scholarly journals Inventing Mental Health First Aid: The Problem of Psychocentrism

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Nadine DeFehr
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Mental Health First Aid ◽  
Intervention Model ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
International Image ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Psychiatric Profession

This article provides a sociopolitical critique of contemporary Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) discourses. The concept of psychocentrism, adopted as an analytical tool, critiques the problematic nature of MHFA premises and practices that automate, expedite, enforce, and normalize the global movement to psychiatrize human distress. Contesting MHFA’s international image as a benevolent, individual crisis intervention model, this essay discusses MHFA as a technique of neoliberal governance, moral surveillance, and social control, responsible for reinvigorating the psychiatric profession while dividing and demoting the populace.

Using Stakeholder Perceptions to Inform the Scale-Up of Mental Health First Aid Training in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shurong Lu ◽  
Yanling He ◽  
Kendall Searle ◽  
Pilvikki Absetz ◽  
Brian Oldenburg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Stakeholder Perceptions ◽  
Mental Health First Aid ◽  
First Aid Training

scholarly journals A Single-session Crisis Intervention Therapy Model for Emergency Psychiatry

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Scott Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Crisis Intervention ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Emergency Psychiatry ◽  
Intervention Model ◽  
Single Session ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Interventions ◽  
Therapy Model

Presentations for anxiety and depression constitute the fastest growing category of mental health diagnoses seen in emergency departments (EDs). Even non-psychiatric clinicians must be prepared to provide psychotherapeutic interventions for these patients, just as they might provide motivational interviewing for a patient with substance use disorders. This case report of an 18-year-old woman with suicidal ideation illustrates the practicality and utility of a brief, single-session, crisis intervention model that facilitated discharge from the ED. This report will help practitioners to apply this model in their own practice and identify patients who may require psychiatric hospitalization.

Evaluation of Mental Health First Aid skills in an Australian university population

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1121-1128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deena Ashoorian ◽  
Kristy‐Lee Albrecht ◽  
Casey Baxter ◽  
Erin Giftakis ◽  
Rhonda Clifford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Mental Health First Aid ◽  
University Population

scholarly journals Guidelines for the public on how to provide mental health first aid: narrative review

BJPsych Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 427-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Jorm ◽  
Anna M. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Mental Health First Aid ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Public ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Wide Range

BackgroundExpert-consensus guidelines have been developed for how members of the public should assist a person with a mental health problem or in a mental health crisis.AimsThis review aimed to examine the range of guidelines that have been developed and how these have been implemented in practice.MethodA narrative review was carried out based on a systematic search for literature on the development or implementation of the guidelines.ResultsThe Delphi method has been used to develop a wide range of guidelines for English-speaking countries, Asian countries and a number of other cultural groups. The primary implementation has been through informing the content of training courses.ConclusionFurther work is needed on guidelines for low- and middle-income countries.Declaration of interestA.F.J. is an unpaid member of the Board of Mental Health First Aid International (trading as Mental Health First Aid Australia), which is a not-for-profit organisation.

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