The available research literature suggests that in disasters, individuals presenting acutely with psychologically-related complaints tend to outnumber those presenting with physical symptoms directly stemming from the injury-causing agent or event. This acute "mental health surge" can rapidly overwhelm existing community mental health resources, especially in the context of terrorism. Training ...

People migrate to improve their well-being. Yet a large literature suggests that migration can be a stressful process, with potentially negative impacts on mental health. However, to truly understand the effect of migration one must compare the mental health of migrants to what their mental health would be had they stayed in their home country. The existing literature is not able to do this. Ne...

This paper posits mental modeling as autopoietic systems of ideas based on processes of selection. A thought experiment is proposed to illustrate the argumentation. After reviewing the essential features of selection theory and mental models, we present modeling as driven by a process of variations and selections. We then show how the deliberate process of model development fosters the generati...

background: infertility is a major life event that brings about social and psychological problems. the type and rate these problems in the context of socio-cultural of different geographical areas and sex of people is different. objective: the aim of this qualitative study was to explain the psychological consequences of infertility in iranian infertile women seeking treatment. materials and me...

objective: the goal of this study was to investigate all the potential routes to child/adolescent psychiatry clinic-university hospital center (capc-uhc) in tirana. the article provides demographic data, as well as further information on the types and amounts of services children/adolescents received during the process of seeking help related to different diagnoses . method: the study was condu...

The article by Michael S. Krelstein, MD, which presents the results of a nationwide survey examining the role of mental health professionals in the inmate disciplinary process, is a significant contribution to the correctional mental health literature. Dr. Krelstein succinctly summarizes the case law that has provided the framework for the prison disciplinary process. The Supreme Court’s curren...

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-0829.2012.03.008 Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA *Correspondence: [email protected] Quietly, with little apparent notice from even the strongest advocates for global mental health, China is undertaking the world’s largest – and arguably most important – mental health services demonstration project, a project ...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate differences in the electrocortical synchronization pattern during mental rotation of three different object categories as well as six different rotation angles. Therefore, event-related coherence of the electroencephalographic (EEG) activity between selective frontal and parietal electrode pairs of ten subjects was measured during the performa...

UNLABELLED U.S. military accession mental health screening includes cognitive testing and questions regarding the applicants' past mental health history. This process relies on applicants' knowledge of and willingness to disclose symptoms and conditions. Applicants have a strong incentive to appear qualified, which has resulted in a long history of frequent mental health conditions presenting d...

BACKGROUND Although mental health promotion is a priority mental health action area for all European countries, high level training resources and high quality skills acquisition in mental health promotion are still relatively rare. The aim of the current paper is to present the results of the DG SANCO-funded PROMISE project concerning the development of European guidelines for training social a...