scholarly journals Utopia as social psychotherapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 03021
Author(s):  
Michail Ingerlab ◽  
Taisiya Paniotova
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Individual Psychology ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

The article considers the approach to modern utopian works as a means of social psychotherapy. This context is currently poorly developed, although for the first time “psychological utopia”, as a society of perfect mental health, was mentioned by A. Maslow. Utopia, remaining the object of multidisciplinary research, in the era of digitalization and information technology acquires the ability to quicker than before be reflected in the mass consciousness, to acquire the significance of a cultural phenomenon, to determine the values and meanings of the activities of its adherents. The authors analyze the significance of utopian ideas of rational individualism, techno-utopianism, trans-humanism as ideologies of social movements. The emerging phenomenon of socio-medial psychotherapy is presented for discussion. The authors conclude that the psychotherapeutic meaning of utopias consists in their openness to the future, the denial of the negative present and the ability to construct socially significant ideals reflected in the individual psychology of contemporaries.

scholarly journals Promoting Postpartum Mental Health in Fathers: Recommendations for Nurse Practitioners

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheena V. Kumar ◽  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Mary T. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Postpartum Depression ◽  
Nurse Practitioners ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Postpartum Period ◽  
Postnatal Period ◽  
Learning Preferences ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time ◽  
Transition To Fatherhood

The transition to fatherhood can challenge the mental health of first-time fathers and heighten their risk for postpartum depression (PPD). Paternal PPD not only affects the individual, but relationships with partners and children as well. This scoping review explores paternal PPD, highlighting the factors for and impacts of paternal PPD, the experiences of first-time fathers during the postnatal period, including their knowledge gaps and learning preferences. Drawing on the scoping review findings, recommendations are made for postnatal programs to improve the inclusion of new fathers amid describing how nurse practitioners can promote men’s mental health in the postpartum period.

Clinical assessment in disaster mental health: A logic of case formulation

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Lee McCabe, PhD ◽  
Michael J. Kaminsky, MD, MBA ◽  
Paul R. McHugh, MD
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Clinical Assessment ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Mass Casualty ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Trauma Patients ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
Case Formulation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

Despite increased professional attention to the mental health aspects of disaster medicine in recent years, advances in clinical assessment of survivors of mass casualty incidents have been few. Contemporary assessment methods often yield little more than check lists of symptoms that, while they may lead to reliable DSM-IV diagnoses, provide no sense of the individual patient’s plight and so are inadequate for case formulation, treatment planning, and prognosis estimation. The authors describe a comprehensive model for assessing patients developed at the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Relating it to the field of disaster mental health for the first time here, the approach uses four distinct but overlapping appraisal perspectives, each of which drives a set of exploratory propositions and leads to an understanding of the essential natures of clinical disorders and their underlying etiologies. The perspectives address the following: (a) what the individual “has” (biologically based disease and physical illness); (b) who the individual “is” (graded dimensions of temperament, disposition, traits, intelligence, etc); (c) what the individual “does” (purposeful, goal-directed, conditioned behavior, etc); and (d) what the individual “has encountered” (his/ her life story and the meaning that has been given to those experiences). Following a description of each perspective from the standpoint of its underlying logic, inquiry domain, and indicated intervention, the authors highlight the potential hueristic value of the model by illustrating numerous testable hypotheses that can be generated through the juxtaposition of the four assessment perspectives with three longitudinal considerations for the management of trauma patients, ie, the stress-related constructs of (pre-incident) resistance, (peri-incident) resilience, and (post-incident) recovery.

School Organization and the Mental Health Consultation Process

1963 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin R. Gluck
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
School System ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
School Organization ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mental Health Consultation ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Vice Principals ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

Many psychologists who undertake consultation activities for the first time may ignore, or not even be aware of, the “administrative” or sociological aspects of the situation in which the consultation process takes place. The point of view presented here is that the structure of a school system using a mental health consultant is intimately related to how the consultant operates and what he does in his role as consultant. The Superintendent, Principals and Vice-Principals all determine the areas in which the consultant can work, the types of problems with which he will be asked to help, and the possible range of activities school personnel themselves can undertake to deal with the pupil problems confronting them. Specific examples of the interactions between the consultant's role and the authority-responsibility level of the individual consultees are presented. The consultant's knowledge of any organization's structure can aid him in planning for consultative activities that are appropriate to the personnel with whom he is working.

Considerations with regard to Hereditary Influence

1863 ◽  
Vol 8 (44) ◽  
pp. 482-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Maudsley
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Fact ◽  
The Future ◽  
Giordano Bruno ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

Although the axiom ex nihilo nihil fit may unquestionably in strict logic be pronounced to be a pure assumption, for as much as it is not impossible that an enlarged experience may sometime furnish us with an instantia contradictoria, yet it is plainly necessary within the compass of human knowledge to consider it an established truth. Within human ken there is, indeed, no beginning, no end; the past is developed in the present, and the present in the prediction of the future; cause produces effect, and effect in its turn becomes cause. Dust is man, and to dust he returns; the individual passes away, but that out of which he is created does not pass away. The decomposition of one compound is the production of another, and death is an entrance into a new being. This is no new truth, although modern science is now for the first time making good use of it; the earlier Grecian philosophers distinctly recognised it, and it has many times been plainly enunciated since their time. “All things,” said Empedocles, “are but a mingling and a separation of the mingled, which are called birth and death by ignorant mortals.” Plato expressed himself in like manner; and the plain statement of the truth was one of the heresies of the unfortunate Giordano Bruno. The imagination of Shakspeare, faithful to the scientific fact, traces the noble dust of Alexander till it is found stopping a bung-hole, and follows imperious Caesar till he patches a hole to keep the wind away. The immortality of matter and of force is an evident necessity of human thought.

Changing Perspectives on National Libraries: A Personal View

2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice B. Line
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
British Library ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Personal View ◽  
The Future ◽  
National Libraries ◽  
First Time ◽  
Time Plan

The author's views of national libraries have, like national libraries and himself, changed since his first involvement with them in 1970 and his part in planning the British Library, which he joined on its establishment in 1973. National libraries exhibit enormous variety. He was concerned from the start with two main issues: what national libraries were actually for, and how they could render better service. Most used to be very inward-looking, but the advent of computers and information technology changed that, starting with bibliographic services. The future of national libraries now seems secure, if only as cultural institutions; and they can now link with other cultural institutions like national galleries and museums. Further advances in technology, notably digitization, are enabling them to make their collections more widely available. We can for the first time plan for a virtual global library. The fundamental questions however remain, and need to be repeatedly asked and answered.

The Battle over National Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noah Benezra Strote
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
National Government ◽  
International Understanding ◽  
National Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

This chapter looks at the volatile debate about the future of German youth and the ability of the schools to turn them away from nationalism and toward a vision of international understanding. After the resignation of Heinrich Brüning in May 1932, a battle over the future of national education exposed a dangerous ideological rift running through Germany. Although conflicts over constitutive issues such as the separation of legal powers and political economy had been fierce in the preceding years, German journalists began writing about the actual possibility of “civil war” in the summer of 1932. It was the precise point at which a new national government, led by chancellor Franz von Papen, began laying plans for a radical centralization of educational policy. It was the first time since Germany's political unification sixty years earlier that the national regime in Berlin took administration of schools and curriculum away from the individual states and began centralizing decision making in the capital.

scholarly journals The Development of Connective Action during Social Movements on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Milad Mirbabaie ◽  
Felix Brünker ◽  
Magdalena Wischnewski ◽  
Judith Meinert
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Media Analytics ◽  
Information Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Connective Action ◽  
Influential Users ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time

In recent years, the development of information communication technologies, such as social media, has changed the way people communicate and engage in social movements. While conventional movements were fought in the streets, social media has enabled movements to take place online. In this article, we aim to investigate the role of social media during social movements that evolve online under the scope of the theory of connective action. Specifically, we examined Twitter communication during the #metoo debate. To this end, we examined two datasets (2017 and 2019) and combined methods from social media analytics to identify influential users, with a manual content analysis to classify influential users into roles. Likewise, a manual classification found distinct communication categories. Through regression analysis, we were able to gage the individual contribution of these categories and roles based on the retweet probability. This study introduces for the first time the terms of connective action starters and maintainers.

Root Cause Analyses of Suicides of Mental Health Clients

Crisis ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 316-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Gillies ◽  
David Chicop ◽  
Paul O'Halloran
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Communication Problems ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mental Health Clients ◽  
Imminent Risk

Abstract. Background: The ability to predict imminent risk of suicide is limited, particularly among mental health clients. Root cause analysis (RCA) can be used by health services to identify service-wide approaches to suicide prevention. Aims: To (a) develop a standardized taxonomy for RCAs; (b) to quantitate service-related factors associated with suicides; and (c) to identify service-related suicide prevention strategies. Method: The RCAs of all people who died by suicide within 1 week of contact with the mental health service over 5 years were thematically analyzed using a data collection tool. Results: Data were derived from RCAs of all 64 people who died by suicide between 2008 and 2012. Major themes were categorized as individual, situational, and care-related factors. The most common factor was that clients had recently denied suicidality. Reliance on carers, recent changes in medication, communication problems, and problems in follow-through were also commonly identified. Conclusion: Given the difficulty in predicting suicide in people whose expressions of suicidal ideation change so rapidly, services may consider the use of strategies aimed at improving the individual, stressor, support, and care factors identified in this study.

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