Download or read book Knowledge and Beliefs about Mental Health and Their Impact on Attitudes and Help seeking Behaviour written by Elizabeth Cawley-Fiset and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A significant number of post-secondary students who struggle with mental health problems elect not to seek professional help. Increasing mental health literacy has been proposed as a method to potentially facilitate help-seeking behaviour via enhanced problem recognition, but this assertion has yet to be examined empirically. In the present study, 165 university students were recruited to take part in an online mental health study. Participants were randomly assigned to either a stigma reduction or mental health literacy condition. In addition, half of the participants within each group were assigned to complete a mental health symptom self-assessment. Pre-intervention data on symptomatology, barriers to treatment, and attitudes about mental health were collected pre- and post- intervention. Overall, students reported generally low levels of stigma about mental health and positive beliefs about treatment efficacy. However, participants reported a number of treatment barriers including: questioning the seriousness of their symptoms and a desire to handle the problem on their own. Post-intervention analysis found that those participants with an untreated mental illness reported significantly poorer attitudes about seeking treatment compared to those who were treated. Amongst untreated participants, the mental health literacy condition, but not stigma reduction condition increased positive attitudes about seeking mental health services. In addition, support was found for an explanatory model such that those in the mental health literacy condition with an affirmative mental health self-assessment reported increased problem identification, which in turn, was positively associated with greater help-seeking attitudes and intentions. These results add to the evidence that mental health literacy should be considered a critical barrier to help-seeking amongst post-secondary students, at least for those with low levels of stigma. " --

Download or read book Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. These disorders are among the most highly stigmatized health conditions in the United States, and they remain barriers to full participation in society in areas as basic as education, housing, and employment. Improving the lives of people with mental health and substance abuse disorders has been a priority in the United States for more than 50 years. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 is considered a major turning point in America's efforts to improve behavioral healthcare. It ushered in an era of optimism and hope and laid the groundwork for the consumer movement and new models of recovery. The consumer movement gave voice to people with mental and substance use disorders and brought their perspectives and experience into national discussions about mental health. However over the same 50-year period, positive change in American public attitudes and beliefs about mental and substance use disorders has lagged behind these advances. Stigma is a complex social phenomenon based on a relationship between an attribute and a stereotype that assigns undesirable labels, qualities, and behaviors to a person with that attribute. Labeled individuals are then socially devalued, which leads to inequality and discrimination. This report contributes to national efforts to understand and change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors that can lead to stigma and discrimination. Changing stigma in a lasting way will require coordinated efforts, which are based on the best possible evidence, supported at the national level with multiyear funding, and planned and implemented by an effective coalition of representative stakeholders. Ending Discrimination Against People with Mental and Substance Use Disorders: The Evidence for Stigma Change explores stigma and discrimination faced by individuals with mental or substance use disorders and recommends effective strategies for reducing stigma and encouraging people to seek treatment and other supportive services. It offers a set of conclusions and recommendations about successful stigma change strategies and the research needed to inform and evaluate these efforts in the United States.

Download or read book Mental Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Common Mental Health Disorders written by National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (Great Britain) and published by RCPsych Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together treatment and referral advice from existing guidelines, this text aims to improve access to services and recognition of common mental health disorders in adults and provide advice on the principles that need to be adopted to develop appropriate referral and local care pathways.

Download or read book Help seeking and Mental Health Education An Evaluation of a Classroom based Strategy to Modify Help seeking for Mental Health Problems written by William Garry Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College students often fail to seek help for incipient symptoms of mental illness and/or substance abuse, despite the fact that the majority of these students fall in the age range where the likelihood of developing a mental disorder is among the highest. Cited factors for the increased incidence of mental illness among college students include biological and maturational changes, adjustments to new ways of living, and exposure to new peer group behavior and its contributing pressures. This increased risk, combined with the general reluctance to seek help, makes identifying strategies to increase help-seeking behavior among college students of prime importance. Research indicates that one means to modify help-seeking is by increasing an individual's "mental health literacy" (i.e. knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which help in the recognition, management, and prevention of mental illness). Within the domain of mental health literacy, stigma (i.e. negative, inaccurate, or culturally conflicting opinions about mental illness), low treatment expectations and fearfulness, and lack of knowledge regarding treatment options appear critical to modifying an individual's willingness to seek help. The current study sought to assess the impact that a brief, 45-minute psychoeducational intervention had on student's attitudes toward seeking help and overt help-seeking behavior. The content of the intervention focused on dispelling myths and stigmas often associated with mental illness, modifying expectations about psychotherapy efficacy, and providing students with information regarding treatment options. One hundred and eighty-one college students were randomly assigned to a computer education, classroom education, or control condition. Compared to students in the control condition, participant in the classroom condition showed significant improvements in their attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help, as well as some of their opinions about mental illness, for up to one month following the intervention. A similar effect was not demonstrated in the computer group, suggesting that these improvements may be related to the method in which this information is presented. These finding suggest that the use of a brief, classroom-based mental health education program is a promising method to modify help-seeking attitudes and negative opinions of the mentally ill.

Download or read book Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health written by Graham Thornicroft and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community mental health care has evolved as a discipline over the past 50 years, and within the past 20 years, there have been major developments across the world. The Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health is the most comprehensive and authoritative review published in the field, written by an international and interdisciplinary team.

Download or read book The Image of Madness written by J. Guimón and published by Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negative moral judgements seem to have been a constant fixture in the way societies and cultures have regarded groups displaying deviant behavior. This is particularly true of the mentally ill. Stereotypes are most ingrained for mental pathologies with heightened visibility in society, such as schizophrenia. Preconceived notions about danger, occult powers and mysterious malevolence which hover over the illness, contribute to the total debasement of the patient. Persons suffering from other forms of mental illness are stigmatized to a lesser degree. But the threat is real that labeling will extend to every endeavor linked to mental illness: care facilities, professionals, therapies in general and psychotropic medication in particular. Lay belief in the existence of important side-effects to this medication and public fears about the risk of addiction form the basis of very restricted, or even hostile, attitudes towards it and result in weak compliance. Inversely, psychotherapy now seems widely accepted and different forms of intervention have contributed to de-stigmatizing psychiatric illness and to stop the exclusion of patients. This book is of interest not only to psychiatrists, but also to mental health workers, psychologists, social scientists and social workers who wish to alter common precepts and prejudices regarding psychiatric disorders.

Download or read book Unmet Need in Psychiatry written by Gavin Andrews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers ways to resolve the imbalance between the demand and supply of mental health services. Treatment services in most countries reach only a minority of people identified as suffering from a mental disorder. Few countries can provide adequate health services for all the mentally ill, yet none has developed a rational system to decide who should be treated. The questions are clear. Could we develop a staged treatment process to reach all in need? If not, how do we decide who to treat? What should the criteria be for deployment of scarce treatment resources? How do we determine such criteria? What are the ethical implications of applying such criteria? In this pioneering work, an international team of eminent psychiatrists, epidemiologists, health administrators, economists and health planners examine these questions. The result will inform and encourage all concerned with the equitable provision of mental health care.

Download or read book The Mental Health of Australians written by Wayne Hall and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing: Report 2.

Download or read book Mental Illness Beliefs Attitudes And Behaviors In The Clinical Practice written by Martha Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3.tSocial justice 3.tPlease add your abstract text for the Workshop. 150u2013300 words are recommended. The text of the abstract should briefly state: Objectives (indicate the purpose of the study or the hypothesis that was tested), Methods (include the setting for the study, the subjects, the diagnosis or intervention, and the type of statistical analysis. If references are needed, they should be given in the text), Results/Conclusion (present as clearly as possible the outcome of the study and statistical significance if appropriate). References need to be given in the text. SummaryAbstractAdvances in the neurosciences have enhanced our understanding of the dynamics between, mind-brain-body, environment, and the influence of culture. Yet these advances have yet failedl to provoke a more extensive sustainable influence over the medical/healthcare professionalsu2019 attitudes and behaviors towards mental health care seeking patients.During a shift change report at the emergency room, u201cWe have two trauma cases, two acute asthma and u201coh yes, we have three Looney Toonsu201d. How pervasive is this behavior? How does it impact access to care and support seeking among the mental health population?Objectives:This study was intended to explore 1) the Knowledge and use of stigmatizing labels towards mental health patients among health professionals; 2) The reasons behind the use of those labels; and 3) Awareness about the importance of ethical principles for professional practice; and 4) Correlation between the use of labels and awareness about ethical principles.MethodsA 7 multiple choice questions survey was designed and validated. It included demographic data and informed consent. Descriptive statistics and correlation analysis were performed for all the variables.Results/ConclusionNearly 400 500 health professionals from five continents, different disciplines, genders, ethnicity and mostly urban work settings have completed the survey. As hypothesized, 100% of participants know labels used to stigmatize people with mental illness and 92% of them have used it. The reasons: u201cmostly habitu201d, u201cunconsciously useu201d, u201cadoption of the term from the workplaceu201d and u201clight humoru201d. 47% of participants identified justice as the most important ethical principle, yet surprisingly, there was great variability in the responses regarding the human dignity dimensions. Our goal is to share insights into the normalization of stigmatizing terminology which determine attitudes and result in a violation of fundamental ethical principles.This can bring us closer to the road from u201cmental health patientsu201d to mainstream general health seeker within a true u201cPatient-centeredu201d model. A road that must be paved by core human and medical professionalism values to join the greater societal community at the primary care site.. A closer look at the most important of these values, u201cPatient-Centered Careu201d makes you wonder, is it the same when the patient in the center is a u201cpsychiatric patient.u201dand knowledge about global initiatives that can bring us closer to influencing the non-inclusive medical culture, (u201cI donu2019t do mental u201c) and to commit to accompany patients into the general health-seeking community where theyu2019ll get the equitable, compassionate care and services they need and to connect with the greater societal community at the primary care site.

Download or read book The Stigma of Mental Illness End of the Story written by Wolfgang Gaebel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a highly innovative contribution to overcoming the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness – still the heaviest burden both for those afflicted and those caring for them. The scene is set by the presentation of different fundamental perspectives on the problem of stigma and discrimination by researchers, consumers, families, and human rights experts. Current knowledge and practice used in reducing stigma are then described, with information on the programmes adopted across the world and their utility, feasibility, and effectiveness. The core of the volume comprises descriptions of new approaches and innovative programmes specifically designed to overcome stigma and discrimination. In the closing part of the book, the editors – all respected experts in the field – summarize some of the most important evidence- and experience-based recommendations for future action to successfully rewrite the long and burdensome ‘story’ of mental illness stigma and discrimination.

Download or read book Lay Theories written by Michael Argyle and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lay theories - the informal, common-sense explanations people give for particular social behaviours - are often very different from formal 'scientific' explanations of what actually happens. While they have been studied in the past, this is the first attempt to review, in detail, the nature of these beliefs. More specifically, it is the first study to consider such fundamental questions as the structure, aetiology, stability and consequence of lay theories about a range of topics. Each chapter covers a different area, such as psychology, psychiatry, medicine, economics, statistics, law and education.

Download or read book Successful Aging written by John Wallis Rowe and published by Random House Large Print Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the results of the MacArthur Foundation Study of Aging in America, which show how to maintain optimum physical and mental strength throughout later life.

Download or read book Non western Minorities Attitudes Beliefs and Knowledge about Mental Health and Mental Illness and Its Impact on Help seeking Behaviors written by Sabrina Mawel Awais and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Biopsychosocial Model written by S. Nassir Ghaemi and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed in the twentieth century as an outgrowth of psychosomatic medicine, the biopsychosocial model is seen as an antidote to the constraints of the medical model of psychiatry. Nassir Ghaemi details the origins and evolution of the BPS model and explains how, where, and why it fails to live up to its promises. He analyzes the works of its founders, George Engel and Roy Grinker Sr., traces its rise in acceptance, and discusses its relation to the thought of William Osler and Karl Jaspers.

Download or read book Global Mental Health written by Vikram Patel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive textbook on global mental health, an emerging priority discipline within global health, which places priority on improving mental health and achieving equity in mental health for all people worldwide.

Download or read book First Episode Psychosis written by Katherine J. Aitchison and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-02-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this popular handbook has been thoroughly updated to include the latest data concerning treatment of first-episode patients. Drawing from their experience, the authors discuss the presentation and assessment of the first psychotic episode and review the appropriate use of antipsychotic agents and psychosocial approaches in effective management.