State of Mind (Mental Health Measurement)

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jik-Joen Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Measurement ◽  
State Of Mind

The Maternal Lap and the Mental Health Trust

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Jo O’Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Management ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Health Trust

This chapter describes how patients requiring care from psychiatric teams need a receptive and containing response in order to feel understood and as a basis for recovery. This mirrors the sensitive attunement that the infant depends upon when held on the maternal lap. It introduces the idea of the Mental Health Trust as having the potential to act as a concave receptacle, able to absorb and process all that is communicated by those in a disturbed state of mind. In this concave or receptive state of mind clinical management can be based upon a deeper understanding of the patient’s difficulties and needs. In contrast, if clinical teams behave in what is described as a more convex state of mind they are unable to absorb or think about their patients’ disturbance, which can lead to harmful re-enactments of inadequate nurture or rejection. Clinical examples are used to illustrate these ideas and the importance of teams being able to reflect about their work is emphasized.

scholarly journals CORESIDENCE OF OLDER PARENTS AND ADULT CHILDREN BENEFITS OLDER ADULTS’ PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING: PATH ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S324-S324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soohyoung r Lee
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Path Analysis ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Adult Child ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Measurement ◽  
Living Situation ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Older Parents

Abstract Even though the coresidence of older parents and their adult children is no longer a rare phenomenon in current society, a little is known about the benefit of living with adult children from older adults’ perspectives compared to the risk of this living situation. Previous research suggests that older adults’ psychological well-being is low when they live with their adult children, and this become more salient among single parents, such as widowed or divorced. The current paper utilizes the National Health Measurement Study with a sample of age 55 and over, and their SF-36 Mental Health Component score, and psychological well-being self-acceptance score was measured. Path analysis reveals while mental health and psychological well-being scores are lower among single older adults at the time of the survey (e.g., divorced, widowed) than non-single, coresidence of older adults and adult children completely mediates the negative relationship between being single and both mental health psychological well-being. A complete mediation effect of living with an adult child on older adults’ mental health and psychological well-being is consistent with both white and non-white minority older adults. This suggests that living with adult child benefits older adults’ mental health and psychological well-being. The current study seeks to stimulate ideas that might generate the next answer to community-based care in our current aging society.

scholarly journals Exploring men's attitudes to mental fitness through sportspeople's lived experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
Sarah Elizabeth Cooper ◽  
Sarah Parry ◽  
Maria Livanou ◽  
Daniel Sculthorpe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Mental Health Nursing ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Mental Fitness ◽  
Health Nursing

An interpretative phenomenological analysis sought to explore how male audience members experienced listening to mental health nurses alongside sportspeople who shared their lived stories of mental health problems in public through mental fitness sessions carried out by the mental health charity, State of Mind Sport. Six male participants were interviewed about their experience after attending an mental fitness session. Three superordinate themes emerged: ‘Evolving male openness about mental health’ looks at how the male audience members' perspective on being open about their mental health changed having been to the mental fitness session. Second, ‘Sportspeople's influence’ reflects upon the positive influence sportspeople's involvement in the mental fitness sessions has on male audience members. Finally, ‘The process of learning about mental health’ explores the educational impact the sessions appear to be having. The results demonstrated the mental fitness sessions had a positive impact and using sportspeople can improve mental health interventions with males and this has potential implications for mental health nursing interventions.

Mental health measurement among women veterans receiving co-located, collaborative care services

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1192-1202
Author(s):  
Kaitlin R. Lilienthal ◽  
Laura J. Buchholz ◽  
Paul R. King ◽  
Christina L. Vair ◽  
Jennifer S. Funderburk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Collaborative Care ◽  
Women Veterans ◽  
Health Measurement ◽  
Care Services

scholarly journals A Study of Mental Health among Patients of Tuberculosis (T.B.)

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mr. Bhavik J. Kamdar
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Health Measurement ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Tuberculosis Patients ◽  
Female Patients ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Environmental Mastery ◽  
The Difference

This study was conducted to investigate the difference in Mental Health among Patients of Tuberculosis. Total 60 samples of Male and Female Tuberculosis patients were taken from Sir. T. General Hospital from Bhavnagar City (Gujarat). Their Samples were also taken the data was collected with the help of ‘Mental Health Inventory’ Developed by Dr. A. K. Shreevastav and Dr. Jagdish (1982).The Original Hindi Inventory was translated in Gujarati and Standardized by Bhava Thummar (2009). The Data was used to obtain the Mental Health measurement of the subjects. The collected data was statistically analyzed with the help of‘t’ test. The Results show that Mental Health for positive Self- Evaluation of the Male and Female Patients were significant (t =2.00). The Mental Health for perception of Reality of the Male and Female Patients were significant (t = 2.89). The Mental Health for Integration of Personality of the Male and Female Patients were not significant (t = 0.09).The Mental Health for Autonomy of the Male and Female Patients were not significant (t =0.81). The Metal Health for Group – oriented Attitude of the Male and Female Patients were significant (t = 2.52). The Mental Health for Environmental Mastery of the Male and Female Patients were not significant (t = 1.23). The overall Mental Health of the Male and Female Patients were not significant (t = 1.49).

scholarly journals Why Do Adolescents Self-Harm?

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Rasmussen ◽  
Keith Hawton ◽  
Sion Philpott-Morgan ◽  
Rory C. O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Educational Settings ◽  
Time Points ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
And Coping

Abstract. Background: Given the high rates of self-harm among adolescents, recent research has focused on a better understanding of the motives for the behavior. Aims: The present study had three aims: to investigate (a) which motives are most frequently endorsed by adolescents who report self-harm; (b) whether motives reported at baseline predict repetition of self-harm over a 6-month period; and (c) whether self-harm motives differ between boys and girls. Method: In all, 987 school pupils aged 14–16 years completed a lifestyle and coping questionnaire at two time points 6 months apart that recorded self-harm and the associated motives. Results: The motive "to get relief from a terrible state of mind" was the most commonly endorsed reason for self-harm (in boys and girls). Interpersonal reasons (e.g., "to frighten someone") were least commonly endorsed. Regression analyses showed that adolescents who endorsed wanting to get relief from a terrible state of mind at baseline were significantly more likely to repeat self-harm at follow-up than those adolescents who did not cite this motive. Conclusion: The results highlight the complex nature of self-harm. They have implications for mental health provision in educational settings, especially in relation to encouraging regulation of emotions and help-seeking.

Aesthetics and Affordances in a Favourite Place: On the Interactional Use of Environments for Restoration

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 557-577
Author(s):  
Anu M. Besson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Environmental Psychology ◽  
Mental Fatigue ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
Mental Health Benefits ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Orderly State

Research indicates that nature offers many physical and mental health benefits, including restoration - or recovery from mental fatigue. However, questions remain about what exactly in one's environment is experienced as restorative and why. Bridging environmental aesthetics, environmental psychology and cultural studies, this study establishes a connection between landscape and mindscape as seen, for instance, in the ways in which an orderly environment is interpreted as an orderly state of mind and vice versa. Using data drawn from a qualitative survey targeting expatriate Finns, the article mobilises content analysis to interpret the results and concludes that a 'favourite place' is aesthetically appealing, enables actions that are experienced as restorative and is as much an interpretation of a space as a physical place.

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