scholarly journals Closing the gap between disaster mental health research and practice: evidence for socio-ecological mental health interventions through multilevel research

Intervention ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
TimR Wind ◽  
IvanH Komproe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Multilevel Research ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
Closing The Gap

The poison in the cure: Neoliberalism and contemporary movements in mental health

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 669-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Cosgrove ◽  
Justin M. Karter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Simultaneous Increase ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Material Conditions ◽  
Health Field

Neoliberalism reaches beyond economic policy and material conditions and reformulates the subject and psychological life and therefore is best understood as an attitude toward science, knowledge making, and subjectivity. In a neoliberal climate, markets give us truth and individuals are encouraged to be self-concerned agents rather than members of a polis. Thus, at the very moment that neoliberal policies transfer responsibility to individuals, there is a simultaneous increase in surveillance in order to reinstall certain patterns of human behavior. Mental health research and practice risk becoming commodities dedicated to enforcing this logic. In this article, we explore medical neoliberalism in some of its recent manifestations: global mental health interventions, routine depression screening, and the monitoring of social media to assess mental health. We also consider the ways in which popular reforms in the mental health field are founded on neoliberal assumptions and may be abetting these ideological aims.

scholarly journals Child disaster mental health interventions, part II

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Pfefferbaum ◽  
Jennifer L. Sweeton ◽  
Elana Newman ◽  
Vandana Varma ◽  
Mary A. Noffsinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Interventions

scholarly journals Child disaster mental health interventions, part I

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Pfefferbaum ◽  
Jennifer L. Sweeton ◽  
Elana Newman ◽  
Vandana Varma ◽  
Pascal Nitiéma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Interventions

Using Ethnographic Methods in the Selection of Post-Disaster, Mental Health Interventions

2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bolton ◽  
Alice M. Tang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis paper describes a short, ethnographic study approach for understanding how people from non-Western cultures think about mental health and mental health problems, and the rationale for using such an approach in designing and implementing mental health interventions during and after disasters. It describes how the resulting data can contribute to interventions that are more acceptable to local people, and therefore, more effective and sustainable through improved community support.

Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah R. Kamens ◽  
Lisa Cosgrove ◽  
Shannon M. Peters ◽  
Nev Jones ◽  
Elizabeth Flanagan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Alternative Systems ◽  
Standards And Guidelines

Diagnostic nomenclatures have been central to mental health research and practice since the turn of the 20th century. In recent years, an increasing number of mental health professionals have proposed that a paradigm shift in diagnosis is inevitable. The Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Mental Health Research and Practice are intended to serve as a reference for the development of scientifically sound and ethically principled diagnostic nomenclatures and descriptive alternatives. The Standards and Guidelines are divided into four sections that address the purposes; development; type, content, and structure; and scientific grounding of nomenclatures and alternative systems. They are intended to represent best practice in the classification and description of emotional distress for multidisciplinary mental health professionals.

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