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Women With Co-occurring Disorders
Published in Tricia L. Chandler, Fredrick Dombrowski, Tara G. Matthews, Co-occurring Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, 2022
Tricia L. Chandler, Tara G. Matthews, Fredrick Dombrowski
Appropriate person-centered treatment to meet the needs of women must consider whether there is generational trauma due to culture, spiritual considerations, and any other cultural reason for overall mistrust of the medical model and mental health treatment from that model. Leddy et al. (2021) reiterated the need for trauma-informed care when working with women as they are at greater risk for intimate partner violence, food insecurity, and HIV. Substance use becomes a coping mechanism reenforcing a dangerous cycle of risky behavior or risky environmental exposure, exacerbating underling mental health conditions. Unhelpful partners, social isolation or ostracization, and violence in the living environment contribute to resistance to treatment or return to use (Boroumandfar et al., 2020). Women are more likely to become victims of sex crimes and abuse, particularly when under the influence themselves. To be competent to work with women from diverse backgrounds, one has to develop a holistic approach that is respectful of that diversity and develop a healthy curiosity about what the client feels is in their best interest and their family’s.
Stress, Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout
Published in Lisa Zammit, Georgeanne Schopp, Relational Care, 2022
Lisa Zammit, Georgeanne Schopp
Some Clinicians are better protected from Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Syndrome than others. Coping mechanisms include strong family life, social support, recreational activities, active self-care strategies, spiritual connectedness, and cognitive coping skills. Autonomy, positive leadership, and team cohesiveness are characteristics of a supportive work environment that promotes physical, mental, and spiritual health (Lee et al., 2013). All of these develop and support resilience. Chapter 13, Taking Care of the Caregiver, offers specific strategies for self-care.
Person-centred care
Published in Sheila Broderick, Ruth Cochrane, Trauma and Birth, 2020
Sheila Broderick, Ruth Cochrane
Ask yourself: How do I feel/behave when I need help or support from an unfamiliar person?How do I feel/behave when I am in an unfamiliar setting?How do I feel/behave when I am under stress?How do I feel/behave when I have to depend on another person?How do I feel/behave when I need something to be done? The conclusions you arrive at if you answer these questions will give you a glimpse of some of the complexities patients experience during their interactions with medical personnel. By understanding our own vulnerabilities, we are better able to be empathic. Though we are often discouraged by societal norms to show our more vulnerable selves, being anxious, nervous or apprehensive is normal and nothing to be ashamed of. Having insight into how you cope in vulnerable situations can indicate to you the coping mechanisms you employ to manage challenging situations. Coping mechanisms serve a really important purpose. They enable us as individuals to walk out into the world every day, because they protect and enable us to manage daily encounters with other individuals, groups of people and the wider society.
Stress levels in university/college female students at the start of the academic year
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Laura E. Crack, Patricia K. Doyle-Baker
A previous study at a large university in western Canada surveyed undergraduate students (N = 457, 63% female, 37% male) to determine their stress levels. Seventy-one percent reported their lives as either stressful or very stressful.9 In this student population, females were more likely to report an unacceptable level of stress. Those female students over the age of 22 years reported the highest stress levels overall.9 When compared to their male counterparts, female students tend to report unacceptable stress levels earlier in the academic semester and maintain these high levels for a longer duration.10,11 Based on these studies, female students are more likely to be affected by perceived “feelings” associated with stress. When stress increases to above normal coping levels, student success is impacted by withdrawal from student engagement and learning.12 Coping mechanisms may include unhealthy or maladaptive behaviors,13,14 which contribute additively to their already high stress levels.
Developing a health education comic book: the advantages of learning the behaviours of a target audience
Published in Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine, 2021
Benjamin Araya, Patricia Pena, Marie Leiner
In this study, we aimed to develop a health educational comic that can aid in improving the ‘coping mechanisms’ adopted by parents in general but especially when their child is hospitalised by collecting study data from parents with hospitalised children. Coping mechanisms are related to the response an individual faced with stress (Aaronson, Joshua, & Boss, 2018; Ueda et al., 2020). A parent’s response to a given situation plays a crucial role in the outcome of their present and future emotional and physical health as well as the function of their family (Balluffi et al., 2004; Ward-Begnoche, 2007). It has been reported that an improvement in coping mechanisms acts as a mediator for quality of life in addition to depression, suicide prevention, and anxiety (Jacobs et al., 2020; Kahn et al., 2020). Targeted interventions to reduce parental and child stress have been implemented in hospitals to aid in decreasing negative outcomes (Als, Nadel, Cooper, Vickers, & Garralda, 2015; Browne & Talmi, 2005; Chertok, McCrone, Parker, & Leslie, 2014; Colville, Cream, & Kerry, 2010; Cooper et al., 2007). Although these interventions are designed to address the stress faced by parents, some concerns have been expressed about their effectiveness, feasibility, and high cost (DeFrank et al., 2019; Feeley et al., 2008; Trinh et al., 2021). Certainly, there is room to introduce low-cost interventions that either exclusively use a health education comic aimed at improving parental coping mechanisms or can complement existing interventions.
Under the face mask: Racial-ethnic minority student-athletes and mental health use
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2020
Jorge Ballesteros, Alisia G. T. T. Tran
The risk for under-utilization prompts specific consideration of unmet mental health need, which is operationalized as the lack of use of formal mental health care among individuals who are defined as having a need for care.17 Unmet mental health need can decrease functioning and prompt dependence on unhealthy coping mechanisms such as substance use.18,19 For college students, unmet mental health concerns can also become co-morbid with other mental health issues, further exacerbating their mental health need.20 Due to the negative consequences associated with unmet mental health need it is valuable to understand the mental health service utilization rates of REMSA, as well as the factors that may hinder or promote utilization, to provide a thorough conceptualization of mental health risks for REMSA.