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Towards a Recovery Orientated Mental Health Service: Findings from a National Consultation with Mental Health Service Users in Ireland
Get PDFBackground: In 2006, in a policy document entitled a Vision for Change(Department of Health, 2006), Ireland undertook to move towards a modern,recovery orientated public mental health service characterised by holisticcare, individualised care planning, the provision of accessible support,increased involvement of service users in decisions about their treatmentand care and greater continuity of care across the mental health services.More than a decade on, it remained unclear to what extent Irish mentalhealth services had progressed towards the modern, recovery orientatedsystem outlined in A Vision for Change (Department of Health, 2006)
Quality of life among elderly population
Get PDFIII International Conference "Mental Health: global challenges of XXI century"
Conference Abstract
Introduction: Quality of Life (QoL) among elderly is an important issue that reflects the status of well-being of this vulnerable population.
Aim: This study aims to assess quality of life among elderly population and to examine possible correlations with associated demographic, social and health factors.
Material and Method: A cross sectional study was conducted, in which 257 elderlies from Greece were participated. For the data collection the WHOQOL-BREF (30-items Greek version) questionnaire was used as well as a questionnaire with questions about demographic data, social & health factors. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, means, percentages and standard deviations have been utilized. Inferential statistics such as t-test and pearson r correlation have been used to determined correlations between relevant variables. Level of significance accepted is p < 0.05.
Results: From the total 257 elderlies 55.6% (n=143) were women and 44.4% (n=114) were men with a mean age 75.12±8.39. The mean score of overall QoL is 14.14±2.87 and the mean of each factor of WHOQOL-BREF is 13.56±2.79 for physical health, 13.61±2.74 for mental health, 13.72±2.60 for social relationships and 13.70±1.96 for environment. Age, marital status, number of children, level of education, residence area, lifestyle, chronic diseases and serious illnesses are the factors that affects levels of QoL among Greek elderly population
Conclusions: Results indicates that levels of QoL between elderly are moderate and many demographic, social and health factors are correlated with QoL status
Creativity and Mental Issues – Behavioral Patterns in Higher Education
Get PDFThe first objective of this study is to reveal psychological issues in higher education where creativity is essential in profession. The second objective is to reveal behavioral patterns in handling failure when creativity and mental issues coexis
The Thin Web Line. New technologies and promotion of unhealthy behaviors: Eating disorders and Pro-Ana(pro-anorexia) subculture. How to fight against them
Get PDFOn the one hand, this research tries to show the proliferation and promotion of content that encourages eating-risk behaviors in adolescents and the growth of a social current and subculture that supports and promotes these contents on the other hand, it proposes initiatives that may help to better understand this phenomenon and what to d
PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITION OF GRIEVING FAMILY MEMBERS AND THEIR RESOCIALIZATION
Get PDFAbstract. Introduction. Personal development in competitive and adverseconditions gives us plenty of examples that show negative behavior andincapability of making peace between nations. The situation in the world todayconfirms the previous statement, Ukraine suffers more than many other countriesbecause of the powerful neighbor from the East who forces our country to accepthis conditions. The war in Eastern Ukraine is the consequence of this irrationaland atavistic tendency. We are the victims of the aggravation between twodialectic processes of social activism: disconnection (destructive situations, ATO,loss of a family member, family break up, heightened level of aggression in thecommunity) connection (constructive and creative appearances, adaptation inconditions of forced immigration, posttraumatic growth, resocialization afterovercoming trauma, tendency for reconciliation, personal growth in a newprofession).This is the reality that requires psychological science and practice to find quickand accurate answers because the goal is to save people's mental health in militaryand mobilization conditions.Purpose. The main goal of the research is to generalize the information aboutpsychological features of the people who have experienced loss. Also to spot thestages of women's post-loss resocialization and factors that have a positive impacton that resocialization.Methodology. The authors of this paper made research on the psychologicalfeatures of the people who have experienced loss due to military situation in theEast of Ukraine and who need psychotherapy to help the process ofresocialization.
Conclusions. The facts stated in the paper that helped to analyze the situationwere received during work in the period of 2015-2018 at the center of psycho-social rehabilitation at National University of "Kyiv Mohyla Academy". 5370people have addressed to the center to get help during this period. 1414 of themhave gotten individual consultations, 3953 have participated in group therapies
The Dark Side of Life Success: How to Achieve Results and Preserve Mental Health
Get PDFCurrent life requires us to be productive, effective and to create a picture of well-being for our environment. Mass media is full of pictures of wealth, success, expensive goods and other attributes of an iconic lifestyle. Modern people are trying to apply those beautiful illustrations to everyday life and to achieve life success in the form created by somebody else. Unfortunately, most of them are not able to reach the desired heights. As a result, person feces with disappointment, a decrease of self-esteem, frustration et cetera. Outcomes mentioned above are only the top of the iceberg. The worst in all this situation is that life success pursuit can lead to the mental health problems.  
Rational and irrational processes in decision making: An economic perspective: An economic perspective
No full textThe paper presents important issues of decision making processes with an emphasis on rational and irrational components of these processes. After a short introduction outlining the need for a deeper understanding of rational and non-rational factors that affect the decisions people make, the rationality of people decisions in daily life is questioned and the role of non-rational factors such as intuition are analyzed. The economic understanding of the decision making process is presented and principles of rational decision-making are explained. Different methods used and recommended by economists in order to make decisions are presented and applied in different life situations in order to demonstrate their value in daily life. Special emphasis is put on factors such as imperfect information, illusion of control, or risk aversion that may affect the rationality of the decision making processes. In the final section of the paper the concept of bounded rationality is introduced and explained along with new theories in economics that are challenging the classic economic perspective on the decision making proces
Psychological Health Restoration as a Way of Socio-Psychological Rehabilitation of a Person
Get PDFThe purpose of the investigation is to develop the technologies for psychological health restoring after the war-related traum
Multidisciplinary Intention: Revealing The Consequence of Psychosocial Factors on the Adherence to Treatment of the Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Get PDFBackground: Diabetes Mellitus type 2 (T2DM) has been becoming a globalworld health problem affecting countries with different income level (Mogre,Johnson, Tzelepis, Shaw, & Paul, 2017). The low level of compliance and theincreased level of the diabetes distress has been closely associated with destituteglycemic control. Some diabetes-specific psychological variables may beimportant for psychological status of patients and glycemic control to theachievement of individual glycemic targets (Indelicato et al., 2017). Therefore,alexithymia – psychological clinical characteristic of the reduced emotionalcomponent that could have been associated with the metabolic syndrome inpatients with type 2 diabetes, for example (Lemche, Chaban, & Lemche, 2014). Itis important to consider the clinical evaluation of mental aspects in patients withT2DM, however, in order to preventing potentially unfavorable self-care behaviorleading to complications of this disease, including a decrease in the quality of lifelevel (Conti et al., 2017). Patient's level of the quality of life is the one of mainimportant components of treatment adherence and clinical decision making forimproving the effectiveness of therapy (Chaban, Khaustova, & Bezsheiko, n.d.).The low level of medication compliance and quality of life could have beenaddicted in consequence to non-adherence and respectively – inefficiency oftherapy of these patients. Therefore, multidisciplinary connection – involvingmental health care specialists can potentially improve treatment effectiveness(Kogut at al., 2018)
Group stereotypes and symbols of overcoming difficult social situations in the image of small groups
Get PDFIntroduction. Sometimes a person meets with complex social situations. How a person lives these situations down? What is the experience that supports and drives a person to recovery? How does the group help for a person in this? These questions now arise for each of us, because there is no person in the world who would have had the experience of living in complex social situations
Purpose. The purpose of the article is to describe the results of the study of group stereotypes and the symbolism of complex social situations in small groups of different directions.
Methodology. The sample of empirical research is 132 individuals - 16 groups of different directions: therapeutic (2), educational (7) and crisis (5) (real groups that were in situations of conflict and crisis) and self-help groups (2). Self-help groups are a group of families of demobilized soldiers (heterogeneous) and a group of veterans.
The empirical study was conducted in 2 stages. In the first stage, the questionnaire “I am in the group” was prepared and tested. It consists of 21 questions and demographic data of the respondents (age, gender). In the second stage of the empirical study, the seminar “Difficult Social Situations: Experiences of Living and Overcoming” was conducted in the study groups, followed by a survey of respondents. The duration of the seminar is 3-4 hours, depending on the needs of the group
Results. The article presents the results of an empirical study of group stereotypes and symbols in the image of small groups in complex social situations. The research identified stereotypical perceptions of the group and overcoming difficult social situations, outlined by the author as external and intra-group stereotypes. External group stereotypes include the destructive, relatively destructive, conditionally constructive and constructive groups of stereotypes described by the respondents. The groups of stereotypes pertaining to external groups are described in detail: relatively destructive (Uniqueness, Closeness and Complexity) and conditionally constructive (Causality and Willingness). Intra-group stereotypes are indicated too. Also, the article highlights a number of group symbols and group processes highlighted by the respondents, describes the analysis of the results of the “Symbolization of experience” methodology. Typization of symbolization of complex social situations and ways of overcoming them is presented. The symbols of this process are determined by the respondents by those symbols that demonstrate the dynamics (or transformation) of the character itself, the dynamics of the plot development, and the abstract ones, which have internal, not obvious, outside logic. Examples of these characters are described.
Conclusion. The analysis of the results of the study showed that group stereotypes play a key role in predicting strategies for overcoming difficult social situations, and symbolizing this process helps to find support and help, both within and outside the grou