Goldwater

2020 ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Dan P. McAdams
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Mental Health And Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
The One

As a short digression into the world of psychiatric diagnosis, the chapter “Goldwater” discusses the controversy over whether or not mental health professionals should diagnose President Trump with a mental illness, such as narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). The chapter’s title recalls the 1964 U.S. presidential election wherein the results of a survey of psychiatrists were published in an American magazine, concluding that the Republican candidate Barry Goldwater was mentally unfit to hold office. Goldwater later sued the magazine, and the case led to what has become known as the Goldwater Rule, prohibiting psychiatrists from diagnosing public officials from afar. The chapter makes a clear distinction between psychiatric diagnosis, which adopts the language of medicine and illness, on the one hand, and psychological commentary on the other. The latter conception better characterizes what the current book aims to accomplish. Psychological commentary draws from psychological science to develop a personality portrait of a person, without diagnosis and without judgment regarding mental health and illness. Moreover, Donald Trump is much stranger than any psychiatric label can convey.

scholarly journals Innovations in mental health promotion: Youth Net/Réseau Ado

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 398-399
Author(s):  
Ian G Manion ◽  
Simon Davidson ◽  
Christina Norris ◽  
Sarah Brandon
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
Mental Health And Illness ◽  
Health And Illness

Abstract Today's youth are at a disturbingly high risk for mental health and illness problems and are largely dissatisfied with the existing mental health services. Youth Net/Réseau Ado (YN/RA), supported by input from mental health professionals, is a bilingual mental health promotion program that seeks out the opinions and attitudes of youth regarding mental health and illness issues, while connecting them with appropriate resources and mental health services. This paper describes the Youth Net/Réseau Ado program and provides some guidelines for the identification of mental health and illness problems, including indicators of the risk of suicide.

Psychosocial Needs of Torture Survivors

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick Silove ◽  
Ruth Tarn ◽  
Robin Bowles ◽  
Janice Reid
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Torture Survivors ◽  
Psychosocial Needs ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Widespread Interest

Growing recognition that the world faces a modern epidemic of torture has stimulated widespread interest amongst mental health professionals in strategies for the treatment of survivors. In this article we outline the distinctive experiences of torture survivors who present for treatment in western countries. These survivors are usually refugees who, in addition to torture, have suffered a sequence of traumatic experiences and face ongoing linguistic, occupational, financial, educational and cultural obstacles in their country of resettlement. Their multiple needs call into question whether “working through” their trauma stories in psychotherapy will on its own ensure successful psychosocial rehabilitation. Drawing on our experience at a recently established service [1], we propose a broader therapeutic aim.

International Themes in Psychotherapy Integration

2019 ◽  
pp. 448-473
Author(s):  
Beatriz Gómez ◽  
Shigeru Iwakabe ◽  
Alexandre Vaz
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychotherapy Integration ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Climate ◽  
The World ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
Sociopolitical Issues

Interest in psychotherapy integration has steadily expanded over the past decades, reaching most continents of the world and more mental health professionals than ever. Nevertheless, a country’s cultural and historical background significantly influences the nurturance or hindrance of integrative endeavors. This chapter seeks to explicate the current climate of psychotherapy integration in different continents and specific countries. With the aid of local integrative scholars, brief descriptions are presented on integrative practice, training, and research, as well as on cultural and sociopolitical issues that have shaped this movement’s impact around the world.

Psychiatry without Asylums: Origins and Prospects in Italy

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Crepet ◽  
Giovanni De Plato
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Institutional Reform ◽  
Mental Hospitals ◽  
The World ◽  
Private Citizens

In 1978, Italy became the first country in the world to pass a law eliminating mental hospitals and replacing them with services in the community. This victory was in large part due to the foresight and commitment of psychiatrist Franco Basaglia and his colleagues, whose work showed how psychiatric assistance could be realized in practice without asylums and without force and violence. This article analyzes why the anti-institutional reform took place in Italy when it did, and reviews twenty years of reform activity involving an alliance between democratic mental health professionals, politicians, workers' organizations, and private citizens. Although the reform gives psychiatry the opportunity to transform itself into a science of liberation, conservative political and scientific forces are attempting to maintain the logic of the asylum and replace the mental hospital with other institutions which continue to practice segregation in a decentralized form. The outcome of this radical experiment in creating a nonrepressive psychiatry remains uncertain.

The World the Revolution Made

Madhouse ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Lambe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Psychological Change ◽  
Mental Transformation ◽  
The World ◽  
Psychological Transformation ◽  
The Revolution

Chapter 6 argues that the project of mental transformation in the service of revolution transpired largely beyond the institution. Imbued with the utopian spirit of social engineering, mental health professionals mobilized to implement their plans for psychological transformation. Nevertheless, as psychiatrists in particular discovered, this was a project that the revolutionary leadership itself planned to direct, and in many cases they were forced to take a backseat to its sui generis reeducation experiments. The end result was the unmistakable politicization of psychological change, as an assemblage of psychiatric concepts, language, and practice imbued official expectations and popular experiences of the revolutionary moment.

scholarly journals Engagement of Russian Mental Health Professionals in the Development of WHO’s ICD-11

10.17816/cp79 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Tahilia J. Rebello ◽  
Maya A. Kulygina ◽  
Valery N. Krasnov ◽  
Kathleen M. Pike ◽  
Geoffrey M. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Russian Federation

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially approved the next version of its global diagnostic system, the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11). Processes to implement the ICD-11 are now underway. Developing the ICD-11 chapter on Mental, Behavioural and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, in line with WHOs core priorities to enhance the clinical utility, reliability, and global applicability of the guidelines, necessitated a large-scale scientifically-rigorous research program. Such a program of global field studies engaged mental health professionals from across the world, with substantial contributions from clinicians in the Russian Federation. This paper systematically highlights the substantive roles played by Russian clinicians in all steps of development of the mental, behavioural, and neurodevelopmental disorder guidelines, including their participation in the following: 1) early formative field studies that informed the organizing principles and overarching structure of the ICD-11; 2) large-scale online studies that used a case-controlled methodology to evaluate the guidelines clinical utility and the accuracy with which the new ICD-11 guidelines could be applied by global clinicians; 3) an online network of mental health professionals who provided direct feedback on the ICD-11 to WHO (also known as the Global Clinical Practice Network, www.globalclinicalpractice.net) with over 16,000 members from 160 countries, and with the Russian Federation being in the top five most represented countries in the network; 4) clinic-based field studies that tested the reliability and clinical utility of the ICD-11 diagnostic guidelines; and 5) development and participation in training programs that prepare clinicians in implementing the diagnostic guidelines in clinical settings. In these many ways, Russian clinicians have substantively and directly contributed to efforts to maximize the clinical usefulness, consistency, acceptability, and applicability of the ICD-11s mental, behavioural, and neurodevelopmental disorder guidelines. This substantial engagement of clinicians will conceivably facilitate the adoption and use of the guidelines by clinicians in the Russian Federation and other Russian-speaking countries, as the ICD-11 is implemented over the coming years.

Islam and mental health

2021 ◽  
pp. 183-200
Author(s):  
Ahmed Okasha ◽  
Tarek A. Okasha
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Mental Health Providers ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Mental Health And Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Scientific Base

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine that most prominently incorporates the humanities and social sciences in its scientific base and in its treatment of illness. Psychiatry has often needed to go well beyond the world of natural science into the philosophical realm. Psychiatry and religion both draw upon rich traditions of human thought and practice. Mental health providers in developed countries are increasingly treating patients whose backgrounds are very different from their own, so it is important for them to understand cultural belief systems including religious thought and practice that relate to mental health and illness. Psychiatry and religion are parallel and complementary frames of reference for understanding and describing the human experience and human behaviour.

Diagnosis versus recovery

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 447-447
Author(s):  
P. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Cognitive Behavior ◽  
The Real ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Recovery Movement ◽  
Attitudinal Changes

The Recovery and Wellness Movement is the framework within which we ask the chronically mentally ill to understand how they might best manage their lives.The epistemological and cultural primacy of a patient′s psychiatric diagnosis minimizes effective involvement in the Recovery Movement.The aim of this presentation is to present both the implications to the patient in being trapped in any diagnostic labyrinth and how she/he can“escape” into a DIFFERENT awareness of the meaning of her/his diagnosis while still actively pursueing meaningful Recovery goals.Various cognitive behavior techniques will be discussed to highlight both how patients should understand the real albeit limited value of their diagnoses as well as understand the necessary self-evaluation and attitudinal changes that will allow them to understand how best to participate in the Recovery Movement. The desired result: Both patients and mental health professionals will learn to minimize any heuristic value in even the term-“Patient.”

scholarly journals HISTORY OF PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION IN INDIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
L. Ponnuchamy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Colonial

Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) is a part of psychiatric treatment for persons with chronic mentally illness. In the past two decades, the importance of psychosocial rehabilitation is increasing gradually.  The concept and approaches of PSR have been spreading steadily all over the world.  It is a growing field in the developing countries like India.  The information about history of psychosocial rehabilitation among the mental health professionals is inadequate.  But one could see the route of this, even before our country got independence from British colonial rule.  It is always happy to see pathways of any field or subject how it was evolved and developed.    This is an attempt with available resources to bring out the history to the light.

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