Counseling and Psychotherapy in Italy: A Profession in Constant Change

2005 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Gemignani ◽  
Massimo Giliberto
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Mental Health Counseling ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Cultural Legacies ◽  
The One

This article illustrates the state of the art for mental health counseling in Italy through a historic and postmodern perspective.The context of Italian mental health counseling is complex and full of new and old premises, events, and arguments. On the one side, the way counseling has developed and is perceived in Italy results from the intersection of old cultural legacies, such as Christianity, and new challenges, such as a multicultural and multiethnic society. On the other side, the development of mental health counseling in Italy is the result of the encounter between the pragmatic, optimist U.S. counseling and the phenomenological, hermeneutic traditions of European schools. The article ends with an exploration of the potentials that may arise from an ongoing communication between U.S. and Italian mental health professionals.

Mental Health Professionals' Evaluations of the Integral Intake, A Metatheory-Based, Idiographic Intake Instrument

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andre Marquis ◽  
Janice Holden
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Integral Theory ◽  
Mental Health Counseling ◽  
Mental Health Practitioners ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Health Experts ◽  
Better Than

This study assessed mental health experts' comparative evaluations of the two existing published idiographic intake instruments, the Adlerian-based Life-Style Introductory Interview (LI) and the Multimodal Life History Inventory (MI), along with Marquis' (2002; in press) newly developed Integral Intake (II), grounded in Ken Wilber's (1999d) integral theory. Fifty-eight counseling/psychotherapy educators and experienced mental health practitioners perused the three instruments and then used the author-developed Evaluation Form to respond to open-ended questions, as well as to rate and rank them on 11 dimensions: the instrument's overall helpfulness, comprehensiveness, and efficiency, and 8 fundamental dimensions of clients (thoughts, emotions, behaviors, physical aspects, culture, environmental systems, spirituality, and what is most meaningful to them). Respondents evaluated the LI consistently worst, and the II better than the MI on all three instrument dimensions and four of the eight client dimensions. We discuss the II's potential to become a standard in the field of mental health counseling.

On-scene Mental Health Counseling Provided Through Police Departments

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Young ◽  
Jill Fuller ◽  
Briana Riley
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Health Counseling ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Crisis Counseling ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Impact

The expectation that police officers can address every need in every situation is daunting and unrealistic. Recognizing this, some police departments have instituted special training or used other resources to better serve the needs of citizens. One example is an on-scene crisis counseling unit comprised of volunteer mental health professionals who respond to calls with police officers. These counselors provide mental health services that police officers cannot. This article explains the usefulness of this type of program, and crisis counseling in general, for both officers and victims as they deal with crises like domestic violence, homicide, suicide, and sexual assault. The study examines survey results from victims and police officers about the impact of this intervention. The data support the helpfulness of the program. Implications and recommendations for further research are included.

Goldwater

2020 ◽  
pp. 174-184
Author(s):  
Dan P. McAdams
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Psychiatric Diagnosis ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Mental Health And Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
The One

As a short digression into the world of psychiatric diagnosis, the chapter “Goldwater” discusses the controversy over whether or not mental health professionals should diagnose President Trump with a mental illness, such as narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). The chapter’s title recalls the 1964 U.S. presidential election wherein the results of a survey of psychiatrists were published in an American magazine, concluding that the Republican candidate Barry Goldwater was mentally unfit to hold office. Goldwater later sued the magazine, and the case led to what has become known as the Goldwater Rule, prohibiting psychiatrists from diagnosing public officials from afar. The chapter makes a clear distinction between psychiatric diagnosis, which adopts the language of medicine and illness, on the one hand, and psychological commentary on the other. The latter conception better characterizes what the current book aims to accomplish. Psychological commentary draws from psychological science to develop a personality portrait of a person, without diagnosis and without judgment regarding mental health and illness. Moreover, Donald Trump is much stranger than any psychiatric label can convey.

Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Psychotherapy Integration ◽  
Clinical Vignettes

Psychotherapists have come to realize that, given the complexity of human behavior, no single theory or treatment can ever suffice for all patients, disorders, and situations. The ideological Cold War has abated as clinicians look across single-school approaches to see what can be learned—and how patients can benefit—from alternative orientations. Integrative now constitutes the most frequent orientation of mental health professionals. This volume provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art description of psychotherapy integration by leading proponents. Replete with clinical vignettes, this unique handbook will prove invaluable to practitioners, students, and researchers alike.

Contagion, Identity, Misinformation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis C. Charland
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Personal Identity ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Emotional Contagion ◽  
The Internet ◽  
New Challenges

The evolution of the internet and associated social media pose novel challenges for psychiatric ethics. Issues surrounding emotional contagion, personal identity, and misinformation figure importantly among these new challenges, with important consequences for consumers of mental health services, as well as psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. The evolution of the internet and associated social media pose novel challenges for psychiatric ethics. Issues surrounding emotional contagion, personal identity, and misinformation figure importantly among these new challenges, with important consequences for consumers of mental health services, as well as psychiatrists and other mental health professionals.

scholarly journals The value of work in the 1980s

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 231-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
The Other ◽  
Psychiatric Disabilities ◽  
Ambivalent Attitude ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

Mental health professionals seem to have a curiously ambivalent attitude towards work. On the one hand, it is generally accepted that the experience of unemployment is often associated with severe social and psychological distress. On the other, we seem reluctant to strive to provide work for those patients who have the greatest social and psychiatric disabilities and for whom work, in all its forms, may have the greatest benefit. I don't wish to speculate on the psychological roots of this ambivalence, although I suspect that it stems, at least in part, from the way in which we all feel about our own jobs. However, there are other reasons why the concept of work has always sat uneasily within the context of psychiatric services.

Forgiveness and Forgetting: Clinical Implications for Mental Health Counselors

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Cosgrove ◽  
Varda Konstam
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Health Counseling ◽  
Mental Health Counselors ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Although mental health professionals have attempted to specify the meaning of forgiveness, lack of consensus exists. Despite the lack of consensus over the meaning of forgiveness, there is agreement that forgiving is not forgetting or pardoning. However, the relationship between forgiving and forgetting has been undertheorized, and as a result, this relationship has not been empirically investigated. In this paper, we suggest that it would be fruitful to assess the meaning systems individuals associate with the definition of forgiveness. Focusing on the lived experience of individuals may help researchers and counselors avoid unhelpful dichotomizations such as "authentic vs. inauthentic" forgiveness. Implications for both research and mental health counseling are discussed.

scholarly journals Mobile phone usage and willingness to receive mental health support through mobile phones among perinatal mothers in rural Bihar, India: A community survey (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijaya Raghavan ◽  
Homam A. Khan ◽  
Seshu Uttara ◽  
Amarnath Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Mental Health Counseling ◽  
Health Counseling ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
To Receive

BACKGROUND The increasing usage of mobile phones has created unique opportunities to provide health information dissemination and other interventions even to the remote places. OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study as to examine the mobile phone usage among ante- and post- natal mothers in rural Bihar and their willingness to receive health information and mental health counseling through mobile phones. METHODS The current study was conducted in four village panchayats, selected by convenience sampling, in Dalsinghsarai Taluk, Samastipur district, Bihar. A total of 50 ante- and post- natal mothers were interviewed after obtaining a written informed consent. A semi-structed performa was developed, in consultation with the mental health professionals, community level workers, village heads and lay people, to gather relevant information from the study participants. Descriptive statistical tests were used to analyze the data. RESULTS Analysis shows that the study participants’ average years of education was 5.4±3.6. Nearly 98% of the households of the interviewed study participants had at least one mobile phone while 84% of the study participants had separate personal mobile phones for themselves and had autonomy to use. 90% of the mobile phones in use are modular type. Nearly 98% of the study participants reported willingness to receive health information and mental health counseling through mobile phones. CONCLUSIONS The results of the current study indicate that there is high mobile phone usage in rural Bihar and majority of the ante- and post- natal mothers own and use them with autonomy. They have also shown interest in receiving heath interventions through mobile phones. Novel and innovative approaches could be developed to tap into this potential avenue to promote and deliver health information and could be scaled up for wider audience at low cost.

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