The National Institute of Mental Health Career Scientist Awards

1998 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Ross J. Baldessarini
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Career

Vicarious Experiences of Unemployment Scale Development: Relationships to Mental Health and Help-Seeking Among Undergraduate Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-305
Author(s):  
Rachel S. Nitzarim ◽  
Mindi N. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Adolescent And Young Adult ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Help Seeking Attitudes ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Mental Health Career ◽  
Vicarious Experiences ◽  
The Relationship

Vicarious experiences of unemployment (VUE), or having a primary caretaker such as a parent or legal guardian who is unemployed, have been demonstrated to impact adolescent and young adult physical and mental health, career decision-making, and educational development. This study describes the development of a new measure, the VUE Scale designed to tap the nature of stigma and struggle associated with an experience of vicarious unemployment (VU). Following results from pilot testing, 395 undergraduate students participated in the study. Results demonstrated preliminary support for the psychometric properties of the VUE. Consistent with hypotheses, results also indicated that more substantive experiences of VU related significantly and positively to heightened levels of depressive, anxiety, and stress, as well as to lower levels of self-esteem and social support. We also explored the relationship between VUE and help-seeking intentions and attitudes. These exploratory findings suggested that more impactful VU experiences relate to less positive formal help-seeking attitudes and intentions. Limitations and future directions for practice and research are described.

Voices from the Field: Regional Nurses Speak About Motivations, Careers and How to Entice Others to Pursue Mental Health Nursing

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Penman ◽  
Lee Martinez ◽  
Debra Papoulis ◽  
Kathryn Cronin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Nurses ◽  
Clinical Placements ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Health Nursing ◽  
Mental Health Career

AbstractThe aims of this study are three-fold: determine the factors that motivate nurses to pursue mental health nursing; identify the strategies that might attract nursing students and practising nurses to pursue mental health nursing as a professional career; and identify the difficulties of nurses in achieving their preferred clinical specialty.A descriptive qualitative study design with semi-structured interviews was used. Fifteen mental health nurses from rural and regional South Australia were interviewed. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, and thematic analysis was undertaken.Of the fifteen participants, thirteen were females and two were males; their average age was 50 years. The factors that motivated the participants to pursue mental health nursing were categorized as intrinsic and extrinsic. There were many strategies that might attract nursing students and nurses to the field, but the most popular suggestion was the provision of high quality meaningful clinical placements. Other strategies were to convey the personal satisfaction derived from being a mental health nurse, promote mental health nursing aggressively, and provide employment incentives. The study also highlighted the importance of addressing stigma, and greater education and support for nurses to pursue a mental health career.

Trauma and Returning to Work: Women’s Lived Experiences and its Implications for Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ballou ◽  
Oyenike Balogun ◽  
Galina Gittens ◽  
Atsushi Matsumoto ◽  
William Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Interpersonal Violence ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Rehabilitation Program ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Returning To Work ◽  
Mental Health Career

This study examined the experiences of fifteen women trauma survivors who were returning to work. All participants had histories of interpersonal violence and were receiving mental health counseling for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and vocational services from a state vocational rehabilitation program. Using a feminist qualitative research method, the participants were interviewed and the data analyzed for common and emergent themes. The findings highlight their experiences with vocational counseling and counselors, and underscore significant factors that affected their return to work including health concerns, mental health treatment, family and community support, and accessing resources. Implications for vocational rehabilitation counselors include increased awareness of the challenges that influence mental health, career decision making, job readiness, and a need for examining institutional barriers.

On Preserving the National Institute of Mental Health Career Scientist Award

1998 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Philip S. Holzman ◽  
David J. Kupfer ◽  
Nancy C. Andreasen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Career

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

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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