scholarly journals The adventures of psychiatric reform in Greece: 1999–2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Madianos
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
European Economic Community ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Current Reform

Psychiatric care in Greece has a long history of traditional in-patient treatment in large public institutions (the public asylum period), which lasted until 1983. European Economic Community (EEC) intervention in 1984 marked a transitional period (1984–1989) characterised by the beginning of the transformation of the mental healthcare system. The current reform era started in 1999 and has included new mental health law, the closure of six public mental hospitals and the establishment of several sectorised mental health services.

scholarly journals Samhällsvårdens Svarte Petter

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrika Levander ◽  
Lina Sturfelt
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Preventive Actions ◽  
Child Psychiatric ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mental Health Interventions ◽  
Public Responsibility ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Children In Care

Drawing the short straw. Contemporary and historical categorizations of children in foster and residential care with mental health disordersAbout 67 per cent of children placed in residential care in Sweden suffer from mental health disorders. Although the problem has been recognized for decades, the group’s access to sufficient mental healthcare is still lagging. In this article we examine contemporary and historical categorizations of mental health issues among children in foster and residential care. The study examines Swedish commission reports, government bills, and Children’s Acts published between 1902 and 2016 where the issue is discussed. Hereby, ”the history of the present”, and its implications for the targeted group, is analysed and problematized. Our findings show that continuous talk of preventive actions in the name of the all-embracing welfare state repeatedly has downplayed the group’s access to mental health interventions. Ever since the establishment of the child psychiatric field in the 1940s, a discursive battle about the public responsibility for the group is also raging. In the 1970s, coordination is articulated as the grand solution, but the problem still persists. Neither the contemporary child rights perspective nor the latest law regulations of forced coordination for children in care have changed the group’s underprivileged position. Whether the legal turn will finally lead to recognition of the group’s right to adequate mental health care remains an open question.

scholarly journals Mental Healthcare in Rural Latin America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Service Delivery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Disorders

<p class="normal">The goal of this article is to provide an overview of epidemiology of mental health disorders in Latin America, discuss unique issues in mental health faced by rural Latin American communities, summarize the history of Latin American healthcare systems, and describe current strategies to improve and innovate mental health service delivery in Latin America.  </p>

scholarly journals Kebijakan Pendidikan Sebagai Kebijakan Publik dalam Sistem Politik di Indonesia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
Maskuri Maskuri
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Education System ◽  
Political System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Configuration

In the history of Indonesian, education policy has always been dynamic. Before independence until the reform era of education policy can not be separated from the political system. We know that education policy as part of education policy is a political product. Political configuration in every era of state political leadership has always changed according to the political wind and the configuration of political rulers. However, forces outside the governance system, such as educational community groups, will give color to the education system. When the political system demands the centralization of power, the education system will also concentrate on a centralized government. With the flow of reforms, it has spawned many changes in the education system. Several articles, even the law which, according to the public, lack attention to the aspect of education itself, are sued to the Constitutional Court. Along with the policy of regional autonomy, education policy must be able to adjust to the development of society in autonomous regions. This necessarily requires the creativity of leaders in the region in terms of promoting education in the region in accordance with the aspirations of the community.

Digital Heath Interventions in Mental Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 328-340
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Stanimirovic
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Passive Monitoring ◽  
Science Regulation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Healthcare Interventions ◽  
Tracking Devices ◽  
Digital Healthcare

Technological renaissance of the last century stimulated the application of digital interventions in the healthcare domain. Digital healthcare interventions (DHIs) could be implemented through smartphone applications (apps), remote monitoring and tracking devices, and wearable computers. Technology is positioned to transform how mental healthcare is delivered and accessed. In fact, remote active and passive monitoring of parameters, such as mood, activity, and sleep, could be integrated with therapeutic interventions. However, the transformation entails combined conscription of science, regulation, and design. Implementation, adoption, and evaluation of DHI present special challenges. This chapter presents brief history of DHIs in mental health and frameworks an evaluation strategy in terms of the appropriate methods required for appraisal of DHIs.

Staging Integration

2019 ◽  
pp. 32-71
Author(s):  
Rebekah J. Kowal
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Natural History ◽  
York City ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Educational Outreach ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Between 1943 and 1952, the American Museum of Natural History sponsored a dance program called Around the World with Dance and Song. Chapter 1 focuses on the history of this program as evidence of the museum’s efforts to stage globalism. Drawing on extensive archival materials, the chapter documents the role of director Hazel Lockwood Muller to develop the program as part of the museum’s larger educational outreach activities. The chapter details how over the course of its history the program met growing cultural expectations that public institutions such as museums serve the public good. Serving in this capacity, the museum become a de facto concert dance venue, elevating the profile of international dance performance in New York City and for the nation and heightening a globalist consciousness among its audiences. Even so, the museum’s performances and the challenges the museum faced in sustaining them manifested the difficulties of putting globalism into practice. While the program was successful in elevating values of ethnic self-definition in embodied dance practices, it promoted an ideology of cultural integrationism that maintained dominant universalist assumptions about Western cultural superiority.

Going in and Getting out of the Colonial Asylum: Families and Psychiatric Care in French Indochina

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 725-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Edington
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
History Of Psychiatry ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
The Public ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

AbstractThis paper explores the movements of asylum patients in and out of psychiatric care in French Indochina as the product of everyday interactions between psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the public, especially patients' families. Throughout the interwar years, families and communities actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that disrupt our notions of the colonial asylum as a closed setting that patients rarely left, run by experts who enjoyed broad, unquestioned authority. Vietnamese families, by debating individuals' suitability for social life, engaged with professional psychiatrists to find common ground for thinking about and discussing mental illness. At the same time, they pursued their own strategies in ways that significantly limited the power of experts. Debates revolved around the mental health of patients, but also around the capacity of families to assume their care upon release, and whether the asylum itself was the most appropriate site for treatment and rehabilitation. By considering how lay people and experts came together to negotiate the confinement and release of asylum patients, this paper offers a novel perspective on the development of psychiatric knowledge and power in colonial settings. I argue that by situating the history of psychiatry within the local dynamics of colonial rule as opposed to expert discourse, the asylum emerges here less as a blunt instrument for the social control and medicalization of colonial society than as a valuable historical site for reframing narratives of colonial repression and resistance.

Afacerea artei. Piața de artă în Țările de Jos în sec. al XVII-lea

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 232-265
Author(s):  
Silvia Suciu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Auction Houses ◽  
Individual Perception ◽  
Rules And Principles ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church ◽  
Rules Of The Game

The art market is a system by which the artwork reaches the public - collectors, museums, public institutions. Thus, the artwork becomes “merchandise” and its journey begins in the artist’s workshop and ends by being shown to the public. During centuries, the art market has registered many changes, according to different factors, such as: political regimes, economical and social crises, artistic tastes of the collectors. Until the 16th century, the public of the artwork was the church, the royal families or the aristocracy; in time, the work of art gained a wider audience. At the beginning, the transactions on the art market were made between the artist-producer and the commissioner-buyer. The market evolved and between the artist and the commissioner have interfered other persons or institutions such as the merchant, the dealer, auction houses, galleries. There are collectors in the history of art that started from the idea of making their own collections, building up powerful empires that promote and sell artists and their works. Depending on centuries or historical moments, the “rules of the game” have changed, and the evolution of the art market has led to the evolution of collective and individual perception of the artwork. As the rules and principles of the actual art market begun in Netherlands, in 16th-17th centuries, this article intends to study the historical context that has led to the evolution of the art market.

Secularization, Deprivatization, and the Reappearance of ‘Public Religion’ in Japanese Society

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Mullins
Keyword(s):  
Public Institutions ◽  
Allied Occupation ◽  
Restoration Movement ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Religion In Public Life

Abstract Sociological theories about the fate of religion in modern societies originated in Europe and were initially based on the history of Western Christianity. Whether or not these theoretical perspectives are useful for the analysis of other religious traditions in non-Western regions of the world has been the focus of considerable debate for decades. This article engages some of the familiar theories of secularization in light of major developments in Japanese religion and society over the past two centuries. While it has been widely assumed that modernization inevitably brings with it a decline in religion, the first phase of this process in Japan was accompanied by the creation of a powerful new form of religion—State Shintō—that served to unite the nation around a common set of symbols and institutions for half a century. This was followed by the rapid and forced secularization of Shintō during the Allied Occupation (1945-1952), which essentially privatized or removed it from public institutions. Since the end of the Occupation, however, there has been an ongoing movement to restore the special status of Shintō and its role in the public sphere. Even though recent case studies and survey research indicate that individual religiosity and organized religions are facing serious decline today, the reappearance of religion in public life and institutions represented by this restoration movement also needs to be taken into account in our assessment of secularization in contemporary Japan.

scholarly journals Mental Healthcare in Rural Latin America

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Service Delivery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health Disorders

The goal of this article is to provide an overview of epidemiology of mental health disorders in Latin America, discuss unique issues in mental health faced by rural Latin American communities, summarize the history of Latin American healthcare systems, and describe current strategies to improve and innovate mental health service delivery in Latin America.

Time and word in social and cultural space of the modernity

Neophilology ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 526-536
Author(s):  
Anatoly I. Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Period ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Problem Of Time ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
History Of

Referring to the past era often intends to show the social and political system and, accordingly, focus is on the opinion of philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, etc. In this case, often on the sidelines is a person, his feelings, and attitude. This is evident in the attitude to the recent Soviet past of our country. In this regard, along with the coverage of the problem of time fixation in the artistic consciousness, we analyze the spiritual life of the transitional period, the main feature of which is the contradictory assessment of the 70-year history of the USSR. And it is not only about the nihilistic attitude, in the simplified denial of the Soviet experience, but also on ignoring the spiritual quest, the history of the formation of images and meanings inherent in our nation. The past time is not only economics and ideology, it is also artistic culture. Nihilistic atti-tude to the Soviet era is the way to oblivion of a huge cultural layer. It is an axiom which for some reason needs to be proved again and again. The social and cultural approach to the understanding of the past and present time has a greater tolerance in judgments and allows to fill the gaps in the public consciousness, to present spiritual life in diversity and uniqueness. The works of words, screen masters, sociologists conclusions contribute to the understanding of the recent past and the rapidly changing reality of the transition time.

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