Mothers with mental illness are in need of support as they struggle to cope with competing demands of their illness and those of parenting. Health professionals’ attitudes and experiences have been shown to affect how clients with mental illness are assessed and what resources are provided. The purpose of this research was to explore and describe experiences of Public Health Nurses (PHNs) in Manitoba who visited families in the postpartum period. Qualitative data were collected via focus groups consisting of PHNs within the city of Winnipeg. Emerging themes, “Dealing with where they’re at”; “Treasure hunting”; “I kept wanting more”; “You can only do so much” together aimed at a common theme, “Helping Moms succeed”. Results suggested that PHNs wanted to provide the best resources for mothers to succeed at parenting. PHNs provided recommendations for the needs of families and changes in practice to help improve service to families.

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Uppsatsens namn lyder på följande sätt: Hur mycket måste jag anstränga mig egentligen? - En studie om ungdomars upplevda psykiska ohälsa i relation till skola och framtidsval. Studien är skriven av Melissa Gülünay och Mirela Koljenovic som läser sitt tredje år på Södertörns Högskola. Syftet med denna uppsats är att få en förståelse för hur studierna i skolan och de framtidsval som studiens intervjupersoner ställs inför kan ha ett samband till deras upplevda psykiska ohälsa i form av oro och ångest. För att kunna svara på denna fråga kommer  uppsatsen i sin tur att belysa fenomenet individualisering som står för utformningen av samhället och de olika institutionerna så som skola och arbete. När vi talar om framtidsval så menar vi de val som rör intervjupersonernas etablering på arbetsmarknaden och eventuell vidareutbildning. Studien är genomförd utifrån en kvalitativ ansats och bygger på intervjuer med sex gymnasieelever. Studien utgår från teorier som på olika sätt behandlar den ökade individualiseringen i dagens samhälle. Dessa teorier används i hopp om att få ta reda på om och hur människor påverkas av den ökade individualiseringen i samhället och slutligen kunna tillämpa detta på studiens empiri. Resultatet kan tolkas på så sätt att individualiseringen har ökat och att studiens intervjupersoner upplever psykisk ohälsa på grund av skolan respektive dess studier, möjligheterna att tillträda arbetsmarknaden och en eventuell vidareutbildning.

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This anthropological study focuses on people's subjective experiences of mental health problems in Quebec, and highlights the different processes involved in the narrativization and enunciation of the experience of psychiatric disorder. It was completed in Montreal in 2001, and included participant observation in three resources of the Regroupment des resouces alternatives en sante mentale du Quebec (RRASMQ). Nine people of Quebecois origin, users of these mental health services, were interviewed. After a brief survey of the literature concerned with the narrative transformation of experience and its expression in the social realm, this report identifies some of the narrative structures of the illness accounts that were collected for this project. I look, on the one hand, at the various languages used in the articulation of "mental illness", and on the other hand, at the power relations that are activated through the use of those languages. This study tries to determine to what extent it is possible for a sufferer of "mental illness" to empower him/herself through the narrativization and expression of one's experience of mental health problems.

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The aim of this Australian Research Council Linkage doctoral project with industry partners UnitingCare-Lifeline Ballarat and Lifeline Australia was to investigate whether calls to Lifeline – a generalist telephone counselling and referral service – could be used as valid and reliable social indicators of health. The Lifeline Australia service receives approximately 1,000 calls a day and key details of each call are recorded on its Client Services Management Information System (CSMIS). A number of research questions directed this study: (1) What are the characteristics or attributes of callers to Lifeline?; (2) How do the patterns of calls to Lifeline vary spatially?; and (3) What is the statistical relationship between calls to Lifeline and other measures of community health? This thesis presents a detailed descriptive summary and analysis of Lifeline’s national CSMIS call data (N = 90,128 cases) from 01-04-2003 to 29-06-2003. It explores this and other sources of call data, such as the Telstra Exchange data, for their potential to be used as social indicators. The project created a model of generalist telephone counselling and referral use (MGTCRU). The MGTCRU was used as a theoretical base to a call rate indicator, named the Lifeline Indicator of Social Need (LISN), which reflects the community’s capacity to provide social support to its most socially isolated residents. The LISN was found to have useful attributes and a potential for use as a social indicator of community strength. The call rate indicator showed a statistically significant relationship with the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia, measures of socio-economic disadvantage, and suicide rates. However, the CSMIS database was found to have certain limitations. The thesis presents recommendations for this situation to be addressed. While acknowledging that there are limitations to telephone counselling call data it is clear that these call data can be used to create cost effective, rapid, reliable, and potentially valid social indicators. This thesis has made a number of significant empirical and theoretical contributions to knowledge on telephone counselling and referral. The descriptive summary of the CSMIS data provided in this thesis might be used in innovative ways by social researchers. The LISN could be used on its own or included in other social indices. The MGTCRU provides a theoretical framework for understanding telephone counselling and referral services use and may assist these services to organise their operations and meet the needs of their callers. This project may have particular application to a current upgrade of Lifeline Australia’s telephony and call data systems. / Doctor of Philosophy

The aim of this qualitative research project was to investigate the phenomenon of spirituality within occupation as encountered by six people who have all experienced mental illness. A Heideggerian phenomenological philosophy was utilised as the theoretical background. Data were gathered through in-depth interviews with each participant, which were transcribed verbatim. Data were analysed using a hermeneutic, circular process. -- abstract. / Thesis (MApSc(OccupationalTherapy))--University of South Australia, 2003.

Thesis (MPsy(Clinical))--University of South Australia, 2002.