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The mental health handbook
- Author:
- POWELL Trevor
- Publisher:
- Speechmark
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 186p.
- Place of publication:
- Bicester
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This edition of the Mental Health Handbook has now been republished with many additions to the original work. It contains an expanded treasury of successful handouts to photocopy covering many areas of mental health rehabilitation: Stress, depression, changing habits and behaviour, anxiety, assertion and caring for others
Culture and the mental health consequences of trauma
- Author:
- PATEL Vikram
- Journal article citation:
- Indian Journal of Social Work, 61(4), October 2000, pp.619-630.
- Publisher:
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences
The symptoms of mental disorders are universal as they are experienced by people in all cultures and societies, though the manner in which they are conceptualised and categorised can vary considerably. The cultural influences on mental disorders are especially relevant if research findings are to be implemented in health interventions. The article reviews the debates on the cross-cutral validity of psychiatric categories and considers its implications for the expression, concepts and diagnoses of the mental health consequences of trauma such as depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. This article presents an agenda for research, which aims to generate culturally sensitive findings on the mental health consequences of trauma.
Relationships of perceived stress to coping attachment and social support among HIV-positive persons
- Authors:
- KOOPMAN C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- AIDS Care, 12(5), October 2000, pp.663-672.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Examines the relationships of coping , attachment style and perceived social support to perceived stress with a sample of American HIV-positive persons. The results of the study indicate that HIV-positive persons who experience the greatest stress in their daily lives are those with lower incomes, those who disengage behaviourally/emotionally in coping with their illness, and those who approach their interpersonal relationships in a less secure or more anxious style.
All in faith: religion as the idiom and means of coping with distress
- Authors:
- HEILMAN Samuel C., WITZTUM Eliezer
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Religion and Culture, 3(2), November 2000, pp.115-124.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper describes the way that people for whom religion is at the heart of their cultural and personal life try to cope with their problems via religious dogma or practise. It illustrates this through the three cases drawn from the ultra-Orthodox Jews of Jerusalem. For the therapists, the religious beliefs and practises offer help in identifying the disorder or act as agents in its treatment or even bases for rehabilitation. The paper suggests that understanding this complex relationship facilitates the therapeutic process considerably.
In search of a marital distress model of depression in older marriages
- Authors:
- HARPER J.M., SANDBERG J.G.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 4(3), August 2000, pp.210-222.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In an effort to investigate and describe the interpersonal nature of depression, data on levels of depression, stress, health and marital distress in 535 married couples was analysed. Specifically, the results showed that marital distress was significantly associated with levels of depression for both partners and that wives' distress was also significantly related to husbands' depression. Results also showed, with a few exceptions, that levels of stress and/or health in either partner were directly and indirectly associated with depression for husbands and wives. Implications for clinical practice with and future research on later life couples experiencing depression are discussed.
Mothers with a mental illness: stressors and resources for parenting and living
- Authors:
- MOWBRAY Carol, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 81(2), March 2000, pp.118-129.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Reports on a US study of a large, primarily minority sample of women with serious mental illness who are mothers and who are being served in the public mental-health system of a large urban area. The author sought to collect more comprehensive information to better understand their situaions and improve service provisions. The women in the study report experiencing severe financial strains and health problems, even when compared with other low-income, urban-based populations. Many also have experienced crisis, loss of significant others, assaults, and other negative life events that are very stressful, along with a high number of chronic hassles. they do have resources available to them, through interpersonal supports, religion, and mental-health services. The discussion focuses on implications for micro-and macro-practice to improve these women's lives, their parenting, and the potential outcomes of their children.
Restoring the balance: a self-help program for managing anxiety and depression
- Author:
- YATES Fred
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 4p., CD.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Balance Programme has been designed for people with mild to moderate anxiety and/or depression. It was not intended as a substitute for clinical treatment, but sought to provide strategies for managing problems. However, it can be offered as a self help programme for well motivated users who prefer working on their own.
The influence of social factors on psychiatric hospitalisation in Northern Ireland: a review of the literature: an analysis of offical statistics and the implications for social workers
- Author:
- MANKTELOW Roger
- Journal article citation:
- Irish Journal of Social Work Research, 2(2), 2000, pp.57-72.
- Publisher:
- Irish Association of Social Workers
The paper reviews the knowledge of the influence of social factors on psychiatric hospitalisation within Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and investigates the particular features of the process in Northern Ireland. The inverse relationship between social class and mental illness has been widely documented in an international context, and has also been investigated by the author in Northern Ireland. But there are oather particular factors which are important mediators of soical influences on psychiatric hospitalisation within the divided society of Northern Ireland. The author identifies three sets of local factors as being of importance. These are: the urban/rural dimensions; religious affiliation; and the influence of twenty five years of civil unrest on the local population's use of psychiatric hospitalisation. The paper reviews the methodological difficulties in concpetualising a causal mechanism operating between social factors and mental illness and argues for the adoption of a qualitative research approach to the social process of psychiatric hospitalisation.
Dimensions of staff burnout in assertive community treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation programmes for persons with severe mental illness
- Authors:
- COOK A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 2(4), December 2000, pp.6-12.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This American Study tested differential predictors of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) dimensions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and personal accomplishment among 129 urban, community-based providers delivering psychiatric rehabilitation services to persons with severe mental illness. Results of ordinary least squares regression analyses suggest that different client, provider, and organisational characteristics influence different dimensions of the MBI. Suggests that mental health programme administrators can use the MBI to minimize turnover and thereby enhance provider continuity and quality of care for persons with severe mental illness.
Dimensions of staff burnout in assertive community treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation programmes for persons with severe mental illness: occupational environment and mental health
- Author:
- DALGARD O.S.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 2(4), December 2000, pp.13-15.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Comments on the article by Cook, Pickett-Schent and Nageotte, in this issue of ' International Journal of Mental Health Promotion'.