Journal•ISSN: 1039-8562
Australasian Psychiatry
SAGE Publishing
About: Australasian Psychiatry is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Mental health & Medicine. It has an ISSN identifier of 1039-8562. Over the lifetime, 3282 publications have been published receiving 28878 citations. The journal is also known as: Australas. psychiat..
Topics: Mental health, Medicine, Poison control, Mental illness, Health care
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TL;DR: This paper will focus on two contexts where collaborative research teams have found solastalgia to be evident: the experiences of persistent drought in rural NSW and the impact of large-scale open-cut coal mining on individuals in the Upper Hunter Valley of NSW.
Abstract: Objective: Solastalgia is a new concept developed to give greater meaning and clarity to environmentally induced distress. As opposed to nostalgia – the melancholia or homesickness experienced by i...
631 citations
TL;DR: There is evidence that strengthening ethnocultural identity, community integration and political empowerment can contribute to improving mental health in this population, and mental health promotion that emphasises youth and community empowerment is likely to have broad effects on mental health and wellbeing in Aboriginal communities.
Abstract: Objective: To identify issues and concepts to guide the development of culturally appropriate mental health promotion strategies with Aboriginal populations and communities in Canada.Methods: We review recent literature examining the links between the history of colonialism and government interventions (including the residential school system, out-adoption, and centralised bureaucratic control) and the mental health of Canadian Aboriginal peoples.Results: There are high rates of social problems, demoralisation, depression, substance abuse, suicide and other mental health problems in many, though not all, Aboriginal communities. Although direct causal links are difficult to demonstrate with quantitative methods, there is clear and compelling evidence that the long history of cultural oppression and marginalisation has contributed to the high levels of mental health problems found in many communities. There is evidence that strengthening ethnocultural identity, community integration and political empowermen...
528 citations
TL;DR: The available evidence supports the proposition that work can be beneficial for an employee’s well-being, particularly if good-quality supervision is present and there are favourable workplace conditions.
Abstract: Objective:The literature on mental health in the workplace largely focuses on the negative impacts of work and how work may contribute to the development of mental disorders. The potential mental health benefits of employment have received less attention.Method:A systematic search of reviews or meta-analyses that consider the benefits of work in regards to mental health was undertaken using academic databases. All relevant reviews were subjected to a quality appraisal.Results:Eleven reviews were identified as meeting the inclusion criteria, with four deemed to be of at least moderate quality. The available evidence supports the proposition that work can be beneficial for an employee’s well-being, particularly if good-quality supervision is present and there are favourable workplace conditions. The benefits of work are most apparent when compared with the well-documented detrimental mental health effects of unemployment.Conclusions:The potential positive effects of good work and the role work can play in f...
212 citations
TL;DR: Over the past twelve years, and notwithstanding all the Executive’s posturing, the RANZCP has become completely irrelevent to my career as a psychiatrist trying to deliver a high standard of psychiatry to isolated Australia.
Abstract: Dear SirI read with interest (in the December 1998 issue of Australasian Psychiatry) about the Second National Mental Health Plan — and its objectives to ‘reduce the impact of mental disorder on in...
170 citations
TL;DR: Watters as mentioned in this paper argues that it was not the introduction of Western fashion and values, but the diagnosis which accounted for this change, and that anorexia nervosa became a culturally accepted means of expressing distress.
Abstract: There are four main chapters. The fi rst deals with anorexia nervosa in Hong Kong. It tells that when Dr Sing Lee, a British trained psychiatrist, went (? returned) to Hong Kong in the mid 1980s, he found few cases of self-starving, and none which featured the pursuit of thinness. However, when the Western diagnosis (and criteria) were introduced, the condition became common. Watters argues that it was not the introduction of Western fashion and values, but the introduction of the diagnosis which accounted for this change. That is, anorexia nervosa became a culturally accepted means of expressing distress.
164 citations