Death Row Narratives: A Qualitative Analysis of Mental Health Issues Found In Death Row Inmate Blog Entries

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-165
Author(s):  
Robert Johnson ◽  
Jacqueline Lantsman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Solitary Confinement ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Death Row ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Death Row Inmates ◽  
The Many

Death row inmate narratives, culled from online blogs, are used to explore the social determinants of mental health in the context of the stresses and deprivations of living on death row. Legal and correctional procedures that affect death row inmates are conceptualized as social determinants of mental health. These procedures include the granting or denying of stays of execution, conditions of solitary confinement during death row and the death watch, and impending dates of execution. Death row narratives offer a nuanced account of the many ways condemned prisoners must contend with their powerlessness as an essential element of life under sentence of death.

Hitting Rock Bottom

Outlaw Women ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 45-86
Author(s):  
Susan Dewey ◽  
Bonnie Zare ◽  
Catherine Connolly ◽  
Rhett Epler ◽  
Rosemary Bratton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Conceptual Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
The Many

This chapter addresses the addiction and mental health trajectories that led a significant number of women to prison. It elucidates how, for some women, prison offered their first real opportunity to receive sustained medical and other therapeutic treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues. This situation complements the chapter’s central argument that rural social control mechanisms uniquely criminalize and stigmatize women’s substance abuse and mental health issues while discouraging help seeking. Focusing particularly on the experiences of “Tammi,” a nineteen-year-old serving a relatively short drug-related sentence and whose “outlaw family” includes many individuals incarcerated in Wyoming jails and prisons, the chapter details the socio-conceptual organization of available addictions treatment within and outside the prison’s extremely isolated Wyoming context. The chapter explores the social and interpersonal organization of the prison’s Intensive Treatment Unit, a separate housing unit that adheres to the therapeutic community model. It examines the social and conceptual organization of other prison therapeutic groups organized by prison staff, volunteers, and the women themselves. This chapter also documents “Nedrah’s” journey through one of the many approaches to reentry taken by the women in their attempts to maintain sobriety and avoid individuals and places that contributed to their addictions.

The Social Mandate to Deal With Mental Health

2020 ◽  
pp. 234-254
Author(s):  
Alberta Mazzola
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Mental Health ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
Mental Health Agencies ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Public Middle School ◽  
Health Field

The chapter aims to explore the construct of mental health in a psychoanalytic perspective with a psychosocial approach. In particular, the chapter studies mental health by analysing traces to detect social mandate characterizing different mental health agencies. The highlighted hypothesis could be interpreted as that social mandate is a clue of local cultures about mental health, which determine fantasies about mental health issues, grounding on symbolizations shared by professionals, users, and community. The chapter introduces three clinical experiences of interventions, carried out in different contexts: a public mental health service, a public middle school, a psychoanalytic private office. All the presented experiences concern mental health field, even though they are characterized by different features in terms of subjects, methods, professionals, users, and organizations involved. The chapter explores those differences in order to focus on transversal issues.

scholarly journals Management and Plan of Undergraduates’ Mental Health Based on Keyword Extraction

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Weifeng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Recall Rate ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Keyword Extraction ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Running Time ◽  
Upper Approximation ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social

Mental health issues are alarmingly on the rise among undergraduates, which have gradually become the focus of social attention. With the emergence of some abnormal events such as more and more undergraduates’ suspension, and even suicide due to mental health issues, the social attention to undergraduates’ mental health has reached a climax. According to the questionnaire of undergraduates’ mental health issues, this paper uses keyword extraction to analyze the management and plan of undergraduates’ mental health. Based on the classical TextRank algorithm, this paper proposes an improved TextRank algorithm based on upper approximation rough data-deduction. The experimental results show that the accurate rate, recall rate, and F1 of proposed algorithm have been significantly improved, and the experimental results also demonstrate that the proposed algorithm has good performance in running time and physical memory occupation.

scholarly journals "SCREAM" THE SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manav Vasisth ◽  
Aaditya Vijay Srivastava ◽  
Udit Garg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Media Network

The framework proposed in this paper is a serious answer for the social media as now days all fake and promote all the negativity. Our site is based on the, to help people who are suffering from the mental health issues so in our platform the user can tell their views to the and their issues by they are suffering. This is for stopping the negativity which are now days more growing in todays world.

scholarly journals Increasing School Nurse Teachers' Awareness of the Social...

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Sharkey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
School Nurse ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Advanced Nursing Practice ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2013) and the National Library of Medicine (2013), the numbers of emotional and mental health issues in children have increased significantly. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (2017) indicates that the prevalence of mental illness in these age groups is 20 percent. Schools are increasingly implementing social-emotional programs and curricula to address these needs. School nurse teachers provide care for many of these children and are in a position to promote positive outcomes for them. However, many school nurse teachers are not aware of the social-emotional programs and curricula programs that are available. The purpose of this program development project was to increase school nurse teachers’ awareness of the school district’s social emotional learning (SEL) initiatives. This project addressed the clinical question of whether an educational program addressing SEL increased school nurse teachers’ awareness of the SEL initiatives which had been adopted by the Warwick Public Schools. The findings of the study indicated that a presentation describing SEL increased the school nurse teachers’ awareness of the initiatives that had been adopted by the Warwick Public Schools. The implications for advanced nursing practice include education that ensures school nurses have the competencies to provide care for students and families with complex social and emotional needs. They must be able to identify students who are struggling with mental health issues and have the skills to intervene on their behalf.

scholarly journals DISABILITY AND MENTAL HEALTH AS A PROFESSIONAL LIVE STREAMER

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Richard Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Positive Elements ◽  
Live Broadcast ◽  
The Many

In this paper I explore economic and inclusion opportunities for people with disabilities and mental health issues afforded by ‘live streaming’ ‒ the live broadcast of one’s activities over the internet to a globally dispersed audience. In both 2016 and 2017, the leading live streaming platform Twitch.tv broadcast over 500,000 years of video, which were produced by over two million regular broadcasters (‘streamers’), and consumed by an audience of several hundred million viewers. Streamers can profit, up to and including a full-time living ‘wage’ for those at the highest levels. Numerous successful streamers with chronic health issues have discussed the personal and professional benefits streaming brings them. Utilising data from a research project with 100 interviews, alongside approximately 500 hours of ethnographic observation, this paper examines the experiences of live streaming for broadcasters with disabilities, mental health issues, or physical health issues. Firstly, I explore the positive elements of streaming for these broadcasters, focusing on the many conditions represented in this demographic, and the benefits streaming gives for inclusion and community. Secondly, I consider the negative experiences of these streamers, focused on entanglements of health and technology that make their streaming lives potentially more challenging than their colleagues. Thirdly, I focus on the economic opportunities, and the potential for entrepreneurial activity, the platform affords. I conclude the analysis by exploring how these aspects make live streaming a potentially exemplary emancipatory and entrepreneurial space for these individuals, but not one without challenges.

"How was the call?": Understanding the social determinants of mental health of the undergraduate students in Bangladesh (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananya Bhattacharjee ◽  
S M Taiabul Haque ◽  
Abdul Hady ◽  
S.M. Raihanul Alam ◽  
Mashfiqui Rabbi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Romantic Relationship ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
Android Application ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Social ◽  
Before And After

BACKGROUND Mental health of the undergraduate students in Bangladesh is an understudied topic. The overall condition of mental health facilities and services in Bangladesh is very poor and demands serious attention. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to identify the social determinants of mental health of the undergraduate students in Bangladesh, and observe the effectiveness of a reflective tool to record and reflect on their interactions with friends, family members, and academic or professional correspondences. METHODS We recruited 22 undergraduate students from three universities in Bangladesh. We deployed an android application to help them describe their mood after each conversation and later reflect on those descriptions. We also conducted two semi-structured interviews with the participants before and after using the app. RESULTS Our results show that academics, family, job and economic condition, romantic relationship, and religion are the major social determinants of mental health of the undergraduate students in Bangladesh. Our app helped the participants pinpoint the specific issues related to these factors. Although our app does not provide any explicit recommendation, participants took certain steps on their own to improve their mental health. CONCLUSIONS Overall, the findings from this study would provide better insights for the researchers to design better solutions to help the younger population from this part of the world regarding their mental health issues.

scholarly journals The changing face(book) of psychiatry: can we justify ‘following’ patients' social media activity?

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 283-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Cox-George
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

SummaryIndividuals with mental health issues may post information on social networking sites that can provide an insight into their mental health status. It could be argued that doctors (and specifically psychiatrists) should understand the way in which social media is used by their patients to gain a better insight into their illnesses. However, choosing to actively monitor a patient's social media activity raises important questions about the way in which medical students, qualified clinicians and other healthcare professionals obtain information about patients. While this may be framed as a mere form of ‘collateral history-taking’, there are obvious practical and ethical problems with doing so. Here, a case is made against monitoring the social media activity of patients involved with psychiatric services.

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