A Study on the Improvement of Mental Health according to the Participation Type of Forest Experience Program for the Intellectually Disabled

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-209
Author(s):  
Jin-kook Kim ◽  
Kyoung-ho Choi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Intellectually Disabled

scholarly journals Protecting the Interests of Vulnerable Defendants in the Criminal Justice System: The New Zealand Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warren Brookbanks
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Great Difficulty ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Official Policy ◽  
Positive Rights ◽  
Compulsory Care

Approaches to the management of people with intellectual disabilities (IDs) vary across jurisdictions. However, the inconsistent development and implementation of official policy has often resulted in a significant over-representation of persons with developmental difficulties in criminal justice systems worldwide. This reality led the New Zealand government in 2003 to introduce dedicated legislation recognising the special needs of offenders with an ID. The article examines the New Zealand legislative response to the challenges presented by this cohort of offenders, in the light of emerging international data of the incidence of, and official responses to, offenders with special needs. In New Zealand, the emerging problem of how to manage intellectually disabled offenders who commit serious crimes, and the legislative response to it, was driven by changes in mental health legislation in the early 1990s that had effectively disenfranchised persons with ID with challenging behaviours from regimes of supervisory care and treatment. The Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003 has provided for a separate regime of compulsory care and rehabilitation that may be accessed either directly as a criminal justice disposition, following a finding of unfitness to plead or legal insanity, or as a result of transfer from the mental health or penal systems. The compulsory care regime has proven effective in addressing the needs of intellectually disabled offenders, increasing numbers of whom are young people, who would have great difficulty coping in a prison environment. The New Zealand experience contrasts with experience in other jurisdictions where offenders with an ID are often over-represented in prison statistics and subject to victimisation and abuse. The article suggests that change is clearly required as a matter of urgency to ensure that offenders with an ID are able to benefit from the positive rights guaranteed under the UN Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and other rights instruments.

Mental Health Professionals as Pawns in Oppressive Practices: A Case Example Concerning Psychologists’ Involvement in the Denial of Education Rights to Roma/Gypsy Children

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Grover
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Educational Placement ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Educational Psychologists ◽  
European Court

This article examines a 2006 European Court of Human Rights judgment concerning educational discrimination against Roma children in the Czech Republic and the involvement of educational psychologists in the case. The court held the school to be the proper final arbiter on the question of the best interests of the child regarding educational placement. Based largely on culturally biased psychological testing results, the Roma children in question were declared mentally handicapped by educational psychologists. On that basis, they were placed in a segregated school for the intellectually disabled where the curriculum was quite deficient. Despite statistical evidence of the overrepresentation of Roma children in such segregated Czech schools, and of widespread discrimination against Roma in schools and in the larger society, the court rejected the claim that the children’s right to an education had been violated. The implication for psychologists and educators internationally, to avoid becoming pawns contributing to an oppressive human rights situation, is discussed.

A RANZCP trainee’s experience of working with patients with an intellectual disability: a case series

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 522-524
Author(s):  
Sheikh Naveed
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Psychiatric Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Case Series ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
Disabled Patients ◽  
Health Diagnosis

Objectives: This study aimed to highlight the interplay of intellectual disability and psychiatric presentation using a case series. Methods: A brief review of the current literature and an illustrative case series of five intellectually disabled patients with psychiatric patients whose diagnosis were clarified over time who presented with a psychiatric illness are provided. Results: The presence of intellectual disability often compounds the difficulty of establishment of mental-health diagnosis. Conclusions: More focus is required on training and skills development across mental-health services regarding the assessment of psychiatric disorders in people with an intellectual disability.

scholarly journals The Impact of Covid 19 Quarantine on the Intellectually Disabled

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (S4) ◽  
pp. 9-11
Author(s):  
L Ross-Williams Rhoda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Intellectually Disabled ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 quarantine is creating a threat to the intellectually disabled community. There is a need for community outings to sustain the psychological wellbeing of the intellectually disabled. This is why their caregivers include community outings in their care. However, during the COVID-19 quarantine this is suddenly missing in their lives. Therefore, this is causing an increase in psychosis for the intellectually disabled. Mental health professionals must proceed with caution when providing medication to ensure the holistic wellbeing of the patients is met.

Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
John P. A. Ioannidis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Disease ◽  
Brain Disorders ◽  
Social Stressors ◽  
Labor Education ◽  
Mental Diseases ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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