This paper tells a rather more complex story. Looking in detail at the efforts of the WHO European Regional Office, since the 1970s, to reform mental health policy across the region, it shows that the organisation’s main policy successes in this field were achieved, not by circulating standardised data or policies, but by creating opportunities to share holistic, experience-based and context-sensitive knowledge of instances of best practice.
Archive for May 2013
Generational Differences in Vulnerability to Identity Denial: The Role of Group Identification
Investigating the role of health care at birth on inequalities in neonatal survival: evidence from Bangladesh
Replicating Home Visiting Programs With Fidelity: Baseline Data and Preliminary Findings
Community College Students With Learning Disabilities: Evidence of Impairment, Possible Misclassification, and a Documentation Disconnect
Contextualizing the ‘Behavior Gap’: Student Prosocial Behavior and Racial Composition in Urban Middle Schools
Social theory and trauma
Canadian News Coverage of Intimate Partner Homicide: Analyzing Changes Over Time
Race-acting: The varied and complex affirmative meaning of "acting Black" for African-American adolescents
Achieving the Promise of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Other Mental Health Conditions for Veterans
Socioeconomic deprivation as a determinant of cancer mortality and the Hispanic paradox in Texas, USA
The Political Implications of Performance Management and Evidence-Based Policymaking
Mental Health Medications
Study of Follow-Up and Outcomes Following Adolescent Sexual Assault – Prospective Evaluation of Follow-Up and Outcomes Following Adolescent Sexual Assault
From shadow to person: exploring roles in participant observations in an eldercare context
Self-care at the margins of healthcare: ‘Malingering’ and ‘self-neglecting’ cystic fibrosis patients
Making Knowledge for International Policy: WHO Europe and Mental Health Policy, 1970-2008
The secure base script and the task of caring for elderly parents: implications for attachment theory and clinical practice
‘I couldn’t even dress the way I wanted.’ Young women talk of ‘ownership’ by boyfriends: An opportunity for the prevention of domestic violence?
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program
No improvement in socioeconomic inequalities in birthweight and preterm birth over four decades: a population-based cohort study
Social and Emotional Processing as a Behavioural Endophenotype in Eating Disorders: A Pilot Investigation in Twins
Food Hardship in America 2012
A Pilot Study Using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) Devices and Surveys to Ascertain Older Adults’ Travel Patterns
Accuracy of Self-Reported Body Weight and Height in Remitted Anorexia Nervosa
Psychological Trauma and Juvenile Delinquency: New Directions in Research and Intervention
Recent years have seen an explosion of new research dedicated to understanding the link between psychological trauma and juvenile delinquency. Building on the work of the previous decade which uncovered shocking rates of trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress among juvenile justice-involved youth, more recent work has focused on uncovering the underlying developmental mechanisms that account for the association between trauma and antisocial behavior, as well as identifying the intervening processes that might encourage youth to be more positively social.