The social care needs of women with mental illness

Purpose The aim of this study is to present a situation assessment within the framework of a comprehensive study of the social services for people with mental illness in Hungary. After setting the historical background, we describe in detail the current services, their anomalies, and the ongoing implementation of a strategy to deinstitutionalize them. Materials and methods We reviewed the related academic literature and systematically collected and elaborated upon legal documents, decisions, and data from national databases. Results We established that a paradigm shift is taking place in the social care of people with mental disorders in Hungary. The lack of human resources, the paternalistic, institution-centered attitude, the mass supply of social services in dilapidated buildings, and the stigmatization of patients are among the greatest problems. Cooperation between the health and social sectors is inadequate and, in the interests of patients, needs to be improved. Conclusions Hungary needs a complex, integrated, health-and-social-care supply system for people living with mental illness, one that takes into account both personal needs and assistance to recovery. In the continuation of the deinstitutionalization process, emphasis should be placed on social sensitization.

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Attitudes and perceptions of health professionals towards mental patients attending emergency room

Health & Research Journal ◽

10.12681/healthresj.19846 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 261

Author(s):

Stamatina Douki ◽

Christina Marvaki ◽

Georgia Toulia ◽

Areti Stavropoulou

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Social Integration ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

Social Care ◽

P Value ◽

Social Discrimination ◽

The Social ◽

Attitudes And Perceptions ◽

Social Restriction

Introduction: Mental health patients are a group of population that has predominantly been stigmatized throughout the centuries. Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore attitudes of health professionals in the emergency department towards the mentally ill.Material and Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 278 health professionals working in Emergency Departments. A questionnaire scale O.M.I. (Opinion about Mental Illness) was used for data collection. Data analysis was performed with the statistical package Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) ver.22.Results: The correlation of five O.M.I. scale factors there is no statistically significant relationship (p-value> 0.05) with the variables sex and years of employment. Age had a statistically significant relationship (p-value=0.034) with the factor "social integration" and has no statistically significant relationship (p-value> 0.05) with the remaining factors O.M.I. scale ("Social discrimination", "social constraint", "social care" and "ground"). In association with education there is a statistically significant relationship with the agents 'social discrimination'(p-value<0.001), 'social restriction'(p-value=0.001), and "ground"(p-value=0.045) and there statistically significant relationship (p-value> 0.05) with the "social inclusion"(p-value<0.001) and "social care" specialty.The variable has a statistically significant difference (p-value <0.05) the factor "social distinction” (p-value<0.001) between doctors andnurses, in the "social restriction 'among doctors and nurses and between nurses and other disciplines and the factor "social integration"(p-value<0.001) between physicians-nurses and doctors with other specialties.Conclusions: The statistical analysis of the questionnaires (O.M.I. scale) distributed showed that the variables age, educational level, specialty affect the attitudes and perceptions of health professionals towards the mentally ill (negative stops), which form the stigma of mental illness.

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Information Challenges of the Deaf in their Health and Social Care Needs

Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch005 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 93-111

Author(s):

Cayley Guimarães ◽

Diego Roberto Antunes ◽

Laura Sánchez García ◽

Sueli Fernandes

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Social Care ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Care Needs ◽

Political Citizenship ◽

The Social ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Life Threatening ◽

The Right

The members of the deaf communities have been excluded for many years from society and their own culture. Deaf culture is a term applied to the social movement that holds deafness to be a difference in human experience (which includes the right to use Sign Language) rather than a disability. The deaf suffer, daily, through life-threatening situations that go unattended, mostly due to lack of awareness, proper practices, and policies, among others. The Deaf are in dire need of acknowledgment of their plight, in particular by Health and Social Care practitioners, politicians, and researchers. This chapter calls attention to this minority and its needs, including social, political, citizenship, strategies, and polices dimensions. It presents a Human-Computer Interaction architecture with which to inform the design of Information and Communication Technologies to aid Health and Social Care professionals in their work with the deaf.

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The social care needs of unaccompanied minors: the Irish experience

European Journal of Social Work ◽

10.1080/13691457.2017.1357018 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 95-106 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Deirdre Horgan ◽

Muireann Ní Raghallaigh

Keyword(s):

Social Care ◽

Unaccompanied Minors ◽

Care Needs ◽

The Social

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Review of The Social Control of Mental Illness.

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/020825 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 27 (12) ◽

pp. 1002-1002

Author(s):

No authorship indicated

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Social Control ◽

The Social

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Jane Adams: an experience of multicultural education and social care. Chicago, 1889 – 1910

European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies ◽

10.26417/ejms.v6i2.p306-311 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 306

Author(s):

Silvana Panza

Keyword(s):

Multicultural Education ◽

Social Care ◽

Immigrant Families ◽

Culture Learning ◽

Educational Method ◽

Central Figure ◽

Jane Addams ◽

The Social ◽

Political Idea ◽

Hull House

The focus of this study concerns a deep analysis on the innovative educational method utilized by Jane Addams (1860-1935) at Hull House. She was a philosopher, but first of all we can consider this woman as a sociologist, because of her careful survey on society, Addams’s activities also implied a new educational project based on the social care of poor workers and their families. She chose for her extraordinary experience one of the most slummy suburbs in Chicago, where with her friend Ellen Gates Starr founded in 1889 this settlement. The main intention of the sociologist was to give immigrants lots of opportunities to understand Chicago’s social and political context. It was important to create a place where immigrant families could socialize, learning more about their rights and possibilities. For this reason Addams suggested that it needed to start from education, taking a particular care of children who lived in that area. It was necessary to promote a reform on the different culture learning to support immigrants in their integration, people who came there hoping to find a job into factories. In 1889 when the settlement was founded, there were about four hundred social houses around the States. Addams’ s important social and political idea was to develop a democratic society, where each person could recognize himself/herself as a part of it, avoiding marginalization and segregation. The sociologist was a central figure at Hull House for about twenty years.

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Addressing the social needs of individuals with food allergy and celiac disease during COVID-19: A new practice model for sustained social care

Social Work in Health Care ◽

10.1080/00981389.2021.1904323 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Lucy A. Bilaver ◽

Rajeshree Das ◽

Erin Martinez ◽

Emily Brown ◽

Ruchi S. Gupta ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Food Allergy ◽

Celiac Disease ◽

Social Care ◽

Social Needs ◽

Practice Model ◽

The Social

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A syndemics approach to exercise is medicine

Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine ◽

10.1177/13634593211021481 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 136345932110214

Author(s):

Caitlin Vitosky Clarke ◽

Brynn C Adamson

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Chronic Disease ◽

Social Factors ◽

Social Conditions ◽

Self Concept ◽

Exercise Interventions ◽

Narrow Scope ◽

The Social ◽

Exercise Promotion ◽

The Impact

This paper offers new insights into the promotion of the Exercise is Medicine (EIM) framework for mental illness and chronic disease. Utilising the Syndemics Framework, which posits mental health conditions as corollaries of social conditions, we argue that medicalized exercise promotion paradigms both ignore the social conditions that can contribute to mental illness and can contribute to mental illness via discrimination and worsening self-concept based on disability. We first address the ways in which the current EIM framework may be too narrow in scope in considering the impact of social factors as determinants of health. We then consider how this narrow scope in combination with the emphasis on independence and individual prescriptions may serve to reinforce stigma and shame associated with both chronic disease and mental illness. We draw on examples from two distinct research projects, one on exercise interventions for depression and one on exercise interventions for multiple sclerosis (MS), in order to consider ways to improve the approach to exercise promotion for these and other, related populations.

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