Creating Lives Worth Living

2021 ◽  
pp. 179-198
Author(s):  
Craig J. Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Financial Strain ◽  
Worth Living ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many

This chapter explains that suicide prevention is more than just stopping people from dying; it is also about reducing the social conditions that negatively affect quality of life while strengthening the conditions that promote and foster meaningful lives that are worth living. Targeting multiple environmental hazards that increase the risk of suicidal behaviors is necessary to maximize the likelihood of impacting the many different types of individuals who are vulnerable to suicidal behavior. For many Americans, raising the minimum wage could either remove or reduce the hazards of economic insecurity and financial strain, and thereby may reduce their risk for suicide, even if only slightly. Making health insurance more accessible could reduce suicide rates by a few more percentage points. Environmental physical-health hazards warrant attention as well. These strategies address social and environmental hazards that cannot be remedied with mental health treatment.

Deceptive readings: poetry and its value reconsidered

1995 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sitta von Reden
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Late Archaic ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Contractual Relationship ◽  
Notable Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One

In his analysis of the social and economic conditions of intellectual activity in ancient Greece, Gentili argues that the value of poetry underwent a notable change in the late archaic period. Poetry came to be produced within a contractual relationship between patrons and poets, it became a commercial good available to the one who could pay for it and its value was expressed no longer by honouring the poet but by paying for his product. At the time of Solon and Theognis the producers of poetry had been aristocratic members of the polis giving political advice to their peers and gaining renown by the quality of their advice. Yet Simonides and Pindar wrote under different social conditions. Gentili writes:Fully conscious by now of the dignity and importance of his role, the poet also becomes aware of its [i.e. poetry's] ‘commercial’ value. He puts his own sophia at the disposal of the highest bidder, thereby creating a basis for the tendency to regard wealth and poetic ‘wisdom’ as interchangeable moral equivalents.

Correctional Mental Health Research and Program Evaluation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Psychosocial Treatment ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Correctional Mental Health

Research in mental health issues in prisoner populations essentially stopped in the mid 1970’s. It is now re-emerging as a critical component of improving mental health care and helping toward recovery for the incarcerated mentally ill. Mental illness, ranging from acute anxiety to schizophrenia, is endemic within prisons and jails. Unlike their free world counterparts, however, incarcerated people have a constitutional right to mental health treatment. Yet, despite the need for and right to mental health treatment, remarkably little reliable and valid evidence is available on the nature and level of mental illness among incarcerated people, the effects of incarceration on symptomatology, the availability and quality of medication, cognitive, and psychosocial treatment for disorders, and how context impacts the effectiveness of the treatment that is available. Evidence is absent because corrections-based research is constrained by regulation, financing, and inexperience. In this chapter, the history of prisoner research and the evolution of federal regulations to protect prisoners as human subjects will be reviewed and then discussed in terms of how regulation has impacted correctional mental health research, after first defining what is meant by research and why research is needed to inform policy and practice decisions. This will be followed by recommendations for building the correctional mental health research evidence base. The intent here is to help researchers, in collaboration with stakeholders, develop, design, and implement research studies, and disseminate evidence to advance science and the quality of care available to incarcerated people with mental illnesses within the current regulatory environment.

Assessing the social and economic welfare of the population: A Russian region perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1910-1925
Author(s):  
R.M. Sadykov ◽  
E.K. Khalikova
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Economic Welfare ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Russian Region ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Studies

Subject. This article analyzes the basic indices that most fully reflect the multidimensional well-being of the population and the standards the actual living conditions are compared with. Objectives. The article aims to assess the region population's well-being and develop priority measures to increase its level. Methods. For the study, we used a comparative analysis, and sociological studies and official statistics data. Results. The article describes the main reasons for the decline in the well-being of the population of the region and Russia as a whole. The article specifies the priority measures to improve the well-being of the population. Conclusions. Creating favorable economic and social conditions, developing international cooperation of companies, investment in human capital will help improve the quality of production factors and their efficiency.

Unmet mental health needs in patients with advanced B-cell lymphomas

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Chrystal Marte ◽  
Login S. George ◽  
Sarah C. Rutherford ◽  
Daniel Jie Ouyang ◽  
Peter Martin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
B Cell ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Health Service Utilization ◽  
Mental Health Service Utilization ◽  
B Cell Lymphomas ◽  
Health Treatment

Abstract Context Existing research on psychological distress and mental health service utilization has focused on common types of solid tumor cancers, leaving significant gaps in our understanding of patients experiencing rare forms of hematologic cancers. Objective To examine distress, quality of life, and mental health service utilization among patients with aggressive, refractory B-cell lymphomas. Method Patients (n = 26) with B-cell lymphomas that relapsed after first- or second-line treatment completed self-report measures of distress (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) and quality of life (Short-Form Health Survey, SF-12). Patients also reported whether they had utilized mental health treatment since their cancer diagnosis. Results Approximately 42% (n = 11) of patients reported elevated levels of psychological distress. Of patients with elevated distress, only one quarter (27.2%; n = 3) received mental health treatment, while more than half did not receive mental health treatment (54.5%; n = 6), and 18.1% (n = 2) did not want treatment. Patients with elevated distress reported lower mental quality of life than patients without elevated distress [F (1, 25) = 15.32, p = 0.001]. Significance of the results A significant proportion of patients with advanced, progressive, B-cell lymphomas may experience elevated levels of distress. Yet, few of these distressed patients receive mental health treatment. Findings highlight the need to better identify and address barriers to mental health service utilization among patients with B-cell lymphoma, including among distressed patients who decline treatment.

scholarly journals PECULIARITIES OF REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FAMILY IN MEN

2016 ◽  
pp. 109-112
Author(s):  
H. Bevz ◽  
A. Kolpakova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Material Function ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Planning Function ◽  
Women's Role

This article is devoted to the study of representations of men of two family generations.Research has demonstrated sustainability of the concepts ofadult male of the family as an important value of life, supported by family traditions. It is proved immutability representations of men about women's role (which has to be a good mother and give support to man in moral way) and her husband (who provides her financially) in family life. Recreational function has appeared as typical characteristic of all men. Reproductive and material function turned to the distinction in perceptions between generations of the family, which are rigidly fixed-link in older generation, and broadcast through the planning function in junior generation. Sexual function has appeared estimated by the young generation as usual and appropriate just for their age: young people do not see its relevance in older age. Instead, thanks to the group of «parents», it has been proved that the formation of family subculture becomes more weight in a situation of separation of young families from original. In group «sons» the issue of separated residence has no such weight as for the older generation that may indicate a change in their perceptions of quality of life in the changed social conditions. The fact that the younger generation puts under revision the importance of education in planning their life in contrast to the previous one, which treated education as indestructible valuation basis of the quality of life, may indicate a change in the social situation. The study says that the family is the value of modern man: it just changes its shape according to the social conditions of life and its quality characteristics.

China’s Post-Socialist Governmentality and the Garlic Chives Meme: Economic Sovereignty and Biopolitical Subjects

2021 ◽  
pp. 026327642110243
Author(s):  
Pang Laikwan
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Study

This article analyzes a popular meme that has spread rapidly among Chinese internet users in the last few years, ‘garlic chives’ ( jiucai), as a self-mockery of the bio-economic subject in contemporary China. This metaphor refers to those ordinary Chinese people who are constantly lured to participate in all kinds of economic activities, but whose investments are destined to be consumed by the establishment. Through a close study of this popular meme and the social conditions from which it arises, this article demonstrates two main features of the Chinese economic subject that supports the state’s economic sovereignty: the thriving of self-sufficient and rule-abiding individuals, and the quality of these individuals as hard working and capable of producing wealth on their own. This article offers a critique of PRC’s post-socialist governmentality, and it provides insights about the relation between the biological and the political in our complicated world order.

On the Merits of Productive Stupidity

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-24
Author(s):  
Craig J. Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
The Many ◽  
Military Suicide

This chapter discusses how the collective discomfort with the many things that we do not know about suicide constrains innovative thinking about suicide. It begins with a critique of contemporary suicide prevention efforts, looking at military suicide. The inherently complex nature of suicide renders it beyond the reach of causal explanations such as mental illness. Nonetheless, many in the suicide prevention community fell victim to confirmation bias, interpreting these symptoms and problems in a manner consistent with what they already believed: suicide is caused by or results from mental illness. Based on this conclusion, the message was also communicated that mental health treatment can prevent suicide. Ultimately, suicide is a complex and wicked problem with no “right” way to define or conceptualize the problem, and no “right” solutions.

Components of the Economic Burden of Serious Mental Illness in the US

US Neurology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas R Insel ◽  
Michael Schoenbaum ◽  
Philip S Wang ◽  
◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us

Mental disorders impose considerable socioeconomic costs due to their episodic/chronic nature, their relatively early ages at onset, and the highly disabling nature of inadequately treated mental illness. Despite substantial increases in the volume of mental health treatment for disorders in the past two decades, particularly pharmacotherapies, the level of morbidity and mortality from these disorders does not appear to have changed substantially over this period. Improving outcomes will require the development and use of more efficacious treatments for mental disorders. Likewise, implementation of cost-effective strategies to improve the quality of existing care for these disabling conditions is required.

Intensive mental health treatment for neglecting and/or abusive parents: Outcome and impact on the quality of early parents child interactions

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. S283 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Viaux-Savelon ◽  
S. Vatageot ◽  
L. Camon-Sénéchal ◽  
L.P. Derotus ◽  
E. Aidane ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Health Treatment
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