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Echoes from the past: How America's major moments shaped mental health policies through a young adult lens
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 May 2. doi: 10.1037/ort0000751. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThis commentary examines key mental health policies across four transformative historical periods in America: the aftermath of World War II (1939-1946), the Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968), the Great Recession (2007-2009), and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2023). The post-WWII era established today's foundational mental health system, emphasizing military personnel, as reflected in the National Mental Health Act of 1946. During the Civil Rights Movement, the focus shifted toward community equality, leading to the Community Mental Healt...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - May 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Silicia Lomax Kirby Magid Source Type: research

A history of the community mental health movement and individuals with serious mental illness: A vision for the future
This article reviews some of that interesting history and the importance of understanding those fundamental roots as we also look at the future for what is next in advocacy, social justice action, and policy directions for advancing the lives of those with serious mental illness, who face some of the most oppressive forms of marginalization and rejection of human rights and citizenship. This article will outline social justice action agendas for the organization and diverse collaborative fields to pursue as we embark upon the future and envision the full rights of citizenship for those with serious mental illness. (PsycInf...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - May 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Erika R Carr Source Type: research

Ethnocultural disparities in loneliness among women in Israel: A population-based study
We examined whether ethnocultural disparities in loneliness persist when controlling for social determinants in these four domains or whether ethnic disparities are related to other forms of inequality among the three study groups, as reflected in these four domains. Next, we explored associations between the co-occurrence of key social determinants with loneliness. We used cross-sectional representative data of working-age women from the Israeli Social Survey (N = 5,600). Hierarchical logistic regression analyses indicated a higher risk for loneliness among FSU immigrants and Israeli Arabs than among native Jews. Economic...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - May 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tehila Refaeli Netta Achdut Source Type: research

Unveiling the role of residential care in care leavers' personal development and life outcomes
Discussion section, we highlight the importance of understanding care leavers' perceptions in relation to different life course stages. Implications for policy and practice in care and postcare are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).PMID:38661650 | DOI:10.1037/ort0000748 (Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry)
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yafit Sulimani-Aidan Netta Achdut Rami Benbenishty Anat Zeira Source Type: research

Child behavioral problems and parental adjustment: Family, interparental, and parent-child processes as simultaneous mediators
This study examined the associations of child behavioral problems with parental adjustment and whether family processes mediated such associations. Cross-sectional data were collected from the fathers, mothers, and class teachers of 186 kindergarten-aged children with special educational needs from Hong Kong, China (mean age = 61.6 months, and 136 of them were boys). Using questionnaires, parents reported their children's behavioral problems and their own adjustment and family processes. Meanwhile, class teachers rated children's behavioral problems. Multigroup analyses supported a mediation model that was invariant across...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Xiaomin Li Chun Bun Lam Kevin Kien Hoa Chung Source Type: research

Stepping into the future of behavioral health: Opportunities, challenges, and possibilities
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Apr 25. doi: 10.1037/ort0000743. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTTo improve our practices of today and to overcome the problems that confront us at present, the behavioral health field must anticipate what the future is likely to bring. Such foresight is particularly important right now because of the changes and disruptions that have occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 3 years. We begin by recounting major developments in the mental health field since the founding of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) more than 70 years ago, including some firsthand experiences of the s...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ronald W Manderscheid Amy A Ward Source Type: research

Socially excluded young adult Israeli women's social activism: A new approach to promoting well-being
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2024 Apr 25. doi: 10.1037/ort0000759. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe present study explored the developmental trajectories and increased well-being of socially excluded young Israeli adult women participating in civic engagement peer groups. Twenty-one women participated in a qualitative longitudinal study design comprising 50 in-depth semistructured interviews at four assessment times. The interoperative phenomenological analysis approach revealed three main themes demonstrating a shift from survival to thriving. The first theme, "group connectedness," describes participants' positive feelings fro...
Source: The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry - April 25, 2024 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Irit Birger Sagiv Limor Goldner Yifat Carmel Source Type: research