PSYCHIATRIC-MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION WITH INTEGRATED ROLE-PLAY AND REAL-WORLD CONTACT CAN REDUCE THE STIGMA OF NURSING STUDENTS TOWARDS PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS

2021 ◽  
pp. 103009
Author(s):  
Libin Gu ◽  
Wenjuan Jiao ◽  
Haozhi Xia ◽  
Mingming Yu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Real World ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Mental Health Education ◽  
People With Mental Illness

Mental Health Education and Literacy in Schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 589-608
Author(s):  
Matthew Dale
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Mental Health Literacy ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Mental Health Education ◽  
Health Promotion And Education

This chapter will look at the current situation concerning youth mental health in Australia and provide information about youth mental health literacy, which was first coined by Jorm in 1997. A literature review of current Australian mental health promotion and education programs being offered in schools will be conducted as well as examples of some of the better-known ones that have been implemented internationally. The evolution of mental health education in Australian schools will be examined so as to provide a perspective of how some of the current programs came into being or existence. The main aim of this chapter will be to highlight the high prevalence of mental illness that exists amongst young people in Australia and how implementing mental health education in schools can be beneficial and helpful in improving their mental health and wellbeing. Mental health education in schools can help in breaking down the stigma surrounding mental illness. Another benefit is that young people will be able to identify mental health problems earlier amongst their peers and in themselves, which can lead to early help seeking, especially due to young people gaining a higher level of mental health literacy through mental health education programs.

Intersection of Mental Health, Education, and Juvenile Justice: The Role of Mental Health Providers in Reducing the School-to-Prison Pipeline

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Susan McCarter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Juvenile Justice ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Mental Health Education ◽  
School To Prison Pipeline

The school-to-prison pipeline (STPP) describes the corridor between the education system and the justice system which is increasingly filled with children and youth who have mental health challenges. Approximately 22% of children (under 18 years old) in the general U.S. population have psychiatric disorders, as compared to approximately 70% of justice-involved children (Cocozza & Shufelt, 2006; Teplin et al., 2002). This article uses the differential behavior hypothesis and the differential selection/processing hypothesis to critically examine the intersection of the mental health, education, and juvenile justice systems and the overrepresentation of mental illness for justice-involved youth in the United States. Early identification, assessment, barriers to care and health disparities, school discipline, and the criminalization of children and youth with mental illness are explored with global implications. Recommendations and promising practices are offered including: improved data and service provider collaborations, community-based services and systems of care, diversion and decarceration, juvenile mental health courts, and juvenile crisis intervention teams.

scholarly journals Emerging Trends in Mental Health Education – An Empirical Investigation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Mental Health Literacy ◽  
Low Literacy ◽  
Mental Health Education ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Emerging Trends

Mental health education/literacy refers to the beliefs and knowledge regarding mental issues and disorders,aiding the management, recognition and/or prevention of these disorders in effective and efficient ways.The significance of mental health education/literacy has been investigated all over the world, unfortunatelylacking focused in Pakistan therefore this study is aimed to identify and investigate emerging trends inmental health education/literacy and studied them in context of Pakistan. For this purpose, subject studyidentified literature related to the literacy in mental health through different databases; Cochrane, PubMed,PsycINFO, ScienceDirect, and LINSON, by using terms mental health literacy, emerging trends, emergingissues in mental health education/literacy. Study identified that there is limited and dearth knowledgeregarding mental illness and treatments for mental illness among public. This review also highlights theimportance of mental health literacy among professionals working in the field of health care. In Pakistan,due to low literacy rate, a high percentage of poverty and dearth of trained professionals warrants anemendation in approaches established for attaining the goal of public health and psychiatric care. Practicalimplications. Findings have implications for practitioners in the field of mental health care as well asdesigning targeted interventions for enhancing mental health literacy and help-seeking behavior in thefuture.Keywords: Pakistan, Mental health literacy, Mental health, Review, Mental health perception

scholarly journals Mental Health Education

Curationis ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
C.I. Röscher
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Social Efficiency ◽  
Behavioural Science ◽  
Mental Health Education ◽  
Custodial Care ◽  
The Individual ◽  
History Books ◽  
The Ideal

THE goal of mental health today calls for more than an alleviation of mental illness. The days of custodial care in institutions, segregated from the community, belong in the history books. We must look even further than the treatment or even the prevention of mental illness to the ideal of maximum physical, mental and social efficiency for the individual, his family and the community. Mental Health Education is a behavioural science which aims to change behaviour and attitudes which militate against the achievement of these goals.

Attitudes of Undergraduate Medical Students towards the Persons with Mental Illness in a Medical College of Western Region of Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
Rekha Jalan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Mental Health Education ◽  
Before And After

Background: The universality of harmful beliefs and subsequent negative attitude towards the persons with mental illness among medical students are the main obstacles facing the mentally ill people that further prevents them from seeking help and care for their mental health problems. Mental health education plays a significant role in changing medical students' attitude towards persons with mental illness. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess undergraduate medical students' attitude towards persons with mental illness and to compare their attitudes before and after mental health education. Materials and methods: A longitudinal prospective study was carried on final year MBBS students (N=68) from June, 2017 to November, 2017. Pretest- posttest design was adopted using Attitude Scale for Mental Illness (ASMI) before and after theory classes and clinical posting for mental health education. Results: Findings of present study revealed that these students were less stigmatized (6.44+1.93). Domain of restrictiveness improved (9.44+2.94 from 10.54+3.09) and benevolence increased significantly (t=2.440; P=0.017*) after mental health education and training. Overall attitude of the study population was found to have unhealthy attitude towards persons with mental illness since the mean scores on separatism, stereotyping, restrictiveness and pessimistic prediction subscales were elevated on ASMI. Conclusion: In conclusion, mental health education was found to be effective in changing the attitude of restrictiveness i.e., decreasing an uncertain view on the rights of people with mental illness and increasing kindness and sympathetic view to some extent among undergraduate medical students towards the persons with mental illness.

scholarly journals ‘There's more to a person than what's in front of you’: Nursing students’ experiences of consumer taught mental health education

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 950-959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Happell ◽  
Shifra Waks ◽  
Julia Bocking ◽  
Aine Horgan ◽  
Fionnuala Manning ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Mental Health Education

scholarly journals Person-Centered Care In Mental Health Education and Practice Through Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasna Schwind ◽  
Gail Lindsay ◽  
Sue Coffey ◽  
Debbie Morrison ◽  
Barb Mildon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Mental Health Education ◽  
Practice Nurses ◽  
Whole Person

Objectives: We conceptualize person-centred care (PCC) as whole person care that is enacted through the relationship between caregivers and care-receivers. This understanding bridges education and practice, nursing students and nurses, and methodological approaches. The objective of our Associated Medical Services Phoenix Call to Caring funded research is to explore how students and nurses in mental health construct and enact person-centred care.Methods: Our participants include students and nurses in mental health education and practice. We meet with them in integrated groups of nurses and students. Our research process engages participants in four arts-informed narrative inquiry sessions: stories of giving and receiving PCC, use of metaphors to access tacit knowing, collages and mandalas to explore embodied experience of PCC. Our research is multi-method through the addition of pre and post caring scales to document changes in participant attitudes and behaviours. A follow-up telephone call three months after the fourth session provides an evaluation of the significance of this exploration to PCC in their practice.Results: Dimensions of enacting PCC are revealed including personal, regulatory, professional and institutional forces that shape students’ and nurses’ choice to be person-centred in their practice. Nurses and students increase self-awareness and critical thinking about the value and enactment of PCC in their practice, also shaping the healthcare environment. The significance of arts-informed narrative methods to illuminate knowledge construction is revealed.Conclusions: PCC includes the practitioner and student as knowledge maker, in partnership with a patient and family. PCC involves choosing how to be in relationship as a whole person as well as conceptualizing patients as whole persons. PCC involves practitioner self-awareness and courage to advocate for personal integrity of patients and self-as-caregiver. Arts-informed narrative inquiry provides nurses (established and emergent) processes for continuing reflection and professional development.

scholarly journals Re-Oreintation of Nigerians Towards Mental Health: Its Counseling Implications

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 302
Author(s):  
Bukoye Roseline Olufunke
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Heart Diseases ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Mental Health Education ◽  
The Public

Mental health is a state of well-being which allows a better realisation of one's own potentials. With good mental health, individuals are able to cope productively with life situations. According to WHO (2002), hundreds of millions of people worldwide are affected by mental health problems. This led to their defection in terms of behavioural, neurological, physical, emotional, and substance use. It was discovered that about 36 million people worldwide are HIV positive, and about 20 million people have died from AIDS, tobacco, alcohol, amongst others. The use of hard drugs are discovered as potential addictive substance that have led to major health problems like heart diseases, stroke, cancer, liver diseases, fever, amongst others. Mental illness/problem occurs due to careless attitudes towards mental health education. Most middle and low income countries devote less than 1% of their health expenditure to mental health and mental health education thereby worsening the health condition of the citizens. This paper, therefore, sees it as point of urgency to re-orientate Nigerians towards mental health and its counseling implications. For its effectiveness, the roles of counseling cannot be over- emphasised. There is need for counsellors to inculcate into the public mental health skills, self-management skills, and self-descriptive culture through seminars and workshops. The Counsellor should bring to the awareness of the public information about their lifestyles regarding sleeping procedures, eating behaviour, nutrition, exercise, and stress management through enlightenment campaigns and medical programmes. Other recommendations include; the government in collaboration with the counsellors and NGOs should embark on comprehensive mental health problems preventive programmes. Also, mental health policies, legislation, community care giver facilities, and treatments for people with mental illness should be given proper attention.

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