Directions and Redirections in Chicano Psychology

This reaction provides a general overview of the articles on Chicana(o) mental health issues. Summaries of the respective articles are provided. Selective aspects of each article are highlighted and serve as the basis for making critical comments and recommendations relative to the topics addressed in the articles. Out of a desire to provoke thought regarding other topics that merit attention, an overview of two research topics is provided—one that exemplifies how the research reviewed in the articles can be applied in innovative mental health settings and one that, I believe, directs attention to a new perspective relative to understanding Chicana(o) mental health. In addition to these two topics other topics that beg to be studied are identified.

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‘Fansens’ are waving through a window: Exploring the Dear Evan Hansen fan phenomenon

The Journal of Fandom Studies ◽

10.1386/jfs_00017_1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 201-220 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jarrod Walczer ◽

Derek E. Baird

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Social Media ◽

Social Anxiety ◽

Online Support ◽

Health Issues ◽

Fan Communities ◽

Mental Health Issues ◽

Digital Methods ◽

New Perspective ◽

Anxiety Depression

Dear Evan Hansen (DEH) is a social media-centric musical that has been widely celebrated by a show-specific online fan community, known as ‘Fansens’, on Instagram and Tumblr, having won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2017. The growth of this fandom, on these platforms, is unique as Fansens have adopted plot points and thematic elements from the musical relating to how social media affects social anxiety, depression and suicide to create fan art and fanfictions that, in turn, result in a community of care on social media where fans can discuss their own encounters with social anxiety, teen suicide and cyberbullying. Though most Fansens would not have been able to see the musical performed on Broadway or live in-person, their fanfictions, personal posts and fan art reflect and refract the difficulties that young people have with mental health, social anxiety and suicide. Using both digital methods and post-structuralist textual analysis, this article analyses numerous fan cultural artefacts collected from DEH-specific hash-tagged posts on Tumblr and Instagram. In doing so, this article provides a new perspective on the role that fan communities, their artefacts, their use of digital medi, and their fan activist and upstanding techniques can play in providing avenues of self-care and modelling positive online support for those dealing with mental health issues.

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HUMAN RIGHTS AS A PATHWAY IN MENTAL HEALTH SETTINGS

International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH ◽

10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i1.2017.1888 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 258-262

Author(s):

Rishi Panday ◽

Prashant Srivastava

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Human Rights ◽

Service Provision ◽

Health Issues ◽

Human Beings ◽

Social Origin ◽

Know How ◽

Mental Health Issues ◽

Mental Health Settings ◽

Inalienable Rights

Mental health is an issue which touches the lives of many people worldwide. This often affects not only the person themselves but also their family and friends. The way in which society deals with mental health issues raises many human rights points for example in relation to service provision, treatment, assessment and civil detention, protection and empowerment. The simplest way of defining human rights is that they are about balancing the inalienable rights of all of us as human beings within the community regardless of differences in birth, social origin, gender, physical differences, faith and belief, ideology, nationality and so on. There can be no disagreement with the universally acclaimed truth that human dignity is the quintessence of human rights. This article shows lights on concept of human rights and to know how it is a pathway in mental health settings.

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