Supporting mental health

Supporting the mental health of trafficked people.

1048 www.thelancet.com/psychiatry Vol 2 December 2015 Traffi cking of people represents a gross violation of human rights that carries serious health consequences, including an increased risk of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and violence. Although research on traffi cking and health has primarily focused on HIV and sexually transmitted infections, much less information is available rega...

Supporting Mental Health in Schools and Colleges

Supporting positive dimensions of health, challenges in mental health care

This paper will explore two contrasting paradigms in mental health care and their relationship to evidence-based practice. The biomedical perspective of pathogenesis and the health perspective of salotogenesis are two major diverse views in mental health care. Positive dimensions of health are traditionally viewed as software not suitable for statistical analysis, while absence of symptoms of d...

Redesigning community mental health services for urban children: Supporting schooling to promote mental health.

OBJECTIVE This study examined a school- and home-based mental health service model, Links to Learning, focused on empirical predictors of learning as primary goals for services in high-poverty urban communities. METHOD Teacher key opinion leaders were identified through sociometric surveys and trained, with mental health providers and parent advocates, on evidence-based practices to enhance c...

Supporting Therapeutic Relationships and Communication about Mental Health

Introduction and background Effective communication and strong therapeutic relationships are critical to successful mental health interventions. For example, in 1957 Carl Rogers, a pioneer of person-centred therapy, proposed that an empowering relationship could, in and of itself, create “the necessary and sufficient conditions” for positive therapeutic outcomes [1]. Whilst modern psychological...