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Trauma and Personal Recovery in Serious Mental Illness: A Case Report of Integrative Psychotherapy
AbstractRecovery from schizophrenia and serious mental illnesses has been increasingly recognized as the expectation in mental health treatment. Recovery has been conceptualized as both objective and subjective, including symptom remission as well as movement toward integration and personal recovery, even in the face of persistent symptoms. Individuals with serious mental illnesses face a variety of stressors, notably including trauma, and as such, there is a need for more individualized, integrative therapy approaches to address these complex presentations. This paper presents a case illustration of an individual who expe...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - February 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Addressing Health Care Disparities for People Managing Serious Mental Illness: A Proposed Model and Case Report
AbstractThere are significant health care disparities for people who manage serious mental illnesses, especially in screening and preventive care. Often symptoms and behaviors associated with anxiety interfere with effective health communication. Fear and avoidance of medical procedures are common barriers to accessing preventive health services. This case report demonstrates a model that effectively empowered a patient who manages a serious mental illness to participate in preventive care. This case illustrates a 4-step, easy to remember model with the acronym “VARI”: (1)Validate the patient ’s experience, (2)Acknow...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - January 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Evaluating the Effects of the Empowerment Program for Parents of Adults with High-Functioning Autistic Spectrum Disorder
AbstractWe conducted a quasi-experimental study to test the effects of “the empowerment program for parents of adults with autism spectrum disorder” by Kawada and Nojima (J Kochi Women’s Univ Acad Nurs 44(1):43–55, 2018). The program has been developed on the theoretical premises of the family empowerment model and the andragogy model. The subjects were 36 pare nts of adults with high-functioning autistic spectrum disorder; 21 parents in the intervention group, and 15 parents in the control group. Outcome measures were the family empowerment scale (FES) modified by the author, the general health questionnaire-28 (G...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - January 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Risk: A Conversation Worth Having in Mental Health Care?
AbstractRisk a normal everyday experience that is frequently initiated at a personal level has become an intrinsic part of mental health care. This commentary paper revisits the concept of risk assessment within mental health practice and suggest that risk management and recovery focused care are not mutually exclusive and that these constructs can co-exist as part of a person-centered approach. People want to feel safe and an approach that engages the person in arriving at solutions that promote their safety is a more positive conversation than one focused purely on risk. (Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health)
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - January 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

A Feasibility Study to Implement and Evaluate a Third Sector Mental Health Recovery Programme to Support the Transition to Community Living from Acute Mental Health Care
AbstractThis brief reports outlines a 9-month feasibility study aimed at introducing and evaluating a third-sector mental health recovery programme to support patients on an acute mental health ward transitioning to community discharge. The study outcome data indicates that the recovery programme improved self-reported well-being (p = 0.01) and self-reported recovery progress (p = 0.01). The sample size for this study is small, and the results should be interpreted with caution. Recommendations are made as to ways in which third sector recovery programmes can be further developed in inpatient mental health services...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - December 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The Influence of Socio-demo-economic Status on Postnatal Depression Among Ghanaian Women
This study sought to investigate how some socio-demo-economic variables influence postnatal depression. The study adopted a sequential explanatory mixed methods design. Using the purposive sampling technique, 205 postnatal women between the ages of 15 –39 years and are 4–12 weeks old postpartum were drawn from a population of women accessing postnatal services in a Ghanaian hospital. Two-way ANOVA was used to analyze the data. Further, 10 people who scored high on the postnatal well-being scale were employed for the qualitative study. Quali tative data was analysed using IPA. It was revealed that mothers are at a sig...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - November 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Trial Implementation of CIRCuiTS Cognitive Remediation Therapy for People with Schizophrenia in Rural Australia: Therapists Experiences
AbstractCognitive impairment which impacts on functioning in everyday tasks and quality of life affects many  people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) is recommended in the current Australian and New Zealand clinical practice guidelines for Schizophrenia and related disorders. An implementation trial of the Computerised Interactive Remediation of Cognition-Interactive Train ing for Schizophrenia (CIRCuiTS) program was undertaken in Orange, NSW, Australia. As an important component of the evaluation of the CIRCuiTS program in our local context, this study explored the meanings clinicians pla...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - November 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Stand by Me
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - November 3, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

An Empirical Study on the Application of the Burden of Normality to Patients Undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson ’s Disease
AbstractPsychosocial maladjustment frequently occurs following deep brain stimulation (DBS) in patients with Parkinson ’s disease (PD). This paper aimed at investigating, for the first time with first-hand data, whether the burden of normality model (BoN) could adequately describe the manifestations and underlying dynamics of psychosocial maladjustment after DBS for PD. In a mixed experimental design including qua ntitative and qualitative data, 19 patients treated with DBS for PD were interviewed on their post-DBS lived experience with the Austin CEP Interview, a semi-structured instrument addressing all elements of the...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - October 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Impact of a Co-produced Initiative for Mental Health Programming at a Canadian Psychiatric Hospital
This study provides support for co-production in mental health programming and further elucidation of this approach for mental healthcare settings in Can ada. (Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health)
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - September 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Treating Mentally Ill Offenders in an Inpatient Setting
AbstractAdverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, neglect and household dysfunction have been linked to negative adult outcomes. These outcomes include psychiatric disorders, poor psychosocial functioning, homelessness, substance abuse and incarceration. Unfortunately, individuals with mental health problems may find themselves arrested for misdemeanors such as trespassing, alcohol and drug related charges, disorderly conduct or other less serious charges. If a person is determined to be psychiatrically unstable, they may be held in jail while waiting for a psychiatric evaluation, waiting for a hospital bed, or for tra...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - September 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Emotional Support Animals in the United States: Emergent Guidelines for Mental Health Clinicians
AbstractThe role of Emotional Support Animals (ESAs) in facilitating mental health recovery is gaining increasing attention internationally. Within the United States, ESAs are companion animals without any special training, who are denoted in writing by a licensed mental health professional to be a therapeutic necessity for someone living with chronic mental health symptoms and who has a condition that meets the legal definition of a disability. ESAs are recognized within federal disability legislation, with limited rights to those who have ESAs as accommodations for their disabilities. The aim of this article is to presen...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - August 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

The Legitimacy of User Knowledge in Decision-Making Processes in Mental Health Care: An Analysis of Epistemic Injustice
This study aimed to explore the barriers involved in legitimizing user knowledge in decision-making processes. Interview data from service users and providers were viewed from a theoretic framework of epistemic injustice. Abductive content analysis was conducted on data collected during a project to develop and implement SDM in mental health services. In describing obstacles to legitimize user knowledge, service users highlighted relational issues: being dependent, often dismissed and choosing to edit their testimonies. Service providers typically described workflow issues, users ’ insufficient decision-making competence...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - August 15, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Relationship Between Caregivers ’ Burden of Schizophrenia Patient with Their Quality of Life in Indonesia
This study aims to identify the relationship between caregiver burden of patients with schizophrenia and caregiver quality of life (QOL). A cross sectional study involving 222 caregivers patients with schizophrenia was conveniently recruited from the psychiatric clinic of a mental health hospital in Malang Indonesia. Caregiver Burden Inventory Scale and Schizophrenia Caregiver QOL was used to assess the level of burden and QOL among the caregivers respectively. Descriptive statistics was used to determine caregivers ’ socio-demographic characteristic and the level of caregivers’ burden and QOL. Spearman Rho correlation...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

From the (Dis)comfort of One ’s Own Home: Patients’ Experiences of Hospitalization After Discharge. A Qualitative Study of Lived Experience of Hospitalization from the Perspective of People with a Mental Health Disorder
AbstractThe aim of the study was to investigate the role of inpatient treatment in the recovery process and explore how patients view hospitalization when looking back after 3  months. The study was developed within a framework of user-involved research; all stages of the research process involved cooperation with service user coresearchers. Fourteen patients were recruited, all of whom had been in inpatient treatment for at least 3 weeks. The findings are based on anal yses of interviews with the participants 3 months after discharge. Three key themes reflected the participants’ experiences when looking back at their...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - July 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research