Sociocultural contexts of mental illness experience among Africans

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-459
Author(s):  
Akin Ojagbemi ◽  
Oye Gureje
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Sociocultural Contexts

Community-Based Information Technology Interventions for Persons with Mental Illness

2006 ◽  
pp. 191-226
Author(s):  
Rosanna Tarsiero
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Distance Training ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Information Providers

The chapter provides the reader with an overview of the problems persons with mental illness experience in their everyday life, and guides readers through how ICT access and usage can be approached in order to empower such a marginalized population in both developed and developing countries. It argues that, since isolation is their main problem, networking those people with reliable sources of medical information, providers of distance training and learning, and online self-help communities can have a profound impact on lifting their marginalization. The author hopes that the role ICT can play for these people will no longer be overlooked or neglected, and that policymakers will be inspired to use ICT worldwide to defeat mental illness by implementing solutions tailored on these people’s needs.

scholarly journals Physician-Friendly States for Mental Health: A Comparison of Medical Licensing Boards

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Wible ◽  
Arianna Palermini
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Medical Licensing ◽  
Physician Mental Health ◽  
Confidentiality And Privacy

Do medical boards undermine physician mental health by breaching physician confidentiality and privacy? We analyze the initial medical licensing process in each state to determine if qualified applicants who report mental illness experience discrimination. We then identify the most favorable states for physician mental health.  

Do individuals with a severe mental illness experience greater alcohol and drug-related problems? A test of the supersensitivity hypothesis

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivian M. Gonzalez ◽  
Clara M. Bradizza ◽  
Paula C. Vincent ◽  
Paul R. Stasiewicz ◽  
Nicole D. Paas
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Drug Related Problems

Use of the Cultural Formulation in Stockholm: A qualitative study of mental illness experience among migrants

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Scarpinati Rosso ◽  
Sofie Bäärnhielm
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Cultural Formulation ◽  
Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Text Content

This paper explores the contributions of the Cultural Formulation (CF) interview to an overall understanding of patients, and focuses on the narratives of 23 newly referred patients with migrant backgrounds seeking help at a psychiatric outpatient clinic in Stockholm. Through text content analysis methods we identified five themes: displacement in space and time; mental illness as a physical disability; life events as etiological factors; concealing as a coping strategy; and being lost in a fragmented health care system. Findings indicate the need to contextualize symptoms for an in-depth comprehension of patients’ phenomenology. Both clinical and policy implications are discussed. The findings suggest that a section on migration and acculturation should be added to the cultural formulation in the next edition of DSM.

Community-Based Information Technology Interventions for Persons with Mental Illness

2011 ◽  
pp. 1621-1645
Author(s):  
Rosanna Tarsiero
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Distance Training ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Information Providers

The chapter provides the reader with an overview of the problems persons with mental illness experience in their everyday life, and guides readers through how ICT access and usage can be approached in order to empower such a marginalized population in both developed and developing countries. It argues that, since isolation is their main problem, networking those people with reliable sources of medical information, providers of distance training and learning, and online self-help communities can have a profound impact on lifting their marginalization. The author hopes that the role ICT can play for these people will no longer be overlooked or neglected, and that policymakers will be inspired to use ICT worldwide to defeat mental illness by implementing solutions tailored on these people’s needs.

Forms and Meanings of Respect: Aging Mothers and Adult Daughters with Mental Illness

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-327
Author(s):  
Letha A. Chadiha ◽  
Berit Ingersoll-Dayton ◽  
Ruth E. Dunkle ◽  
Jean E. Balestrery
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Serious Mental Illness ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Illness Experience ◽  
Adult Daughters ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Purposive Sample

This qualitative study explores the perspectives of aging mothers to understand the ways in which respect is experienced in relationships involving aging mothers and adult daughters with mental illness. Data came from audiotaped personal interviews with a purposive sample of 21 mothers (ages 52–90) of adult daughters with a serious mental illness. An interpretative phenomenological approach was used to analyze transcripts and identify the forms of respect described by aging mothers. Aging mothers and their daughters with mental illness experience multiple forms of respect; however, the meanings of respect vary by generation. These findings have practice, educational, and research implications for social workers serving aging families dealing with mental illness.

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