Towards the next millennium: Disaster mental health-learning from the past and planning for the future.

1999 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Doherty
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Toward Multi-Omic–Informed Psychotropic Prescribing

2021 ◽  
pp. 303-316
Author(s):  
Abdullah Al Maruf ◽  
Chad Bousman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychotropic Drug ◽  
Biological Markers ◽  
Drug Response ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
Medication Selection

Matching individuals to tolerable and efficacious pharmacotherapies in mental health has proven challenging. As such, efforts to personalize psychotropic prescribing in mental health has received considerable attention over the past decade. This attention has been fueled by technological advances in genomics, specifically, pharmacogenomics, and, more recently, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics that have facilitated the identification of clinically useful biological markers to guide medication selection and dosing. The convergence of these omic technologies is arguably the future of personalized psychotropic prescribing. This chapter provides an overview of the current genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic knowledgebase as it relates to psychotropic drug response in an effort to identify promising linkages between and facilitate convergence across these approaches to guide safe and effective pharmacotherapy relevant to psychiatry.

High variability of the current mental health practices around the globe: Twenty days in the lives of psychiatrists and other mental health care professionals from all over the world

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhard Heun ◽  
Jibril Ibrahim Moussa Handuleh ◽  
Juan Evangelista Tercero Gaitán Buitrago ◽  
Melvin S. Marsh ◽  
Vitalii Klymchuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mental Health Practices

AbstractIntroductionThe present is the future of the past, and the past of the future. This journal as well as this paper endeavour to document the lives and practices of psychiatrists and other mental health care professionals for the future mental health community and to help the clinicians of the future to understand the history and practice of psychiatry and mental health care in 2019/20. We, therefore, report the current days in the lives of psychiatrists and other mental health care professionals.Material and MethodsTo obtain reports of days in the lives of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, we published the request on eight occasions from May 2019 to May 2020. We invited the prospective respondents/participants to send a relevant report of their psychiatric practice in a day with a maximum word count of 750 words.ResultsWe received 20 reports of variable lengths from 10 countries from six continents, including from psychiatrists, psychiatrists in training, clinical psychologists and from medical students about their psychiatric training. The reports revealed a wide and highly variable range of psychiatric and mental health practices, experiences and expectations. Last but not least, the reports we received were informative and provided much information to reflect on.ConclusionsThere is a common strong commitment to support patients with mental health problems, but the ways this is achieved are so diverse that generalisations about a typical common practice seem impossible. Future studies should focus more systematically on the procedures and practices applied in helping patients with mental health problems in different countries and communities. This knowledge might eventually help identify the procedures and services that are most efficient and helpful in various clinical contexts.

scholarly journals Working with elderly carers of people with learning disabilities and planning for the future

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Hubert ◽  
Sheila Hollins
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mental Health Foundation ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Expanding Population

The majority of people with learning disabilities in the UK live at home with their families, usually with their parents (Mental Health Foundation, 1996) or – more commonly in later life – with one parent, usually their mother. Nowadays, people with learning disabilities live much longer than they did in the past, with the result that there is also an expanding population of elderly parents who are continuing to care for a son or daughter well into old age.

scholarly journals Does Psychological Capital Influence Employees’ Burnout? A Review Paper

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Review Paper ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Poor Mental Health ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Critical Issues

In this globalization era, burnout has been known as one of the critical issues in organizations. Overlooking the issue of burnout could lead to negative consequences, such as negatively affecting the overall organizational performance, and poor mental health among employees. It is crucial to know the factors that can help to improve burnout. One of the factors that can reduce burnout is psychological capital. Psychological capital is known as one of the elements that could help to reduce negative emotions. However, it was claimed that the influence of psychological capital is remained unexplored. Hence, this article reviewed the past studies that were conducted in the past decade (2008-2018) on the linkage between psychological capital and employees’ burnout. From the findings, it was revealed that there are inconsistency of the findings in the past studies. Hence, this has triggered a need for further exploration on the linkage between psychological capital and employees’ burnout. It is suggested that more empirical researches to be conducted in the future to provide a more concrete evidences on the linkage between psychological capital and employees’ burnout.

Prospection, well-being, and mental health

2017 ◽  
pp. 255-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Life Trajectory

Chapter 11 provides an overview of Chapters 1 to 10 and introduces the idea of a subjective future life trajectory. A subjective future life trajectory describes the sense that persons have of themselves being located in the present, but always moving forward into the future. The trajectory involves both short-term and long-term representations about the future, which vary in detail and value. Disruptions to the trajectory can take different forms, with anxiety and depression representing the two main kinds of disruption. A settled trajectory enables someone to focus on the present, whereas disrupted trajectories pull attention away from the present to try to ‘repair’ the trajectory. A future trajectory, and a present focus, can also be disrupted by memories relating to the past portion of the trajectory. Methodological issues that have been touched upon throughout the book are revisited and suggestions made for how research could move forward.

Prospection, well-being and memory

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew K MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Future Thinking ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Episodic Memories

Prospection (mental representation of the future) is an aspect of imagination that has recently become a focus of attention for researchers on memory. Evidence from a variety of sources points to episodic memory and future-thinking as being very closely linked and both are connected to well-being and mental health. This article provides an overview of some key findings linking episodic memory, future-thinking and well-being. Similarities and differences between episodic memories for the past and thoughts about the future are reviewed. It is suggested that the uncertainty inherent in future-thinking implies a greater role for semantic memory in how people think about the future compared to how they remember the past. Understanding how semantic and episodic knowledge combine to create representations about the future has the potential to help elucidate ways in which people experiencing psychological distress think about the future.

scholarly journals Analysis of Disaster Psychiatric Assistant Team Activity During the Past Four Disasters in Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (s1) ◽  
pp. s100-s100
Author(s):  
Sho Takahashi ◽  
Hirokazu Tachikawa ◽  
Yasuhisa Fukuo ◽  
Yoshifumi Takagi ◽  
Arai Tetsuaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Disaster Mental Health ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
The Past ◽  
Team Activity ◽  
Damage Number

Introduction:The Disaster Psychiatric Assistant Team (DPAT) is Japan’s original mental health care dispatched team during disasters. Established in 2013, this team has been involved in the response to many disaster-related mental issues.Aim:We Aimed to evaluate the DPAT activity in response to the past 4 disasters (Ontake volcano, Hiroshima flood, Joso flood, and Kumamoto earthquake), using the disaster mental health information support system (DMHISS).Methods:DMHISS data from the four disasters was extracted. Descriptive statistics were performed from the obtained dataset and the characteristics of the disaster victims from each disaster were compared and examined.Results:About 2,400 cases were obtained and tabulated to from the database. Based on descriptive statistics, the DPAT support objectives, activities and activity periods Aim to establish (1) the characteristics of the affected areas (population composition, psychiatric medical condition), (2) the scale and content of the disaster (the injured, building damage, number of evacuees), and (3) the activity ability. The number of counseling cases peaked several days after the disaster onset, and the importance of the DPAT activity during the acute phase was confirmed. The time course of the consultation number, which is a measure of the termination, could be predicted from the disaster scale and content. These results suggest that DPAT activity may be a guideline for local disasters for one month and for wide-reaching disasters for two months or longer.Discussion:It is suggested that the timing of activity and the termination period could be estimated from factors including the type of disaster, the size of the disaster, and the number of evacuees using the disaster mental health medical activities from four disasters. It should be considered necessary to accumulate data and examine indicators related to the DPAT activity.

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