Browsing by Subject "mental illness"

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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - An insider view
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid reflects on the various issues covered in the previous set of videos, namely the insider view of mental illness and how poetry and music can serve to improve the public's understanding of mental illness. This is the sixth video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - Art speaks to and from silence
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Dowling, Finuala; Baumann, Sean
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid continues his conversation with Finuala Downling and Sean Baumann about how art can be used to bring public attention to difficult and hidden areas of mental illness. Finuala discusses the methods he uses to catch her audiences attention and Sean talks about methods he uses to 'dislocate' the senses of his audience while emphasising the continued problem of stigma around mental illness. This is the fifth video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - Experiences of mental illness through music
    (2015-01-21) Baumann, Sean
    In this video, Sean Baumann, a senior specialist psychiatrist in UCT's Department of Psychiatry and Mental health, discusses the misrepresentation of mental illness in film and theater, particular misrepresentations of schizophrenia-like disorders. He makes the argument that an improved understanding of mental health by viewing it from a first-person perspective would help address this problem. He describes how music can offer rich representations of mental illness. This is the third video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - In dialogue about mental illness
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve; Baumann, Sean; Dowling, Finuala
    In this video, Professor Steve Reid engages in discussion with Finuala Downling and Sean Baumann about how poetry and music can help us understand and talk about mental illness. They discuss the insider-outsider view of mental illness, experience of the world through the eyes of psychosis, and the role of imagination and empathy when listening to first-hand accounts of mental illness. This is the fourth video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Medicine and the Arts Week 5 - Insights into mental illness in art
    (2015-01-21) Reid, Steve
    In this video, Steve Reid introduces the topic of mental illness and art and how it will be explored through dialogue with two artists, Finuala Downling and Sean Baumann. This is the first video in Week 5 of the Medicine and the Arts Massive Open Online Course.
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    Stakeholder's perceptions of help-seeking behaviour among people with mental health problems in Uganda
    (BioMed Central Ltd, 2011) Nsereko, James; Kizza, Dorothy; Kigozi, Fred; Ssebunnya, Joshua; Ndyanabangi, Sheila; Flisher, Alan; Cooper, Sara; MHaPP Research Programme Consortium
    INTRODUCTION: Mental health facilities in Uganda remain underutilized, despite efforts to decentralize the services. One of the possible explanations for this is the help-seeking behaviours of people with mental health problems. Unfortunately little is known about the factors that influence the help-seeking behaviours. Delays in seeking proper treatment are known to compromise the outcome of the care.AIM:To examine the help-seeking behaviours of individuals with mental health problems, and the factors that may influence such behaviours in Uganda. METHOD:Sixty-two interviews and six focus groups were conducted with stakeholders drawn from national and district levels. Thematic analysis of the data was conducted using a framework analysis approach. RESULTS: The findings revealed that in some Ugandan communities, help is mostly sought from traditional healers initially, whereas western form of care is usually considered as a last resort. The factors found to influence help-seeking behaviour within the community include: beliefs about the causes of mental illness, the nature of service delivery, accessibility and cost, stigma. CONCLUSION: Increasing the uptake of mental health services requires dedicating more human and financial resources to conventional mental health services. Better understanding of socio-cultural factors that may influence accessibility, engagement and collaboration with traditional healers and conventional practitioners is also urgently required.