By Maria Mangicaro “Participatory Medicine is a movement in which networked patients shift from being mere passengers to responsible drivers of their health, and in which providers encourage and value them as full partners.” The Feb. 1, article “Participatory Medicine: Must You Be Rich to Participate?” published in the Journal of Participatory Medicine raises serious…
J Affect Disord. 2011 Feb;128(3):185-90. Epub 2010 May 15. Positive aspects of mental illness: a review in bipolar disorder. Galvez JF, Thommi S, Ghaemi SN. Source Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. Abstract INTRODUCTION: There is growing interest to understand the role of positive psychological features on the outcomes of medical illnesses. Unfortunately this topic…
Community Ment Health J. 2011 Jan 18. [Epub ahead of print] Spiritual Well-Being of People with Psychiatric Disabilities: The Role of Religious Attendance, Social Network Size and Sense of Control. Fukui S, Starnino VR, Nelson-Becker HB. Source Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis, School of Social Welfare, The University of Kansas, 1545 Lilac Lane,…
Expert opinions describe the accused Tucson shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, as suffering from a psychotic disorder. Various descriptions of Loughner’s behavior before the shooting meet the diagnostic criteria of schizophrenia. Julie Schenecker, the Tampa, Florida mother who recently admitted to fatally shooting her two teenage children in the head, is also described by experts as…
A Declaration of Participation July 4, 2009 Thomas Jefferson had a radical notion: When the people are well-informed, they can be trusted to govern themselves. This powerful idea worked to end our rule by the King, but at the time it didn’t apply to slaves and it didn’t apply to women. It STILL doesn’t apply…
Participatory Concepts in Mental Health 