Pub Date : 2017-05-17DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1324887
Y. Omar, Justin Kuay, C. Tuncer
ABSTRACT Refugees from the Horn of Africa have often experienced trauma in their country of origin due to prolonged civil wars. Many face emotional difficulties posed by acculturation challenges when settling in a new country. As the Horn of Africa population grows in Australia, there is a need to know how to best promote the wellbeing and mental health of Horn of Africa refugees. This paper examines Horn of Africa Muslim men’s (HAMM) understanding, experiences and views on the causes of emotional difficulties, barriers to seeking help, access to mainstream mental health services and traditional African treatments in the Australian context. Five focus-group interviews of HAMM from the inner-northern suburbs of Melbourne were conducted and ethnographic, qualitative and thematic analysis was used. Emotional difficulties of HAMM in the Australian context were attributed to immigration and settlement-linked stressors such as unemployment, racism, gender role reversal and raising children. Barriers for not seeking help included lack of mental health literacy and negative perceptions of mainstream services. Existing treatments included social and religious practices, with some differences between young and older men. Cultural treatment strategies to assist with people affected with emotional difficulties were more commonly utilized compared to Australian mainstream services.
{"title":"‘Putting your feet in gloves designed for hands’: Horn of Africa Muslim men perspectives in emotional wellbeing and access to mental health services in Australia","authors":"Y. Omar, Justin Kuay, C. Tuncer","doi":"10.1080/17542863.2017.1324887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2017.1324887","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Refugees from the Horn of Africa have often experienced trauma in their country of origin due to prolonged civil wars. Many face emotional difficulties posed by acculturation challenges when settling in a new country. As the Horn of Africa population grows in Australia, there is a need to know how to best promote the wellbeing and mental health of Horn of Africa refugees. This paper examines Horn of Africa Muslim men’s (HAMM) understanding, experiences and views on the causes of emotional difficulties, barriers to seeking help, access to mainstream mental health services and traditional African treatments in the Australian context. Five focus-group interviews of HAMM from the inner-northern suburbs of Melbourne were conducted and ethnographic, qualitative and thematic analysis was used. Emotional difficulties of HAMM in the Australian context were attributed to immigration and settlement-linked stressors such as unemployment, racism, gender role reversal and raising children. Barriers for not seeking help included lack of mental health literacy and negative perceptions of mainstream services. Existing treatments included social and religious practices, with some differences between young and older men. Cultural treatment strategies to assist with people affected with emotional difficulties were more commonly utilized compared to Australian mainstream services.","PeriodicalId":38926,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Culture and Mental Health","volume":"70 1","pages":"376 - 388"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84103200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-05-14DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1323935
Pablo Sabucedo
ABSTRACT While the growth of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and its underlying construct, psychological flexibility, has been supported by numerous studies, it has received little attention from sociocultural disciplines. With the aim of considering the transdiagnostic Psychological Flexibility Model from a cultural perspective and from an interdisciplinary approach combining both Psychology and Anthropology, this article proposes an interpretative theoretical analysis of two Native American healing rituals: sweat lodge ceremonies and peyote ceremonies. Drawing from the fieldwork of Calabrese among the Navajo and Wilson among the Lakota Sioux, both healing rituals are interpreted and compared in light of the six processes of psychological flexibility. While recognising the adaptability of the model outside the cultural sphere of Western mental health sciences, the article concludes with two remarks: the relevance of the sociocultural construction of values and a potential connection between psychological flexibility and altered states of consciousness.
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Pub Date : 2017-05-03DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1317280
Colm Gallagher, Steve Melluish, Saima Löfgren
ABSTRACT The current study explores the experiences of Polish interpreters who interpret for mental health clinicians and how Polish interpreters view the triadic relationship among themselves, the service user and the mental health clinician they work with when interpreting in a mental health setting. Six participants (four female and two male) were recruited with each taking part in a semi-structured interview. Length of time working as an interpreter in the UK National Health Service (NHS) ranged from six months to 10 years. Interviews were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, J. A. (2004). Reflecting on the Development of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and its Contribution to Qualitative Research in Psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1, 39–54. doi:10.1191/1478088704qp004oa.). Three themes emerged from the analysis of the participants’ interview transcripts. These were: (1) ‘Just a linguist?’ – highlighting the confusion and complexity of the interpreting role; (2) ‘Unspoken alliances’ – describing the interpreters’ experiences of the triadic relationship; (3) ‘Communicating emotional reactions’ – noting the emotional impact of mental health work on interpreters. The findings of the current research emphasise that it is important for clinicians, mental health and interpreting services to take into account the emotional impact and disempowerment caused by structural systemic factors which limit the voice of the interpreter.
摘要:本研究探讨了波兰口译员为心理健康临床医生进行口译的经历，以及波兰口译员在心理健康环境中如何看待他们自己、服务使用者和他们合作的心理健康临床医生之间的三位一体关系。招募了六名参与者(四女两男)，每个人都参加了半结构化的面试。在英国国民健康服务(NHS)担任口译员的时间从6个月到10年不等。访谈分析使用解释性现象学分析(Smith, J. A.(2004))。反思解释现象学分析的发展及其对心理学定性研究的贡献。心理学研究，1,39-54。doi: 10.1191 / 1478088704 qp004oa)。通过分析参与者的访谈记录，我们发现了三个主题。这些问题是:(1)“只是一个语言学家?’——强调口译角色的混乱和复杂性;(2)“潜言同盟”——描述译者对三位一体关系的体验;(3)“沟通情绪反应”——注意心理健康工作对口译员的情绪影响。目前的研究结果强调，对于临床医生、心理健康和口译服务来说，考虑到限制口译员声音的结构性系统性因素所造成的情感影响和丧失权力是很重要的。
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Pub Date : 2017-04-25DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1314517
M. Amani, Mohamad Javad Shabahang
ABSTRACT Although it has been reflected in the literature that the satisfaction of psychological and physical needs, self-efficacy and money attitudes relate to mental health, it has not been studied whether the self-efficacy and money attitude can affect mental health through satisfaction of needs. The present study was conducted to investigate the mediating effect of Maslow's hierarchy of needs on the relationship of self-efficacy and money attitudes with mental health. This study was a survey with a correlational research design. A total of 296 participants were randomly selected through cluster sampling. The sample was administered the research instruments and the data were analyzed through correlation tests and structural equation modeling. The results revealed that self-efficacy and money attitudes were related to mental health through needs satisfaction. The individuals with higher self-efficacy and lower worry about money were found to be able to properly satisfy their needs. It was concluded that if the individuals’ needs are satisfied in a suitable time and place, their mental health will improve.
{"title":"The relationship of self-efficacy and money attitudes with mental health: mediation through Maslow's hierarchy of needs","authors":"M. Amani, Mohamad Javad Shabahang","doi":"10.1080/17542863.2017.1314517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2017.1314517","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although it has been reflected in the literature that the satisfaction of psychological and physical needs, self-efficacy and money attitudes relate to mental health, it has not been studied whether the self-efficacy and money attitude can affect mental health through satisfaction of needs. The present study was conducted to investigate the mediating effect of Maslow's hierarchy of needs on the relationship of self-efficacy and money attitudes with mental health. This study was a survey with a correlational research design. A total of 296 participants were randomly selected through cluster sampling. The sample was administered the research instruments and the data were analyzed through correlation tests and structural equation modeling. The results revealed that self-efficacy and money attitudes were related to mental health through needs satisfaction. The individuals with higher self-efficacy and lower worry about money were found to be able to properly satisfy their needs. It was concluded that if the individuals’ needs are satisfied in a suitable time and place, their mental health will improve.","PeriodicalId":38926,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Culture and Mental Health","volume":"37 1","pages":"310 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83854231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-23DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1316753
Bidisha Banerjee, S. Dixit
ABSTRACT Active involvement of families in mental health care in India is well documented. This study aimed to understand the explanatory models of the family members of persons suffering from common as well as severe mental illness. Narratives were collected through interviews from family members accompanying the patients at a psychiatric clinic. Data were also obtained from professionals at the clinic as well as folk healers. The Constant Comparative Method was used for analysis. The notable findings were: healthcare pluralism at institutional, cognitive and structural levels; conflicting explanatory models about mental illness; and stigma regarding mental illness. The findings suggest that in addition to explanatory models, the accessibility and availability of healers also plays a major role in treatment choices by the families.
{"title":"Explanatory models and psychiatric pluralism among family members of mentally Ill persons: a narrative inquiry","authors":"Bidisha Banerjee, S. Dixit","doi":"10.1080/17542863.2017.1316753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2017.1316753","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Active involvement of families in mental health care in India is well documented. This study aimed to understand the explanatory models of the family members of persons suffering from common as well as severe mental illness. Narratives were collected through interviews from family members accompanying the patients at a psychiatric clinic. Data were also obtained from professionals at the clinic as well as folk healers. The Constant Comparative Method was used for analysis. The notable findings were: healthcare pluralism at institutional, cognitive and structural levels; conflicting explanatory models about mental illness; and stigma regarding mental illness. The findings suggest that in addition to explanatory models, the accessibility and availability of healers also plays a major role in treatment choices by the families.","PeriodicalId":38926,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Culture and Mental Health","volume":"56 1","pages":"320 - 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88414953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-07DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1307434
Monica Pellerone, M. Cascio, Giulia Costanzo, A. Gori, Ugo Pace, G. Craparo
ABSTRACT Alexithymia can be considered as a defense mechanism against emotions associated with traumatic experiences that are perceived as too severe and traumatic. Due to the overwhelming nature of a traumatic event, there might be a rapid regression of affect to a pre-conceptual level of organization: so, the capacity to tolerate affect and the capacity to identify and verbalize feelings decrease. The aim of this cross-sectional study is to evaluate the trend of the correlation between psychological effects of possible childhood trauma and alexithymia in a non-clinical group of 389 Sicilian students (192 males and 197 females), aged 11–16 (M = 12.87; SD = 0.80), attending middle and secondary schools. The following instruments were used: 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children. Correlation analyses seem to support the hypothesis of a relation between age and the following scales: anger, overt dissociation, sexual concerns and preoccupation; and the presence of correlations between gender and anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and fantasy. The multiple linear regression seems to indicate that a higher level of post-traumatic stress might be a predictor of the level of alexithymia. The results confirm that alexithymia is a well-established personality construct that could inhibit and interfere with normal affect regulating abilities.
{"title":"Alexithymia and psychological symptomatology: research conducted on a non-clinical group of Italian adolescents","authors":"Monica Pellerone, M. Cascio, Giulia Costanzo, A. Gori, Ugo Pace, G. Craparo","doi":"10.1080/17542863.2017.1307434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2017.1307434","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Alexithymia can be considered as a defense mechanism against emotions associated with traumatic experiences that are perceived as too severe and traumatic. Due to the overwhelming nature of a traumatic event, there might be a rapid regression of affect to a pre-conceptual level of organization: so, the capacity to tolerate affect and the capacity to identify and verbalize feelings decrease. The aim of this cross-sectional study is to evaluate the trend of the correlation between psychological effects of possible childhood trauma and alexithymia in a non-clinical group of 389 Sicilian students (192 males and 197 females), aged 11–16 (M = 12.87; SD = 0.80), attending middle and secondary schools. The following instruments were used: 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale and Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children. Correlation analyses seem to support the hypothesis of a relation between age and the following scales: anger, overt dissociation, sexual concerns and preoccupation; and the presence of correlations between gender and anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, and fantasy. The multiple linear regression seems to indicate that a higher level of post-traumatic stress might be a predictor of the level of alexithymia. The results confirm that alexithymia is a well-established personality construct that could inhibit and interfere with normal affect regulating abilities.","PeriodicalId":38926,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Culture and Mental Health","volume":"126 1","pages":"300 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75005787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2016.1246582
M. Seeman
ABSTRACT Selective mutism stemming from social anxiety is not rare in childhood and can also occur, though less frequently, in adulthood. Mutism can be one component of a catatonic syndrome but it can also occur, as reviewed in this paper, as a symptom in non-catatonic schizophrenic illness. Reviewing mutism in non-catatonic schizophrenia in the Google Scholar database (1995–2015), a large majority of reports originate in the Indian subcontinent, which raises the question of what this symptom might mean from a perspective of culture, ethnicity and religion. Silence is valued in many cultures and is an integral part of many religious rites but appears to have special spiritual value in India, which may explain the prevalence in that country of long-term mutism in the context of schizophrenia. Mutism manifesting in other diagnostic categories may also be prevalent in India, but perhaps less likely to come to psychiatric attention. A case history of prolonged non-catatonic mutism in an Orthodox Jewish woman with schizophrenia is included, an exception that perhaps proves the rule because silence is also of great spiritual significance in Orthodox Judaism. The psychological uses of silence and the value one’s culture places on silence appear to determine the symptom of mutism.
{"title":"Long-term non-catatonic mutism in schizophrenia: cultural influences","authors":"M. Seeman","doi":"10.1080/17542863.2016.1246582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2016.1246582","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Selective mutism stemming from social anxiety is not rare in childhood and can also occur, though less frequently, in adulthood. Mutism can be one component of a catatonic syndrome but it can also occur, as reviewed in this paper, as a symptom in non-catatonic schizophrenic illness. Reviewing mutism in non-catatonic schizophrenia in the Google Scholar database (1995–2015), a large majority of reports originate in the Indian subcontinent, which raises the question of what this symptom might mean from a perspective of culture, ethnicity and religion. Silence is valued in many cultures and is an integral part of many religious rites but appears to have special spiritual value in India, which may explain the prevalence in that country of long-term mutism in the context of schizophrenia. Mutism manifesting in other diagnostic categories may also be prevalent in India, but perhaps less likely to come to psychiatric attention. A case history of prolonged non-catatonic mutism in an Orthodox Jewish woman with schizophrenia is included, an exception that perhaps proves the rule because silence is also of great spiritual significance in Orthodox Judaism. The psychological uses of silence and the value one’s culture places on silence appear to determine the symptom of mutism.","PeriodicalId":38926,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Culture and Mental Health","volume":"79 1","pages":"121 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78219719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2016.1265999
M. Gholamrezaei, N. Heath, L. Panaghi
ABSTRACT Despite increased empirical and clinical attention to non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in Western countries, far less is known about NSSI in non-Western cultures. This study is the first to investigate the prevalence, characteristics and risk factors of NSSI in a sample of university students in Tehran, Iran. All participants (n = 554, mean age = 22.65, 57.2% female) were asked to self-report on NSSI over their lifetime. The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Depression Anxiety Stress Scales, and Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised were employed. A lifetime NSSI prevalence of 12.3% (n = 68) was found with no gender differences. Using logistic regression, lack of emotional awareness remained negatively significant for females after controling for anxiety, depression and suicidality; however, after controlling for the psychological symptoms, no relations were found between emotion dysregulation and a history of lifetime NSSI for male students. In a separate logistic regression, lifetime NSSI predicted suicide attempt above and beyond depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation across gender. Our results on the relations between emotion dysregulation and lifetime NSSI contradict the ample research in the West, emphasizing emotion dysregulation as a risk factor of NSSI and suggest that this relation might vary across cultures. The results are situated within the sociocultural context and compared and contrasted with Western data.
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Pub Date : 2017-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2016.1259338
Fatimah Zailly Ahmad Ramli, C. Tilse, Jill Wilson
ABSTRACT In many cultures, diagnoses of mental illness are commonly associated with stigmatisation. Negative attitudes and beliefs cause significant problems not only for people with mental illness but also for their caregivers. Such attitudes and beliefs are embedded in cultural, religious and social contexts. It is important therefore to understand experiences of stigma in a range of contexts. This article reports on a qualitative study of the experiences of fourteen Malay caregivers’ of older people with a mental health problem in Kelantan, Malaysia. The in-depth interview data were analysed thematically. The impacts of stigma are reported in relation to caregivers’ life course opportunities; shame and embarrassment in a small community; a complex mix of understandings and the role of religion and culture in help-seeking behaviour. The challenges and ways forward to address this sensitive issue in this particular socio-cultural context are presented.
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Pub Date : 2017-03-30DOI: 10.1080/17542863.2017.1300592
Marie Andela, D. Truchot
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the relationships between distributive and procedural justice and teachers’ burnout (emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and lack of personal accomplishment) between two countries: France and Germany. It was assumed that, due to the difference in the organizational educational structures of France and Germany, distributive and procedural justice would have different relationships on teachers’ burnout in both countries. Our samples consisted of 93 teachers in Germany and 89 teachers in France. Results of regression analysis indicated that among teachers in France, distributive justice plays a major role in the burnout process, while among teachers in Germany both distributive and procedural justice have strong impacts on burnout.
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