Beyond-Control Behavior: From Court to Mental Health Institution, and the Challenge of Managing Behavioral Crisis among Children and Adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Dr. Samuel Shafe Shafe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
Control Behavior ◽  
Mental Health Institution

scholarly journals Medicalization of Suicide as an Antipsychiatry Problem

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Aleksei V. Antipov
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Suicidal Behavior ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Life Worth Living ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Mental Health Institution

Suicidal behavior in the modern scientific world is considered from the perspective of different disciplines (sociology, anthropology, philosophy, etc.), but psychiatry stands out in this list, because it can directly impact the suicider. Antipsychiatry, considered as a space of problematization and criticism of psychiatry, concerns both the foundation of psychiatry and individual situations related to the implementation by psychiatrists of their functions. This is why the phenomenon of suicide attracts the attention of one of the prominent representatives of the American anti-psychiatrist movement – T. Szasz. The key point in suicide analysis for Т. Szasz is that suicide is considered as a phenomenon closely associated with mental disease, thus, it is medicalized. In this case, it becomes much more important, why suicide as a phenomenon turns into an object of study of psychiatry. Т. Szasz refers to this transformation as a transition from a sin-and-crime to an illness-as-excuse. He fairly points out that the emergence of an explanatory suicide model within the framework of psychiatry made it possible for suiciders to change their category from those accused and rejected from Christian burial and rights of inheritance to those affected by a disease, and requiring medical treatment. Besides, Т. Szasz emphasizes the situation, in which suiciders find themselves in a mental health institution. The main feature of this situation is restriction of personal freedom and the ability to have a life worth living.

Socio–economic correlates of relapsed patients admitted in a Nigerian mental health institution

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caleb A. Gbiri ◽  
Fatai A. Badru ◽  
Harry T.O. Ladapo ◽  
Adefolakemi A. Gbiri
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
Mental Health Institution

scholarly journals Experiences of parents with an adolescent abusing substances admitted to a mental health institution in Giyani, South Africa

Curationis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn N. Hlungwani ◽  
Nompumelelo Ntshingila ◽  
Marie Poggenpoel ◽  
Chris P.H. Myburgh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
Mental Health Institution

scholarly journals Cholera Outbreak Among Patients in a Mental Health Institution - Philippines 2004

2006 ◽  
Vol 163 (suppl_11) ◽  
pp. S131-S131
Author(s):  
J Pabellon ◽  
M Mapue ◽  
R Navarro ◽  
M Ninal ◽  
E Tayag
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cholera Outbreak ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
Mental Health Institution

Secret and safe: The underlife of concealed objects from the Royal Derwent Hospital, New Norfolk, Tasmania

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Bryant ◽  
Heather Burke ◽  
Tracy Ireland ◽  
Lynley A Wallis ◽  
Chantal Wight
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
Functional Aspects ◽  
Mental Health Institution

This paper focuses on a collection of objects deliberately concealed beneath the verandah of a ward for middle-class, female, paying patients at Australia’s longest continuously operating mental health institution, the Royal Derwent Hospital in Tasmania. Cached in small discrete mounds across an area of some 50 square metres, the collection was probably concealed in the mid-20th century and contains over 1000 items of clothing, ephemera and other objects dating from 1880 to the mid-1940s. In achieving a possessional territory of such magnitude, this patient achieved a level of personal self-expression that is rarely encountered archaeologically, particularly within an institutional context. Analysis of this collection as an ‘underlife’ illuminates both functional aspects of the hospital and the hopes and desires of this particular, though still anonymous, patient and her vibrant world of things.

scholarly journals Inside the nation’s largest mental health institution: a prevalence study in a state prison system

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tala Al-Rousan ◽  
Linda Rubenstein ◽  
Bruce Sieleni ◽  
Harbans Deol ◽  
Robert B. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Prevalence Study ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
State Prison ◽  
Mental Health Institution

scholarly journals Description of physiotherapy services in a mental health institution in Nigeria

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
C.A. Gbiri ◽  
A.O. Akinpelu ◽  
A.C. Odole
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Diagnosis ◽  
Mental Health Team ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
Health Team ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
Health Institutions ◽  
Mental Health Institution

Physiotherapy  has  long  been  recognised  as  adjunct  to  drug therapy in the management of individuals with mental illness. however, little evidence existed on the utilization of physiotherapy in mental health especially in developing worlds.This study reviewed the utilization of physiotherapy in a Mental health  Institution in lagos, nigeria and determined its contribution to quality of  patient-care in the hospital.This study involved review of clients’ activity profile and patients’ record in a federal neuro-psychiatric hospital in lagos, nigeria between 2002 and 2006. The hospital records were used as source of information for socio- demographic details. Information on the physical diagnosis was extracted from the patients’ records in the departmental records. Data were summarized using descriptive statistics.Six thousand, four hundred and seventy-three (3.3%) out of the 195,686  patients of the hospital within the study period enjoyed physiotherapy ser vices. only 766 (14%) of the hospital in-patients enjoyed physiotherapy services. In addition, 808 clients enjoyed the health promotion services. low back pain (85; 21.7%), osteo-arthritis (82; 20.9%), stroke (64; 16.3%) and shoulder pain  (29; 7.4%) were the most common co-existing health problems referred for physiotherapy.The importance of physiotherapy in mental health is evidenced in the number of patients/clients who benefited from its services. Therefore, physiotherapy is an integral and indispensible member of the mental health team. however, physiotherapy  is  still  under-utilized  in  the  hospital.  This  points  to  the  need  for  proper  integration  of  physiotherapy  into mental health team in the hospital and other similar health institutions.

scholarly journals Ethico-legal issues in relation to end-of-life care and institutional mental health

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam D McGrath ◽  
Kim Forrester
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Health Institution ◽  
Mental Health Institution

Objectives: In view of the fact that there is a higher mortality rate for individuals with serious mental illness and that people with mental illness suffer excess mortality due to physical illness, the lack of attention to end-of-life care for patients with a serious mental illness needs addressing. This article seeks to put these issues on the agenda by beginning to explore important ethico-legal issues at the interface of palliative care and institutional mental health. Methods: Data were collected from eight qualitative interviews conducted with mental health professionals at The Park, Centre for Mental Health, Queensland. The interviews were recorded verbatim, coded and thematically analysed. Results: The findings highlight the inherent tension at the interface of compassionate, patientcentred end-of-life care and the participants? perception of the legal restraints imposed by virtue of being in a mental health institution. This article examines the participants? perceptions of the legal restraints curtailing the provision of palliative care in a mental health institution and considers these findings within an understanding of the limitations imposed by law. Our hope and expectation in undertaking this exploration is to clarify the legal limitations that operate to restrict the type of end-of-life care that can be offered to mental health patients, in order to provide an informed basis for practice.

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