Supplemental Material for Does Trauma-Related Training Have a Relationship With, or Impact On, Mental Health Professionals’ Frequency of Asking About, or Detection of, Trauma History? A Systematic Literature Review

Pessoas que vivem em situação de rua foram caracterizadas como pessoas que não dispunham de uma moradia fixa. A partir deste contexto observamos que cada vez mais pessoas vivem excluídas de seus direitos básicos. Este trabalho visa compreender a saúde mental de pessoas que vivem em situação de rua. Trata-se de um estudo descritivo de revisão da literatura, através de artigos encontrados nas bases de dados SCIELO, Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde e sites governamentais, onde foram encontrados 45 artigos, dos quais foram selecionados 13 artigos para o desenvolvimento do presente trabalho. Observou-se a importância dos consultórios de rua como porta de entrada das pessoas que vivem em situação de rua no acesso aos serviços de saúde e consequentemente contribuindo para a sua reinserção na sociedade. As pessoas que vivem em situação de rua vivem de forma vulnerável, suscetíveis a vários fatores que podem comprometer a sua saúde física e mental, os profissionais que trabalham com essa população através dos consultórios na rua, devem estar preparados para atender essa demanda e toda a singularidade.Descritores: Consultório na rua, Pessoas em situação de rua, Assistência à saúde. Chemical dependency: mental health of homeless peopleAbstract: People living on the streets were characterized as people who did not have a fixed home. From this context, we observe that more and more people are excluded from their basic rights. This work aims to understand the mental health of people living on the streets. It is a descriptive study of literature review, through articles found in the SCIELO databases, Virtual Health Library and government websites, where 45 articles were found, of which 13 articles were selected for the development of this work. It was observed the importance of street clinics as a gateway for people living on the streets in accessing health services and consequently contributing to their reintegration into society. People living on the streets live in a vulnerable way, susceptible to various factors that can compromise their physical and mental health, professionals who work with this population through street offices must be prepared to meet this demand and the entire community. singularity.Descriptors: Street Clinic, Homeless Persons, Health care. Dependencia química: salud mental de las personas sin hogarResumen: Las personas que vivían en la calle se caracterizaron como personas que no tenían un hogar permanente. Desde este contexto, observamos que cada vez son más las personas excluidas de sus derechos básicos. Este trabajo tiene como objetivo comprender la salud mental de las personas que viven en la calle. Se trata de un estudio descriptivo de revisión de la literatura, a través de artículos encontrados en las bases de datos SCIELO, Biblioteca Virtual en Salud y sitios web gubernamentales, donde se encontraron 45 artículos, de los cuales 13 artículos fueron seleccionados para el desarrollo del presente trabajo. Se observó la importancia de las clínicas de calle como puerta de entrada para que las personas que viven en la calle accedan a los servicios de salud y, en consecuencia, contribuyan a su reintegración a la sociedad. Las personas que viven en la calle viven de manera vulnerable, susceptibles a diversos factores que pueden comprometer su salud física y mental, los profesionales que trabajan con esta población a través de oficinas de calle deben estar preparados para atender esta demanda y la singularidad de toda la comunidad.Descriptores: Práctica de Calle, Personas sin Hogar, Atención de la Salud.

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Countertransference Reactions toward Specific Client Populations: A Review of Empirical Literature

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2003.92.2.651 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 92 (2) ◽

pp. 651-654 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Robert C. Schwartz ◽

Heather M. Wendling

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Literature Review ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Mental Health Professionals ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Therapeutic Process ◽

Emotional Responses ◽

Empirical Literature ◽

The Past ◽

Research Designs

Countertransference reactions can either benefit or hinder mental health professionals during the therapeutic process. An awareness of countertransference reactions can aid clinicians in understanding and anticipating their own specific emotional responses toward certain client populations. Recent empirical research suggests that common countertransference reactions may occur in mental health professionals when relating to certain client types. Since a literature review indicated that more numerous and reliable tests have been developed to measure countertransference during the past decade, as well as better research designs, this article reviews and summarizes all empirical research studies on countertransference reactions toward specific client populations during the past 10 years, from 1990 to 2001.

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Adapting the Trauma History Questionnaire for use in a population of homeless people with severe mental illness in Tamil Nadu, India: qualitative study

BJPsych Open ◽

10.1192/bjo.2021.952 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Andrew R. Gilmoor ◽

Smriti Vallath ◽

Ruth M. H. Peters ◽

Denise van der Ben ◽

Lauren Ng

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Severe Mental Illness ◽

Mental Health Professionals ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Tamil Nadu ◽

Homeless People ◽

Cultural Validity ◽

Trauma History

Background The Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ) is one of the most widely used traumatic event inventories, but its lack of validation makes it unsuitable for the millions of homeless people with severe mental illness in India, who are particularly vulnerable to trauma exposure. Aims To translate and culturally adapt the THQ for use in a population of homeless people with severe mental illness in Tamil Nadu, India. Method We used Herdman et al's model of cultural equivalence to conduct an in-depth qualitative assessment of the cultural validity of the THQ. Following several translations, conceptual, item, semantic and operational equivalence of the THQ was assessed through four focus groups with user-survivors (n = 20) and two focus groups with mental health professionals (n = 11). Results Several adaptations, including the addition of 18 items about relationships, homelessness and mental illness, were necessary to improve cultural validity. Three items, such as rape, were removed for reasons of irrelevance or cultural insensitivity. Items like ‘adultery’ and ‘mental illness’ were reworded to ‘extramarital affair’ and ‘mental health problem’, respectively, to capture the cultural nuances of the Tamil language. Findings revealed a divergence in views on tool acceptability between user-survivors, who felt empowered to voice their experiences, and mental health professionals, who were concerned for patient well-being. Providing a sense of pride and autonomy, user-survivors preferred self-administration, whereas mental health professionals preferred rater administration. Conclusions Culture significantly affects what types of events are considered traumatic, highlighting the importance of cultural validation of instruments for use in novel populations and settings.

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