Fortune V. Mannino

The practice of mental health consultation

What do you do to start reading practice of mental health consultation? Searching the book that you love to read first or find an interesting book that will make you want to read? Everybody has difference with their reason of reading a book. Actuary, reading habit must be from earlier. Many people may be love to read, but not a book. Its not fault. Someone will be bored to open the thick book with small words to read. In more, this is the real condition. So do happen probably with this practice of mental health consultation.

Runaway Children Twelve Years Later A Follow-Up

THIS is a 12-year follow-up pilot study of 14 youths who ran away from home in the mid-1960s. The study is based on 44 intensive interviews with the former runaways, their nonrunaway siblings, their parents, and other relatives. Four major questions were addressed. Marked differences in outcomes were found (a) between runaways and their siblings; (b) between runaway repeaters and nonrepeaters, and (c) between runaways from working-class backgrounds and those from middle-class backgrounds. In general, whatever their other statuses, children who ran away more than once showed increasing personal and social dysfunction as young adults.

Task Accomplishment and Consultation Outcome

The general hypothesis that consultation outcome is related to the occurrence of certain tasks associated with each of several consultation phase areas was tested. Task accomplishment was examined in relation to both participants (consultants and consultees). The findings partly upheld the hypothesis and indicated that consultants and consultees differed in the areas that discriminated between a “very successful” outcome and a “moderately successful” outcome. These differences are discussed in terms of differential role behaviors of the consultants and the consultees.

Empirical perspectives in mental health consultation

Although mental health consultation has evolved into one of the most significant forms of intervention in the area of community mental health, its growth has not been one of smooth and steady progress. During periods of austerity it is still the easiest service activity to trim with the least risk of incurring community resistance. This vulnerability of mental health consultation makes it increasingly necessary to use whatever means are possible to affirm its credibility as a viable practice method. One such means, discussed in this paper, is through the use of research and evaluation to gain greater knowledge and understanding of consultation as a helping process, and through the practical application of knowledge gained to continuously upgrade and improve consultation as a practice method.

Areas of resistance in the beginning phase of family therapy

When family therapy is undertaken with a family that seeks treatment for a child as an “identified patient”, gaining access to the family is often a venture fraught with anxiety and considerable resistance. At the beginning of family therapy, the risk of losing families is probably the greatest, yet little research directed at the problems involved has been reported. To encourage more interest, this phase is explored from the perspective of therapist behavior. Three areas are examined, and consideration is given to the strategies and techniques used to reduce resistance and facilitate engagement in treatment. Research needs are pointed out.

A survey of clergy referrals to a mental-health clinic

The increased significance of pastoral care in fight of recent devel opments in the mental-health field has prompted a number of studies addressed to the roles, attitudes, and orientations of the clergy in rela tion to mental health and mental illness. Several studies have investigated the kinds of problems about which clergy are consulted, and the types of problems they refer to other agencies, including psychiatric resources. Some investigators have interviewed clergymen to obtain descriptions of problem situations about which they would counsel on their own and descriptions of problems they would refer to mental-health or other specialists.1 Others have had clergy rank in order of frequency seen certain problems presented to them in a structured questionnaire and write in the kinds of problems they thought needed to be referred to a psychiatric resource.2

A cohort study of school withdrawals with implications for mental health

The epidemiological-public health approach is applied to an investigation of school withdrawals from a rural Florida county school system. Operating on the premise that school withdrawals constitute a risk group from a mental health viewpoint, five specific withdrawal groups are identified, and time points at which withdrawal is most likely to occur are located. On the basis of certain background information, it was possible to predict in advance students who were most apt to withdraw and the form the withdrawal would take. Implications for program planning are discussed.