‘Built for expansion’: the ‘social life’ of the WHO's mental health GAP Intervention Guide

Working remotely was an option for the employees before the Covid-19 pandemic. However, it's become a new working format and compulsory for the white collars to work at home. Even if it seems attractive at first look, the new format of working style actually has caused lots of problems especially on employees' mental health. The social life, private comfort zone, and working environment of the workers have mixed with each other and the equilibrium among them which gave certainty and predictability is totally broken now. Actually, the employees started to search for a new normal and balance in the pandemic. I am planning to focus on the new psychological problems that popped up in the pandemic with regard to remote working. Basing on four main feelings which are stress, anxiety, uncertainty, and loneliness, it is structured to focus on the problems which are the broken balance between work and family, the problem of workload and over-working, the future ambiguity about the career, and miscommunication, to analyze how these problems bring out mental health disorder. In the final part, I will try to give some suggestions on how to get over it or reduce it.

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PARENTAL PERCEPTION ABOUT WESTERN CARTOON ON CHILD’S MENTAL HEALTH IN PAKISTAN

Pakistan Journal of Rehabilitation ◽

10.36283/pjr.zu.9.2/010 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 48-53

Author(s):

Farah Sultan ◽

Zaki Hasan

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Life ◽

Role Models ◽

Role Model ◽

Societal Norms ◽

The Social ◽

Parametric Statistics ◽

Tv Shows ◽

Cartoon Characters ◽

Pediatric Mental Health

The purpose of this study is to explore the impacts of foreign cartoons programs on the social behavior and attitude of Pakistani Children. It is forecasting different cartoon programs 24/7; hence, children spend most of their leisure in front of the television. All these cartoon characters affect the social life and psyche of the children and induce positive and negative mannerism in their daily lifestyles. It has found that one of the most disturbing factor is that the ferocity in children today is increasing rapidly due to following their favorite violent cartoon characters which are even different from their culture and societal norms. The issue is violence is what they see in every cartoon program in one or the other way. Their Guardians are unaware that these cartoons they let their children watch are destroying their parenting as negative forces are attacking the innocent minds of this generation. The study gives the insight of why and what is happening with non-parametric statistics studied and used for thorough analysis. The behavioral outcome of the kids like, imitating their preferred animation character, utilizing various dialects, watching the TV as opposed to deciding on outdoor games and being difficult about getting precisely the same outfits and embellishments as their adored character. This contextual analysis features the disturbing circumstance that guardians are uninformed of. There is something other than mimicking the particular character. The only traits of watching these foreign cartoon characters is that it might damage their own customs and they wildly become to believe these characters as their role models. KEY WORDS: Animated TV Shows, Children, Attitude, Behavior, Cartoons, Violence, Role Model, Pediatric Mental Health

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Going in and Getting out of the Colonial Asylum: Families and Psychiatric Care in French Indochina

Comparative Studies in Society and History ◽

10.1017/s0010417513000303 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 55 (3) ◽

pp. 725-755 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Claire Edington

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Life ◽

Common Ground ◽

Psychiatric Care ◽

History Of Psychiatry ◽

Colonial Rule ◽

The Public ◽

Colonial Society ◽

The Social ◽

History Of

AbstractThis paper explores the movements of asylum patients in and out of psychiatric care in French Indochina as the product of everyday interactions between psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the public, especially patients' families. Throughout the interwar years, families and communities actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that disrupt our notions of the colonial asylum as a closed setting that patients rarely left, run by experts who enjoyed broad, unquestioned authority. Vietnamese families, by debating individuals' suitability for social life, engaged with professional psychiatrists to find common ground for thinking about and discussing mental illness. At the same time, they pursued their own strategies in ways that significantly limited the power of experts. Debates revolved around the mental health of patients, but also around the capacity of families to assume their care upon release, and whether the asylum itself was the most appropriate site for treatment and rehabilitation. By considering how lay people and experts came together to negotiate the confinement and release of asylum patients, this paper offers a novel perspective on the development of psychiatric knowledge and power in colonial settings. I argue that by situating the history of psychiatry within the local dynamics of colonial rule as opposed to expert discourse, the asylum emerges here less as a blunt instrument for the social control and medicalization of colonial society than as a valuable historical site for reframing narratives of colonial repression and resistance.

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Navigating COVID-19: Insights from research on social ostracism

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations ◽

10.1177/1368430220981408 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 306-310

Author(s):

Andrew H. Hales ◽

Natasha R. Wood ◽

Kipling D. Williams

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Social Connections ◽

The Social ◽

Social Ostracism ◽

Being There ◽

Mental Health Effects ◽

The Impact ◽

Mental Well Being

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated social distancing and lockdowns has caused unprecedented changes to social life. We consider the possible implications of these changes for mental health. Drawing from research on social ostracism emphasizing the importance of social connection for mental well-being, there is reason for concern regarding the mental health effects of the crisis. However, there are also reasons for optimism; people can be surprisingly resilient to stressful situations, the impact of ostracism tends to depend on social norms (which are rapidly changing), and mental health depends primarily on having at least one or two close social connections. Given the scale and unprecedented nature of the social disruption that occurred, we see strong reason for concern, but not despair.

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Researching Social Anxiety in an Online Sample of Patients

10.21203/rs.3.rs-1134881/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Samar Khalifa

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Anxiety Disorder ◽

Social Anxiety ◽

Social Life ◽

Work Life ◽

Moderate Correlation ◽

Home Life ◽

Anxiety Test ◽

Social Settings ◽

The Social

Abstract Objective The research paper is discussing and investigating the disorder of social anxiety in terms of psychology and mental health. Methods A Psycom Social Anxiety Test was conducted on a sample of online patients (n = 41) with social anxiety to use this data in further research for social anxiety disorder. Results The data showed a moderate correlation between the question “Are you extremely conscious of your actions when in social settings because you fear they might offend someone or you could be rejected?” and the question “Are your work life, home life, social life, and/or relationships affected by your anxiety?”. Conclusion There is a relation between the consciousness of the actions and the social life so social anxiety arises in those objects who suffer from social fear.

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Factors Threatening Mental Health in Organizations and Offices

International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences ◽

10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.6.62 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 62-67

Author(s):

Mohamad Khaledian ◽

Galavizh Khaledian ◽

Jabar Sadeghi ◽

Reza Keyhanihekmat

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Life ◽

Major Part ◽

Social Needs ◽

The Social ◽

Working Groups

One of the important aspects of health is mental health. Job constitutes a major part of man‟s social life. Job plays a fundamental role through creating a situation for the participation of employees and working groups in meeting the social needs of humans like the need to respect. The objective of this research is to examine the Factors threatening mental health in organizations and offices. The method of research, documentation and library.

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Exploring the Coping Strategies of Older Persons During COVID-19 Lockdown in Nigeria: A Qualitative Study

10.21203/rs.3.rs-139096/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Isaac Adedeji ◽

Saheed Akinmayowa Lawal ◽

Sola Aluko-Arowolo

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Support ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Social Life ◽

Older Persons ◽

Exploratory Research ◽

Coping Behaviors ◽

Telephone Interviews ◽

The Social ◽

Social Vulnerabilities

Abstract Background The challenge of COVID-19 and the restrictions that were imposed in Nigeria had a direct effect on social life. Older persons were disproportionately affected because of the existing social vulnerabilities, socio-economic dependency, and high risk of COVID-19 in the population. Older persons require essential dimensions of social support, but these were significantly limited due to the COVID-19 restrictions. To this end, the study interrogated the coping strategies of older persons. Specifically, the study drew narratives to identify the processes for coping with the mental health challenges associated with being severed from established routines and sources of social support. The study adopted an exploratory research design using qualitative methods. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, in-depth telephone interviews were conducted among twenty-seven (27) older persons in Ibadan, Nigeria. Through a system of content analysis, using Atlas ti 8.4, textual data was analyzed and validated. ResultsThree major themes emerged to describe the coping behaviors, which were embedded in the problem-focused coping strategies of older persons. Older persons explored spirituality, engaged their social networks through telephones, and gave more attention to a healthy diet and physical exercises mainly indoors to improve their general wellness and mental health. The nuances of the coping behaviors reflect the mental health needs – fear, anxiety, and depression, among older persons during the restrictions. ConclusionsTherefore, health promotion by the social support structure and government is valuable for improving the mental health outcomes of older persons in a pandemic.

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