Guidelines for Evaluating and Using the Epidemiological Mental Health Literature with Culturally Diverse Groups

2016 ◽  
pp. 174-189
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Health Literature ◽  
Mental Health Literature ◽  
Diverse Groups

scholarly journals Recommendations for Designing Health Information Technologies for Mental Health Drawn From Self-Determination Theory and Co-design With Culturally Diverse Populations: Template Analysis (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Wan Sze Cheng ◽  
Sarah E Piper ◽  
Antonia Ottavio ◽  
Tracey A Davenport ◽  
Ian B Hickie
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Health Information Technologies ◽  
Template Analysis ◽  
Diverse Groups

BACKGROUND Culturally diverse populations (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people of diverse genders and sexualities, and culturally and linguistically diverse people) in nonurban areas face compounded barriers to accessing mental health care. Health information technologies (HITs) show promising potential to overcome these barriers. OBJECTIVE This study aims to identify how best to improve a mental health and well-being HIT for culturally diverse Australians in nonurban areas. METHODS We conducted 10 co-design workshops (N=105 participants) in primary youth mental health services across predominantly nonurban areas of Australia and conducted template analysis on the workshop outputs. Owing to local (including service) demographics, the workshop participants naturalistically reflected culturally diverse groups. RESULTS We identified 4 main themes: control, usability, affirmation, and health service delivery factors. The first 3 themes overlap with the 3 basic needs postulated by self-determination theory (autonomy, competence, and relatedness) and describe participant recommendations on how to <i>design</i> an HIT. The final theme includes barriers to adopting HITs for mental health care and how HITs can be used to support care coordination and delivery. Hence, it describes participant recommendations on how to <i>use</i> an HIT. CONCLUSIONS Although culturally diverse groups have specific concerns, their expressed needs fall broadly within the relatively universal design principles identified in this study. The findings of this study provide further support for applying self-determination theory to the design of HITs and reflect the tension in designing technologies for complex problems that overlap multiple medical, regulatory, and social domains, such as mental health care. Finally, we synthesize the identified themes into general recommendations for designing HITs for mental health and provide concrete examples of design features recommended by participants. CLINICALTRIAL

scholarly journals Status Kesehatan Mental Dan Program Kesehatan Mental Anak Sekolah Dasar Di Halmahera Utara

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Desi Desi Desi ◽  
Meike Yeneka Jacob ◽  
Rama Tulus Pilakoannu
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Mental Healthcare ◽  
Mental Health Status ◽  
Emotional Behavior ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Health Literature ◽  
Mental Health Literature

 AbstractMental health is covered with prosperity where retail can cause a bad situation in his life, able to work and able to contribute to society. It is estimated that 20-25% of children experience mental health literature taking into consideration the high prevalence of mental health literature in children, then schools are recommended as for health promotion. The purpose of this research is to know the description of the students ' mental health status and the promotion of mental health in two elementary schools, namely, SD Inpres Meti in Meti Village, East Tobelo Sub District and in SD Inpres, Kusuri village, West Tobelo District in North Halmahera regency. Collection of data using the distribution of the questionnaire by involving students in grades 4-6 and teachers. The questionnaire used was the questionnaires saebers. The results were summarized in 3 categories: disorders of social behavior, symptoms of academic behavior and symptoms of emotional behavior to assess students ' mental health status, while the promotion of mental health on teachers is summarized in six categories: knowledge of Student's mental healthcare promotion, teacher knowledge of student's mental health, school and teacher regulations, learning forms and teaching in the classroom, school relationships with parents and daily behavior of children in schools that often Found. Students of Meti (coastal) elementary school have a risk level of mental health problems of 100% and Studnt of Kusuri (mountain) of 87%, where there is no significant difference.Keywords: Health Promotion, Mental Health Status, Elementary Students

Who Are the Most Exceptional Clinicians?

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-173
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Kottler ◽  
Richard S. Balkin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Successful Therapy ◽  
The Core ◽  
Health Literature ◽  
Mental Health Literature ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
Core Conditions ◽  
The Individual

In Who Are the Most Exceptional Clinicians? the authors dispute the assumption that the great writers and theorists were also great clinicians. If fame and notoriety do not make a great therapist, then what does? The effectiveness of the core conditions are highlighted, as well as personal characteristics, such as charisma, relational skills, knowledge and wisdom, and other personal qualities that often get little exposure in mental health literature, such as being fully present in therapy, the presence of a strong moral code, sensitivity, flexibility, and honoring the complexity of the individual. Ultimately, successful therapy is likely more dependent on therapists finding their own voice, as opposed to emulating a famous icon, who may have never been that good in the first place.

scholarly journals Autism in fiction and autobiography

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Bates
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Asperger Syndrome ◽  
World View ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
Social Impairment ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
Health Literature ◽  
Mental Health Literature

SummaryMany memorable characters in Western culture could be viewed as having features of autism or Asperger syndrome. In spite of the familiarity of autistic stereotypes such as Star Trek‘s Mr Spock, more completely described characters with autism are still unusual. In recent years there has been a growing interest in autism, mirrored by an increase in depictions of autism in popular works of fiction and autobiography. In this article I will outline the issues that have preoccupied writers and the techniques they have used to demonstrate autistic difference. Some writers have illuminated aspects of the autistic triad of social impairment, abnormalities of language and need for sameness. Other writers have opened our eyes to the autistic world view in its strangeness and richness. Still more have started to examine prejudice, disability rights and the implications of an international autism community. As in other areas of mental health, literature can help inform, entertain and question our attitudes and values.

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