A training course on interpersonal relationships using role play in a Master of Mental Health Care programme – The students' experiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 104887
Author(s):  
Bodil Gjestvang ◽  
Kari Johanne Kvigne ◽  
Erik Hoel ◽  
Kari Sofie Kvaal
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Health Care Programme

scholarly journals A Web-Disseminated Self-Help and Peer Support Program Could Fill Gaps in Mental Health Care: Lessons From a Consumer Survey

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. e5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha L Bernecker ◽  
Kaitlin Banschback ◽  
Gennarina D Santorelli ◽  
Michael J Constantino
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Support Program ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Peer Support Program

Background Self-guided mental health interventions that are disseminated via the Web have the potential to circumvent barriers to treatment and improve public mental health. However, self-guided interventions often fail to attract consumers and suffer from user nonadherence. Uptake of novel interventions could be improved by consulting consumers from the beginning of the development process in order to assess their interest and their preferences. Interventions can then be tailored using this feedback to optimize appeal. Objective The aim of our study was to determine the level of public interest in a new mental health intervention that incorporates elements of self-help and peer counseling and that is disseminated via a Web-based training course; to identify predictors of interest in the program; and to identify consumer preferences for features of Web-based courses and peer support programs. Methods We surveyed consumers via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to estimate interest in the self-help and peer support program. We assessed associations between demographic and clinical characteristics and interest in the program, and we obtained feedback on desired features of the program. Results Overall, 63.9% (378/592) of respondents said that they would try the program; interest was lower but still substantial among those who were not willing or able to access traditional mental health services. Female gender, lower income, and openness to using psychotherapy were the most consistent predictors of interest in the program. The majority of respondents, although not all, preferred romantic partners or close friends as peer counselors and would be most likely to access the program if the training course were accessed on a stand-alone website. In general, respondents valued training in active listening skills. Conclusions In light of the apparent public interest in this program, Web-disseminated self-help and peer support interventions have enormous potential to fill gaps in mental health care. The results of this survey can be used to inform the design of such interventions.

The Communitarian Mental Health Group: Promoting mental health through daily experiences in Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S733-S734
Author(s):  
A.P. Craveiro Prado ◽  
C.L. Cardoso ◽  
S. Ishara
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Mutual Help ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Health Group ◽  
Everyday Experiences

In Brazil, the mental health field has been the scenario of many transformations, among them, the recognition of community and group-based interventions as significant approaches concerning mental health promotion. These approaches regard the interpersonal relationships as a resource to individual's mental health care and the construction of a helping network. This study aimed to present and describe the Communitarian Mental Health Group (CMHG), an innovative intervention developed and studied in Brazil for 18 years. To accomplish that, a study of previous researches about this intervention was conducted, including the analysis of a book published in 2014. The activity goal is to promote mental health through the attitudes of paying attention, understanding and sharing everyday experiences, as resources for personal development and mental health care. It is an open and heterogeneous group, in which participants interact among them aiming mutual help. Each group session lasts 1 h 30, and each session is divided into three phases: sharing experiences with cultural elements considered meaningful to the goals of the group; sharing everyday experiences; sharing what was significant from that session, according to the participants. One of the premises is that taking care of our mental health belongs to the scope of the human being and it is not restricted to patients. Daily experiences are significant resources for mental health promotion and for the construction of a helping communitarian network among participants, bonded through the sharing of their quotidian. The CMHG represents a mental health promotion intervention able to complement other kinds of available treatments.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals Construction of mental health care based on the experiences of a nursing student

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (suppl 3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danton Matheus de Souza ◽  
Gabriella de Andrade Boska ◽  
Mônica Silvia Rodrigues de Oliveira ◽  
Márcia Aparecida Ferreira de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT Objective: to report the experience of a nursing student with mental health care during a clinical internship. Method: an experience report based on data from a Singular Therapeutic Project developed by a nursing student during 16 days of practice in a Day Hospital as part of an undergraduate course. The findings were analyzed based on the theory of interpersonal relationships and psychosocial rehabilitation. Results: the care process was organized between the weeks and phases of the relationship in: 1) from the unknown to relationship of trust; 2) reflections and reframing as a care proposal; 3) from limitation to leading role; 4) from care resolution to mutual transformations. Final considerations: it was concluded that despite the limitations of the practice context, the student was able to conduct psychosocial interventions in mental health in line with the expected goals and produce meanings in both involved.

Spiritual Life and Relational Functioning: A Model and a Dialogue

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 326-346
Author(s):  
Peter J. Verhagen ◽  
Agneta Schreurs
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Therapeutic Change ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Relational Functioning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this article is to contribute to the dialogue on spirituality in mental health care (psychiatry and psychotherapy). Spirituality is still an uncomfortable theme in mental health care despite a burgeoning literature and research. We will introduce a conceptual model on spiritual and interpersonal relationships based on love in relatedness. The model will enable the (psycho)therapist to assess the interconnectedness of spiritual and interpersonal relationships, to analyse positive or negative effects of spirituality on interpersonal functioning and vice versa, and to look for possibilities for spiritual and therapeutic change. Based on the model, the next step is to reflect on the relationship between psychiatry and spirituality with a view to dialogue instead of unfruitful discussion and controversy. We will propose a dialogue about the alternative DSM-5™ model for personality disorders. Although preliminary, we will show the usefulness of such an interdisciplinary dialogue.

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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