scholarly journals Paramedic clinical judgment of mental illness: Representations of official accounts

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Shaban
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Judgment And Decision Making ◽  
Illness Representations ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Historical Case

This paper is the fourth in a series that heralds a study that examines paramedic accounts and constructs of judgment and decision-making (JDM) of mental health and mental illness. This paper will provide the results of one stage of this study in which a discourse-historical case study of paramedic JDM of mental health and mental illness using ethnographic and ethnomethodological research methods was conducted. Preliminary themes describing the ways in which paramedics officially account for their judgments of mental illness will be presented.

scholarly journals Accounting for assessments of mental illness in paramedic practice: A new theoretical framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Shaban
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Judgment And Decision Making ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Key Aspects

This is the third paper in a series that heralds a study that examines paramedic accounts and constructs of judgment and decision-making (JDM) of mental health and mental illness. This paper will overview an innovative theoretical framework for conducting a discourse-historical case study of paramedic judgment and decision-making of mental health and mental illness using ethnographic and ethnomethodological research methods. The review of the existing research and literature suggests an insufficiency of current theoretical and methodological frameworks to address the research problem and questions of this study. Little examination of judgment in mental illness and health has occurred, which is discussed in an earlier paper.1 Those studies, and the theoretical frameworks used, are insufficient in addressing key aspects of inquiry in judgment and decision-making, particularly in the paramedic ecology. The theoretical framework described here seeks to begin addressing this insufficiency in a new and innovative way.

scholarly journals Mental health and mental illness in paramedic practice: A warrant for research and inquiry into accounts of paramedic clinical judgment and decision-making

2004 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Shaban
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Judgment And Decision Making

Summary This paper is the first in a series that heralds a study examining paramedic accounts and constructs of judgment and decision-making (JDM) of mental health and mental illness. Providing an introduction and background to the evolving study, the paper will establish a warrant for the research and scope of the research agenda and methods of inquiry.

Improving Clinical Judgment and Decision Making in Forensic Evalution

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy Borum ◽  
Randy Otto ◽  
Stephen Golding
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Judgment And Decision Making ◽  
Forensic Evaluations ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Clinical Evaluations ◽  
Almost All

Psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are frequently involved as expert witnesses in legal proceedings. However, clinical judgment and decision making, which play a role in almost all clinical evaluations, have problems and limitations. Mental health professionals who conduct forensic examinations should be aware of these problems and take steps to address them. This article details the limitations of clinical judgment and decision making, and suggests ways to minimize associated problems, thereby improving the validity and utility of forensic evaluations.

Leading through ritual: Ceremony and emperorship in early modern China

Leadership ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gazi Islam ◽  
Macabe Keliher
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Analogical Reasoning ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Structural Aspects ◽  
Institutional Order

Ritual performance is well understood in organizational maintenance. Its role in leadership and processes of change, however, remains understudied. We argue that ritual addresses key challenges in institutionalizing leadership, particularly in fixing the relation between a charismatic leader and formal governance structures. Through a historical case study of the institutionalization of the emperor in Qing China (1636–1912), we argue that the shaping of collective understandings of the new emperor involved structural aspects of ritual that worked through analogical reasoning to internalize the figure of the leader through focusing attention, fixing memory, and emotionally investing members in the leader. We argue that data from the Qing dynasty Board of Rites show that ritual was explicitly designed to model the new institutional order, which Qing state-makers used to establish collective adherence to the emperorship. We further discuss the implications of this case for understanding the symbolic and performative nature of leadership as an institutional process.

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