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Self-understanding, envisioning the future, and prevention: An appreciation and a reflection on the occasion of the 100th anniversary
This article is a personal reflection on one practitioner's evolution of thought on resilience and preventive intervention, starting with interviewing civil rights workers, to conceptualizing self-understanding as an essential component of resilience, to the development of a family-based preventive intervention for parental depression, which was disseminated, adapted, and incorporated into a growing body of prevention research. Consensus statements on mental health prevention from the National Academies are reviewed, and the importance of a social justice perspective is highlighted throughout. The article concludes with pr...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: William R Beardslee Source Type: research

"Help me to decide": A study of human rights-based supported decision making with persons with intellectual disabilities
This study used a human rights perspective with participatory, qualitative research methods to investigate environmental conditions and social support measures that enabled persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) to make and implement their own decisions. Data gathered were 6 months of field notes about implementing SDM in a L'Arche day activity program with 26 adults with ID, with opinions and drawings illustrating persons' decision making. All data were analyzed thematically. As a result of using the SDM intervention, persons with ID became more expressive, able to discuss and debate options, participated in organiza...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ugn ė Gudelytė Jonas Ru škus Katherine Tyson McCrea Source Type: research

Self-understanding, envisioning the future, and prevention: An appreciation and a reflection on the occasion of the 100th anniversary
This article is a personal reflection on one practitioner's evolution of thought on resilience and preventive intervention, starting with interviewing civil rights workers, to conceptualizing self-understanding as an essential component of resilience, to the development of a family-based preventive intervention for parental depression, which was disseminated, adapted, and incorporated into a growing body of prevention research. Consensus statements on mental health prevention from the National Academies are reviewed, and the importance of a social justice perspective is highlighted throughout. The article concludes with pr...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: William R Beardslee Source Type: research

"Help me to decide": A study of human rights-based supported decision making with persons with intellectual disabilities
This study used a human rights perspective with participatory, qualitative research methods to investigate environmental conditions and social support measures that enabled persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) to make and implement their own decisions. Data gathered were 6 months of field notes about implementing SDM in a L'Arche day activity program with 26 adults with ID, with opinions and drawings illustrating persons' decision making. All data were analyzed thematically. As a result of using the SDM intervention, persons with ID became more expressive, able to discuss and debate options, participated in organiza...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ugn ė Gudelytė Jonas Ru škus Katherine Tyson McCrea Source Type: research

Self-understanding, envisioning the future, and prevention: An appreciation and a reflection on the occasion of the 100th anniversary
This article is a personal reflection on one practitioner's evolution of thought on resilience and preventive intervention, starting with interviewing civil rights workers, to conceptualizing self-understanding as an essential component of resilience, to the development of a family-based preventive intervention for parental depression, which was disseminated, adapted, and incorporated into a growing body of prevention research. Consensus statements on mental health prevention from the National Academies are reviewed, and the importance of a social justice perspective is highlighted throughout. The article concludes with pr...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 21, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: William R Beardslee Source Type: research

Barriers to health care and pregnancy experiences in relation to Black, low-income mothers' perinatal attachment and depression
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Mar 4. doi: 10.1037/ort0000721. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe goal of this study was to examine whether barriers to accessing health care and negative pregnancy experiences would predict depressive symptomatology and attachment to their neonates among Black mothers from low-income backgrounds across the perinatal period. We were also interested in examining whether these mothers' engagement in prenatal health practices would buffer against their pregnancy experiences to promote positive postnatal maternal functioning. Participants were 118 Black pregnant women from low-income backgrounds, rec...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - March 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Justin K Scott Maria Gianelle Vivian Flanagan Brenda Jones Harden Colleen Morrison Source Type: research