scholarly journals Notes on Culture Change and Personality Adjustment Among the North Alaska Eskimos

ARCTIC ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman A. Chance
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotionally Disturbed ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Personality Adjustment ◽  
The North ◽  
Medical Index ◽  
Rapid Transition ◽  
Dew Line ◽  
Apparent Influence

Discusses the effects of rapid transition to western culture, as investigated at Kaktovik on Barter Island since 1958. Due to various factors, noted, this community adjusted to wage labor at a nearby DEW Line radar installation without undue disruption. The effects on individual mental health, as indicated by the Cornell Medical Index questionnaire, were examined in 1960. Results suggest that individuals whose knowledge of white culture was less than their degree of identification with it tended to be more emotionally disturbed than those whose knowledge matched or exceeded their identification. Women showed more symptoms of disturbance than men; other demographic factors (age, education, etc.) had no apparent influence.

scholarly journals Reducing Substance Use and Improving Mental Health Among Construction Workers: An Interview With Chris Trahan Cain

2021 ◽  
pp. 104829112110301
Author(s):  
Alando Hall
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Building Trades ◽  
The North ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Prevention Methods

Construction workers, their unions, and the construction industry face important challenges in addressing substance use disorders and mental health issues. To examine these issues further, we spoke with Chris Trahan Cain, Executive Director of CPWR—The Center for Construction Research and Training, a nonprofit organization that is affiliated with North America’s Building Trades Unions and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. As the chair of the North America’s Building Trades Unions opioid task force, she has been working with construction unions and employers to develop primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention methods to help combat the opioid epidemic, other substance use disorders and to improve worker mental health.

Hangings attended by ambulance clinicians in the North East of England

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Gary Shaw ◽  
Lee Thompson ◽  
Graham McClelland
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Service Evaluation ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Hospital Data ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Acute Hospitals ◽  
Future Work

Introduction: Suicide rates have risen in England over the last decade and hanging, a highly lethal method of suicide, has been the most common method. Previous work in this area identified a lack of literature discussing emergency medical services (EMS) attendance at hangings. This article aims to describe hangings attended by EMS in the North East of England in order to inform future work in this area.Methods: A retrospective service evaluation was conducted using existing data from a comprehensive pre-hospital trauma audit database to describe patients with hanging documented in their records who were attended by ambulance clinicians between 1 December 2018 and 31 November 2020.Results: Hanging was recorded in 604 incidents. Most cases (n = 579/604) involved adults (aged 18 years or older) with a median age of 35 years (IQR 27‐45 years), who were male (n = 410/579, 71%). Just over half (n = 341/579, 59%) of adult hangings resulted in cardiac arrest and of these, 10% (n = 33/341) were resuscitated and survived to hospital admission. Threatened and non-fatal hangings appear to have increased dramatically in the latter half of 2020. Previous suicide attempts and mental health issues were frequently reported across this population.Conclusion: Hangings are a method of suicide which frequently result in a cardiac arrest. In the North East of England the ambulance service attends approximately one hanging per day and one fatal hanging every two days. When fatal hangings were resuscitated, pre-hospital outcomes were similar to other causes of cardiac arrest, highlighting that despite the traumatic nature of these cases resuscitation is not futile. In order to better understand this patient group and improve care, pre-hospital data need to be linked to data from other services such as mental health services and acute hospitals.

scholarly journals Mental Health Provision in UK Secondary Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 12222
Author(s):  
Megan Garside ◽  
Barry Wright ◽  
Roshanak Nekooi ◽  
Victoria Allgar
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young People ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health Service Provision ◽  
The North ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mental Health Questionnaire

Research reports high levels of mental health problems faced by young people in the UK. Schools provide a range of mental health support services, although these are often not robustly evaluated. This paper aims to explore the mental health provision of secondary schools across two large regions in the North of England and provide comparisons to the mental health questionnaire scores of their pupils. Results are part of a wider study providing an overview of the mental health of secondary school pupils. Measures include the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, distributed to year 8, 9, and 11 pupils attending secondary schools and a bespoke mental health service provision questionnaire for school staff at the same schools. A total of 6328 pupil questionnaires and 36 staff questionnaires were returned from 21 schools. Results showed a non-significant correlation between provision and young people’s mental health scores and highlight a range of factors to take into consideration. There is a need to improve the evaluation and recording of school-based mental health provision. Mental health difficulties in young people are prevalent in schools. Future research is needed to elucidate which types of services are most helpful in preventing, supporting, and signposting those with mental health problems.

scholarly journals Mental health services in Azerbaijan

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-17
Author(s):  
Fuad Ismayilov
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Total Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
The Soviet Union

Azerbaijan is a nation with a Turkic population which regained its independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. It has an area of approximately 86 000 km2. Georgia and Armenia, the other countries comprising the Transcaucasian region, border Azerbaijan to the north and west, respectively. Russia also borders the north, Iran and Turkey the south, and the Caspian Sea borders the east. The total population is about 8 million. The largest ethnic group is Azeri, comprising 90% of the population; Dagestanis comprise 3.2%, Russians 2.5%, Armenians 2% and others 2.3%.

You Can’t Eat Scenery

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-63
Author(s):  
Jason G. Strange
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
World War ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
Back To The Land

The second of three chapters exploring the history of homesteading in the area around Berea, Kentucky, chapter 3 presents the story of rural subsistence from the late 1800s up to the economic boom generated by World War II. The chapter is framed in terms of the “parable of enclosure”--the idea that yeoman farmers would not voluntarily trade independent livelihood for capitalist wage labor--and argues that as industry and technology generated ever more advanced consumer goods (for example, refrigerators, radios, antibiotics), the peasant way of life became outmoded; once wage labor became available in the factories of the north, millions of Appalachians left the mountains. But, as the chapter documents, some chose to return to a homesteading life, forming an overlooked back-to-the-land movement.

The use of the Legal System as a Mental Health Service for Children

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee H. Haller ◽  
Lawrence A. Dubin ◽  
Martin Buxton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Emotionally Disturbed ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Law ◽  
Emotionally Disturbed Children

The interface of mental health and the law has been rapidly expanding over the past several years, as more and more cases of various sorts are being heard by the courts and new laws are passed. Although court decisions and laws may be viewed as an intrusion by the psychiatrists who work with emotionally disturbed children, the authors suggest that the effect is to present the professional with new alternatives for helping the patient. A number of these situations where the legal system can be utilized are presented.

scholarly journals Mental disorders on admission to jail: A study of prevalence and a comparison with a community sample in the north of France

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Fovet ◽  
Laurent Plancke ◽  
Alina Amariei ◽  
Imane Benradia ◽  
Fanny Carton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Use ◽  
General Population ◽  
Substance Use Disorders ◽  
Prison Population ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Prevalence Rates ◽  
Psychiatric Interview ◽  
Female Prisoners ◽  
The North

Abstract Background. The aim of the present study was to estimate prevalence rates of psychiatric and substance use disorders in male and female prisoners on admission to prison in the north of France and compare the frequency of these disorders to the general population. Methods. This cross-sectional survey on Mental Health in the Prison Population (MHPP), conducted between March 2014 and April 2017, interviewed 653 randomly selected men and women who had recently been committed to the French general population prison system in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments. For each subject, the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI), a standardized psychiatric interview, was used to screen for psychiatric and substance use disorders. The prevalence rates were then compared with data from the Mental Health in the General Population (MHGP) survey, a general population survey that used the same assessment methodology as MHPP in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments. A control sample was taken from the MHGP survey with a ratio of one case (MHPP) to three controls (MHGP) matching on age and sex. Results. The sample was primarily composed of French men, most of them single with low educational levels at the time of imprisonment. The mean age was 31.7 (standard deviation = 9.9; min = 18; max = 67). Most of the subjects included were first-time prisoners. The prevalence of affective disorders among newly incarcerated individuals was 31.2% with higher rates for major depressive disorder (27.2%). The prevalence of anxiety disorders was 44.4% with higher rates for generalized anxiety disorder (25.2%). The prevalence of psychotic syndromes was 6.9%. The prevalence of substance use disorders was 53.5% and a suicide risk was identified in 31.4% of the prisoners interviewed. Higher prevalence rates were found in the MHPP when compared with the MHGP for all psychiatric and substance use disorders assessed except for dysthymia and current isolated psychotic syndrome. Conclusions. Our study shows very high levels of prevalence for psychiatric and substance use disorders in recently committed French prisoners.

Working to Improve Mental Health Services: The North Carolina Advocacy Effort

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 110 (6) ◽  
pp. 1232-1237 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Foy ◽  
M. F. Earls ◽  
D. A. Horowitz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
The North ◽  
Advocacy Effort
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