scholarly journals Linking Science with People: An Introduction to Part IV, Science

2020 ◽  
pp. 209-219
Author(s):  
Bill Fulford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Conversion Disorders ◽  
The Rich

AbstractThis chapter outlines how the contributions to this Part illustrate the role of a culturally enriched model of values-based practice in linking science with people. Chapters 25, “A Cross-Cultural Values-Based Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dissociative (Conversion) Disorders,” 26, “Treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder or Neuroenhancement of Socially Accepted Modesty? The Case of Ms. Suzuki,” 27, “Nontraditional Religion, Hyper-religiosity, and Psychopathology: The Story of Ivan from Bulgaria,” and 28, “Journey into Genes: Cultural Values and the (Near) Future of Genetic Counselling in Mental Health” explore the three principles of values-based practice defining its relationship with evidence-based practice. Chapters 29, “Policy-Making Indabas to Prevent “Not Listening”: An Added Recommendation from the Life Esidimeni Tragedy,” 30, “Covert Treatment in a Cross-Cultural Setting,” and 31, “Discouragement Towards Seeking Health Care of Older People in Rural China: The Influence of Culture and Structural Constraints” then give examples of the rich resources of the wider values tool kit for linking science with people (the African indaba, transcultural ethics, and anthropology). The concluding chapter, the autobiographical chapter 32, “Discovering Myself, a Journey of Rediscovery,” illustrates the role of cultural values (particularly of the positive StAR values) in recovery. A cross-cutting theme of the contributions to this Part is the importance of the cultural and other values impacting on psychiatric diagnostic assessment in supporting best practice in person-centered mental health care.

scholarly journals Vectors of Best Practice: An Introduction to Part III, Practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
Bill Fulford
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Bottom Line

AbstractThis chapter introduces Part III of the book. Contributing chapters illustrate the role of a culturally enriched form of values-based practice in building best practice in the design and delivery of contemporary mental health services. Topics covered from the model of values-based practice set out in chapter ‘Surprised by Values: An Introduction to Values-Based Practice and the Use of Personal Narratives in this Book’ include, person-values-centred care, the extended multidisciplinary team, shared clinical decision-making supported by dissensus within frameworks of shared values, and recovery practice. The bottom-line message is that incorporated into values-based practice, cultural values cease to operate as barriers to, and instead become effective vectors of, best practice in mental health.

The Use of a Telemedicine Model and its Logistics to Reach as Many European Refugees as Possible

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S20-S20
Author(s):  
D. Mucic
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Treatment Team ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
National Boundaries

Current refugee crisis challenges mental health care systems all over the Europe. There is a number of research describing difficulties in dealing with cross-cultural patients. Access to relevant care as well as its availability are often limited due to: a) lack of respective qualified resources b) linguistically, cultural and even racial barriers in addressing of mental health care needs of cross-cultural patient population. By use of various e-Mental health applications, primarily videoconference, we may improve assessment and/or treatment of refugees and asylum seekers on distance e.g. Arabic speaking psychiatrist located in Sweden would be able to assess and/or treat refugees from Syria located in Germany). Specialized centers for treatment of refugees would also be able to get second-opinion service from remote experts and use it in order to confirm or re-consider diagnosis as well as the treatment options. Establishment of international network of cross-cultural experts enables to:– Improve the mental health care across national boundaries by providing psychiatric consultations to other countries within EU– Conduct International Treatment Team with Select Skills (e.g. Sign Language and Many Foreign Languages Staff)– Provide Distance Supervision and Staff Consultation– Provide Psycho Education of caregivers– Improve Distance Learning via Case Conferencing and Best Practice Demonstration Across the National Boundaries– Create Data Base over cross-cultural and other select skills professionals within EUDisclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Discouragement Towards Seeking Health Care of Older People in Rural China: The Influence of Culture and Structural Constraints

2020 ◽  
pp. 273-278
Author(s):  
Xiang Zou
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Rural China ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Social Structural ◽  
Socioeconomic Burden

AbstractThis chapter portrays a discouraged, dispiriting attitude towards health-seeking of rural older people in China. Based on the case of health-seeking of Aunt Chens’s family collected from a 6-month’s field work in a rural Chinese hospital, this chapter depicts how discouragement and discrimination operate in older members’ health-seeking experiences, throughout which older people’s health care was devalued as worthless socioeconomic burden. Underpinning discouragement and devaluation is the cultural value that encourages older people to be enduring with suffering and restricted with health-seeking. Simultaneously, this chapter traces various sources of institutional and social structural impediments, as they intersect with unfavourable cultural values that normalise discouragement and decimation.

scholarly journals Understanding the occupational identity of care-givers for people with mental health problems

2021 ◽  
pp. 030802262110181
Author(s):  
Megan L Howes ◽  
Diane Ellison
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Occupational Identity ◽  
Care Giver ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Occupational Participation

Introduction There is recognition within the literature that the role of care-giving can have a negative impact on care-givers’ general well-being. Less is understood about the role of care-giving on an individual’s occupational participation and in turn occupational identity. Occupational therapists have a unique understanding of the interplay between occupational participation and health, though this is an area that has been under researched in relation to mental health care-givers. Therefore, the current research aims to understand how the role of care-giving for an individual with a mental illness impacts on occupational participation and identity. Method A qualitative semi-structured interview the Occupational Performance and History Interview–Version 2 was utilised to understand life experiences. Six mental health care-givers were interviewed, and these interviews were transcribed for thematic analysis. Findings Three main themes were identified: being me, roles and responsibilities associated with care-giving and services. Conclusion The findings suggest being a mental health care-giver does have a detrimental impact on occupational participation and therefore occupational identity. As care-givers gained more experience in their role, they used occupational adaption as a positive coping mechanism that helped them achieve occupational balance. Using their unique understanding of occupational participation and occupational identity, occupational therapists are well placed to utilise their knowledge and skills to work in a systemic way supporting both the person with mental illness and their care-giver.

Role of Dignity in Mental Health Care: Impact on Ageism and Human Rights of Older Persons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debanjan Banerjee ◽  
Kiran Rabheru ◽  
Carlos Augusto de Mendonca Lima ◽  
Gabriel Ivbijaro
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Older Persons

scholarly journals Mental health care and treatment in prisons: a new paradigm to support best practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian McKenna ◽  
Jeremy Skipworth ◽  
Krishna Pillai
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Care And Treatment

The plague in Moscow in 1771 and a new coronavirus infection: what they have in common

2021 ◽  
pp. 62-77
Author(s):  
Leonid Anatolievich Denisov ◽  
Mikhail Sergeevich Pakhomov
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Effective Treatment ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Prevention Measures ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to a historical event that occurred 250 years ago in Moscow. The authors draw analogies between the plague epidemic and the current situation associated with a new coronavirus infection, and note what unites these events. It shows the dedicated work of doctors in the conditions of complete ambiguity of the causes and spread of these infections, in the absence of effective treatment methods, what was the behavior of the population, how prevention measures were developed, and what is the role of the authorities of Moscow and St. Petersburg in the fight. How the state of medical science and the level of health care, referred to by economists as the non — material sphere, can affect the physical and mental health of the population and the economic situation of the city, country and the whole World.

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