Introduction to Special Issue: Mental Health Around the World

2004 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-192
Author(s):  
David L. Cutler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World

Praxivist imaginaries of decolonization: Can the psy be decolonized in the world as we know it?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Lee Miller ◽  
Michael J Miller
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Object Of Study

Guided by Denise Ferreira da Silva’s contributions to decolonization through a black feminist poethical mode of intervention, this article overall offers the provocation: Is decolonization possible in this world as we know it? Having been provoked by this question and its implications ourselves, we deem this provocation both necessary and an important contribution to the topic of this special issue. Within this provocation we briefly consider decolonization of the psy-disciplines, decolonization of the psy-curriculum, and decolonization as the end of the world as we know it, particularly through a praxivist imaginary. With this, we furthermore consider the radical potentials of abolition pedagogies that guide us to state that mental health, or the psyche, or the professions that take the psyche as their object of study, cannot be decolonized in the context of the world as we know it.

International approaches to school-based mental health: Intent of the Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Health It ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
School Based ◽  
The World

This article provides an overview of the special issue on international approaches to school-based mental health. It introduces the significance of the issues associated with mental health across the world and introduces the reader to the four articles highlighting different aspects of school-based mental health. Across these four articles, information about school-based mental health (SBMH) from the United States, Canada, Norway, Liberia, Chile, and Ireland are represented. The special issue concludes with an article introducing new methodology for examining mental health from a global perspective.

scholarly journals Special issue on training in psychogeriatrics

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 851-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Pachana
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Expected Number ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Social Affairs

The need to train more health workers, and particularly mental health workers, in the care of older adults, has been highlighted by a variety of disciplines including psychiatry (Jeste et al., 1999), psychology (Knight et al., 1995), social work (Rosen et al., 2002) and nursing (Hirst et al., 1996). This rise in attention paid to geriatric health care is partly driven by demographics. Over the next 50 years, the global population of people aged 60 years and over is expected to triple to 2 billion by 2050 (U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2007). This same UN report states that the expected number of centenarians is set to increase globally by a factor of 20. Worldwide, the demographic trends in aging suggest that the number of people in the world aged 65 years and over will surpass the number aged 5 years or less in approximately 2017 (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2005). The issues concerning who will care for older adults are faced by a growing number of nations throughout the world.

Editorial Foreword: Applying Existential Social Psychology to Mental Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Vail ◽  
Daniel Sullivan ◽  
Mark J. Landau ◽  
Jeff Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Editorial Foreword ◽  
Existential Concerns

Human existence is characterized by some rather unique psychological challenges. Because people can reflect on their lives and place in the world, they are regularly confronted with a variety of existential concerns: death and mortality; the burdens of freedom; uncertainty regarding one's identity; isolation from others; and indeterminate meaning in life. Existential social psychology (Greenberg, Koole, & Pyszczynski, 2004; Vail & Routledge, 2020) investigates whether and how such existential concerns shape everyday life and, as highlighted in the present special issue, how such processes impact mental health and social functioning.

scholarly journals Editorial

2019 ◽  
pp. ii
Author(s):  
Sujit Sarkhel
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian Perspective

The theme for the World Mental Health Day this year is, “Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention”. In keeping with this theme we are bringing out a special issue of our journal on Suicide Prevention. The issue comprises of articles which are of significant relevance to suicide prevention in Indian perspective. We have an article on risk assessment. Subsequent two articles are important from the perspective of our government policy on suicide prevention: One article delves into the need of a National Policy on Suicide Prevention whereas the other one deals with legal aspects of suicide in India. Finally, the concluding article deals with Non-Suicidal Self Injury from an Indian viewpoint. I sincerely hope that the readership would find it useful to broaden their knowledge regarding various aspects of suicide prevention in our country.

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