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Psychiatric symptoms
Published in Dinesh Kumar Jain, Homeopathy, 2022
But today, these methods are not used in the treatment of psychiatric patients. In modern medical science, which is also called modern allopathy, for the treatment of psychiatric patients, drugs, psychotherapy, and sociotherapy are used. These methods are human methods. A large percentage of psychiatric patients can be cured completely and they are able to live normal lives.
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
Published in Miriam Orcutt, Clare Shortall, Sarah Walpole, Aula Abbara, Sylvia Garry, Rita Issa, Alimuddin Zumla, Ibrahim Abubakar, Handbook of Refugee Health, 2021
Peter Ventevogel, Benedicte Duchesne, Peter Hughes, Claire Whitney
Mental health and psychosocial support can be promoted through supportive groups that encourage positive group dynamics and promote self-esteem and connections between participants and between participants and the wider community. Support groups are widely promoted in humanitarian settings – for example in women’s empowerment programmes. Such initiatives can also be helpful for people with severe or disabling MHPSS conditions, as has been demonstrated by the work of the international NGOs Humanity and Inclusion and Basic Needs which have used such support groups for people with mental health conditions in fragile settings.56,57 A more therapeutic approach that explicitly aims to improve social connectedness and mutual support is ‘community-based sociotherapy’, as has been developed in Rwanda.58,59 The methods of community-based sociotherapy focus on creating a safe social space where people can share their concerns and suffering and seek solutions and support.
Ethical framework for research in prison
Published in Joanne Brooke, Dementia in Prison, 2020
Fourth, if prisoners feel their autonomy is being respected by prison administration and prison staff, this may decrease their aggression towards prison staff and possibly other prisoners (Shaw and Elger, 2015). This has previously been demonstrated through sociotherapy programmes within mental healthcare provision for prisoners, where prison staff are respectful partners, to break down the ‘them and us’ attitude of both prison staff and prisoners (de Montmollin, 1985).
From social workers to socio-therapists: the transformative journey of substance abuse therapists
Published in Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 2020
Evangelia Fragkiadaki, Sofia Triliva, Ourania Natsopoulou, Emmanouil Tzanakis
According to Beddoe (2011), social work crisscrosses several interacting and complex domains of functioning including the social, cultural, economic, personal, and the interpersonal (including coping at the individual and family levels, social interactions, and interdisciplinary collaboration in care). Clinical social workers apply a more holistic approach to care which takes into account diverse aspects of psychosocial functioning including economic, cultural, psychological, social, and environmental factors (Beddoe, 2011). This broad definition of functioning has been incorporated into the models of care that social workers apply. One form of therapy that has been practiced in service units around the world is dubbed ‘sociotherapy’ (Bosch, 1967; Probst, 2016; Schmid, 2015). Sociotherapy aims to foster social adjustment and relatedness within both the therapeutic and the wider community (Schmid, 2015). Probst (2016) states that the principles of sociotherapy include a ‘cooperative, collaborative, co – created and co – experienced’ relationship between therapist and client (p. 268). This type of collaboration and co-production is a challenging endeavor in that it encompasses working concomitantly at the individual, interpersonal, and environmental levels of functioning (Probst, 2016; Schmid, 2015).
Psychological treatment of problematic sexual interests: cross-country comparison
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2019
Kateřina Klapilová, Liubov Y. Demidova, Helen Elliott, Charles A. Flinton, Petr Weiss, J. Paul Fedoroff
The treatment begins with a comprehensive sexological and psychological assessment that includes a battery of questionnaires, sex hormone profile, and voluntary penile plethysmography assessment. In sexologic departments, the multi-disciplinary team consists of specially trained psychologists, a doctor-sexologist, and social workers. Treatment programmes include a combination of psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, and sociotherapy adjusted to individual cases. Group therapy is essential as it is considered to be the most effective at influencing the attitudes and behaviour of a patient (Frost et al., 2009). Psychotherapy is mainly psychodynamic or CBT oriented. The paraphilic behaviour is broadly discussed in the patient group, and treatment also includes increasing empathy towards the victim, development of better coping strategies, establishing insight and a sense of responsibility. Couples counselling, family therapy, and substance abuse treatment are offered. Voluntary individual treatment for non-offending paraphilias is offered only in ambulatory (out-patient) sexological departments, typically connected with mental hospitals. No specific complex preventive programmes are established in the CR (Weiss, 2017).
The education of the occupational therapists in Poland – in the opinion of students who completed the transformed OT programme
Published in World Federation of Occupational Therapists Bulletin, 2018
The basic forms of occupational therapy include: ergotherapy, art therapy, sociotherapy and animal-assisted therapy. Ergotherapy combines such activities as: carpentry, pottery and ceramics, basketry, metal arts, knitting, embroidery, tailoring, leatherworking, gardening, weaving and working on the computer. Sociotherapy includes: play therapy, training in daily living skills and social skills training. Art therapy refers to: visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture), music therapy, choreotherapy, drama therapy and bibliotherapy. Animal-assisted therapy involves interaction with animals, such as horses, dogs and cats. The acquisition of daily living skills is of great importance for the patients as it enables them to perform their daily routines as independently as possible. However, the above-mentioned forms of therapies hardly take into account the training of daily living skills. The standards of services provided in Poland still differ from global standards, according to which occupational therapy activities are defined as ‘the activities people engage in through their daily lives to fulfill their time and give their life meaning’ (AOTA, 1997, p. 846). Occupational therapists provide services in the facility and no assistance is offered to patients in their home environment.