School Organization and the Mental Health Consultation Process

1963 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin R. Gluck

Many psychologists who undertake consultation activities for the first time may ignore, or not even be aware of, the “administrative” or sociological aspects of the situation in which the consultation process takes place. The point of view presented here is that the structure of a school system using a mental health consultant is intimately related to how the consultant operates and what he does in his role as consultant. The Superintendent, Principals and Vice-Principals all determine the areas in which the consultant can work, the types of problems with which he will be asked to help, and the possible range of activities school personnel themselves can undertake to deal with the pupil problems confronting them. Specific examples of the interactions between the consultant's role and the authority-responsibility level of the individual consultees are presented. The consultant's knowledge of any organization's structure can aid him in planning for consultative activities that are appropriate to the personnel with whom he is working.

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-563
Author(s):  
Adam Burley

This is a personal and reflective piece written from a clinician's point of view on the influence that the developing awareness around the consequences of childhood adversity has had upon the discussions, thinking and practice across the areas in which they are working. It seeks to argue that the increased understanding and recognition of the potential impact of early adversity can not only enhance and deepen the understanding of an individual's difficulties, but can serve to inform how services respond in a way that takes account of this. It suggests that the research and literature on childhood adversity can offer a route map away from a model of mental health that focuses predominantly on the individual as the sole source of interest.


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheena V. Kumar ◽  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Mary T. Kelly

The transition to fatherhood can challenge the mental health of first-time fathers and heighten their risk for postpartum depression (PPD). Paternal PPD not only affects the individual, but relationships with partners and children as well. This scoping review explores paternal PPD, highlighting the factors for and impacts of paternal PPD, the experiences of first-time fathers during the postnatal period, including their knowledge gaps and learning preferences. Drawing on the scoping review findings, recommendations are made for postnatal programs to improve the inclusion of new fathers amid describing how nurse practitioners can promote men’s mental health in the postpartum period.


2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 297-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Lee McCabe, PhD ◽  
Michael J. Kaminsky, MD, MBA ◽  
Paul R. McHugh, MD

Despite increased professional attention to the mental health aspects of disaster medicine in recent years, advances in clinical assessment of survivors of mass casualty incidents have been few. Contemporary assessment methods often yield little more than check lists of symptoms that, while they may lead to reliable DSM-IV diagnoses, provide no sense of the individual patient’s plight and so are inadequate for case formulation, treatment planning, and prognosis estimation. The authors describe a comprehensive model for assessing patients developed at the Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Relating it to the field of disaster mental health for the first time here, the approach uses four distinct but overlapping appraisal perspectives, each of which drives a set of exploratory propositions and leads to an understanding of the essential natures of clinical disorders and their underlying etiologies. The perspectives address the following: (a) what the individual “has” (biologically based disease and physical illness); (b) who the individual “is” (graded dimensions of temperament, disposition, traits, intelligence, etc); (c) what the individual “does” (purposeful, goal-directed, conditioned behavior, etc); and (d) what the individual “has encountered” (his/ her life story and the meaning that has been given to those experiences). Following a description of each perspective from the standpoint of its underlying logic, inquiry domain, and indicated intervention, the authors highlight the potential hueristic value of the model by illustrating numerous testable hypotheses that can be generated through the juxtaposition of the four assessment perspectives with three longitudinal considerations for the management of trauma patients, ie, the stress-related constructs of (pre-incident) resistance, (peri-incident) resilience, and (post-incident) recovery.


1999 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer J. Luntz

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art in consultation at the close of the third decade of its existence as a major form of delivering mental health services in the United States of America, and its somewhat later introduction in Victoria, Australia. Gallessich’s framework for consultation (1983, 1985), amongst others, is compared with the Victorian model. Issues raised include the need for consultants to understand the boundaries of consultation, its limitations, the state of its knowledge base and the uniquely Victorian contribution of a framework of several levels which enables an integration of the knowledge borrowed from a range of sources to assist in the improvement of its practice. A later paper to be published in ‘Children Australia’ looks at the steps in the consultation process.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 528-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Schwarz

Historically, psychiatry and clinical psychology focused on understanding how stressful life conditions led to psychiatric disorders. With the rise of positive psychology, the focus shifted to thriving through adversity and to concepts such as resilience. However, the number of mental disorders is still increasing. Due to a neoliberal Western decontextualizing stance in psychology, the concept of resilience is at risk of reproducing power imbalances and discrimination within our society. Resilience is analysed from a critical perspective, mostly with a Marxist point of view, including Foucauldian discursive approaches, as well as a biomedical critique of the current mental health system, to illustrate the shortcomings of Western psychologies. This article illustrates how a contextualized understanding of resilience that accounts for political, historical, and socioeconomic contexts at analytical levels besides the individual may overcome this ethnocentric and neoliberal bias.


1974 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 569-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Fine ◽  
Robert Krell ◽  
P. Susan Stephenson ◽  
Roger Freeman ◽  
Irving Berlin

A brief definition of the consultation process is presented. Four different consultation programs (to schools, to a public health unit, to agencies for the handicapped and to a welfare agency) are described and the value of this process in providing service is stressed. Some indication of how the consultation process can be taught is mentioned and the need for more research and evaluation is emphasized.


Author(s):  
Sevinj Seyidova

The article analyzes the chamber-instrumental work of Jalal Abbasov, a brilliant representative of the modern Azerbaijani school of composition, in particular, ‘Munajat-I’. It also looks at the work of Jalal Abbasov against the background of the development of Azerbaijani music culture and explores the genre diversity of chamber-instrumental works. In addition, the study highlights the form and content, music, and harmonic language in the composer’s chamber-instrumental works, especially in the work ‘Munajat-I’. The article emphasizes the peculiar stylistic features of Jalal Abbasov’s chamber-instrumental work, its connection with musical folklore, and its tendency to modernity based on traditions. The purpose of the research is to analyze the work of Jalal Abbasov ‘Munajat’ and to study the individual stylistic features of the composer. The main features are the emergence of the characteristic features of the composer’s chamber-instrumental work and its special importance in the development of modern Azerbaijani musical culture. The basis of the research is the involvement of J. Abbasov, a worthy representative of the modern generation of Azerbaijani composers, in the detailed research work of the work ‘Munajat-I’, which has not been subjected to scientific and theoretical analysis. From this point of view, the research is based on the method of complex theoretical analysis. The research methodology is based on music-analytical, theoretical, and historical analysis. It was noted that the composer’s personal style has improved in the process of development, modern innovative ideas, modern technical methods have been used uniquely in the diversity of genres. At the same time, based on the scientific-theoretical principles and research of Azerbaijani musicologists, the article forms the methodological basis. The scientific novelty of the research is that the article, presented for the first time as special research work, is based on manuscripts dedicated to the chamber-instrumental work of the representative of the modern school of the composition of Azerbaijan J. Abbasov and the features of ‘Munajat-I’. For the first time in the presented article, the work "Munajat", which is important in the work of J. Abbasov, but has not been studied so far, has been scientifically analyzed. Conclusions. The comprehensive analysis of Jalal Abbasov’s chamber-instrumental work, especially ‘Munajat-I’ in the presented article, allows us to draw important conclusions about the features of the composer’s personal style. An important feature of the composer's chamber-instrumental works, distinguished by their original creative style, is the richness and deep content of the musical language. It was noted that J. Abbasov, who organically combined nationalism and modernity in his works, expressed his deep philosophical thoughts with high demand and seriousness. From this point of view, the elements of national music in the composer’s works with a bright content and individual style are expressed by the features of modern writing techniques. It was noted that the philosophical, rich imagery, deep meaning, and thoughtful thoughts characteristic of the composer’s work are reflected in his chamber-instrumental works, including ‘Munajat-I’. That is why the works of J. Abbasov have been successfully performed not only in his native Azerbaijan but also in many foreign countries and have successfully represented our modern school of composition. Jalal Abbasov is currently living in the period of the wisdom of his work, enriching Azerbaijani music by creating new modern works.


2021 ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
R. F. Hrynyuk ◽  
Yu. V. Hotsuliak

The article researches the peculiarities of the social contract theory influence on the philosophical foundations of legal science. The author analyzes the classical doctrines of T. Hobbes, J. Locke, J.-J. Rousseau, who created the theory of social contract, the article substantiates the influence of this theory on the interpretation of certain legal principles, the function of law and the initial legal origins. It is studied the nature of the legal compromise between public and state legal principles. It is stated the scientific position that the contract as a legal attribute and negotiability as a legal property of the person are the order ontological foundations (instead of simply a civil category). T. Hobbes's theory of the social contract defends the position that the renunciation and transfer of absolute freedom and absolute "right to everything" is a transition from the individual to the general legal state of society, which makes it possible to answer questions about internal legal formation and human development as a legal entity. Locke demonstrates the concentration of legal meanings not in supernatural principles, but in man himself, since it is a person who is the source of legal potential. According to the position of J. Locke, individuals are endowed with equal freedom and as a consequence, equality in the perception of each other without any renunciation, and thus, are capable of legal compromise. Therefore J. Locke's theory of social contract allows to doctrinally substantiate key legal principles as innate integral legal attributes of human existence. The theory of social contract makes it possible to look at the nature of power, as well as communication between the sovereign and the people from a purely legal and anthropological point of view, to distinguish their logic unlike the theological approach and its principle of «given». Order as a key legal characteristic is revealed through bargaining power as the ability to obey established requirements. This theory for the first time reveals some inalienable legal meanings: the legal capacity of legal consciousness, mutual restraint, subjugation, generality.


Author(s):  
Ignacio Jáuregui-Lobera ◽  
Marian Montes-Martínez

The first time that terms such as food addiction and addictive eating were mentioned was in 1956, in an article by T.G. Randolph. Recently, from a psychosomatic point of view, some authors have linked obesity and food addiction. Along with the concept of food addiction (derived from the similarities between the consumption of certain foods and “substance addictions”), a couple of questions seem to arise: What if it’s not just the particular food (the substance) that we are addicted to? Could it be that we are addicted to something else that makes us eat it? Thus, the concept of eating addiction has its own set of particulars. It brings the attention back to the individual and not the external substance (the food or ingredient). The focus on confronting the obesity problem should be moved away from the food itself (the addictive substance) to the person’s act of eating (the addictive behavior). Undoubtedly, there are many links between emotions and overweight/obesity. This chapter aims to review the current state of this field of study which is the emotional basis of obesity (at least a particular case of obesity and weight-related disorders).


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