Mental Health Care Research Research Articles

Social-psychiatric research in german-speaking countries

This study aims at outlining the development of social-psychiatric research in German-speaking countries between 1975 and 2001. All original articles dealing with social-psychiatric issues, with appeared in Psychiatrische Praxis in the years 1975 - 1977, 1981 - 1983, 1987 - 1989, 1993 - 1995 and 1999 - 2001 were analysed. Mental health care research clearly dominated social-psychiatric research in the period investigated. While in the beginning, most papers were devoted to the conceptualisation and description of psychiatric services, in recent years more studies on outcome evaluation and quality assurance were published. The number of articles on the subjective perspective of patients and relatives has increased constantly. Topics such as treatment satisfaction, subjective illness theory, and subjective quality of life enjoy growing interest. The same holds for stigmatisation of mentally ill people. By contrast, studies investigating psycho-social influences on the development and the course of mental disorders are still very rare. The results are discussed against the backdrop of the development of psychiatry in the period investigated.

CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF COPING: IMPLICATIONS FOR IMMIGRANTS' MENTAL HEALTH CARE

Providing high quality and effective health care services that are culturally acceptable and appropriate to clients has become an important issue for many health care providers. This paper explores problems associated with the traditional model that views coping according to hierarchical style and traits. While some scholars who have adopted this theoretical framework have made many contributions to the development of stress and coping theories, limitations are present. Using Vietnamese immigrants' experiences as examples, I argue that coping theories should emphasize the contextual nature of stress and coping, and that coping should be viewed as a dynamic process that varies under different social, cultural, political, economic, and historical conditions. Drawing from the work of others on coping, culture, imperialism, and colonialism, I explore the way that certain cultural conceptualizations determine how individuals cope. An understanding of the contextual nature of coping and of a Vietnamese immigrant's experience of coping with stressors and illness has implications for mental health care practice and research.

Concept of Probability and Mental Health Care Research

Concept of Probability and Mental Health Care Research

Statistics, Science and Mental Health Care Research

Statistics, Science and Mental Health Care Research

Organization and Collection of Data for Mental Health Care Research

Organization and Collection of Data for Mental Health Care Research

Mind the gap! Research in primary mental health care

Mind the gap! Research in primary mental health care

Bridging the gap: Mapping a new generation of primary mental health care research

Bridging the gap: Mapping a new generation of primary mental health care research

Child and adolescent group psychotherapy: A narrative review of effectiveness and the case for meta-analysis

A summary of existing reviews addressing the effectiveness of psychotherapy with children and adolescents is provided, emphasizing three facets: 1) the effectiveness of psychotherapy in general with children and adolescents, 2) narrative reviews addressing the effectiveness of group psychotherapy with this population, and 3) meta-analyses of individual and group psychotherapy with children and adolescents. While narrative reviews point out methodological flaws and shortcomings in the literature making it difficult to arrive at effectiveness conclusion, meta-analyses indicate that group psychotherapy with children and adolescents is effective. The implications of these findings for managed mental health care and future research are considered.

Funding of research in mental health care in Japan

Funding of research in mental health care in Japan

Integrating mental health into primary care

Recent research findings on mental health problems in primary care are reviewed with regard to their frequency, severity and treatability in general practice. The type and nature of complaints presented to doctors and the methods of classifying and managing these disorders within primary care settings are also discussed. The need for future action and research in primary mental health care (such as mental health services research, training programmes and defining mental health targets) is outlined in the light of new paradigms.

Hur Prioritera Psykiatrisk Vård

Mental disorders have on the whole been excluded in normative analyses of quality assessment anc' m authorized lists of priority-setting in health care. This is only one of several indications that mental health care may, more than ever, be at risk of being left in an apartheid situation. In a research perspective four sets of measures seem essential: Mental health services research to establish models and instruments to study and evaluate mental health care, health economics and health policy research to analyse to what extent market economy models are applicable in different health-care areas and to what extent, for example, special protective legislation is needed in the field of medical health care, and research in medical ethics to develop criteria and models for analysis of ethical conflicts in priority-setting in mental health care.

Mental health service costs

Cost information is used in various circumstances and ways in mental health care delivery, management and research. It is a dimension of evaluation, the basis for funding allocations, a raw ingredient in pricing strategies, a datum for case managers holding developed budgets, and the best form in which to summarize the social burden of mental illness. All of these uses of costs are examined, though there is still little work conducted in this area. Particularly worrying is the absence of knowledge about the consequences of markets and financial incentives.

The Gap between Research and Policy in Mental Health Care

The Gap between Research and Policy in Mental Health Care