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Therapy with attitude
- Author:
- STEPHENS Sonia
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 24.1.96, 1996, pp.40-42.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reports on the Shanti Project, a mental health service for women from ethnic minorities, which aims to help those often excluded from therapy understand their feelings of social and political distress.
Group-based problem-solving therapy in self-poisoning females: a pilot study
- Author:
- BANNAN Noreen
- Journal article citation:
- Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 10(3), September 2010, pp.201-213.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In this pilot study 18 females (aged 18 to 53 years) who had presented to an accident and emergency department of an inner city hospital in Ireland following an episode of deliberate non-fatal self-poisoning were equally randomised to a time-limited, group-based problem-solving intervention or to a treatment as usual control group. The intervention group underwent 8 sessions of group therapy each lasting 150 minutes, with the initial 4 sessions held twice weekly, the next two sessions held weekly, and the final two sessions held at two week intervals. The control group received standard individual therapy in the outpatients or day hospital. All clients were assessed using standardised questionnaires for depression, hopelessness, suicidal ideation and social problem-solving skills. Adherence with therapy was good with only one client in each group failing to adhere to the treatment schedule. The treatment group experienced significant reductions in levels of depression, hopelessness, suicidal ideation and improvements in self-assessed social problem-solving skills. Improvements in mental health and aspects of self-assessed problem-solving skills continued to be evident at two months follow-up in this group. The control group did not change significantly over time on mental health measures or social problem solving abilities. The authors conclude that these preliminary findings suggest that group-based problem-solving therapy is effective in the management of deliberate self-poisoning.
A systematic review of empirical studies of psychotherapy with women who were sexually abused as children
- Authors:
- PELEIKIS Dawn, DAHL Alv A.
- Journal article citation:
- Psychotherapy Research, 15(3), July 2005, pp.304-315.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
The experience of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) can have serious effects on the mental health of adult women, and this meta-analysis examines 24 mainly US and Canadian studies of mainly group psychotherapeutic interventions. Overall, the review shows that interventions have positive effects that persist after treatment has ended, but that in most cases the quality of study design was poor. In addition, findings should be considered in the light of the timing and setting of most studies in North America during a period of women’s liberation: in particular, many of the studies have ‘a certain partisan flavour’. The principal aim of the review is to examine methodological issues, and recommendations are made for improved study design.
Mental health and religion
- Author:
- LOEWENTHAL Kate Miriam
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 256p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores religious behaviour and provides a guide for those helping or working with people with mental health problems, stressing throughout that what is normal in one society may not be considered to be so in another. Looks at the relationship between religion and psychotherapy, the mental effects of religious change and conversion, and the roles of women and men and whether women in traditional religions are disempowered and depressed.
Incorporating interpersonal psychotherapy for postpartum depression into social work practice in Israel
- Authors:
- POSMONTIER Bobbie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 29(1), 2019, pp.61-68.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Purpose: To determine feasibility and acceptability of incorporating IPT for postpartum depression (PPD) into Israeli social work practice. Method: Women who were 4–24 weeks postpartum with PPD, at least 18 years old, had telephone access, and had a score of 10–18 on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) were eligible to participate in this two-group, nonrandomized repeated measures pilot. The intervention group received eight 50-min IPT sessions and the comparison group received treatment-as-usual. Primary outcomes were measured with the EPDS, Postpartum Adjustment Questionnaire (PPAQ), and Client Satisfaction Scale-8. Results: There was a significant reduction in both groups in EPDS scores at the end of treatment (t = −4.68, 95% CI [−6.49, −2.57], d = 1.07) and 4 weeks posttreatment (t = −5.09, 95% CI [−7.14, −3.08], p < .001, d = 1.21), a significant reduction in PPAQ scores at the end of treatment (t = −2.09, 95% CI [−0.29, 0.00], p < .05, d = 0.44), and high patient acceptability. Discussion: This study provided preliminary evidence supporting IPT use by social workers in Israel. (Edited publisher abstract)
"It's the little things": women, trauma, and strategies for healing
- Authors:
- STENIUS Vanja M.K., VEYSEY Bonita M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 20(10), October 2005, pp.1155-1174.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Women recover and heal from traumatic violent experiences in many different ways. This study, which is part of the Franklin County Women and Violence Project in the United States, explores the healing experiences of 18 women who have histories of violence, substance abuse, and involvement in the mental health and/or substance abuse treatment system. Ethnographic interviews suggest that while professional intervention can be beneficial, it may not be adequate. In fact, it can be retruamatizing. The means of service delivery and treatment by individuals, service providers and others, may be more important than the actual service. Often women find that caring individuals and a safe environment yield the greatest benefit. It is not so much what people do to help, but how they do it.
A multicultural approach to HIV prevention within a residential chemical dependency treatment program: the positive steps program
- Authors:
- HARRIS Elizabeth, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, 7(1-2), January 2010, pp.58-68.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Positive Steps is a 6 month residential programme in southeastern Los Angeles County. The programme seeks to assist residents in recovery from chemical dependency and to prevent sexual and other risk factors which promote HIV transmission. The residents are considered at risk for HIV transmission because of risky sexual behaviours, and HIV positive women are also welcomed into the programme. Motivational interviewing serves as the foundation for chemical dependency treatment and HIV transmission risk reduction. Motivational interviewing occurs weekly in a one-to-one setting with the chemical dependency counsellor, and is based on the principles of empathy, a focus on self-efficacy, acceptance or and working with resistance to change, and facilitating discrepancy. Positive Steps also provides intensive group education. Individual counselling with a licensed mental health professional is provided for HIV positive residents. The article documents the programme impact among residents who participated in the comprehensive assessment at baseline, 6 months post-baseline, and follow up. The programme outcomes include statistically significant reductions in substance use, sexual risk behaviours, and symptoms of mental distress.
Users and abusers of psychiatry: a critical look at psychiatric practice
- Author:
- JOHNSTONE Lucy
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 317p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd.
Critique of psychiatric practice, arguing that psychiatric admission and treatment disables patients, that psychiatry neglects gender issues, that the medical model of mental illness and physical treatments are inappropriate, and that psychiatry serves as a form of social control.
Special women: the experience of women in the special hospital system
- Editor:
- HEMINGWAY Catherine
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 177p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Set of papers looking at the experiences of women in special hospitals. Includes chapters on: women at Ashworth special hospital who harm themselves; women, child sexual abuse and special hospitals; representing the rights of women in special hospitals; women special hospital staff; an exploration of gender issues in forensic psychiatry; and a women's support group at Ashworth Special Hospital.
Planning community mental health services for women: a multiprofessional handbook
- Editors:
- ABEL Kathryn, et al
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 280p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of papers written from a number of different perspectives. Includes chapters on: women's mental health in the UK; motherhood and mental illness; girls in distress; planning services for black women; women, lesbians and community care; women as carers of people with severe mental health problems; homeless women; women with drug and alcohol problems; the impact of childhood sexual abuse; women and violence; women as abusers; women and primary care; a users perspective; Shanti - an intercultural psychotherapy centre for women in the community; and developing psychiatric services for women.