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Defining Mental Illness and Psychiatric Disability
Published in Joel Michael Reynolds, Christine Wieseler, The Disability Bioethics Reader, 2022
Disability modeling has paradigmatically been used to unpack evaluative components of physical impairment and disability, and it provides useful insights for understanding psychiatric impairment and disability. Biomedical models interpret mental illness as disorders of the brain or genetics. According to these models, psychiatric disability necessarily threatens quality of life and diminishes flourishing potential. Based on this reasoning, mental health professionals can best treat these patients with medications and therapies that address the underlying biological problems and ameliorate symptoms. Psychotropic medications, electroconvulsive therapy, and other interventions would be intended to alter neural pathways, biochemistry, or other aspects of the brain’s functioning (over time if not immediately).
The Clinical Direction of Dogs
Published in Lori R. Kogan, Phyllis Erdman, Career Paths in Human-Animal Interaction for Social and Behavioral Scientists, 2021
So, what do you need to get started in this new profession? A master’s degree in a mental health profession is required, and a license to practice mental health as an independent practitioner would also be helpful. Those are concurrent to acquiring significant training and skills with canine therapy. As a clinical director including canine therapy in your clinical work, it would be helpful to have gained previous experience with therapy dogs, trained a therapy dog, and provided canine-assisted therapy under the guidance of a professional canine therapist.
Prenatal Diagnosis
Published in Rosa Maria Quatraro, Pietro Grussu, Handbook of Perinatal Clinical Psychology, 2020
The role of the mental health professional at this point in time is to help guide patients through the aftermath of their traumatic event, help them effectively manage their emotional distress, and facilitate the development of a “new normal,” i.e., a new understanding of the world, their beliefs, and their goals.
The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing: A Narrative Review of Current Evidence, and its Implications
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2022
Emma L. Lawrance, Rhiannon Thompson, Jessica Newberry Le Vay, Lisa Page, Neil Jennings
There are roles for climate scientists, social scientists, the media and mental health professionals in supporting communities to take action. This can include sharing hopeful narratives of relevant climate action initiatives, including the imaginative ways system transformation can occur and the role different individuals and communities can play. Mental health professional expertise can inform development of new interventions, including advising on helpful information and skills that equip people to process climate-related grief, loss, fears and secondary trauma, adapt to uncertainty and change, and build agency, coping skills and resilience. Training toolkits to upskill community leaders and institutions can help them create informal spaces and support for individuals and communities to process and respond to climate distress. Climate change must feature in all levels of education (though this must be done with awareness of the distress that it can engender), while equipping students with opportunities to process their climate-related feelings, learn coping strategies and participate in relevant climate action.
Chinese fathers of children with intellectual disabilities: their perceptions of the child, family functioning, and their own needs for emotional support
Published in International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
The emotional support questionnaire for Chinese families with children with disabilities is a non-standardized questionnaire developed using a Delphi method (a technique for obtaining consensus within a group through hierarchical task analysis) by a panel of experts in family studies of children with disabilities from the Chinese Association of Persons with Disabilities. The 11-item questionnaire assesses families’ levels of physical, mental, and emotional health on a 5-point Likert scale (excellent, very good, good, fair, poor). Participants were also asked if they had someone they ‘could turn to for day-to-day emotional support with parenting or raising children,’ and, if so, who or what that was: (a) spouse, (b) other family member or close friend, (c) health care provider, (d) place of worship or religious leader, (e) support or advocacy group related to specific health condition, (f) peer support group, (g) counselor or other mental health professional, (h) other. A new categorical variable was created to summarize the number of emotional support sources the participants utilized: 0-2, 3-5, or 6 or more. Based on the current sample, the Cronbach’s ɑ for the total stress scores across subscales was .90.
Mental health nursing practice and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: an integrative review
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2021
Luke Molloy, Monica D. Guha, Matthew P. Scott, Paul Beckett, Tammy Tran Merrick, Declan Patton
Within the broader mental health literature, studies that included other mental health professionals, as well as mental health nurses, provided further useful insights into this domain of professional practice. Durey et al. (2014) surveyed ninety medical, nursing and allied health staff working in a forensic mental health service in Western Australia and later interviewed ten of this group. The survey and interview findings suggested that the health professionals wanted to improve care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait people in the service but were constrained by the restrictions of policies and practices in the forensic mental health service. The interviewees identified the importance of a holistic approach to care that was respectful of cultural differences, acknowledging the sociohistorical context including the impact of colonisation, but they were unsure how to best apply this within a therapeutic encounter (Durey et al., 2014).