District Mental Health Programme - Role of Medical Officers

Child Welfare and the Teachings of Certain Dentists, School Medical Officers, Medical Officers of Health and Other Medical Men

PT743. Mental Health status of Correctional Officers in Correctional Institutions

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the association between circadian types, temperament, and character. Methods: We analyze the data obtained from a total of 2910 students who undertook the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and the Composite Scale of MorningnessEveningness (CSM). According to the CSM score, the circadian types were classified as the morning type (MT), neith...

Training of Mental Welfare Officers

Training of Mental Welfare Officers for many years there has been disquiet over the anomalous position of social workers in the Mental Health Services, and the Mackintosh Committee's Report published in 1951, recommended not only that there should be more psychiatric social workers but that a large number of trained mental welfare officers were also required. These Officers employed by Local He...

Happiness amongst Israel Defense Force (IDF) Mental Health Officers (MHO’s)

BACKGROUND Positive psychology is the scientific study of positive experiences and positive individual traits. Happy people have a better quality of life and other benefits, including better health. The Mental Health Department of the IDF employs a large cadre of Mental Health Officers (MHO's). The rate of burnout among MHO's is considered to be high. Career satisfaction has received attention ...

Occupational stress, coping and mental health in Jamaican police officers

BACKGROUND Police are exposed to a wide range of stressors and this is especially true in developing countries such as Jamaica. Exposure to psychosocial stressors and use of maladaptive coping styles can result in mental ill-health. AIMS To examine the relationship between work characteristics, coping and mental health in Jamaican police officers and to test whether work characteristics are i...