Collective Poetry Making in the Poesis of Psychohistoriographic Cultural Therapy

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-173
Author(s):  
Frederick W. Hickling ◽  
Hilary Robertson-Hickling ◽  
Debbie-Ann Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Cultural Therapy ◽  
Mental Health Centre ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Cooperative Association

Psychohistoriographic Cultural Therapy (PCT), pioneered in Jamaica in 1978, is a post-colonial model of group psychotherapy that privileges the use of the poetic to heal historical traumas. Embedded in PCT is a technique of collective poetry making. In this paper, the process is chronicled in five case studies: Madnificent Irations at the Bellevue Mental Hospital (Jamaica); Rethinking Cultural Diversity at the Cooperative Association of States for Scholarship (Georgetown University, Washington); Windows for Wavelengths at the Maudsley Hospital (London, UK); Identity and Achievement at the Afro-Caribbean Mental Health Centre (Wolverhampton, UK); and Mite de La Laine at the McGill University, (Montreal, Canada). An analysis of the PCT process and the collaborative poems created highlights how this model accelerates insight and resilience, confronts stigma, and facilitates rehabilitation and productivity.

The Role of the Occupational Therapist in a Community Mental Health Centre in Greece

1986 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 389-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Tsipra ◽  
P Voutsina ◽  
E Charitaki ◽  
V Tomaras ◽  
A Kapsali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Occupational Therapist ◽  
Community Mental Health Centre ◽  
Rehabilitation Unit ◽  
Care Programme ◽  
Mental Health Centre ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

This article deals with a developing rehabilitation unit for mentally ill people, mostly chronic schizophrenic patients, which has been integrated into the Community Mental Health Centre of two Athenian boroughs. The unit includes a day care programme, a vocational training workshop and a social therapeutic club. All these programmes have been developed for the first time in Greece at a certain community level. The authors describe the rationale and the structure of the rehabilitation unit and the role of the occupational therapist.

Multidisciplinary or Nondisciplinary: Evaluation of Staff Functioning in a Community Mental Health Centre

1984 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Krupnski ◽  
Lenora Lippmann
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Community Mental Health Centre ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Mental Health Centre ◽  
Community Roles

This paper describes the staffing aspects of an experimental community mental health centre (Melville Clinic). The different components of staff roles of members of a team consisting of different health professionals, crystallised during the three-year period with a shift from a ‘nondisciplinary’ to a ‘multidisciplinary’ approach, with preservation of ‘generalised’ and ‘specialised’, ‘clinical’ and ‘community’ roles of all staff members. The decision-making in the centre oscillated between group decisions by all staff members, and the acceptance of the leading role of the psychiatrist with the active Involvement of the test of the staff. This paper provides a model for multidisciplinary teamwork in community mental health centres.

Self-Referrals to a Community Mental Health Centre: A Three Year Study

1985 ◽  
Vol 147 (5) ◽  
pp. 540-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francoise M. Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Community Mental Health Centre ◽  
Psychiatric Disturbance ◽  
Mental Health Centre

The records of all 53 clients who referred themselves to a community mental health centre in the first three years of its existence were studied retrospectively. These showed increasing and generally appropriate use of direct access for the relief of serious, often long-standing emotional distress. Self-referrals were much more often men than women, and some clients would probably not have been reached in any other way. The service seemed to reduce the local GPs' burden, at least subjectively. However, no-one presented with acute psychiatric disturbance or immediately impending breakdown. Any prevention achieved seems likely to be long-term rather than short-term.

Overrepresentation of Adopted Children Attending a Children's Mental Health Centre

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 526-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Jerome
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Retrospective Analysis ◽  
Clinical Experience ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Children’S Mental Health ◽  
Annual Incidence ◽  
Children's Mental Health ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Child Guidance ◽  
Mental Health Centre

A retrospective analysis was made of case records of children attending a Children's Mental Health Centre during the years 1959 to 1973. Annual comparisons were made between the numbers of adopted, children seen in the province of Ontario and within the clinic setting. The results indicated that over a fifteen year period the adopted children in the clinic were seen with twice the expected annual incidence predicted from the community rates. “So far as it is known, the proportion of successful and unsuccessful adoptions does not seem unsatisfactory. This result is in accordance with clinical experience which does not suggest that an undue proportion of adopted children are referred to child guidance clinics.” Bowlby (1951)

Assessment of coping with stress in patients with schizophrenic in a Community Mental Health Centre, in Turkey

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Gulay Tasdemir Yigitoglu ◽  
Gulseren Keskin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Community Mental Health Centre ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Coping Methods ◽  
Mental Health Centre ◽  
Emotional Social Support

Abstract Objective: To assess schizophrenia patients’ approach toward coping with stress in terms of demographic variables. Methods: The cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at the State Hospital Community Mental Health Centre, Turkey, from November 1, 2013, to April 30, 2014, and comprised patients diagnosed with schizophrenia. Data was collected using Sociodemographic Information Form, and the Coping Assessment Questionnaire Inventory. It was analysed using SPSS 18.  Results: Of the 53 patients, 14(26.4%) were females, and 39(73.5%) were males. The overall mean age was 38±10.66 years. Highest mean score was recorded for the emotion-focussed coping subscale which was 63.49±10.64. Female patients used emotional social support, focussing on problems and venting emotions techniques (p<0.05). Patients who did not use alcohol received higher scores from religious coping subscales, while patients who used alcohol scored higher from substance use and dysfunctional coping subscales (p<0.05). Conclusion: Most schizophrenia patients were found to be using emotion-focussed coping methods. Continuous....

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