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Deaddictive Mechanisms
Published in Albert A. Kurland, S. Joseph Mulé, Psychiatric Aspects of Opiate Dependence, 2019
Albert A. Kurland, S. Joseph Mulé
By the late 1950s and early 1960s, the therapeutic community was becoming a matter of increasing interest in the United States, as attention was directed toward its potential for actively utilizing the relationship of the patient’s social world; from this emerged a movement toward community and social psychiatry, a movement based on the recognition and importance of the socioenvironmental factors in the development of and recovery from mental illness. During the course of this development considerable confusion occurred, leading Filstead and Rossi34 to attempt to clarify the confusion arising from the terminology referring to the therapeutic milieu, therapeutic community, and milieu therapy.
The concept of nursing as therapy
Published in Steven J. Ersser, Nursing as a Therapeutic Activity, 2019
The common feature of psychotherapy practice is the central role of the relationship between the therapist and patient. The rationale for social psychiatry practices such as therapeutic communities and small group psychotherapy, draws upon the therapeutic influence of social interaction. (Jones, 1952). Bloch (1982) describes the three main theoretical models of psychotherapy. These models will be used to examine the sources of nursing literature on therapeutic interaction, from the various theoretical perspectives: the human-existential school;the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic school;the behavioural school.
The Origins and Development of Training for Psychiatric Social Work
Published in Noel Timms, Psychiatric Social Work in Great Britain 1939-1962, 2018
Students are selected from an average (since 1959) of about twenty applicants each year. Each candidate, provided the entrance requirements are met, is given four separate interviews. These interviews are taken singly by a psychiatrist, fieldwork supervisor, and two academic tutors. Decisions are reached on the basis of information supplied by the candidate, references and the interviews: candidates are not asked to submit any written statement concerning their personal motivation for social work. The subjects studied on the course include social psychiatry, the administration of the Mental Health services, Child health and development, deviations of personality and the theory and practice of psychiatric social work. Examinations are held covering these five subjects. Fieldwork consists of two days a week in a child psychiatric setting in the Autumn and Lent terms followed by a period of twelve weeks in the psychiatric social work department of a mental hospital.
Group leader and participant perceptions of Balancing Everyday Life, a group-based lifestyle intervention for mental health service users
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2020
Kristine Lund, Jenny Hultqvist, Ulrika Bejerholm, Elisabeth Argentzell, Mona Eklund
In order to create an opportunity for service users to address these aspects of life, the intervention Balancing Everyday Life (BEL) [15] was developed. BEL is an occupational therapy intervention organized as a group-based course which focuses on different aspects of life and lifestyle. BEL draws inspiration from interventions promoting occupational engagement and balanced lifestyle patterns, namely ReDO for women with stress-related disorders [16] and Lifestyle Redesign for the well elderly [17, 18]. BEL has a similar structure to these interventions, but is designed for people receiving services from out-patient psychiatry or community-based social psychiatry. BEL’s content is based on research specifically addressing everyday life among mental health service users [19–22] and incorporates factors to contribute to a more engaged and meaningful life and lifestyle. Differing from a traditional medical approach to lifestyle changes, such as prescriptions for healthy diet or exercise, BEL presents topics for discussion including occupational engagement, balance, social relationships, as well as healthy eating, exercise, and rest/sleep [23]. In line with personal recovery [24–27] and occupational therapy tenets, BEL aims to empower participants to set their own goals while taking into account their personal needs, interests, talents and opportunities.
Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Militarized Mourning and Ceremonial Vengeance: Toward a Psychological Theory of Combat and Manhood in America
Published in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2020
A truck driver drove Vietnam’s Highway One “like a bat out of hell” for a year. Seven years later, he became a copper mine truck driver. The one-lane, snaking dirt road felt like Highway One. Soon, he began to see a split image in his rearview mirror: on one side, Highway One, on the other, the copper mine road. He knew that Highway One was in the past, yet he was panic-stricken and shaking at the end of each day from his struggle to avoid a crash. His new job recapitulated his military job, and carried him back to Vietnam just as surely as seeing NVA troops might have.43Chaim F. Shatan, “Have You Hugged a Vietnam Veteran Today? The Basic Wound of Catastrophic Stress,” in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the War Veteran Patient, ed. William Kelley (New York, NY: Brunner/Mazel), 1985. The American Journal of Social Psychiatry 5(1) (Winter 1985). We do not know whether living in a split time zone led him to accept this job.
Zombies Wanted! Descriptions of Nurses in Psychiatric-Mental Health Care in Swedish Recruitment Advertisements
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2021
Sebastian Gabrielsson, Johanna Salberg, Josefin Bäckström
The Swedish healthcare system is decentralised and diversified, encompassing both public and private services (National Board of Health & Welfare, 2021). Public services are managed by local or regional authorities. Staffing agencies provide some temporary staff to healthcare services. Both inpatient and outpatient services provide specialist psychiatric-mental health care (NHS Benchmarking Network, 2019). Social psychiatry services provide community-based daily activities and housing support. Both local authorities and private companies provide long-term treatment facilities. Private services may or may not be contracted by local or regional authorities, and account for approximately 5% of Swedish psychiatric-mental health care (NHS Benchmarking Network, 2019).