scholarly journals Sexual harassment of staff by patients in mental health units

1995 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
Maria B. Tomé de la Granja
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Verbal Abuse ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common

The Health and Safety Executive (1992) defines violence against staff as “any incident in which an employee is threatened or assaulted by a member of the public in circumstances arising out of the course of his or her employment”. Verbal abuse and threats are, as the Health and Safety Executive notes, the most common types of incidents, and staff have the common-law right to be protected from such incidents in the course of their work. While the literature on physical violence against mental health professionals is quite large and expanding (see, for example, Health and Safety Commission, 1987; Shepherd, 1994; Wykes, 1994), comparatively little emphasis has been placed on verbal assaults, although these may be extremely distressing.

Defining Verbal Abuse of Children: A Survey

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 626-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Verbal Behavior ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Verbal Abuse

120 women and 31 men, mental health professionals and parents, rated 18 categories of parental verbalizations on acceptability in childrearing. There was general agreement (80%) that 10 categories of verbal behavior were never acceptable.

scholarly journals It is ethical to diagnose a public figure one has not personally examined

2018 ◽  
Vol 213 (5) ◽  
pp. 633-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gartner ◽  
Alex Langford ◽  
Aileen O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
British Journal ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Duty To Warn ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
The Press

SummaryShould psychiatrists be able to speculate in the press or social media about their theories? John Gartner argues the risk to warn the public of concerns about public figures overrides the duty of confidentiality; whereas Alex Langford suggests this is beyond the ethical remit of psychiatric practice.Declaration of interestA.O'B is joint debates and analysis Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry. J.G. is the founder of Duty To Warn, an association of mental health professionals who advocate the president's removal under the 25th Amendment on the grounds that he is psychologically unfit and dangerous.

The Public's Ability to Recognize Mental Disorders and their Beliefs about Treatment: Changes in Australia Over 8 Years

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Jorm ◽  
Helen Christensen ◽  
Kathleen M. Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychiatric Ward ◽  
Treatment Beliefs ◽  
The Public ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Treatment Changes

Objective: A national survey of Australian adults in 1995 showed a low level of recognition of mental disorders and beliefs about treatment that were often discordant with those of professionals. The present study aimed to find out whether recognition and treatment beliefs have changed over 8 years. Method: A national survey of 2001 adults in 2003–2004 included the same questions as the 1995 survey. These interview questions were based on a vignette of a person with either depression or schizophrenia. Results: Over the 8 years, the public showed better recognition of depression and schizophrenia and gave more positive ratings to a range of interventions, including help from mental health professionals, medications, psychotherapy and psychiatric ward admission. Conclusions: The Australian public's beliefs have changed over 8 years to be more like those of mental health professionals. This change may have positive implications for helpseeking and treatment concordance.

scholarly journals Emotional abuse and neglect in a clinical setting: challenges for mental health professionals

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Margaret DeJong ◽  
Simon Wilkinson ◽  
Carmen Apostu ◽  
Danya Glaser
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Best Practice Guidelines ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
The Common

Summary This article addresses some of the common uncertainties and dilemmas encountered by both adult and child mental health workers in the course of their clinical practice when dealing with cases of suspected emotional abuse or neglect (EAN) of children. We suggest ways of dealing with these according to current best practice guidelines and our own clinical experience working in the field of child maltreatment.

What to do about depression? Help-seeking and treatment recommendations of the public

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Holzinger ◽  
H. Matschinger ◽  
M.C. Angermeyer
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Antidepressant Medication ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Treatment Of Depression

Aims.Several population studies on beliefs about depression carried out in western countries during the 1990s have shown that the public clearly favors psychotherapy over antidepressant medication. The present study examines whether this phenomenon still exists at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century.Materials and Methods.In 2009, a telephone survey was conducted among the population of Vienna aged 16 years and older (n = 1205). A fully structured interview was administered which began with the presentation of a vignette depicting a case of depression fulfilling the diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV for a moderate depressive episode.Results.Psychotherapists were most frequently endorsed as source of professional help. Antidepressant medication still was more frequently advised against than recommended. Respondents familiar with the treatment of depression tended to be more ready to recommend to seek help from mental health professionals and to endorse various treatment options, particularly medication.Conclusion.At the end of the first decade of this century, there still exists a large gap between the public's beliefs and what mental health professionals consider appropriate for the treatment of depression. Therefore, further effort to improve the public's mental health literacy seems necessary.

scholarly journals Trato y maltrato: una mirada psicoanalítica

2008 ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
María Cruz Estada
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Common Point ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Salud Mental ◽  
The Common ◽  
Las Mujeres

<p>Veremos las razones por las que tratamientos con maltratadas fracasan. Repasaremos con Freud el devenir mujer: el desamparo radical del ser humano —la <em>Hilflosighkeit </em>freudiana— tiene connotaciones de cataclismo para las mujeres, y con él se confrontan frecuentemente. El punto en común de maltratadores y profesionales de salud mental: el horror a la diferencia, que dará como consecuencia graves interferencias en su escucha. La  dificultad  para  separarse  del  maltratador,  perdiendo  a  veces  la  vida,  apunta, paradójicamente, al temor de ver amenazada su existencia como sujeto. El sufrimiento: intento de elaboración de la falta en ser mediante la falta en tener.</p><p>We are going to see the reasons why some treatments with battered women fail. We are going to revise with Freud to become woman: the radical helplessness of the human being —the Freudian <em>Hilflosighkeit</em>— has connotations of cataclysm for women, and with it they confront frequently. The common point of batterers and mental health professionals: the horror to difference, that will give as a consequence severe interferences in her listening. The difficulty to split up with the batterer, loosing sometimes your life, points out, paradoxically, the fear to see her existence threaten as a subject. The suffering: trial of elaboration of the lack of being through the lack of having.</p><strong>Key Words</strong>: ,  victim

Sexual Immorality in the Missions Community: Overtones of Incest?

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam E. Kellogg ◽  
William F. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Family System ◽  
Family Dysfunction ◽  
Power Differential ◽  
Sexual Immorality ◽  
Natural Families

Anecdotal data, known widely to missions administrators, missionaries and missions-related mental health professionals, support the view that sexual immorality does occur in some measure in the missions community. The missions family comprises missionary couples and their children as well as singles quasi-related not by blood or contractual ties but through roles assumed in a system with family-like functions and responsibilities. Because the missions community takes on the character of a quasi-family system, occurrence of sexual immorality carries with it similar components of incest experienced in natural families, including family dysfunction, reactions to exposure of sexual immorality, victims’ self-blaming, power differential between victim and perpetrator, betrayal of victims’ trust, and secrecy. Elements in the quasi-family missions community that foster vulnerability to incest-like sexual harassment and/or abuse are considered together with moral, ethical and spiritual implications.

Expanding Tarasoff: Protecting Patients and the Public by Keeping Subsequent Caregivers Informed

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-375
Author(s):  
Charles J. Meyers
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Identifiable Victims

A California appellate decision uses a Tarasoff analysis to remind mental health professionals that they have a duty to communicate serious threats and known dangers not only to their patients' readily identifiable victims but also to their patients' subsequent caregivers. It also serves notice that the Tarasoff duty can be extended to threats of suicide. Positing a hierarchy of threats and duties implied in the laws that make therapists responsible for intervening to prevent their patients from doing harm, the author suggests courses of action for each step of the hierarchy. The more dangerous the patient, the more aggressive is the expected intervention on the part of the therapist.

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