Rehabilitation and Remediation of Internationally Adopted Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Gindis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Remedial Education ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
International Adoptees ◽  
The Social ◽  
Internationally Adopted Children

This book presents specific methods for the physical rehabilitation, mental health restoration, and academic remediation of post-institutionalized international adoptees. The focus of the book is on the neurological, psychological, and educational consequences of complex childhood trauma in the context of a fundamental change in the social situation of development of former orphanage residents. A discussion of after-adoption traumatic experiences includes a critique of certain “conventional” approaches to the treatment of mental health issues and different disabilities in international adoptees. Using his 30-year background in research and clinical practice, the author expertly describes and analyses a range of methodologies in order to provide an integrated and practical system of “scaffolding” and “compensation” for the successful rehabilitation and remediation of children with ongoing traumatic experiences. This is essential reading for researchers and practicing clinicians concerned with childhood trauma, remedial education, and issues of international adoption.

The Social Mandate to Deal With Mental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 234-254
Author(s):  
Alberta Mazzola
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
Mental Health Agencies ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Public Middle School ◽  
Health Field

The chapter aims to explore the construct of mental health in a psychoanalytic perspective with a psychosocial approach. In particular, the chapter studies mental health by analysing traces to detect social mandate characterizing different mental health agencies. The highlighted hypothesis could be interpreted as that social mandate is a clue of local cultures about mental health, which determine fantasies about mental health issues, grounding on symbolizations shared by professionals, users, and community. The chapter introduces three clinical experiences of interventions, carried out in different contexts: a public mental health service, a public middle school, a psychoanalytic private office. All the presented experiences concern mental health field, even though they are characterized by different features in terms of subjects, methods, professionals, users, and organizations involved. The chapter explores those differences in order to focus on transversal issues.

Prevention of mental disorder in childhood and other public health issues

2012 ◽  
pp. 1606-1611
Author(s):  
Rhoshel Lenroot
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
Neuroimaging Genetics

Enormous progress has been made in recognizing the scope of mental health problems for children around the world, and in developing the theoretical framework needed to address decreasing this burden in a systematic fashion. Technological advances in neuroimaging, genetics, and computational biology are providing the tools to start describing the biological processes underlying the complex course of development, and have renewed appreciation of the role of the environment in determining how a genetic heritage is expressed. However, rapid technological change is also altering the environment of children and their families at an unprecedented rate, and what kinds of challenges to public health these changes may present is not yet fully understood. What is becoming clear is that as technological advances increase the range of available health care treatments, along with the potential cost, the choices for societies between spending limited resources on treatment or prevention will have to become increasingly deliberate. A substantial body of work has demonstrated that prevention in mental health can be effective, but those who would benefit the most from preventive interventions are often not those with the political or economic resources to make them a priority. While the potential interventions to prevent mental health disorders in children are constrained by the knowledge and resources available, what is actually done depends upon the social and political values of individual communities and nations. It is to be hoped that as our understanding of these disorders grows, public policies to prevent the development of mental health disorders in children will become as commonplace a responsibility for modern societies as the provision of clean drinking water.

scholarly journals Management and Plan of Undergraduates’ Mental Health Based on Keyword Extraction

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Weifeng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Recall Rate ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Keyword Extraction ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Running Time ◽  
Upper Approximation ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social

Mental health issues are alarmingly on the rise among undergraduates, which have gradually become the focus of social attention. With the emergence of some abnormal events such as more and more undergraduates’ suspension, and even suicide due to mental health issues, the social attention to undergraduates’ mental health has reached a climax. According to the questionnaire of undergraduates’ mental health issues, this paper uses keyword extraction to analyze the management and plan of undergraduates’ mental health. Based on the classical TextRank algorithm, this paper proposes an improved TextRank algorithm based on upper approximation rough data-deduction. The experimental results show that the accurate rate, recall rate, and F1 of proposed algorithm have been significantly improved, and the experimental results also demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has good performance in running time and physical memory occupation.

scholarly journals Autoethnography & Goffman`s Asylums: Re-Storying Mental Illness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Mental Institution ◽  
Health Discourse

Mental illness narratives occupy a small, unstable place within critical discourse. Within both research and social practices, mental illness is often seen as a limitation instead of an alternative way of knowing, and thus, personal accounts are swept aside in favor of more “objective” research. In 1961, famed sociologist Erving Goffman published Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates after observing the daily life of a mental institution. While the book breathed life into the deinstitutionalization movement, it also undermined the narrative autonomy of the patients that it spoke for. In this paper, autoethnography is used to complement and challenge Goffman’s research, while arguing that there is a better way of positioning the patient narrative within mental health research. It is a way of reconciling my identities as a person with mental illness and an academic, and bringing lived experience to the forefront of mental health discourse, where it belongs.

scholarly journals "SCREAM" THE SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manav Vasisth ◽  
Aaditya Vijay Srivastava ◽  
Udit Garg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Network

The framework proposed in this paper is a serious answer for the social media as now days all fake and promote all the negativity. Our site is based on the, to help people who are suffering from the mental health issues so in our platform the user can tell their views to the and their issues by they are suffering. This is for stopping the negativity which are now days more growing in todays world.

Bullying Among International Adoptees: Testing Risks and Protective Factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 930-951
Author(s):  
Eveliina Holmgren ◽  
Hanna Raaska ◽  
Helena Lapinleimu ◽  
Marko Elovainio
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Bullying Victimization ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Adoptive Family ◽  
International Adoptees ◽  
Internationally Adopted Children ◽  
Bullying Experiences

This study examined the risks and protective factors for experiencing bullying and especially racist bullying among internationally adopted children in Finland. Factors examined were related to children's background, adoptive family, children's social problems and social skills, and their associations with bullying experiences. About 56.9% of children reported bullying victimization and 24.2% racist bullying victimization. Boys were at bigger risk of becoming bullied (B = 0.14, p < .05), as were children with disability (B = 0.11; p < .05). The continent of birth (European; B = 0.51; p < .001) and adoptive family's lower socioeconomic status (SES; B = 0.16; p < .05) were associated with increased victimization. Child's social problems increased the likelihood of victimization for both general (B = 0.59, p < .001) and racist bullying (B = 0.10, p < .001). Child's social skills appeared as a protective factor against general bullying (B = 3.87; p > .001). This study shows that interventions for tackling children's social problems and improving their social skills may reduce children's risk for bullying involvement.

Death Row Narratives: A Qualitative Analysis of Mental Health Issues Found In Death Row Inmate Blog Entries

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-165
Author(s):  
Robert Johnson ◽  
Jacqueline Lantsman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Solitary Confinement ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Death Row Inmates ◽  
The Many

Death row inmate narratives, culled from online blogs, are used to explore the social determinants of mental health in the context of the stresses and deprivations of living on death row. Legal and correctional procedures that affect death row inmates are conceptualized as social determinants of mental health. These procedures include the granting or denying of stays of execution, conditions of solitary confinement during death row and the death watch, and impending dates of execution. Death row narratives offer a nuanced account of the many ways condemned prisoners must contend with their powerlessness as an essential element of life under sentence of death.

scholarly journals Increasing School Nurse Teachers' Awareness of the Social...

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Sharkey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
School Nurse ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Advanced Nursing Practice ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2013) and the National Library of Medicine (2013), the numbers of emotional and mental health issues in children have increased significantly. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (2017) indicates that the prevalence of mental illness in these age groups is 20 percent. Schools are increasingly implementing social-emotional programs and curricula to address these needs. School nurse teachers provide care for many of these children and are in a position to promote positive outcomes for them. However, many school nurse teachers are not aware of the social-emotional programs and curricula programs that are available. The purpose of this program development project was to increase school nurse teachers’ awareness of the school district’s social emotional learning (SEL) initiatives. This project addressed the clinical question of whether an educational program addressing SEL increased school nurse teachers’ awareness of the SEL initiatives which had been adopted by the Warwick Public Schools. The findings of the study indicated that a presentation describing SEL increased the school nurse teachers’ awareness of the initiatives that had been adopted by the Warwick Public Schools. The implications for advanced nursing practice include education that ensures school nurses have the competencies to provide care for students and families with complex social and emotional needs. They must be able to identify students who are struggling with mental health issues and have the skills to intervene on their behalf.

scholarly journals Early traumatic experiences and their relationship with the emergence of depressive symptoms in adulthood

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Eglantina Dervishi ◽  
Elisabeta Mujaj ◽  
Silva Ibrahimi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Physical Neglect

The aim of this study was the exploration of early traumatic experiences related to emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional and physical neglect, as well as the connection of the dimensions of these early traumatic experiences with the experiencing of depressive symptoms in adulthood. A sample of 331 University students in Tirana, 60 males (N = 60) or 18.1% and 271 females (N = 271) or 81.9% completed the online Beck Inventory for Depression (BDI), and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF). The minimum age of the youth participating in the study was 18 years and the maximum age was 32 years, with an average of 20 years (M = 20.07) and the standard deviation (SD = 1.5). Descriptive, correlational and linear regression analysis were used for data processing through the SPSS 22. The study confirmed the connection between early traumatic experiences and the appearance of depressive symptoms in adulthood (r(329) = .333, p < .001). Among the dimensions of early traumatic experiences, it seems that a stronger connection with the occurrence of depressive symptoms relates to the size of emotional trauma. The size of child sexual trauma is connected to feelings of punishment and suicidal thoughts in adulthood. Early traumatic experiences seem to have a significant impact on how adults express themselves and choose to interact with their environment. Coping with problems of mental health and depression today can be closely related to the early traumatic experiences of juveniles and adults.

scholarly journals Autoethnography & Goffman`s Asylums: Re-Storying Mental Illness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Mental Institution ◽  
Health Discourse

Mental illness narratives occupy a small, unstable place within critical discourse. Within both research and social practices, mental illness is often seen as a limitation instead of an alternative way of knowing, and thus, personal accounts are swept aside in favor of more “objective” research. In 1961, famed sociologist Erving Goffman published Asylums: Essays on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates after observing the daily life of a mental institution. While the book breathed life into the deinstitutionalization movement, it also undermined the narrative autonomy of the patients that it spoke for. In this paper, autoethnography is used to complement and challenge Goffman’s research, while arguing that there is a better way of positioning the patient narrative within mental health research. It is a way of reconciling my identities as a person with mental illness and an academic, and bringing lived experience to the forefront of mental health discourse, where it belongs.

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