilitarian ethics seems ready-made for guiding psychiatry as it faces the challenge of improving global mental health. This chapter lays out some of the history and main tenets of utilitarianism, its three main components of consequentialism, welfarism, and sum ranking, and relate them to psychiatry. Some of the major critiques of utilitarianism follow.

United States Supreme Court and Psychiatry: A Critical Look

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 137-164
Author(s):  
Carl P. Malmquist
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
The Right

The entrance of the United States Supreme Court into the field of mental health law in the last decade has been seen by some as heralding a commitment of the Court to mental health issues. A review of key cases reveals a disjointed approach to the issues with an ambivalence and inconsistency in the viewpoint taken toward the role and efficacy of psychiatry. While some cases have emphasized individual rights, such as incompetency issues, and a newly created right to psychiatric assistance at trial for indigents, other cases have refused to give psychiatric treatment centers the right to administer treatment without at least administrative if not judicial supervision. The cases reveal the lack of an overall jurisprudential viewpoint, and perhaps even a trend to return to the level of letting each state go its own way.

scholarly journals Breaking Through Barriers and Building Disaster Mental Resilience: A Case Study in the Aftermath of the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 2964 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisha KC ◽  
Connie Cai Ru Gan ◽  
Febi Dwirahmadi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Present Context ◽  
The Face ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Mental Resilience ◽  
The Government

Introduction: Nepal was hit by two devastating earthquakes in 2015 that disrupted its socio-economic system and shattered many lives, resulting in increased mental health issues during the post-earthquake phase. Disasters can have severe mental health impacts on the affected population, making it necessary to enhance resilience within communities and to help them to adapt well in the face of adversities. From these earthquakes, this study looks to identify measures needed to develop community mental resilience for disaster preparedness in Nepal. Method: We conducted this research using the qualitative case study method and thematic analysis (TA). Result: Several activities were carried out by organizations to support the psycho-social aspects of communities, but were challenged by existing barriers. After considering the present context, this study presents five recommendations for mental resilience and also suggests the utilization of existing resources, such as faith-based organizations and teachers in the communities. Despite the considerable impact, communities demonstrate their own resilience, to some extent, through the culture of sharing and helping each other. Conclusions: A firm commitment is required from the government to enhance resilience by mainstreaming mental health in all areas of disaster management and planning.

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