scholarly journals The Status of Mental Health Care in Ghana, West Africa and Signs of Progress in the Greater Accra Region

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia A Fournier
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
The Status ◽  
Greater Accra Region

Introduction

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.W.M. Fulford ◽  
Martin Davies ◽  
Richard G.T. Gipps ◽  
George Graham ◽  
John Z. Sadler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Natural Kinds ◽  
World View ◽  
First Century ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
Imaging Results ◽  
The Status ◽  
Twenty First Century

This section concerns the question of how best to understand the scientific status of mental health care in general and psychiatry in particular. On the assumption that psychiatry is based, in part at least, on natural science, what is the nature or the general shape of that science? Some of the chapters aim at shedding light on component parts of a scientific world view: causation, explanation, natural kinds, models of medicine, etc. Others concern potentially fruitful scientific approaches to mental health care, drawing on brain imaging results, phenomenology, enactivism and what can be learnt from debate of the status of psychoanalysis. One overall lesson is that twenty-first-century psychiatry needs twenty-first-century philosophy of science.

International human rights law and mental illness

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tobin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right

AbstractThe Irish State has been party to a collection of international treaties and declarations that directly affect the care of those who suffer from mental disorders. These documents set up what are considered as minimum core standards that outline the standard of care that should be provided as a basic human right. This article reviews the relevant sections of these documents and reflects as to how they have been applied in Ireland. International conventions, which have the status of a treaty, are monitored and interpreted by various commissions and committees. This article draws on the comments of these bodies as to how a state should provide for those with mental illness. Areas such as the rights of children who are mentally ill and those who are detained by the state are examined in detail. Other areas covered are the right to the highest attainable level of mental health care, the right not to be subjected to a clinical trial, equal access to mental health care, and the right to be safeguarded against unjust involuntary detention.

Health professionals and peer support workers in mental health settings

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Aukje Leemeijer ◽  
Mirko Noordegraaf
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Experiential Knowledge ◽  
Mental Health Settings ◽  
The Status

In many Western countries mental health care institutions employ ‘peer support workers’ in professional teams. They are clients or former clients in mental health care who are trained and educated to transform their personal experience as a client into ‘experiential knowledge’ helping other clients. This is supposed to improve ‘client centeredness’ in mental health care. However, the rise and roles of peer support workers are not undisputed; mental health professionals – psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses and therapists – have ambivalent responses. Peer support workers may challenge the status and dominance of traditional expert knowledge when they bring experiential knowledge into decision making processes. This challenge is strengthened by the development of peer support workers as a new group who may ultimately themselves professionalise. This chapter, focused on The Netherlands, explores from a neo-Weberian standpoint the relationship between mental health professionals and peer support workers. This is related to professional identities and positions, and also institutional surroundings, including how peer support workers and service organisations deal with risks and accountability. On the basis of empirical observational research, organisational conditions are shown to count more than occupational conditions. This underscores that the interweaving of new forms of knowledge in service processes must be organised.

scholarly journals Mental Health Care for Vulnerable People With Complex Needs in Low-Income Countries: Two Services in West Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (10) ◽  
pp. 1015-1017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Eaton ◽  
Benoît Des Roches ◽  
Kenneth Nwaubani ◽  
Lopa Winters
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Vulnerable People

Global Mental Health Reforms: Mental Health Care in Anglophone West Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 65 (9) ◽  
pp. 1084-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oluyomi Esan ◽  
Jibril Abdumalik ◽  
Julian Eaton ◽  
Lola Kola ◽  
Woye Fadahunsi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Health Reforms ◽  
Mental Health Reforms

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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