scholarly journals Interconnected or disconnected? Promotion of mental health and prevention of mental disorder in the digital age

2016 ◽  
Vol 208 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph F. Hayes ◽  
Daniel L. Maughan ◽  
Hugh Grant-Peterkin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Disorder Prevention

SummaryTo date there have been few peer-reviewed studies on the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of digital technologies for mental health promotion and disorder prevention. Any evaluation of these evolving technologies is complicated by a lack of understanding about the specific risks and possible benefits of the many forms of internet use on mental health. To adequately meet the mental health needs of today's society, psychiatry must engage in rigorous assessment of the impact of digital technologies.

Implementing Statewide Practices That Promote Student Wellness and Resilience

2020 ◽  
pp. 459-480
Author(s):  
Amity Noltemeyer ◽  
Cricket Meehan ◽  
Emily Jordan ◽  
Michael Petrasek
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
State Level ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Youth Organizations ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Federal Grants ◽  
Student Wellness

Wellness and resilience promotion efforts are often an underutilized opportunity to address the mental health needs of children and youth. Organizations and individuals with state-level reach are ideally poised to develop and disseminate infrastructure, training, and resources to support wellness and resilience promotion efforts. This chapter highlights 8 key systems and practices that can inform and support such statewide efforts. Examples within Ohio, a recipient of 2 federal grants to support behavioral and mental health promotion, are used to illustrate the eight systems and practices. The chapter incorporates recommendations for others seeking to promote wellness and resilience in their respective contexts.

scholarly journals The contradictions between Canadian capitalist processes and youth mental health: implications for mental health promotion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shari Laliberte ◽  
Colleen Varcoe
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Young People ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Youth Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
The Individual

Abstract Understanding how socio-economic processes inter-relate with young people’s mental health is important to inform the development of responsive mental health promotion initiatives. Thirty diverse Canadian young people were engaged within a process of social praxis, underpinned by a historical-dialectical ontological perspective, to explore the inter-relation among socio-economic processes and youth mental health and implications for mental health promotion initiatives. Findings show several inter-related contradictory processes within two overarching contradictory dynamics that Canadian youth are navigating as they seek to realize their mental health needs. The first overarching contradictory dynamic is between monetized, private, individualistic, profit-oriented economic processes and young people’s need for resources, freedom and time, and inclusive social spaces to enable their mental health needs. Participants’ descriptions of their approaches to seeking to realize their mental health needs in this context reflects a second inter-related overarching contradiction between communal and individual approaches to enabling young people’s mental health needs. In this context, young people are oriented inward to meet their mental health needs at the individual and inter-personal level, despite the crucial role of socio-economic processes to enabling their mental health needs. Despite varied access to resources, all participants struggled to balance meeting their mental health needs. Implications of these findings entail the need to focus on promoting synergistic relations among young people and socio-economic processes whereby enabling universal access to resources for young people’s survival, physical health and comfort is foundational to multi-level mental health promotion initiatives.

Evaluating the impact of participatory art projects for people with mental health needs

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 638-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Hacking ◽  
Jenny Secker ◽  
Helen Spandler ◽  
Lyn Kent ◽  
Jo Shenton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Participatory Art ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Did that Professional Education about Mental Health Promotion Make Any Difference? Early Childhood Educators’ Reflections upon Changes in Their Knowledge and Practices

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Askell-Williams ◽  
Rosalind Murray-Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Professional Learning ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Mental Health Promotion ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Health Promotion Initiative ◽  
The Impact

Educators are at the heart of educational reforms, such as the introduction of mental health promotion initiatives into early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings. Good quality implementation of reforms requires educators to engage in high quality professional learning: If educators have not had opportunities to gain appropriate knowledge and expertise, new initiatives may be poorly implemented and may consequently achieve limited outcomes. This article reports ECEC educators’ perspectives about the impact on their knowledge and practices of the professional education component of the KidsMatter mental health promotion initiative. Educators from 111 ECEC services across Australia contributed a range of types of data, including questionnaires about their knowledge and self-efficacy, feedback about each professional education session, and photo stories about their changed professional practices. Participants indicated that their professional learning led to changed practices in areas such as interpreting children's behaviours, interacting with children, approaching parents, and collaborating with colleagues. Participants’ photo stories illustrate how professional education that focuses on content, active learning, coherence, and collaboration can positively influence knowledge and practices. However, if such gains are to last beyond relatively highly resourced start-up phases of initiatives, professional education needs to integrate with, and draw from, the ongoing availability of other professionals such as guidance and counselling staff, who have complementary knowledge and expertise; be recognised and embedded as a core component of ECEC educators’ roles and their workplace practices; and be culturally and contextually situated. Staff accounts of the impact of their professional learning on their practices can highlight to policy-makers the practical outcomes of strong investments in professional education. Awareness by other professions of the affordances and constraints faced by ECEC educators may contribute to interdisciplinary synergies among the range of professions involved in mental health promotion in educational settings.

scholarly journals Are the needs of people with mental health problems met?

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Foteini Tseliou ◽  
Michael Rosato ◽  
Dermot O'Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
The Impact

BackgroundHigh levels of mental ill-health have resulted in increasing delays in the receipt of appropriate care. However, the size of the gap between mental health needs and the likelihood of receiving treatment has not been thoroughly investigated on a population-level within Northern Ireland. ObjectivesTo that end we investigated the link between self-reported mental ill-health and likelihood of being in receipt of treatment in a population cohort. MethodsThe 2011 Northern Ireland Census was linked to a population-wide prescribing database. The presence of a chronic mental health condition, as assessed through the Census self-reported mental health question, was compared to regular psychotropic medication use in the six and twelve months following the Census. Of the 23,803 individuals (aged 25 to 74) who reported chronic mental ill-health at the Census, 22% were not in receipt of medication over the following six months, with this being reduced down to 18.5% by the twelve month mark. FindingsAfter adjusting logistic regression models for socio-demographic factors, men (OR=0.56: 95%CI=0.52-0.60), those of non-white ethnicity (OR=0.38: 95%CI=0.26-0.54), never married (OR=0.67: 95%CI=0.61-0.82), unemployed (OR=0.65: 95%CI=0.53-0.81) and living in a rural area (OR=0.88: 95%CI=0.79-0.98) were less likely to receive regular medication, indicating mental health unmet need. ConclusionsA level of discord was observed between mental-ill health and medication receipt on a population level. Further focus on mental health needs and the impact of low prescribing rates on mental health patients could help ameliorate the current inequalities and reduce potential gaps in mental health treatment.

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