Chômage et santé mentale*

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 798-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Sasseville ◽  
Et Frédéric Grunberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Health Indicators ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
The Family ◽  
Supportive Interventions ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Unemployed

Evidence linking unemployment with psychiatric morbidity is available since the thirties, but it is only in the seventies that a renewed research interest on this subject took place. Two research strategies seem to be emerging: an “ecological” approach establishing correlations between economical and health indicators for a given population. Another approach focuses on the psychiatric morbidity of samples of individuals who have lost their job compared to matched control groups of individuals still employed. Many of those studies did not limit themselves on the mental health of the unemployed but on the “rippling” effect of unemployment on the family and community. Many aspects of the consequences of unemployment on mental health remain to be explored such as the effects of long-term unemployment, unemployment among women. Methods of emotional supportive interventions for the unemployed need also to be explored. Furthermore the effects of a high level of unemployment on the programs of deinstitutionalization of the chronic mentally ill as well as the mentally handicapped should be evaluated.

The DEMoBinc Study in Portugal: Development and First Results

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
G. Cardoso ◽  
C. Coelho ◽  
J. Caldas de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Physical Restraint ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Standards Of Care ◽  
Delphi Exercise

The DEMoBinc study's main objective is to develop an instrument for assessing the living conditions, the quality of care, and the human rights of long-term mentally ill patients in psychiatric and social residential care. It started on March 2007, with 11 centres and 10 countries participating.The Portuguese centre has carried out a national literature review of mental health legislation, standards of care related with residential care for mental patients, and mandatory procedures for physical restraint and seclusion.A three-round Delphi exercise with four groups of experts - advocates, mental health professionals, service users, and carers - was also developed. In the first round the participants were asked to state the ten more important components of care helping recovery in institutional care for the long-term mentally ill. The results were sent back to be rated for their importance on a 5-point scale. Finally, the participants were asked to confirm or change their own scores in comparison with the calculated group median. Between twelve and 18 participants by group were contacted, and the overall rate of participation was 73%.A pilot study using the first draft of the DEMoBinc instrument was done, and refinement of the instrument is being carried out in twenty institutions and will be completed during the next months.The results of the Portuguese centre on the national literature review, the Delphi exercise, and the first phase refinement of the DEMoBinc instrument will be presented and discussed.

scholarly journals A cross-sectional evaluation of a community-orientated mental health service

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Author(s):  
Jon Spear ◽  
Andrew Cole ◽  
Jan Scott
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Neurotic Disorders ◽  
Community Psychiatric ◽  
Severely Mentally Ill ◽  
Acute Distress ◽  
To Receive

Community mental health services have been criticised for seeing those with minor psychiatric disorders at the expense of those with severe and long-term illness. We report a cross-sectional evaluation of a UK service based entirely within the community. Most patients in contact with the service (66%) had a psychotic disorder or an affective disorder. Patients with greater impairment were likely to receive more intensive treatment. Only 20% of the community psychiatric nurse (CPN) case load focused on acute distress and neurotic disorders. Within this service careful operational planning and maintaining CPNs within the secondary care system appear to be critical factors in achieving the goal of giving priority to the severely mentally ill.

Punishing paupers? Control, discipline and mental health in the Southwell workhouse (1836–71)

Rural History ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (02) ◽  
pp. 161-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Carter ◽  
Jeff James ◽  
Steve King
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Poor Law ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article focuses on the way that staff and guardians in the rural Nottinghamshire workhouse of Southwell sought to exert control and containment over pauper inmates. Fusing together local and central records for the period 1834–71, including locally held punishment books and correspondence at The National Archives, Kew (TNA), we argue that the notional power of the workhouse authorities was heavily shaded. Most paupers most of the time did not find their behaviour heavily and clumsily controlled. Rather, staff focused their attention in terms of detecting and punishing disorderly behaviour on a small group of long-term and often mentally ill paupers whose actions might create enmities or spiral into larger conflicts and dissent in the workhouse setting. Both inmates and those under threat of workhouse admission would have seen or heard about punishment of ‘the usual characters’. This has important implications for how we understand the intent and experience of the New Poor Law up to the formation of the Local Government Board (LGB) in 1871.

scholarly journals Patterns of mental health care in a seaside lodging house

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-83
Author(s):  
John Barnes ◽  
Greg Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Local Sources

Much of the medical care of the long-term mentally ill falls to the general practitioner (Wilkinson et al, 1985) and, for example, a survey in Buckinghamshire showed that these patients consult their general practitioner (GP) twice as often as mental health services. Lodging house dwellers are known to show an increased prevalence of major mental illness and to suffer much secondary social handicap, presenting a challenge to helping services of all disciplines. For this reason we chose a lodging house in which to explore further the relationships between mental illness and residents' present contact with their GP, mental health services and other local sources of help.

Hell in the Family: Married Women and Madness Before Institutionalization at the St-Jean-de-Dieu Asylum, 1890 – 1921

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Community Mental Health Services ◽  
Married Women ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
The Family ◽  
Seeking Help

Research in Montreal's St-Jean-de-Dieu Asylum archives has revealed a number of letters from family members and local physicians pleading for asylum care for married women between 1890 and 1921. When added to other admission documents in patients' medical files, these letters allow an intimate glimpse into private lives of families and highlight the pain and distress of dealing with mentally ill people in the home before the introduction of community mental health services. Far from easily abandoning a spouse or mother, close-knit French Canadian families struggled until they could no longer cope before seeking help. To comply with asylum regulations, family members (primarily husbands, who were often illiterate) and local physicians were required to justify their applications for admission, but they did so in different ways.

scholarly journals The Portsmouth Care Consortium

1992 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. 550-551
Author(s):  
Rod Bale
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Community Orientation ◽  
Homes For The Elderly ◽  
The City

The co-ordination of services for the long-term mentally ill in the community poses difficulties of organisation. Each country has its own health and social service structure which influences the development of such services. This paper outlines an approach to co-ordinating care in Portsmouth. The mental health services were well known in the ‘30s because of their community orientation due to the leadership of Thomas Beaton, the superintendent of St James' Hospital (Freeman, 1962). The city has a population of 210,000. Previous seaside holiday accommodation is now utilised for residential care homes for the elderly and the mentally ill.

scholarly journals The effectiveness of a counseling program It is based on positive interventions in reducing emotional divorce among the workless spouses in the light of the prevalence of corona virus: فعالية برنامج إرشادي قائم على التدخلات الإيجابية في خفض الطلاق العاطفي لدى المتزوجين العاطلين عن العمل في ظل انتشار فيروس كورونا

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (36) ◽  
pp. 180-162
Author(s):  
Marwan Musaad Abu Samhadana Marwan Musaad Abu Samhadana
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Counseling Program ◽  
Positive Interventions ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Extension Program ◽  
Experimental Group

  The current study aimed to reveal the effectiveness of a counseling program based on positive psychology in reducing emotional divorce among a sample of the unemployed during the Corona virus, and to achieve the objectives of the study, a random sample was chosen available from unemployed parents with a medium or high level of emotional divorce. Where the study sample consisted of (18) fathers and they were divided into two groups: an experimental group, in which the number of fathers was (9) fathers who underwent the current study, and a control group in which the number of fathers was (9) fathers who did not undergo any therapeutic intervention, and a measure of emotional divorce was developed. And the preparation of a counseling program based on positive psychology, and after applying the counseling program to the members of the experimental group for a month, the results of the study concluded that the experimental group had a lower level of emotional divorce compared with the control group, and it was also found that the members of the experimental group retained the effect of the program after a month From the end of the program, the study came out with some recommendations, including: Attempting to implement the extension program on other categories of the unemployed through the Family Protection Centers and the counselors.

Long-term unemployed in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Ewa Flaszyńska
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Unemployed

The COVID-19 pandemic has not significantly affected the increase in unemployment, including the change in the structure of long-term unemployment. Long-term unemployment increases with some delay after the recession. This article analyses the changes in the situation of long-term unemployed people in Poland before and during the COVID-2019 pandemic, presents actions taken at that time by employment and social services, and presents recommendations for the future, considering information collected from employees of poviat labour offices. In Poland, the reasons for the persistence of a relatively high level of long-term unemployment in general may include the following factors: registration in labour offices of people who, mainly for health reasons, are not ready to participate in processes of restoring the ability to work, a limited amount of funds allocated to activation of the unemployed activities and, finally, the lack of mechanisms rewarding the public employment services (PES) for bringing the long-term unemployed back to the labour market.

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