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Psychosocial, Cognitive, and Behaviour After Effects of Traumatic Brain Injury: Perspectives of Survivors and Caregivers in Ghana
AbstractTraumatic brain injury remains a significant public health concern globally. Using a phenomenological design, 10 participants (5 survivors and 5 caregivers) were purposively recruited from the Surgical Outpatient Department of the 37 Military Hospital, Accra for the study. The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the psychosocial, cognitive, and behaviour issues of survivors and caregivers following traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Ghana. Credibility measures included an independent audit of the analysis by supervisors, multiple investigator triangulation (survivors and caregivers) and enquiry audit (fi...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - June 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Hidden But Not Forgotten : The Trauma Experience Among Women with Severe Mental Illness and Our Role as Mental Health Professionals
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - May 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Counselors ’ Knowledge and Attitudes of the Recovery Paradigm
AbstractCounselors generally subscribe to a wellness or holistic paradigm; however, the recovery paradigm, with collaborative strategies and unique treatment planning, is a directed approach of mental health services that can allow counselors to help in the recovery process. Thus, the purpose of this quantitative study was to understand what factors contribute to counselors ’ knowledge and attitudes of the recovery paradigm. Surveys were used to examine whether professional counselors’ years of experience, gender, professional setting, and licensure status correlate to their knowledge and attitudes as measured by the 4...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - May 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Foresight in Sight
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - May 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Eco-Friendly Holi Colors: Hospital Based ‘Income Generation Activity’ for Persons with Mental Health Challenges at a Quaternary Mental Health Care Facility in India
AbstractPersons with mental health challenges have a felt need to earn an income but are constrained by opportunities. A hospital based income generation activity for making ‘Eco-friendly Holi colors’ was conceptualized with inter-sectoral collaboration to create opportunities for persons with mental health challenges, involve them as ‘stakeholders’ and distribute profits among them. Holi colors were chosen due to the novelty of product, ease of production and g ood profit margin. In this paper, we describe the need, process, experience, facilitators, challenges and key learnings in the selected income generation a...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - May 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

A Stabilizing and Destabilizing Social World: Close Relationships and Recovery Processes in SUD
AbstractThis qualitative study reports on a thematic analysis of the role that close relationships may play in recovery processes following SUD. Inspired by a framework of research involving service users, interviews with 30 participants who had fully recovered were conducted by interviewers with first-hand experience of the topic of focus. The findings are summarized through a superordinate theme that we have called “a stabilizing and destabilizing social world,” and three broad constituent themes: (a) being entangled in difficult relationships; (b) people provide essential support and stability; and (c) we become dif...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - April 7, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Employment and Education Interventions Targeting Transition-Age Youth with Mental Health Conditions: A Synthesis
AbstractTransition-age youth with mental health conditions experience adverse employment and educational outcomes and little is known about strategies for improving their outcomes. The purpose of this study was to review education and employment intervention programs that targeted transition-age youth with mental health conditions, to highlight the components, efficacy of the interventions, and predictors of better outcomes. Eighteen studies published between 1990 and 2017 met the inclusion criteria. Results indicate that interventions led to improvement in employment or education outcomes. Common intervention components i...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - March 22, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

An Ethnographic Study Exploring Football Sessions for Medium-Secure Mental Health Service-Users: Utilising the CHIME Conceptual Framework as an Evaluative Tool
This study adds to this body of literature by providing analysis of a football project in a medium-secure service context. This study also expands the methodological an d theoretical scope of the literature by adopting an ethnographic approach and by utilising the CHIME conceptual framework as an evaluative tool. 47 participants were involved in the study, which included service-users, staff and volunteers. The data demonstrated that these sessions have considerabl e links to the CHIME processes, and can therefore be considered to enhance personal recovery for those involved. (Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health)
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - February 19, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Professional Culture of Mental Health Services Workers: A Meta-synthesis of Current Literature
AbstractThis paper attempts to define the construct of a professional culture of mental health services workers using a bottom-up approach to derive a theoretical construct from empirical data. A systematic search was conducted to identify qualitative studies on mental health staff. A final sample of 18 studies meeting quality requirements was synthesized using a meta-ethnographic approach. The results show that mental health services workers share some common elements of professional culture, such as the importance of an interpersonal relationship with users, the relevance of values in professional practice and the need t...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - January 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Evaluating the Impact of Inpatient Mental Health Rehabilitation on Quality of Life and Recovery
AbstractPrevious evaluations of mental health rehabilitation services have mostly examined clinician-rated or objective outcomes. There is also a need to consider subjective, patient-rated outcomes such as quality of life and recovery. Service users in a rehabilitation unit were invited to complete quality of life and recovery measures at admission and discharge. Of 79 eligible service users, 48 (60.8%) completed measures at both admission and discharge. Significant improvements were noted in overall quality of life and recovery, as well as most individual domains of quality of life. Satisfaction with family relationships ...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - January 12, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Occupational Therapy Programming Facilitates Goal Attainment in a Community Work Rehabilitation Setting
AbstractAn occupational therapy program for participants with mental health challenges, a history of serious mental illness, recovering from substance use disorders, on parole/probation, and/or experiencing homelessness was implemented in a community work rehabilitation setting. The impact of occupational therapy interventions focused on stress and anger management, sleep hygiene, anxiety and depression management, relapse prevention for addiction, vocational and academic skill building, money management, healthy eating, and relationship and leisure skill development. Participant satisfaction and performance scores regardi...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - January 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Certification of Disability Due to Mental Illness: India and Other Countries
AbstractMental illnesses (MI) are very common and cause significant disability. Persons with disability (PWD) should be treated equally and their rights should be respected. Various governments have formulated specific social welfare measures (SWM) for PWD for this cause. The SWMs and the eligibility criteria for availing them are different in different countries depending on the socio-economic condition of the country. We wanted to look at the process of certification of disability due to MI followed in different countries. The process in India, Australia, Canada, Nepal, South Africa, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United Sta...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - January 2, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Interaction, Ideology, and Practice in Mental Health Rehabilitation
AbstractThis paper investigates how two ideologies of mental health rehabilitation —recovery ideology and communal approach—are realized in interactional practices associated with psychosocial rehabilitation. More spesifically, the paper discusses employee selection in the context of the Clubhouse-created Transitional Employment (TE) programme, which offers employment opportun ities for rehabilitants. The paper describes how joint decisions are established during the moment-by-moment interactional processes at the Clubhouse. Drawing from the data set of 29 video-recorded rehabilitation group meetings, and Conversation ...
Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - December 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Crisis: A Beginner ’s Perspective
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - December 7, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Community Based Rehabilitation for Task shifting in Mental Health
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Source: Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health - November 29, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research