scholarly journals The management of social problems talk in a support group

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (spe) ◽  
pp. 101-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrezza Gomes Peretti ◽  
Pedro Pablo Sampaio Martins ◽  
Carla Guanaes-Lorenzi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transformation Processes

The comprehension of the health-disease process from a multifactorial perspective has allowed important transformations in the healthcare practices. In this article, we discuss the use of the support group as a resource for mental health care, analyzing how conversations about social issues are managed in this context. Based on contributions from the social constructionist movement, we analyzed the transcripts of the conversations developed in meetings of a support group offered to patients of a mental health outpatient clinic. The analysis of the process of meaning making indicates that the discourse of the social influence on mental health is not legitimized, due to a predominant individualistic discourse, which psychologizes care and is centered on the emotional analysis of the problems of the quotidian. We argue that this mode of management brings limits to the construction of the group as a device for promoting autonomy and encouraging the social transformation processes.

The ‘Cultures’ of Global Mental Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 026327642110392
Author(s):  
Leandro David Wenceslau ◽  
Francisco Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Global Mental Health ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Mental Health Literature ◽  
The Social

Global Mental Health is a field of research and practice that addresses the expansion of universal and equitable mental health care worldwide. This article explores the ways the concept of culture is employed in Global Mental Health literature. Global Mental Health advocates and critics assume an ontological separation between ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ to typify mental illness, linking it predominantly to one or the other of these two categories. Advocates of Global Mental Health view mental disorders as a nature–culture hybrid, while critics see them as typically cultural phenomena. The cultural critique of Global Mental Health can be strengthened by a sociological approach to both the role of critique and the uses of the concept of culture within social sciences. As an alternative to the ontologization of culture, we propose a different theoretical approach to the social issues involved in the expansion of international public health care in mental health: Arthur Kleinman's and Didier Fassin’s moral anthropological approaches.

scholarly journals A student-facilitated community-based support group initiative for Mental Health Care users in a Primary Health Care setting

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 307-315
Author(s):  
Leana Meiring ◽  
Maretha Visser ◽  
Nicola Themistocleous
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Primary Health

Background: South African Mental Health Care (MHC) legislation advocates for supportive rehabilitative services in Primary Health Care (PHC) settings. PHC settings are often understaffed and MHC nurses in these settings overburdened with high patient loads. Alternative cost-effective psycho-social intervention strategies must be explored to supplement the overstrained MHC sector to meet the rehabilitative and supportive needs of service users in community settings. Using a social constructionist epistemology, this study aimed to highlight the value of a community-based support group for MHC users at a Tshwane District Community Health Centre. This was done by exploring the meaning group members attached to the group. The intervention was a collaborative partnership between a local University Psychology Department and the Department of Health, Tshwane District, utilising post-graduate psychology students as group facilitators.Methods: Qualitative research methods were applied. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and a collage-making and storytelling method. Thematic analysis highlighted the main themes representing the meaning the five participants ascribed to the group.Results: The findings suggest that the group offered the participants a sense of belonging and a means of social and emotional support. The group also created opportunity for learning, encouraged mental and physical mobilisation and stimulation, and served as an additional link to professional services. Conclusion: The findings suggest that student-facilitated support groups could offer a viable supplement for offering support to service users in PHC settings. The group assisted MHC users to cope with symptoms, social integration, and participating in meaningful activities as part of rehabilitation services.

Telepsychiatry for the Rohingya refugees (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanjir Rashid Soron
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Need

UNSTRUCTURED Though health and shelter are two basic human rights, millions of refugees around the world are deprived of these basic needs. Moreover, the mental health need is one of least priority issues for the refugees. Bangladesh a developing country in the Southeast Asia where the health system is fragile and the sudden influx of thousands of Rohingya put the system in a more critical situation. It is beyond the capacity of the country to provide the minimum mental health care using existing resource. However, the refuges need immediate and extensive mental health care as the trauma, torture and being uprooted from homeland makes them vulnerable for various mental. Telepsychiatry (using technology for mental health service) opened a new window to provide mental health service for them. Mobile phone opened several options to reach to the refugees, screen them with mobile apps, connect them with self-help apps and system, track their symptoms, provide distance intervention and train the frontline health workers about the primary psychological supports. The social networking sites give the opportunity to connect the refugees with experts, create peer support group and provide interventions. Bangladesh can explore and can use the telepsychiatry to provide mental health service to the rohingya people.

Hispanics, Mental Health, and Suicide: Brief Report

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Brenes
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Hispanic Americans ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Provider Attitudes ◽  
Health Crisis

A global health crisis exists surrounding suicide. In the United States, suicide rates have increased by nearly 30% in most states since 1999. Although the suicide rate among Hispanic Americans is significantly lower than non-Hispanic Whites, reasons for the lower rate are unclear. Current literature suggests that the lower rate may be due to underreporting, a lack of suicide screening and a number of complex social issues, including the stigma surrounding suicide in Hispanic culture. Health care provider attitudes toward suicidal individuals may also negatively affect mental health outcomes. This brief report focuses on suicide as a public health concern, addresses key issues arising from the phenomenon, and provides a perspective on health care providers’ attitudes toward suicide. Recommendations for future research, as well as implications for clinical practice and policy, are suggested.

scholarly journals Decreased mental health care utilization following a psychosocial intervention in caregivers of hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Rita Ouseph ◽  
Calvin Croy ◽  
Crystal Natvig ◽  
Teresa Simoneau ◽  
Mark L. Laudenslager
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant ◽  
Stem Cell Transplant ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Cell Transplant ◽  
Hematopoietic Stem ◽  
Transplant Patients

Caregivers are known to experience increased morbidity when compared to noncaregivers. Does an intervention targeting caregiver distress affect their health care utilization? One hundred forty-eight caregivers of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients were randomized to treatment as usual (TAU) or a psychoeducation, paced respiration, and relaxation (PEPRR) intervention. Assessments of caregivers' service utilization were collected at baseline and 1, 3, and 6 months post-transplant. During the first 30 days after patient transplant, caregiver medical and mental health professional service use decreased while support group attendance peaked. Mixed model regressions showed a significant decrease in mental health service use by the PEPRR group (P=0.001). At six months caregivers in TAU had predicted marginal probabilities of mental health services utilization over 10 times as high as caregivers in PEPRR (18.1% vs 1.5%). Groups failed to differ in medical service (P=0.861) or support group (P=0.067) use. We can conclude that participation in PEPRR compared to TAU was associated with reduced mental health service utilization. Caregiver psychosocial support services are critical to improve caregiver outcomes.

scholarly journals Readmissions of long-stay psychiatric patients to the acute services from hostels in the community

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 524-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosie Shepperd
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Community Mental Health Care ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 19Th Century

The asylum movement was developed in the 19th century to provide care and cure for people with mental disorders. In the 20th century the old vision of asylum was abandoned, but no new alternative vision of community mental health care has taken its place. A divide between acute psychiatric services and provision for the social aspects of care has been described by Murphy (1991).

Using Photovoice to Promote Meaning-Making in a Suicide Loss Support Group

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-205
Author(s):  
Heather Delgado ◽  
Kelly Wester
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Mental Health Counselors ◽  
Unanswered Question ◽  
Manner Of Death ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Left Behind

The loss of a loved one to suicide is a devastating event that results in a complicated grief experience for those survivors left behind. This specific bereavement experience consists of three challenging obstacles: the unanswered question of why, the stigma concerning the manner of death, and the forced isolation of the grievers. These obstacles complicate the ability to make meaning of the loss, which is an important part of the healing process. Therefore, counselors can target meaning-making as an intervention by utilizing photovoice because it can provide survivors with the opportunity to create new meaning and thus work through these obstacles. This article discusses practical applications of a photovoice intervention with a loss by suicide support group and addresses the implications for clinical mental health counselors.

scholarly journals Risk and Protective factors for mental health of the families of health care workers in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sphoorthi G. Prabhu ◽  
Lavinia Lyngdoh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Protective Factors ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Risk And Protective Factors ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Current Scenario ◽  
Care Worker

COVID-19 is a global health threat which has affected each one of us terribly. Among the different groups of people, the families of health care workers are silent sufferers in the current scenario. They undergo significant psychological and social issues which could impact their mental health. However, there could also be factors which would help them maintain an equilibrium in the family in spite of the challenges they encounter with their family member being a health care worker. This may be specifically observed in the Indian context. Therefore, this paper has attempted to discuss the risk and protective factors for mental health in the families of healthcare workers in India.

Introduction: Why a Social Representations Perspective?

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Alberta Contarello
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Entire Volume ◽  
Social Object ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Aging ◽  
Theoretical Side

This chapter introduces the social representations perspective that forms the background of the entire volume, presenting the social-psychological gaze (regard psychosocial): the acknowledgment that the knowledge of a social object necessarily requires the mediation of an Alter, a “thirdness.” From this premise, specific ways of studying change and continuity in meaning-making derive, putting change at the forefront as well as concerns about the role of the researcher along the path. After considering these features, the chapter briefly presents the various parts that compose the book and the single chapters. From a social representations stance or from cognate perspectives, several keywords and topics are encountered, both on a theoretical side and with empirical examples, addressing social issues in domains such as health, aging, inequalities, environment, and community.

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