Identifying Protective Factors for Bullying and Guiding School Mental Health Practitioners Around the World: A Tribute to Dr. Dan Olweus

On Heavy Metal: Existential Rage and the Neurotic Artist

Journal of Humanistic Psychology ◽

10.1177/0022167819867534 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 002216781986753

Author(s):

Ashley L. Whitaker

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Heavy Metal ◽

Human Life ◽

Mental Health Practitioners ◽

Existential Philosophy ◽

Musical Genre ◽

Health Practitioners ◽

The World ◽

Existential Concerns

Many artists are seen as neurotic and some believe this occurs because of their underpinning struggle to ameliorate the existential angst that often arises from living out an embodied human life. An art piece can be a means to channel the artist’s neuroticism and potentially alleviate exasperation due to conflicted thoughts about existence. At its extreme, what the author labels as existential rage occurs as a railing against the meaninglessness and disparity of life’s circumstances. Art, especially the heavy metal musical genre, is a dynamic medium that encapsulates and communicates existential rage, a version of existential injury categorized by extreme embitterment toward one’s being in the world. In this way, thoughts can be experienced as coming from outside of the artist as opposed to within the metaphorical inner cracks of their psyche. Heavy metal as a sonic medium of expression is intensely engrossed in existential concerns about existence. Laypersons and mental health practitioners alike stand to benefit from an expanded understanding of heavy metal in discourse on universal concerns within existential philosophy and psychology.

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Culturally Sensitive PTSD Screening in Non-Western Youth: Reflections and Indications for Mental Health Practitioners

Journal of Refugee Studies ◽

10.1093/jrs/fez053 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 32 (Special_Issue_1) ◽

pp. i151-i161

Author(s):

James Michael Perry ◽

Camilla Modesti ◽

Alessandra Talamo ◽

Giampaolo Nicolais

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Cultural Adaptation ◽

Mental Health Practitioners ◽

Dsm 5 ◽

Health Practitioners ◽

The World ◽

Assessment And Treatment ◽

The Impact ◽

Translation And Validation

Abstract Children around the world are exposed to traumatic events and research confirms that cultural factors play a central role in the psychological experience of trauma and the manifestation of symptoms in trauma and stress-related disorders. The DSM-5 and ICD-11 call on practitioners to consider the role of culture and context in the manifestation, assessment, and treatment of mental health disorders. This article analyzes peer-reviewed literature involving youth and adolescent PTSD screening in non-Western contexts, revealing only few instruments that have undergone validation for cultural contexts outside those for which they were developed. Studies that include cultural validation show marked differences in methodology and conceptual framework for adaptation, translation, and validation, and disagreement on the scale and scope of tools necessary to assess the impact of trauma in non-Western youth. The discussed studies reveal a need to debate a uniform methodology for cultural adaptation and validation of PTSD screening instruments.

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Who Are the School Mental Health Professionals?

School Mental Health Services for Adolescents ◽

10.1093/med-psych/9780199352517.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 24-42

Author(s):

Rachel Kininger ◽

Brandon K. Schultz ◽

Judith R. Harrison

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

School Counselors ◽

School Psychologists ◽

Mental Health Professionals ◽

School Mental Health ◽

Health Service Delivery ◽

School Social Workers ◽

Mental Health Practitioners ◽

Mental Health Service Delivery ◽

Health Practitioners

This chapter from School Mental Health Services for Adolescents provides an overview of the professionals most often at the forefront of school mental health service delivery, including teachers, school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, and school nurses. It explores the training these professionals typically receive, as outlined by the relevant professional accrediting bodies, and discusses the roles these professionals assume in schools. The chapter also explores how those roles have evolved in recent years in relation to expanded school mental health (ESMH) efforts. It is clear that school mental health practitioners have training comparable to their community-based counterparts, but this capability is routinely underutilized in practice.

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Detecting the magnitude of depression in Twitter users using sentiment analysis

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) ◽

10.11591/ijece.v9i4.pp3247-3255 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 3247

Author(s):

Jini Jojo Stephen ◽

Prabu P.

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Networking ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Mental Health Disorders ◽

Mental Health Practitioners ◽

Health Practitioners ◽

Mental Problems ◽

The World ◽

Health Disorders ◽

Twitter Users

Today the different social networking sites have enabled everyone to easily express and share their feelings with people around the world. A lot of people use text for communicating, which can be done through different social media messaging platforms available today such as Twitter, Facebook etc, as they ﬁnd it easier to express their feelings through text instead of speaking them out. Many people who also suffer from stress ﬁnd it easier to express their feelings on online platform, as over there they can express themselves very easily. So if they are alerted beforehand, there are ways to overcome the mental problems and stress they are suffering from. Depression stands out to be one of the most well known mental health disorders and a major issue for medical and mental health practitioners. Legitimate checking can help in its discovery, which could be useful to anticipate and prevent depression all-together.Hence there is a need for a system, which can cater to such issues and help the user. The purpose of this paper is to propose an efﬁcient method that can detect the level of depression in Twitter users. Sentiment scores calculated can be combined with different emotions to provide a better method to calculate depression scores. This process will help underscore various aspects of depression that have not been understood previously. The main aim is to provide a sense of understanding regarding depression levels in different users and how the scores can be correlated to the main data.

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