scholarly journals Mental health services in Luxembourg: an overview

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Anja Malmendier-Muehlschlegel ◽  
Niamh Catherine Power
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Social Health Insurance ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Medical Workforce ◽  
The Past

We describe mental health services in Luxembourg and how they have evolved over the past 50 years. Health services in Luxembourg are provided through a social health insurance-based system and mental health services are no exception. Additional services are offered through mixed-funding avenues drawing on social care budgets in the main. Luxembourg is closely connected with neighbouring countries, where a large proportion of its workforce live. No run-through medical training exists and the entire medical workforce, including psychiatrists, have trained in other countries. This is reflected in a rich but often non-uniform approach to the provision of psychiatric care.

scholarly journals Provision of mental health services in Nigeria

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olufemi Olugbile ◽  
M. P. Zachariah ◽  
O. Coker ◽  
O. Kuyinu ◽  
B. Isichei
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Past ◽  
Trained Personnel

Nigeria, like other African countries, is short of personnel trained in mental healthcare. Efforts to tackle the problem have often focused on increasing the numbers of psychiatrists and nurses in the field. These efforts, over the past 20 years, have not appeared to have greatly improved service delivery at the grass roots. Most of the specialist centres where such highly trained personnel work are in urban areas and for a large part of the population access to them is limited by distance and cost.

Why care about integrated care? Part 2. Integrated care systems: an irresistible force changing mental health services

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek K. Tracy ◽  
Frank Holloway ◽  
Kara Hanson ◽  
Nikita Kanani ◽  
Matthew Trainer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Integrated Care ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Local Implementation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Care Systems

SUMMARY Part 1 of this three-part series on integrated care discussed the drivers for change in healthcare delivery in England set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. This second part explores the evolution of mental health services within the wider National Health Service (NHS), and describes important relevant legislation and policy over the past decade, leading up to the 2019 Long Term Plan. We explain the implications of this, including the detail of emerging structures such as integrated care systems (ICSs) and primary care networks (PCNs), and conclude with challenges facing these novel systems. Part 3 will address the practical local implementation of integrated care.

scholarly journals (A66) Integration of Psycho-Social Social Support and Mental Health Services in to National Disaster Management Guidelines

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s18-s18
Author(s):  
J.K. Christy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
National Disaster

Integration of Psycho-social Social Support and Mental Health Services in to National Disaster Management Guidelines India is vulnerable, in varying degrees, to a large number of natural as well as man-made disasters and also a high risk country for disasters due to expanding population, urbanization and industrialisation, development within high-risk zones, environmental degradation and climate changes. The creation of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in 2005, as the apex body for disaster management, has brought out a paradigm shift in the area of disaster management. One of the important mandate of NDMA is to issue National Disaster Management Guidelines (NDMG) to the ministries/ departments to assist them to formulate their respective Disaster Management (DM) plans. In this direction NDMA has issued number of NDMG on different themes to provide basis of preparation of DM plans at different levels. There are policies & guidelines on Psycho-social Support and Mental Health Services (PSSMHS) in disasters at the international level in the form of Inter Agency Standing Committee guidelines (IASC) which advocates PSSMHS in disasters. In India there was no such policy which streamlines the Psycho-social Support and Mental Health Services in Disasters. During preparation of various National Disaster Management Guidelines, one remarkable factor noticed was the need for psycho-social care, subsequently preparation of NDMG on Medical Preparedness and Mass Causality Management brought out an overwhelming consensus to formulate a separate NDMG for PSSMHS. In order to translate the critical need for psycho-social care and support into guidelines, NDMA adopted a mission-mode approach for integrating PSSMHS in disaster response by involving participatory and multi step methodology to formulate NDMG on Psycho-social Support and Mental Health Services in Disasters.

scholarly journals The Health and Social Care Act 2012: what will it mean for mental health services in England?

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (11) ◽  
pp. 401-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Services ◽  
National Health ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Health And Social Care

SummaryThe Health and Social Care Act 2012 brings in profound changes to the organisation of healthcare in England. These changes are briefly described and their implications for mental health services are explored. They occur as the National Health Service (NHS) and social care are experiencing significant financial cuts, the payment by results regime is being introduced for mental health and the NHS is pursuing the personalisation agenda. Psychiatrists have an opportunity to influence the commissioning of mental health services if they understand the organisational changes and work within the new commissioning structures.

scholarly journals The concept of encounter in psychotherapy and developmental psychology

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.V. Ermolaeva ◽  
D.V. Lubovsky
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Older People ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Advanced Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychological Tools ◽  
The Aesthetic

The article discusses possibilities for application of the concept of encounter in two areas of practical developmental psychology — in the work with the aesthetic experience gained by people in the perception of artworks and in relation to mental health services for older people, for whom one of the most important activities is the recollection of their life. Authors take as basic the understanding of the encounter proposed by W. Schutz, who showed psychological tools to achieve it in psychotherapy, and R. May, who applied this concept in the psychology of creativity. The authors clarify psychotechnical tools to achieve basic aspects (openness, self-consciousness, responsibility, etc.) in relation to the work of psychologist with the aesthetic experience as a result of the perception of artworks, and recollections of the life in mature and advanced age. The importance of encounter with aesthetic experience is considered in the context of forming a system of means mastering our own emotions (L.S. Vygotsky). Authors stressed the importance of the encounter with recollections of the past for the growth of psychological new formations of mature ages.

scholarly journals The mental health services for detained asylum seekers in Malta

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Taylor-East ◽  
Alexia Rossi ◽  
Julian Caruana ◽  
Anton Grech
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact

Approximately 17 000 individuals have claimed asylum in Malta over the past 10 years. Maltese law stipulates mandatory detention. Here, we review Malta's asylum procedures and detention policy, and explore the impact of detention on mental health. We review the current mental health services and make recommendations to help fill the gaps.

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