Mental Distress in UK Law
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Mental distress and human rights of asylum seekers
Purpose: – This paper studies the experiences of asylum seekers in Australia. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between mental wellbeing, living conditions, and Australia’s d...
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Learning from stories of mental distress in occupational therapy education
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe processes of learning from personal experiences of mental distress when mental health service users participate in occupational therapy education w...
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Traumatization and mental distress in long-term prisoners in Europe
This article investigates the prevalence of traumatization and mental distress in a sample of 1055 male European long-term prisoners as part of a wider study of the living conditions of prisoners s...
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Mental distress and “self-stigma” in the context of support provision: exploring attributions of self-stigma as sanism
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the findings from a detailed qualitative PhD study exploring experiences of stigma and discrimination in the lives of people in receipt of “mental h...
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Poor quality employment is worse for mental health than no job at all and contributes to mental distress in new mothers
Purpose: This Research Watch aims to summarise two recent research papers relating to employment and mental health, one relating to all sectors of the working‐age population and the other to women ...
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Association between long-term stressors and mental health distress following the 2013 Moore tornado: a pilot study
Purpose: Stress has considerable impacts on human health, potentially leading to issues such as fatigue, anxiety and depression. Resource loss, a common outcome of disasters, has been found to cont...
- Psychological Injuries: A Police Remedy in Intentional Infliction of Mental Distress
- Community in Distress: Mental Health Needs and Help‐seekingin the Tamil Community in Toronto
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CoolTan Arts ‐ enhancing well‐being through the power of creativity
This article is a profile of CoolTan Arts, a pioneering arts and mental heath charity based in South London that believes that mental well‐being is enhanced by the power of creativity. CoolTan Arts......Mental" Health and Social Inclusion • Volume 14 Issue 2 • May 2010 \xC2" ... mental health charity; it meets the needs of people with mental distress and enables them to have a quality of life that promotes recovery and ... ...
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Research watch: is social inclusion for service users increased when mental health professionals “come out” as service users?
Purpose: This paper discusses two recent studies of mental health professionals who have experience of mental distress, one in the USA and one in Australia. The purpose of this paper is to highligh...... ... users?Sue HolttumAbstractPurpose –This paper discusses two recent studies of mental health professionals who have experience ofmental distress, one in the USA and one in Australia. The purpose of this paper is to highlight differentexperiences, first of largely concealing their experience, ... ...
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