Editorial Foreword: Applying Existential Social Psychology to Mental Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-237
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Vail ◽  
Daniel Sullivan ◽  
Mark J. Landau ◽  
Jeff Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Editorial Foreword ◽  
Existential Concerns

Human existence is characterized by some rather unique psychological challenges. Because people can reflect on their lives and place in the world, they are regularly confronted with a variety of existential concerns: death and mortality; the burdens of freedom; uncertainty regarding one's identity; isolation from others; and indeterminate meaning in life. Existential social psychology (Greenberg, Koole, & Pyszczynski, 2004; Vail & Routledge, 2020) investigates whether and how such existential concerns shape everyday life and, as highlighted in the present special issue, how such processes impact mental health and social functioning.

Praxivist imaginaries of decolonization: Can the psy be decolonized in the world as we know it?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Lee Miller ◽  
Michael J Miller
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Object Of Study

Guided by Denise Ferreira da Silva’s contributions to decolonization through a black feminist poethical mode of intervention, this article overall offers the provocation: Is decolonization possible in this world as we know it? Having been provoked by this question and its implications ourselves, we deem this provocation both necessary and an important contribution to the topic of this special issue. Within this provocation we briefly consider decolonization of the psy-disciplines, decolonization of the psy-curriculum, and decolonization as the end of the world as we know it, particularly through a praxivist imaginary. With this, we furthermore consider the radical potentials of abolition pedagogies that guide us to state that mental health, or the psyche, or the professions that take the psyche as their object of study, cannot be decolonized in the context of the world as we know it.

International approaches to school-based mental health: Intent of the Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney L. McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Health It ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
School Based ◽  
The World

This article provides an overview of the special issue on international approaches to school-based mental health. It introduces the significance of the issues associated with mental health across the world and introduces the reader to the four articles highlighting different aspects of school-based mental health. Across these four articles, information about school-based mental health (SBMH) from the United States, Canada, Norway, Liberia, Chile, and Ireland are represented. The special issue concludes with an article introducing new methodology for examining mental health from a global perspective.

scholarly journals Special issue on training in psychogeriatrics

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 851-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Pachana
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Expected Number ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Social Affairs

The need to train more health workers, and particularly mental health workers, in the care of older adults, has been highlighted by a variety of disciplines including psychiatry (Jeste et al., 1999), psychology (Knight et al., 1995), social work (Rosen et al., 2002) and nursing (Hirst et al., 1996). This rise in attention paid to geriatric health care is partly driven by demographics. Over the next 50 years, the global population of people aged 60 years and over is expected to triple to 2 billion by 2050 (U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2007). This same UN report states that the expected number of centenarians is set to increase globally by a factor of 20. Worldwide, the demographic trends in aging suggest that the number of people in the world aged 65 years and over will surpass the number aged 5 years or less in approximately 2017 (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, 2005). The issues concerning who will care for older adults are faced by a growing number of nations throughout the world.

On Heavy Metal: Existential Rage and the Neurotic Artist

2019 ◽  
pp. 002216781986753
Author(s):  
Ashley L. Whitaker
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Mental Health Practitioners ◽  
Existential Philosophy ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The World ◽  
Existential Concerns

Many artists are seen as neurotic and some believe this occurs because of their underpinning struggle to ameliorate the existential angst that often arises from living out an embodied human life. An art piece can be a means to channel the artist’s neuroticism and potentially alleviate exasperation due to conflicted thoughts about existence. At its extreme, what the author labels as existential rage occurs as a railing against the meaninglessness and disparity of life’s circumstances. Art, especially the heavy metal musical genre, is a dynamic medium that encapsulates and communicates existential rage, a version of existential injury categorized by extreme embitterment toward one’s being in the world. In this way, thoughts can be experienced as coming from outside of the artist as opposed to within the metaphorical inner cracks of their psyche. Heavy metal as a sonic medium of expression is intensely engrossed in existential concerns about existence. Laypersons and mental health practitioners alike stand to benefit from an expanded understanding of heavy metal in discourse on universal concerns within existential philosophy and psychology.

scholarly journals Digital food culture, power and everyday life

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110555
Author(s):  
Zeena Feldman ◽  
Michael K. Goodman
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Key Questions

Food and digital culture are mutually implicated in contemporary processes of knowledge production and power contestation around the world. Our introduction and the papers in this special issue of the European Journal of Cultural Studies seek to draw out the distinctions, parallels and overlaps across food and the digital to offer critical insights into digital food culture’s capacities, paradoxes and impacts on everyday life. We ask a series of questions fundamentally focused on issues of power that signal a critical concern for the (re)production and circulation of inequality within the food and digital nexus. For us and the authors here, Cultural Studies is particularly fertile ground from which to analyse digital food culture precisely because of the discipline’s commitment to critiquing power and inequality and its subsequent capacity to illuminate everyday digital food politics and their social, cultural and ethical impacts. This article presents and highlights key questions—and introduces related concepts and theoretical debates—that drive this research agenda. In addition, we address the ways the issue’s papers connect to digital food culture and power after COVID-19. We conclude with a summary of the articles in the issue and their contributions to digital food culture research and cultural studies more broadly.

scholarly journals The sweet peace of perfect assurance: On well-being in the hymns texts of Fanny Crosby

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daleen Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The World ◽  
Positive Sense ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual

Well-being is often described as a state of happiness or satisfaction with life, but it is so much more. The influence of religious involvement on a positive sense of well-being of the individual has been well documented. One aspect of religious involvement comprises the singing of hymns. Through the texts and the power of music, the well-being of the singer/believer can be positively influenced. Fanny Crosby (1820- 1915) wrote more than 8 000 hymn texts on various aspects of religious life such as assurance, salvation, redemption, worship and witness. Many of the hymns deal with the difficulties of everyday life, which is juxtaposed to the better life in the world to come. This paper is concerned with the portrayal of aspects of assurance in some of Fanny Crosby’s hymns texts. It is also shown how her hymns touch on aspects of well-being in the way that they stress the importance of having meaning in life and point towards the fact that the believer’s life can be worthwhile.

scholarly journals KESEHATAN MENTAL MASYARAKAT: MENGELOLA KECEMASAN DI TENGAH PANDEMI COVID-19

2020 ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Deshinta Vibriyanti
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
Mental Health Disorders ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
Selection Of

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world not only has physical health impacts but also mental health. One of the effects of a pandemic on mental health that is feelings of anxiety about being exposed to viruses and the uncertainty of conditions during a pandemic. Anxiety needs to be managed properly so that it can still make alertness, but not excessive so that it causes worse mental health disorders. This paper aims to explain how to manage anxiety during a pandemic for the society with a literature study approach. From the perspective of social psychology, this paper concludes that managing anxiety at a proportional level, is the result of repeated perception of situations. The selection of information received during a pandemic is the key to managing anxiety. Next, adapt to the changes that occur so that can through a mentally healthy life in a pandemic.

scholarly journals To wszystko i sto innych czynności, i sto tysięcy innych czynności. Codzienność w poezji Tadeusza Różewicza

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-157
Author(s):  
Michał Bolek
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Experience ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Main Topic ◽  
Human Mortality ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

The main topic of the article is everyday life depicted in the poetry by Tadeusz Różewicz. Its reference point is the concept of everyday life constructed by Bernhard Waldenfels. He distinguishes three ways of perceiving it – it entails regular order, embraces everything that is palpable and tangible, as well as is closed-in-itself and restricted. According to Grażyna Borkowska, everyday life is synonymic to both daunting prose of life and heart-warming  familiarness. Thus, everyday life embraces a wide range of human experiences and is valuated both positively and negatively. The category of everyday life understood as above functions as a frame for interpretation of selected Różewicz’s poems which represent different topics – religion and faith, humanity, death, and writing. Everyday life functions in Różewicz’s poetry as a space for religious experience; it enables formulating diverse universal conclusions about humanity and their relations with the world, allows the subject to speak about human mortality, and is the platform for self-referential deliberation about poetry and creating. Interpreting selected poems from the perspective of everyday life lets the reader capture deeper, ambiguous meaning of faith, perceive human existence in its double sense – both ordinary and extraordinary, bind everyday life with death and present it as a space for creating poetry. Those measures make discussed issues clearer and more concrete and combine them with human experience. Showing a specific tension between them and everyday life makes the interpretation richer and opens perspectives for discovering new meanings.  

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